Front matter
Reading edition
This ebook, based on a book first published in 1925, was created in honour of Distributed Proofreaders’ 25th Anniversary.
The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States 1898–1925
by Moorfield Storey Former President American Bar Association and Marcial P. Lichauco Harvard Law School
“Personally I think it is a fine and high thing for a nation to have done such a deed (our work in the Philippines) with such a purpose. But we cannot taint it with bad faith. If we act so that the natives understand us to have made a definite promise, then we should live up to that promise. The Philippines, from a military standpoint, are a source of weakness to us. The present administration has promised explicitly to let them go, and by its action has rendered it difficult to hold them against any serious foreign foe. These being the circumstances, the islands should at an early moment be given their independence without any guaranty whatever by us and without our retaining any foothold in them.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1926
Copyright, 1926 by Moorfield Storey and Marcial P. Lichauco
Made in the United States of America