Teddy Roosevelt: “We do not desire to do for the islanders merely what has elsewhere…”

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We do not desire to do for the islanders merely what has elsewhere been done for tropic peoples by even the best foreign governments.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt expresses a desire to avoid the mistakes of other foreign governments in their treatment of tropical peoples.

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