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Hold a moment longer! Not quite yet, gentlemen! Before you go I would like to say just a word about the Philippine business. I have been criticized a good deal about the Philippines, but don’t deserve it. The truth is I didn’t want the Philippines, and when they came to us, as a gift from the gods, I did not know what to do with them. When the Spanish War broke out, Dewey was at Hongkong, and I ordered him to go to Manila and to capture or destroy the Spanish fleet, and he had to; because, if defeated, he had no place to refit on that side of the globe, and if the Dons were victorious, they would likely cross the Pacific and ravage our Oregon and California coasts. And so he had to destroy the Spanish fleet, and did it! But that was as far as I thought then.
Contents
- New Imperialism
- Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith Date: 1877
- Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands Date: 1887
- Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun” Date: 1897
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: “Current Fallacies upon Naval Subjects” Date: 1898
- William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention Date: 1898
- William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation Date: 1898
- John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White Date: 1899
- William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church Date: 1899
- Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States Date: 1899
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism Date: 1899
- Mary Kingsley: West African Studies Date: 1899
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Date: 1899
- Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden” Date: 1899
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science Date: 1901
- Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” Date: 1901
- Boxer Protocol Year: 1901
- D’Arcy Concession Date: 1901
- Ernest Crosby: “The Real White Man's Burden” Date: 1902
- Panama Canal Treaty Date: 1903
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Date: 1904
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden Date: 1920
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa Year: 1920
- George Orwell: Burmese Days Date: 1934
- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Date: 1945
- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal Date: 1956
- John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis Date: 1956
- Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly Date: 1964