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Dan MacMeekin         Attorney at Law        Washington, DC, USA

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The flavor of the debate, often ethnocentric if not racist in tone, is captured in

 J.B. Foraker, The United States and Puerto Rico, North American Review, volume 170, page 464 (1900) (Foraker was then the United States Senator from Ohio); 

P. Belmont, Congress, the President and the Philippines, North American Review, volume 169, page 894 (1899); 

Edmund Briggs, Annexation, "The Open Door," and the Constitution, Catholic World, volume 68, page 549 (1899);

G. G. Vest, Objections to Annexing the Philippines, North American Review, volume 168, page 112 (1899) (Vest was then the United States Senator from Missouri); and 

W. Reid, The Territory with which We Are Threatened, Century, volume 56, page 788 (1898) 

(all from the  Making of America collection from Cornell University and the University of Michigan).

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