Note 8 — Chapter XXVIII · The Road to Autonomy
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If three strong and able men, familiar with insular conditions, and still young enough to undertake the task8 were told by a President of the United States, by authority of the Congress, “Go out there and set up a respectable native government in ten years, and then come away,” they could and would do it, and that government would be a success; and one of the greatest moral victories in the annals of free government would have been written by the gentlemen concerned upon the pages of their country’s history.