Mr. President. there is an old legal maxim. believe. that a man can not take advantage of his own wrong. and those who voted to bring into this country and under its.jurisdiction and its flag and its citizenship this cheap contract labor. this .peonlabor. this Malay labor. and other forms of colored labor. were told what the:results would be that would.followthe ratification of that treaty. and it was very hard to get the votes necessary to make that treaty a.law. and I have heard you had to buy some men to vote for it. The question as to whether a wrong is to be done to. the American people. as to whether a wrong is to be -done to our citizenship. as to whether awrovg is to be done to those suffering: people. who have themselves protested by giving up their lives against being subjugated by the American Armythat question is before the American people today. -and it is almost theonly. question before them. The.y will determinein November whether the flag shall mean one thing in the United States and another thing in Puerto Rico and still another thing in the .Philippine Islands.
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