temperamental qualities without which the institutions of
free government are but an empty mockery. Our people are
now successfully governing themselves, because for more than
a thousand years they have been slowly fitting themselves,
sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, toward this
end. What has taken us thirty generations to achieve, we
cannot expect to see another race accomplish out of hand,
especially when large portions of that race start very far
behind the point which our ancestors had reached even thirty
generations ago. In dealing with the Philippine people we
must show both patience and strength, forbearance and
steadfast resolution. Our aim is high. We do not desire to
do for the islanders merely what has elsewhere been done for
tropic peoples by even the best foreign governments. We hope
to do for them what has never before been done for any
people of the tropics--to make them fit for self-government
after the fashion of the really free nations."

President Roosevelt. First Message, December 3, 1901.




THE QUESTION OF TERMINOLOGY

_Mr. President, Members of the Association and Section, Ladies and
Gentlemen_:

You have heard ably discussed certain questions which arise out of the
relationship between the American Union and the annexed Insular