If we had followed the advice of the foolish doctrinaires who wished us at any time during the last ten years to turn the Filipino people adrift, we should have shirked the plainest possible duty and have inflicted a lasting wrong upon the Filipino people.
He argues against abandoning the Filipino people to their own fate, asserting it would be a dereliction of duty.
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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