This will continue to be the case as long as they strive to make the Filipinos independent, and stop all industrial development of the islands by crying out against the laws which would bring it on the ground that capitalists must not “exploit” the islands.
Roosevelt argues that the push for Filipino independence can harm their industrial development.
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