Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — To Govern the Philippines. [ARTICLE]

To Govern the Philippines.

They (the Philippines) will not be governed as vsssals or serfs or slaves; they will be given a government of liberty, regulated by law, honestly administered, without oppressing exactions, taxation without tyranny, justice without bribe, ’education without distinction of social condition, freedom of religions worship, and protection in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."—William McKinley. *