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In our anxiety for the welfare and progress of the Philippines, may be that here and there we have gone too rapidly in giving them local self-government.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “In our anxiety for the welfare and progress of the Philippines, may be that here and there we have gone too rapidly in…”
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Roosevelt acknowledges that the U.S. may have rushed the process of granting local self-government in the Philippines out of concern for their welfare.
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