...made this declaration of the purpose of the United States as to the future status of the Philippines: Whereas it was never the intention of the people of...territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it always has been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignity over...

...made this declaration of the purpose of the United States as to the future status of the Philippines : Whereas it was never the intention of the people of...territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it always has been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignity over...

...retaining any foothold in them." In 1916 Congress passed the Jones Act, the preamble of which declared: "It was never the intention of the people of the United...of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement" and that "it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their...

...provide a more autonomous form of government for those islands," declares, as follows, in the preamble : "Whereas it was never the intention of the people...conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; and, "Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of...

...preamble the essential American policy in dealing with the countries of the Far East. The statement that "it was never the intention of the people of the United...war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement" is in harmony with the traditional American attitude. The sam,e is true of the policy of helping the...

...the Philippines. The preamble, which subsequently became a part of the Jones Law, reads as follows: Whereas, it was never the intention of the people of the United Stales in the incipiency of the War with Spain to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement;...

...independence, I desire to call your attention to the preamble of the Jones Law, which reads as follows: Whereas it was never the intention of the people of...aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it has always Ix-cn, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine...

...trustee"; or the pledge of Congress itself when it passed the preamble of the Jones law declaring that it was "never the intention of the people of the United...conquest or for territorial aggrandizement" ? And now, will independence be delayed just because the rubber interests want to develop plantations in...

...independence." The most solemn promise of all, embodied in the preamble of the Jones Act of 1916, declared that "it was never the intention of the people of the United...of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement," and that "it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their...

...more autonomous government for those islands. Publif — X" 240 — i>4ih Gontrrcss. Whereas it wae never the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the War irith Spain to make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is. as it...