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Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit.

Richard F. Pettigrew

The cry that we have entered upon our imperial course in order to benefit the native populations in the lands that we have conquered is an old one.... I have before me McKinley's proclamation to the Filipinos, and I have placed it side by side with a proclamation of the King of Assyria, written eighteen hundred years before Christ. A man would think that McKinley had plagiarized the idea from Asshurbanipal.

Richard F. Pettigrew

Richard F. Pettigrew

Richard F. Pettigrew

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Born: July 23, 1848

Died: October 5, 1926 (aged 78)

Bio: Richard Franklin Pettigrew was an American lawyer, surveyor, and land developer. He represented the Dakota Territory in the U.S. Congress and, after the Dakotas were admitted as States, he was the first U.S. Senator from South Dakota.

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