The Blow from Behind: Or, Some Features of the Anti-imperialist Movement Attending the War with Spain, Together with a Consideration of Our Philippine Policy from Its Inception to the Present Time and the International and Domestic Law Affecting the SameLee and Shepard, 1903 - 147 pages |
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... going to protect their countrymen in any way and by any method that became necessary . to accomplish that object . The fact that armored ships only were sent shows more than all else how they expected to do their work , if any there ...
... going to protect their countrymen in any way and by any method that became necessary . to accomplish that object . The fact that armored ships only were sent shows more than all else how they expected to do their work , if any there ...
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... going on , two of the German war vessels gave up in disgust and went home . Their chance had gone . With the Monterey there , Dewey could have held his own with them in any argument that might arise and it was not for that that they ...
... going on , two of the German war vessels gave up in disgust and went home . Their chance had gone . With the Monterey there , Dewey could have held his own with them in any argument that might arise and it was not for that that they ...
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... going to vanish in smoke . Then the great mass of the Fili- pino people , who were peaceful , found that the United States Army would protect them against the terrible cruelties that Aguinaldo's bands inflicted with great frequency upon ...
... going to vanish in smoke . Then the great mass of the Fili- pino people , who were peaceful , found that the United States Army would protect them against the terrible cruelties that Aguinaldo's bands inflicted with great frequency upon ...
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... going over : 66 ' It will be apparent to every business man that the present favorable aspect of affairs in almost every line of work must be changed as soon as it becomes evident that from and after May 1 , 1899 , or thereabout , the ...
... going over : 66 ' It will be apparent to every business man that the present favorable aspect of affairs in almost every line of work must be changed as soon as it becomes evident that from and after May 1 , 1899 , or thereabout , the ...
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... sentiment said to have been expressed by a certain elderly gentleman in a somewhat famous reply which he is credited with having made to Mr. At- kinson . The elderly party was going home on his 68 THE BLOW FROM BEHIND.
... sentiment said to have been expressed by a certain elderly gentleman in a somewhat famous reply which he is credited with having made to Mr. At- kinson . The elderly party was going home on his 68 THE BLOW FROM BEHIND.
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Admiral Dewey Agui Aguinaldo Aguinaldo's army American soldier Anti Anti-Impe ANTI-IMPERIALISM Anti-Imperialist Anti-Imperialist League Atkinson says believe blow Boston Bryan capitulation cent citizens civil commission Congress Copperheads courts Cuba deficit Democratic party Dewey's discharge duty Edward Atkinson Empire ENDING JUNE 30 enemy estimates fact Filipino FISCAL YEAR ENDING force foreign Funston garrison Guy Howard Hannis Taylor Hong Kong honor hostile Imperialists inhabitants insurgents international law June 30 launch going let us look letter Lincoln Manila Bay McKinley MCKINLEY'S means ment miles military months nation natives Otis Philip Philippine Islands phlets pines pinos Porto Rico postal expenditures President protect rate of admission Rebellion republic revenue secretary sent ships shoot shows sick report Spain Spaniards Spanish army Spanish Empire speech square miles statement Surgeon surrender TARLAC territory thing tion treasury tropical United Vallandigham William McKinley
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Page 124 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 117 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed ; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Page 125 - Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting, that the American people will by means of military arrests during the rebellion lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus...
Page 9 - The authority of the legitimate power having actually passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all steps in his power to re-establish and insure, as far as possible, public order and safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country.
Page 15 - But in the East, from the oldest times, an immiscible character has been kept up; foreigners are not admitted into the general body and mass of the society of the nation; they continue strangers and sojourners as all their fathers were - Doris amara suam non intermiscuit undam...
Page 131 - ... to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments, in which the natives of the islands, both in the cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they arc capable and subject to the least degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with the maintenance of law,...
Page 138 - ... labors all the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands may come to look back with gratitude to the day when God gave victory to American arms at Manila and set their land under the sovereignty and the protection of the people of the United States.
Page 131 - Wright of Tennessee, Hon. Henry C. Ide of Vermont, and Prof. Bernard Moses of California, commissioners to the Philippine Islands to continue and perfect the work of organizing and establishing civil government already commenced by the military authorities, subject in all respects...
Page 34 - I submit that for troops to enter under fire a town covering a wide area, to rapidly deploy and guard all principal points in the extensive suburbs, to keep out the insurgent forces pressing for admission, to quietly disarm an army of Spaniards more than equal in numbers to the American troops, and finally by all this to prevent entirely all rapine, pillage, and disorder, and gain entire and complete possession of a city of 300,000 people...
Page 9 - Although acquisitions made during war are not considered as permanent until confirmed by treaty, yet to every commercial and belligerent purpose, they are considered as a part of the domain of the conqueror, so long as he retains the possession and government of them. The island of Santa Cruz, after its capitulation, remained a British island until it was restored to Denmark.