Self-government in the PhilippinesCentury Company, 1919 - 208 páginas |
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administration Amer American and Filipino American Government American sovereignty appointed budget Bureau cabinet capital Cayetano Arellano Christian Filipinos civil Clarke amendment Commission of Independence Congress Council Cuba Cuban Declaration democracy democratic Department of Mindanao economic elected eral ernment executive fact Fili Filipino foreign Francis Burton Harrison given Governor-General Honorable ican Japan Japanese Jones Act Jones Law José Rizal justice labor legislative liberty lower house Manila Manuel L ment military million pesos Mindanao and Sulu Mohammedan Moro Mountain Province National Guard non-Christian organization peace pendence pesos Philip Philippine Assembly Philippine autonomy Philippine Government Philippine Islands Philippine Legislature Philippine Mission Philippine National Philippine Senate pines pino political popular President McKinley President Wilson presiding officers provincial and municipal Quezon recognized representatives responsible schools Secretary of Finance self-government sent Sergio Osmena Speaker stable government tion tional United William Atkinson Jones
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Página 162 - As Premier of Japan, I have stated and I now again state to the people of America and of the world that Japan has no ulterior motive, no desire to secure more territory, no thought of depriving China or other peoples of anything which they now possess.
Página 177 - WHEREAS, it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein...
Página 137 - ... an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose to give to the Filipinos first, a stable form of government; second, independence, and third, protection from outside interference such as has been given for nearly a century to the republics of Central and South America.
Página 68 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts —for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Página 177 - An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the. people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands,
Página 128 - I am satisfied that the cause of the South Americans, so far as it consists in the assertion of independence against Spain, is just. But the justice of a cause, however it may enlist individual feelings in its favor, is not sufficient to justify third parties in siding with it. The fact and the right combined can alone authorize a neutral to acknowledge a new and disputed sovereignty.
Página 127 - To establish the condition of things essential to the recognition of this fact there must be a people occupying a known territory, united under some known and defined form of government, acknowledged by those subject thereto, in which the functions of government are administered by usual methods, competent to mete out justice to citizens and strangers, to afford remedies for public and for private wrongs, and able to assume the correlative international obligations and capable of performing the corresponding...
Página 68 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Página 36 - Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of the Philippines as large a control of their domestic affairs as can be given them without, in the meantime, impairing the exercise of the rights of sovereignty by the people of the United States...
Página 184 - We regard ourselves as trustees, acting, not for the advantage of the United States, but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. Every step we take will be taken with a view to the ultimate independence of the islands and as a preparation for their independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the islands will permit.