Richard F. Pettigrew Quote

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.


Imperial Washington (1922), pp. 345-346


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...

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...

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...

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...