...the Jones Law on August 29, 1916, which declares in its preamble, among other things, that "it is, as has always been, the purpose of the people of the...as a stable government can be established therein". Speaking of the Jones Law, on September 28, 1918, at the Hotel de France, Mr. Quezon, President of...

...make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement." It is as it has always been the purpose of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established. Perhaps there is more indefiniteness in that statement concerning a stable government than any possible...

...regard to the preamble of the Jones bill. That preamble recites : Whereas it has always been the purpose of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...Islands and to recognize their independence as soon i as a stable government can be established there. I call a stable government a government that is...

...law of the Islands, stated it as the purpose of the United States to withdraw its sovereignty from the Philippine Islands, and to recognize their independence,...as a stable government can be established therein." In 1918 the Philippine Legislature created an "Independence Commission," and appropriated half a million...

..."Jones Bill," stated that it was the purpose of the United States to withdraw its sovereignty from the Philippine Islands, and to recognize their independence...as a stable government can be established therein." In 1918 the Philippine Legislature created an "Independence Commission," and appropriated half a million...

..."Jones Bill," stated that it was the purpose of the United States to withdraw its sovereignty from the Philippine Islands, and to recognize their independence...as a stable government can be established therein." In 1918 the Philippine Legislature created an "Independence Commission," and appropriated half a million...

...with Spain to make it a war for conquest or for territorial aggrandisement; and, whereas, it is and has always been the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty from the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as the Stable government can...

...Jones Act of 1916 said that the purpose of the people of the United States " is, as it always has been, to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine...Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as stable government can be established therein." President Wilson, in his last Message to Congress in...

...make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; . . . "it has always been the purpose of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands, and to recognize Philippine independence as soon as a stable government can be organized." We have never colonized nor...

...preamble of that Jones law ; which is practically the first constitution of the Philippines, says: It has always been the purpose of the people of the United States—- And now, here, Congress, consisting of the representatives of the people, the men who come here from...