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We must administer them for the people who live in them and with the same sense of responsibility to them as toward our own people in our domestic affairs.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “We must administer them for the people who live in them and with the same sense of responsibility to them as toward our…”
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Wilson insists on the responsibility to govern U.S. territories with the same care as domestic affairs.
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