What Is to Be Done With the Philippines?
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Excerpt from What Is to Be Done With the Philippines?: Speech of Hon. W. G. Brantley, of Georgia, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, February 22, 1900 The House being in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, and having under consideration the bill (H. R. 8245) to regulate the trade of Puerto Rico, and for other purposes - Mr. Brantley said: Mr. Chairman: What is to be done with the Philippines? What is to be their future? What is to be the policy of the United States Government with reference to them? These are questions that interest and concern many people. They deeply concern not only the Filipinos, but as well the people of America, and the answers to them are anxiously awaited by the people of the civilized world. Their importance can not be overstated or overestimated. Upon the answers to them depend the hopes, the aspirations, and the destiny of a people struggling for liberty; and, more than this, there are many who believe that, unless all history be false, the ¿nal answers to these questions will determine the fate of a Republic more than an hundred years old, and will settle forever the question as to whether or not a free people can perpetuate self-government or whether such a government must in time perish from the earth. If we concede the gravity of these questions - and all must concede it, no matter from what standpoint they are viewed - it is important to know who can answer them, and it is doubly important to know what the answers will be. It is not questioned or denied that the power to answer these questions is vested in Congress and in Congress alone. The organic law so provides, and the President in his last annual message to us directed our attention to them. He said: The future government of the Philippines rests with the Congress of the United States. He further said: Until Congress shall have made known the formal expression of its will, I shall use the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes to uphold the sovereignty of the United States in these distant islands. In an address delivered by him in Boston, on February 16, 1899, he also said: This whole subject is now with Congress: and Congress is the voice, the conscience, and the judgment of the American people. It does not occur to me, therefore, that, viewing these questions from the standpoint of the Constitution and the President s utterances, that it is inappropriate for a member of this House to discuss them, and not only to discuss them, but to suggest the answers that should be made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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