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doned the islands. We are not trying to subjugate a 

 people; we are trying to develop them and make 

 them a law-abiding, industrious, and educated peo 

 ple, and we hope ultimately a self-governing people. 

 In short, in the work we have done we are but car 

 rying out the true principles of our democracy. We 

 work in a spirit of self-respect for ourselves and of 

 good-will toward others, in a spirit of love for and 

 of infinite faith in mankind. We do not blindly 

 refuse to face the evils that exist, or the shortcom 

 ings inherent in humanity; but across blundering 

 and shirking, across selfishness and meanness of mo 

 tive, across short-sightedness and cowardice, we gaze 

 steadfastly toward the far horizon of golden triumph. 

 If you will study our past history as a nation 

 you will see we have made many blunders and have 

 been guilty of many shortcomings, and yet that we 

 have always in the end come out victorious because 

 we have refused to be daunted by blunders and de 

 feats, have recognized them, but have persevered in 

 spite of them. So it must be in the future. We gird 

 up our loins as a nation, with the stern purpose to 

 play our part manfully in winning the ultimate tri 

 umph; and therefore we turn scornfully aside from 

 the paths of mere ease and idleness, and with unfal 

 tering steps tread the rough road of endeavor, smit 

 ing down and battling for the right, as Greatheart 

 smote and battled in Bunyan's immortal story. 



