Speech #720154536

I again summarize it categorically. I favor action at the present session of the Congress in behalf of Philippine independence. The Filipinos deserve to have immediate implements supplied to develop our promise In the Jones preamble of 1916. These implements should be sound and dependable. We of the United States are entitled to restrict immigration and imports in this connection. They of the Philippines need these same restrictions in order to develop selfsufficiency such as must be sustained when actual independence comes. Meanwhile. so long as American sovereignty continues at Manila. so long as American responsibility persists. there must be unimpaired American authority.