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Finally It Should Be The Earnest Wish And Paramount Aim Of The Military Administration To Win The Confidence, Respect, And Affection Of The Inhabitants Of The Philippines By Assuring Them In Every Possible Way That Full Measure Of Individual Rights And Liberties Which Is The Heritage Of Free Peoples, And By Proving To Them That The Mission Of The United States Is One Of Benevolent Assimilation Substituting The Mild Sway Of Justice And Right For Arbitrary Rule.

Honesty, Capacity, And Industry Are Nowhere More Indispensable Than In Public Employment.

I Went Down On My Knees And Prayed To Almighty God For Light And Guidance And One Night Late It Came To Me This Way. We Could Not Leave (the Philippines) To Themselves-they Were Unfit For Self-government-and They Would Soon Have Anarchy And Misrule Over There Worse Than Spain's Was. There Was Nothing Left For Us To Do But Take Them All And Educate The Filipinos, And Uplift And Christianize Them.

The Best Way For The Government To Maintain Its Credit Is To Pay As It Goes-not By Resorting To Loans, But By Keeping Out Of Debt-through An Adequate Income Secured By A System Of Taxation, External Or Internal, Or Both.

Without Competition We Would Be Clinging To The Clumsy Antiquated Processes Of Farming And Manufacture And The Methods Of Business Of Long Ago, And The Twentieth Would Be No Further Advanced Than The Eighteenth Century.