Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Taft’s Weak Defense. [ARTICLE]

Taft’s Weak Defense.

Mi 1 . (Taft has shown that the Philippines haVe cost the United States nothing if you leave out of account the principal item like “the expenditures incident to military and naval operations and the support of the United States forces in the archipelago.” But if it had not been for the annexation of the Philippines would all these millions have been spent? A clumsier attempt to bolster up a case palpably bad could not be imagined. ■