The fortune of war has thrown upon this nation an unsought trust which should be unselfishly discharged, and devolved upon this Government a moral as well as material responsibility toward these millions whom we have freed from an oppressive yoke.
McKinley acknowledges the U.S.'s unexpected responsibility towards the liberated Filipino people.
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