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Bill Taft: “Freed from American control the integrating forces of a common education and a common language will cease and the…”

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Freed from American control the integrating forces of a common education and a common language will cease and the educational system now well started will slip back into inefficiency and disorder.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft warns that without American control, the educational progress in the Philippines may regress.

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