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Source: Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 1899.
Note: A platform is a series of positions or beliefs supported by a group or political party.
We earnestly condemn the policy of the present national administration
in the Philippines. It seeks to extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands.
We deplore the sacrifice of our soldiers and sailors, whose bravery deserves
admiration even in an unjust war. We denounce the slaughter of the
Filipinos as a needless horror. We protest against the extension of American
sovereignty by Spanish methods....
We hold with Abraham Lincoln, that "no man is good enough to govern
another man without that other's consent. When the white man governs
himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also
that is despotism
governs another man, that is more than self-government
[rule by a tyrant]." summarize