Hold on a moment. I think the Filipinos will be forever incapable of such selfgovernment as would make us willing to admit them into our family of States or to admit them into an equal participation in making the laws by which we are to be governed as well as themselves. On the other hand. the population which it was known would occupy those Territories would be a population which could be incorporated as States and which could be. as they have been. properly admitted into equal participation with ourselves in the making of the laws and the controlling of the affairs both of the State and Federal Government. As is suggested to me by the Senator from Massachusetts . and by some other friends sitting around me. the country in each of those cases had a sparsely settled population. which would invite immigration and into which immigrants would certainly come. and immigration of a kind of people which we could admit into the participation with us in the control of our State and Federal Government.
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Filipinos will be forever incapable of such selfgovernment as would make us willing to admit them into our family of States.