Author: Moorfield Storey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9780331530513

Excerpt from The Democratic Party and Philippine Independence The promises of the party have been clear and explicit. When the treaty with Spain was ratified by -which the United States acquired the islands, the votes of the Democratic senators, with out which the treaty would have been rejected, were given upon the theory that the treaty would end the rights of Spain in the islands, and that we should give them their independence. The first Democratic National Convention after the treaty met on July 4, 1900, and its declarations were positive. These were its words: We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; that any government not based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny, and that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.