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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... President McKinley's course inflex- ibly fixed by law . find out the facts . Mr. McKinley's efforts to Qualifications of the mem- bers of Mr. McKinley's first commission . Sub- stance of their report to Mr. McKinley . Mr. McKinley ...
... President McKinley's course inflex- ibly fixed by law . find out the facts . Mr. McKinley's efforts to Qualifications of the mem- bers of Mr. McKinley's first commission . Sub- stance of their report to Mr. McKinley . Mr. McKinley ...
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... President of the United States are with relation to the peo- ples of such territory . He has no choice in the matter . he did . Remember that when we consider what " Hostile territory subdued by the armies of the United States does not ...
... President of the United States are with relation to the peo- ples of such territory . He has no choice in the matter . he did . Remember that when we consider what " Hostile territory subdued by the armies of the United States does not ...
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... President as Commander - in - Chief to provide for the security of persons and property , and for the administration of justice . ( The Grape Shop , 9 Wall . 129. ) Such government may be carried on under an entirely new code made by ...
... President as Commander - in - Chief to provide for the security of persons and property , and for the administration of justice . ( The Grape Shop , 9 Wall . 129. ) Such government may be carried on under an entirely new code made by ...
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... PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S COURSE INFLEXIBLY FIXED BY LAW Mr. McKinley's hands were tied , and his course directed , by his oath of office , by the foregoing au- thorities . The following is sufficient to restate here : Mr. Hannis Taylor , in ...
... PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S COURSE INFLEXIBLY FIXED BY LAW Mr. McKinley's hands were tied , and his course directed , by his oath of office , by the foregoing au- thorities . The following is sufficient to restate here : Mr. Hannis Taylor , in ...
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... President of the United States what would , what could you have done if you had had it to do ? As President , you would have been charged with protecting the lives and property of every peaceable person in Manila . You would have done ...
... President of the United States what would , what could you have done if you had had it to do ? As President , you would have been charged with protecting the lives and property of every peaceable person in Manila . You would have done ...
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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 death deficit Democratic party Dewey's discharge duty Edward Atkinson Empire ENDING JUNE 30 enemy estimates fact Filipino FISCAL YEAR ENDING force foreign Funston garrison 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 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 venereal diseases William McKinley
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Page 122 - 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 115 - 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 123 - 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 129 - ... 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 are 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, order, and loyalty.
Page 136 - ... 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 129 - 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 32 - 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 119 - Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38, from Head-quarters Department of the Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion.