Note 1 — Chapter VIII · Did We Destroy a Republic?
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Blount refers to
“The death-warrant of the Philippine republic signed by Mr. McKinley on September 16th.”—Blount, p. 99.
Speaking of Mr. Roosevelt’s opinion of the practicability of granting independence to the Filipinos, he says—
“Yet it represented then one of the many current misapprehensions about the Filipinos which moved this great nation to destroy a young republic set up in a spirit of intelligent and generous emulation of our own.”—Blount, p. 230.