Disregarding even their racial heterogeneity and the lack of ability to think as a nation, it is sufficient to point out that under liberal franchise privileges only about 3 per cent of the Filipinos vote and only 5 per cent of the people are said to read the public press.
Taft highlights the low voter turnout and literacy rates among Filipinos as obstacles to self-governance.
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So it is I am here, after having traversed I don't know how many states and visited I do not know how many cities.
Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.
I would rather cut off my right hand than do anything to disturb the business of this country.
The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.
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