The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

should be admitted to statehood in accordance with
the principles of the Federal Constitution. It
therefore follows that the record of the United
States, until the present crisis, has been
unanimously in support of the principles of the
Declaration of Independence and of the
Constitution of the United States.
But now the United States has purchased the
Philippine Islands from Spain, and has paid to that
government therefore the sum of twenty million
dollars. For this price, paid to another nation, ten
million men, women, and children have become
the property of these United States. No one dreams
that the nation will make slaves of them; but is not
the principle involved a dangerous one? Is it not a
step down from the noblest plane of national
principle? These people, however, declare that the
title of Spain is not good, and refuse to come under
submission. And the United States is now engaged
in telling them plainly that she expects to rule them
without their consent, whether they like it or not.
For instance, in a recent speech the chief executive
of the nation said:--
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