... knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States." In this address to Congress, Theodore Roosevelt also states the opinion of the nation, the idea of supremacy. As a quickly established power in the beginning after such battles as the French and Indian and Mexican war the United States earned respect. But did this ... the war of "criminal aggression" in the Philippines, greatly as we regret that the blood of the Filipinos is on American hands- this exce...

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