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 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS

1. For the Philippine Islands you have had to repeal the Declaration of Independence,

For Cuba you had to reaffirm it and give it new luster.

2. For the Philippine Islands you have had to convert the IMonroe Doctrine into a doctrine of mere selfishness.

For Cuba you have acted on it and vindicated it.

3. In Cuba you have got the eternal gratitude of a free people.

In the Philippine Islands you have got the hatred and sullen submission of a subjugated people.

4. From Cuba you have brought home nothing but glory.

From the Philippines you have brought home nothing of glory.

5. In Cuba no man thinks of counting the cost. The few soldiers who came home from Cuba wounded or sick carry about their wounds and their pale faces as if they were medals of honor. What soldier glories in a wound or an empty sleeve which he got in the Philippines?

6. The conflict in the Philippines has cost you six hundred million dollars, thousands of Amer- ican soldiers — the flower of your youth — the health and sanity of tlionsands more, and hun- dreds of thousands of Filipinos slain.

Another price we have paid as the result of your practical statesmanship. We have sold out the right, the old American right, to speak out 224

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