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"…in the forcible annexation of the philippines our nation neither adds to its strength nor secures broader opportunities for the american people.
even if the principle of conquest were permissible under american public law, the conquest of territory so remote from our shores, inhabited by people who have no sympathy with our history or our customs, and who resent our attempt to overthrow their declaration of independence, would be a tax [burden] upon our military and naval strength the magnitude of which cannot now be determined.
who can estimate in money and men the cost of subduing and keeping in subjection eight millions of people, six thousand miles away, scattered over twelve hundred islands and living under a tropical sun? …
source: william jennings bryan, “will it pay? ,” bryan et al., republic or empire? the philippine question,
the independence company, 1899
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