[Gutenberg 60842] • Yesterdays in the Philippines

Excerpt from Yesterdays in the Philippines

Do we want them? Do we want a group of islands, nearly miles from our Western shores, sweltering in the tropics, swept with typhoons and shaken with earthquakes? Do we want to under take the responsibility oi protecting those islands from the powers in Europe or the East, and of stand ing sponsor for the nearly native inhabitants that Speak a score of different tongues and live on anything from rice to stewed grasshoppers? Do we want the task of civilizing this race, of opening up the jungle, of setting up officials in frontier, out-oi the-way towns who won't have been there a month before they will wish to return?

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