The present method prevents there being any need of our establishing any kind of protectorate over the island and gives the people of Santo Domingo the same chance to move onward and upward which we have already given to the people of Cuba.
Roosevelt advocates for a method that avoids establishing a protectorate over Santo Domingo, allowing its people to progress.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
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