Indeed. all subsequent occurences have gone to conilrm the wisdom and transcendent nobility of this end and to orhihit the folly and delusion of any l other end Selfseeking ends of every sort are excluded by American oicy and stultified by aetnal conditions in the Philippines. We are in the Philippines for the sake of the Filipinos. but while American sovereignty is to the Filipinos a great boon. to us this extension of sovereignty is not advaniageous. but burdensome. I wish the Federal Constitution inighthe amended so as to provide for the perpetual exclusioii of Asiatic countries from partnership in our great American Republic. But. whether the Constitution be amended or left intact. I am sari it is the policy of the American people to admit no Asiatic country to the status and privileges of a State or lTerritory in this Republic of the United States of America. Consequently that independence which is the final term of progressive lbert~y for the Filipinos since it can not realise itself by incorporation in our union of .Aerican diates. must. perforce. when the hour arrives. find embodiment in a separate and sellcontained national organization. � Thus. if you look beyond the present and the near future. you descry in the distance an independent an d sovereign Philipapine republic. The watchword of p regress. the key to the future of the political development of the urchipelago. is neit her colonialism nor federalism but nationalism. The destiny of the Philippiine Islands is not to be a State or Territory in the United States of America 1bt a daughter republic of oursa new birth of libarty on the other side olf the Pacific. which shall animate and energize those lovely islands of the tropical seas. and. rearing its bead aloft. stand as a monument of progress and a beacon of hope to al the oppressed and bemighted millions of th Asiatic continent. Very well. what then? A colony. a dependency?
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Asiatic countries should be excluded from partnership in the American Republic.