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been said and compare it with the record of what 

 has actually been done. If promises are violated, 

 if plighted word is not kept, then those who have 

 failed in their duty should be held up to reprobation. 

 If, on the other hand, the promises have been sub 

 stantially made good; if the achievement has kept 

 pace and more than kept pace with the prophecy, 

 then they who made the one and are responsible for 

 the other are entitled of just right to claim the 

 credit which attaches to those who serve the Nation 

 well. This credit I claim for the men who have 

 managed so admirably the military and the civil 

 affairs of the Philippine Islands, and for those other 

 men who have so heartily backed them in Congress, 

 and without whose aid and support not one thing 

 could have been accomplished. 



When President McKinley spoke, the first duty 

 was the restoration of order ; and to this end the use 

 of the Army of the United States an Army com 

 posed of regulars and volunteers alike was neces 

 sary. To put down the insurrection and restore 

 peace to the islands was a duty not only to ourselves 

 but to the islanders also. We could not have aban 

 doned the conflict without shirking this duty, with 

 out proving ourselves recreants to the memory of 

 our forefathers. Moreover, if we had abandoned 

 it we would have inflicted upon the Filipinos the 

 most cruel wrong and would have doomed them to 

 a bloody jumble of anarchy and tyranny. It seems 

 strange, looking back, that any of our people should 

 have failed to recognize a duty so obvious ; but there 



