But our chief reason for continuing to hold them must be that we ought in good faith to try to do our share of the world's work, and this particular piece of work has been imposed upon us by the results of the war with Spain.
Roosevelt argues that the U.S. has a moral obligation to assist the Philippines following the Spanish-American War.
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