If they are safeguarded against oppression, and if their real wants, material and spiritual, are studied intelligently and in a spirit of friendly sympathy, much more good will be done them than by any effort to give them political power, though this effort may in its own proper time and place be proper enough.
Roosevelt argues that addressing the real wants of the Filipino people is more beneficial than merely granting them political power.
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