Speech #570057088

Mr. President. when any man stands up here and tells me that he insists that the Filipinos shall be governed by us until they shall reach as high a plane intellectually and morally and become as acquainted with the intricacies of government as we are. he declares that those people are ever to be the serfs of the United States. A thousand years will not make those Asiatics the equal of our people. and all the money and all the effort that the 80.000.000 people of the United States can exercise on ten or twelve million will never do it. Are we to take charge of all the dark races of the world? Are we to put up a standard for every nation of the world and say. "Come to this or we will run your government?" You would have to take possession of the greatest portion of the governments of the world.