10/31/1888
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"The moral right and duty of the United States to assist in all proper ways in the maintenance of its integrity is obvious."
"Good government has for its objects the protection of every person within its care in the greatest liberty consistent with the good order of society."
"Our Government has consistently maintained its relations of friendship toward all other powers and of neighborly interest toward those whose possessions are contiguous to our own."
"Legislation is needed to execute the provisions of our Chinese convention of 1880 touching the opium traffic."