De Alexander: “We must not wear out the lives of our soldiers by a war to carry out vague theories.”

He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.

In accepting the Democratic nomination Cleveland had the great advantage of not being obliged to refer to anything of which he was ashamed.

In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....

More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.