And yet. sir. I submit a proposition in this connection the truth of which no Senator will deny. If three years ago. in January. 1897. a Senator had in his place here predicted that before January. 1900. the United States would have sent across the Pacific Ocean an army of nearly 100.000 men and a great navy. that they would with this great army and navy have conquered and subjected to our rule a community of 10.000.000 of Asiatic people. and that the country of that people would have been annexed as a part of the territory of the United States. never to be possibly a State. but always a colony. and the people never to be possibly citizens. but always vassals. and that to accomplish this over $150.000.000 would have been spent and over 20.000 lives would have been sacrificed. and if he had further predicted that to defend and justify. such subjugation and annexation. not only one Senator. but many Senators would have said in the Senate that the principles announced in the Declaration of Independence were untrue. that the counsels and warnings of Washington in his Farewell Address were no longer worthy of respect. and that the Constitution of the United States had become antiquated and out of date. a mere piece of waste paper. to be trampled under foot or thrown out of the window whenever it stood in the way of the majorityif these things had been predicted three years ago they would not only have been regarded as extravagant. but the Senator who made the prediction would in all probability have been sent to the madhouse. And yet. sir. all these things. so extravagant and so impossible. all these things and more. things in their details more repellant and more abhorrent. have occurred within the three years. Looking back at these occurrences. does anyone believe that the greed for spoil and the lust for dominion will be sated with the acquisition of the Philippines?
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The people are never to be possibly citizens, but always vassals.