...citizens. The policy looks to the improvement of the people both industrially and in self governing capacity. As this policy of extending control continues,...finally end the sovereignty of the United States in these islands, unless it shall seem wise to the American and the Filipino people, on account of mutually...

...maintain a stable and well ordered government affording equality of right and opportunity to all citizens. The policy looks to the improvement of the people...Islands, unless it shall seem wise to the American and Filipino people, on account of mutually beneficial trade relations and possible advantage to the Islands...

...maintain a stable and well-ordered government affording equality of right and opportunity to all citizens. The policy looks to the improvement of the people...Islands, unless it shall seem wise to the American and Filipino peoples, on account of mutually beneficial trade relations and possible advantage to the Islands...

...on the 16th of October, 1907, ! Mr. ,Taft, then Secretary of War, said: "The policy looks to the I improvement of the people, both industrially and in...and finally end the sovereignty of the United States I in the Islands, unless it shall seem wise to the American and the I Filipino peoples, on account...

...good." President McKinley's governmental policy was later on interpreted by Mr. Taft as a policy which " must, logically, reduce and finally end the sovereignty of the United States." The Eepublican leaders, after the death of President McKinley, openly stated that the American purpose...

...States] looks to the improvement of the people, both industrially and in self-governing capacity. As the policy of extending control continues, it must logically...Islands, unless it shall seem wise to the American and Filipino peoples, on account of mutually beneficial trade relations and possible advantages to the...

...policy looks to the improvement of the people, both industrially and in self-governing capacity. As the policy of extending control continues, it must logically...the United States in the Islands, unless it shall deem wise to the American and Filipino peoples, on account of mutually beneficial trade relations and...

...of the islands." President Taft also stated that the very policy which the Americans were pursuing must " logically reduce and finally end the sovereignty of the United States." In 1916, the preamble to the Jones Act declared, " It was never the intention of the United States in...

...become independent." President Taft also stated that the very policy which the Americans were pursuing must " logically reduce and finally end the sovereignty of the United States." In 191 3 President Wilson made the statement " Every step we take will be taken with the view to the ultimate...

...well for them to become independent." When secretary of war, Mr. Taft said that the American policy "must logically reduce and finally end the sovereignty of the United States" in the islands. In a message to the Philippine people in October 1913, President Wilson said, "Every step we take will...