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Through the unifying forces of a common education, of commercial and economic development, and of gradual participation in local self-government we are endeavoring to evolve a homogeneous people fit to determine, when the time arrives, their own destiny.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft discusses the efforts to unify diverse Filipino tribes through education and local governance.

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