Speech #630359301

So the committee was wise in this particular. But let us see where we are drifting. I want to say thaft 1 heard with great pleasure and profit the speech nmde yesterday by the getienian from Illinois . and If J had not been surpr sed heretofore at the gentleians lealrnlug I would have thought that he got that speech from one that I. put into the RECORD on " Mexico and Asiatic ienace." Certainly It is far wiser either to hold to the Philippines or to give them unrestricted independence. Believing that the Fil:pinos are not capoble of selfgovernment. ill the sense that all of them call exercise the b:llot. or any great number of them. .1 see no strength. military or otherwise. in holding tile Philippines. Besides. blood is thicker than w:ater. and il the economic struggle to come. with the military strungle that is surely to follow in the awakening of the Asiatic nations. we are not going to have them as our allies. Therefore we ought not to be committed to the policy of giving them Independence and dcfendiug them without some provision like this amenl12ent offered by the gentleman from Texas.