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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Page 39
... ) Such government may be carried on under an entirely new code made by the authority of the Commander - in- chief . " ( Scott v . Bilgerry , 40 Miss . 119. ) Now we have the problem right in front of us 39 MR . MCKINLEY'S PROBLEMS.
... ) Such government may be carried on under an entirely new code made by the authority of the Commander - in- chief . " ( Scott v . Bilgerry , 40 Miss . 119. ) Now we have the problem right in front of us 39 MR . MCKINLEY'S PROBLEMS.
Page 70
... carry his point in any other way , see nothing wrong in frightening every mother in the country who had a boy out there in the Philippines . For each of those boys we sent out there was somebody's boy , -the pride of some gray - haired ...
... carry his point in any other way , see nothing wrong in frightening every mother in the country who had a boy out there in the Philippines . For each of those boys we sent out there was somebody's boy , -the pride of some gray - haired ...
Page 81
... the civil war , if carried out for a year , is 3455 sick men reporting from each 1000 men . That is a sick rate of more than 800 higher than the worst yearly report we have yet had from the 81 ATKINSON'S GHASTLY DEATH STATISTICS.
... the civil war , if carried out for a year , is 3455 sick men reporting from each 1000 men . That is a sick rate of more than 800 higher than the worst yearly report we have yet had from the 81 ATKINSON'S GHASTLY DEATH STATISTICS.
Page 100
... carrying this out with the utmost pomp and with contributing by the presence of your sub- ordinates to its greater splendor , I would be obliged if you would come to see me for a conference upon this matter . 66 66 May God keep you many ...
... carrying this out with the utmost pomp and with contributing by the presence of your sub- ordinates to its greater splendor , I would be obliged if you would come to see me for a conference upon this matter . 66 66 May God keep you many ...
Page 105
... carried on by President McKinley against your people . He and General Otis and all his troops are pirates upon the territory of the natives . I should like to suggest a plan to you . It is this : You should seize some official of rank ...
... carried on by President McKinley against your people . He and General Otis and all his troops are pirates upon the territory of the natives . I should like to suggest a plan to you . It is this : You should seize some official of rank ...
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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 7 - 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 13 - 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 - ... 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 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 - 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 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 7 - 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.