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Excerpt from Some Aspects of the Philippine Question: An Address Delivered Under the Auspices of the Club, at Central Music Hall, Chicago, November 15, 1899
It is not, I think, too much to say that the issues which it raises, directly and indirectly, are more important, more far - reaching in their consequences, than any our nation has been called upon to meet since its birth. In what sort of a spirit, then, are we to face them?
There are those who are Willing to make mere party politics out of questions which involve the present well-being, no less than the future destiny, of millions of their fellow creatures. Too mean and small to take a broad View of any subject, they are incapable of ascribing to others motives higher than those by which they are themselves actuated. To such as these I have nothing to say, to-night or at any other time. I am glad to believe that they consti tute the small minority of our citizens, and that the rest of us are honestly striving to get at the truth. We realize that the Philip pine question is in no sense a party question. If ever we were called upon to face a problem of national and international importance it is now, and that problem must be settled on its merits. A settlement on any other basis can result only in national disaster.
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