To abandon it now would not only be to prove ourselves recreant to a mighty trust. but would mean disaster and anarchy and bloodshed to the Filipinos. Furthermore. by our legislation we have emphatically declared that they are part and parcel of us. We have extended to them our navigation laws. We have extended to them our immigration laws. We have extended to them our alien contractlabor laws. Do you mean to tell me that we shall confine them to our domestic policy. shall compel the carriage of their goods in American bottoms and at the same time refuse them the enjoyment of our markets?
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