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arms means the abolition of cruelty, the bringing of 

 peace, and the rule of law and order under the civil 

 government. Other nations have conquered to 

 create irresponsible military rule. We conquer to 

 bring just and responsible civil government to the 

 conquered. 



But our armies do more than bring peace, do 

 more than bring order. They bring freedom. Re 

 member always that the independence of a tribe or a 

 community may, and often does, have nothing what 

 ever to do with the freedom of the individual in 

 that tribe or community. There are now in Asia 

 and Africa scores of despotic monarchies, each of 

 which is independent, and in no one of which is 

 there the slightest vestige of freedom for the in 

 dividual man. Scant indeed is the gain to mankind 

 from the "independence" of a blood-stained tyrant 

 who rules over abject and brutalized slaves. But 

 great is the gain to humanity which follows the 

 steady though slow introduction of the orderly lib 

 erty, the law-abiding freedom of the individual, 

 which is the only sure foundation upon which na 

 tional independence can be built. Wherever in the 

 Philippines the insurrection has been definitely and 

 finally put down, there the individual Filipino al 

 ready enjoys such freedom, such personal liberty 

 under our rule, as he could never even have dreamed 

 of under the rule of an "independent" Aguinaldian 

 oligarchy. 



The slowly-learned and difficult art of self-gov 

 ernment, an art which our people have taught them- 



