Document 2:
source: william jennings bryan speech, campaign for the presidency, 1900.
imperialism is the policy of an empire. and an empire is a nation composed of different races, living under
varying forms of government. a republic cannot be an empire, for a republic rests upon the theory that the
government derive their powers from the consent of the governed and colonialism violates this theory. we do
not want the filipinos for citizens. they cannot, without danger to us, share in the government of our nation
and inoreover, we cannot afford to add another race question to the race questions which we already have.
neither can we hold the filipinos as subjects even if we could benefit them by so doing. our experiment
in colonialism has been unfortunate. instead of profit, it has brought loss. instead of strength, it has brought
weakness. instead of glory, it has brought humiliation.
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