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Imperialists	Anti-Imperialists
We make no hypocritical pretence of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. We believe in Trade Expansion Senator Lodge Philadelphia National Republican Convention of 1900	I will cheerfully vote all the money that may be necessary to carry on the war in the Philippines, but I still maintain that we could have avoided a conflict with those people had the Senate adopted my resolution or a similar resolution announcing our honest intentions with regard to the Philippines. Senator Bacon Washington Post. February 6, 1899 In this annexation of the Philippine Islands through ratification of the treaty , and in waging war to subjugate the Filipinos, I think the country, acting through constitutional authorities, is wrong. Senator Bacon Congressional Record Feb 27, 1899

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We make no hypocritical pretence of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. We believe in Trade Expansion

Senator Lodge
Philadelphia National Republican Convention of 1900

I will cheerfully vote all the money that may be necessary to carry on the war in the Philippines, but I still maintain that we could have avoided a conflict with those people had the Senate adopted my resolution or a similar resolution announcing our honest intentions with regard to the Philippines.

Senator Bacon
Washington Post. February 6, 1899

In this annexation of the Philippine Islands through ratification of the treaty , and in waging war to subjugate the Filipinos, I think the country, acting through constitutional authorities, is wrong.

Senator Bacon
Congressional Record Feb 27, 1899