Excerpt from The Problem in the Philippines: Speech of Hon. Henry M. Teller, of Colorado, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, February 11, 12, and 13, 1902As I said two years ago, the thing for us to address ourselves to is what is to be the relation of those people to us, and not whether or not we have the power, if we see fit to exercise it, simply to hold their country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.