Abstract

Issues and Men. The Philippines Set Free

The article presents the author's view of the days just after the United States took the Islands from Spain, 34 years back, and then proceeded to conquer them and kill their inhabitants by the thousands, merely because they thought that the Americans they welcomed and with whom they cooperated meant what they said when they declared that all peoples should be free and self-governing. According to the author, the sordid motives of many Senators who voted to override the President's veto were outraged, at the retention in perpetuity of naval and military reservations, at the tariff provisions written as if to invite disaster for the new nation. Still, that noble band of as pure and brave and high-minded and unselfish American patriots as ever lived must feel that they neither lived nor fought in vain.