It seems to me that it has been very clearly shown. and everybody must feel. that it has not been the purpose of the American people to hold the Philippine Islands permanently. It has not been their purpose to admit the people of the Philippine Islands to full citizenship in the Government of the United States. If it has not been our purpose to hold them permanently. if it is not our purpose to give them admission to the Union. with all the rights and privileges of citizens of the Union. then we ask ourselves. shall we follow the course of Great Britain or other continental or Asiatic countiies? I *say no. I do not want within the territory of the United States one single foot that may not become a part of the United States in the fullest and completest sense.