But do you think for a moment that where we have built up a great people and have voluntarily given them their liberty. that our commercial association is going to cease. because of that? That would be the height of nonsense. What we ought to do is to follow the custom America has always followed. that is. follow our shipping wherever we find profit in it. That is what all other nations have commerce for. and that is what we have commerce for. That is what we are going to go on doing. We are going to go on carrying on more and more business with the Philippines as those islands and .the people who inhabit them develop along commercial lines. This same thing will be true of Asia as Asiatic peoples develop.