The President´s Policy, Vol. 7
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Excerpt from The President´s Policy, Vol. 7: War and Conquest Abroad, Degradation of Labor at Home In the discussion on which I now enter, I pass by the moral considerations which are incident to any comprehensive treatment of the Philippinean war, and I address myself to the questions of business and labor in which the country is much concerned. In some of the aspects of life, ethical and moral questions occupy the highest, place, but the public mind cannot be directed to ethical and moral questions when the masses are not in the enjoyment of a satisfactory degree of domestic comfort. That degree of comfort can be found only where there is also a good degree of public prosperity, which itself must rest upon a public policy that secures constant employment and reasonable wages for the laboring population. My inquiry for the moment is this: Will the subjugation of the Philippine Islands and their incorporation into the Union as equal states, or their attachment to the government as colonial dependencies, elevate or depress the laboring population of the United States? I omit the consideration of other interests. They are all subordinate. A public policy which secures to the laborers of the United States constant employment with remunerative wages is the best security, not perfect security - that cannot be had - but the best security attainable for the prosperity of all classes. It has been the policy of one political party, to which a portion of the rival party has assented, to protect the laborers of the United States against the products of the cheap labor of other countries, and then, as in the Chinese exclusion bill, to protect the American laborer against the actual presence of the unpaid laborers of other countries. Shall that policy be reversed? The inhabitants of Luzon, as an example, must be treated by us, hen we are called to decide upon our policy in that island, either as capable of self-government, or as incapable. The population of the island is not less than 4,000,000, or 95 persons to the square mile, not excluding the portion that is covered by water. 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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