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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... Civil War , of enlistment age , was also the result of reasoning and reflection , and not of any mere chance . The author has hope that there will be many people in the country who will be glad that this book has been written . He will ...
... Civil War , of enlistment age , was also the result of reasoning and reflection , and not of any mere chance . The author has hope that there will be many people in the country who will be glad that this book has been written . He will ...
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... civil arm . The death rate in the army in the Philippines in '98 was 22.74 , 30.58 in '99 , 28.75 in 1900 and 17.96 in 1891 - an average of 25 , and a total of 4432 lives , an average of 1108 for the entire four years . Now what does a ...
... civil arm . The death rate in the army in the Philippines in '98 was 22.74 , 30.58 in '99 , 28.75 in 1900 and 17.96 in 1891 - an average of 25 , and a total of 4432 lives , an average of 1108 for the entire four years . Now what does a ...
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... civil war , and further , that the mean monthly rate of the 5 years of the civil war June 30 , 1861 , to June 30 , 1866 , was higher than the mean rate of the regular army during the eight months which included its disastrous experience ...
... civil war , and further , that the mean monthly rate of the 5 years of the civil war June 30 , 1861 , to June 30 , 1866 , was higher than the mean rate of the regular army during the eight months which included its disastrous experience ...
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... or , to put it another way , there would be four men ill in the first year of the Civil War to three in the Philippines in the Spanish War . CHAPTER VIII THE VENEREAL DISEASE LIBEL VENEREAL DISEASES BUT , 82 THE BLOW FROM BEHIND.
... or , to put it another way , there would be four men ill in the first year of the Civil War to three in the Philippines in the Spanish War . CHAPTER VIII THE VENEREAL DISEASE LIBEL VENEREAL DISEASES BUT , 82 THE BLOW FROM BEHIND.
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... civil and military officers and private persons to celebrate the inde- pendence of the country and in honor of Mr. Bryan and at four p . m . we shall have the second part of UNIV . OF 339 ANTI - IMPERIALISM COST LIVES the 100 THE BLOW ...
... civil and military officers and private persons to celebrate the inde- pendence of the country and in honor of Mr. Bryan and at four p . m . we shall have the second part of UNIV . OF 339 ANTI - IMPERIALISM COST LIVES the 100 THE BLOW ...
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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.