We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the advantage of the United States but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. Every step we take will be taken with a view to the ultimate independence of the Islands and as a preparation... The American Year Book - Page 204edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1913 - 788 pages
...hands by President Wilson. The President's words to the people of the Philippines were as follows: We regard ourselves as trustees, acting not for the...preparation for that independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the islands will permit. After... | |
| Howard Benjamin Grose - Baptists - 1913 - 1108 pages
...legislature. This would afford ample opportunity to prove whether the people are fit for self-government. " We regard ourselves as trustees, acting not for the...United States, but for the benefit of the people of the Philippines." That is the basal utterance. The new executive informed the people, however, that... | |
| American literature - 1914 - 874 pages
...judged by their conduct, not by the lapse of time. Governor Harrison has outlined his policy thus: " We regard ourselves as trustees acting, not for the...preparation for that independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines - Philippines - 1914 - 500 pages
...that extent." (Speech at Lake Mohonk Conference, Oct. 14, 1914.) Gov. Gen. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON : " We regard ourselves as trustees, acting, not for the...independence of the islands and as a preparation for their independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| Asia - 1915 - 422 pages
...President authorized Governor-General Harrison, in his opening address, to make the following statement: "We regard ourselves as trustees, acting, not for...independence of the Islands and as a preparation for their independence; and we hope to move towards that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1916 - 388 pages
...has charged me to deliver to you the following message on behalf of the Government of our country: " We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the...to move towards that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After each step taken experience will guide... | |
| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1916 - 386 pages
...deprive ourselves of that frontier. From a report of his speech at Staunton, Virginia, December 28, 1912. We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the...preparation for that independence. And we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After... | |
| George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...A statement by President Wilson, read by Governor-General Harrison in his inaugural address, was : "We regard 'ourselves as trustees, acting, not for...independence of the Islands and as a preparation for their independence ; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| Philippines - 1916 - 1322 pages
...Philippine the message of President Wilson, the main paragraph of which Administration read as follows: "Every step we take will be taken with a view to the...preparation for that independence. And we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After... | |
| Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 714 pages
...Harrison, who had instructions to give more authority to the Filipinos. He publicly announced that " every step we take will be taken with a view to the...preparation for that independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permit." President... | |
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