Grover Cleveland on the Phillippine Problem, Hawaii, etc.

Grover Cleveland
(1837 - 1908)

"I have only one thing to do, and that is to do right."

22cd President of the United States from 1885 to 1889

Ex-President Grover Cleveland on the Philippine Problem

by Grover Cleveland

Boston: New England Anti-Imperialist League, 1904 When our Government entered upon a war for the professed purpose of aiding to self-government and releasing from foreign rule a struggling people whose cries for liberty were heard at our very doors, it rallied to its enthusiastic support a nation of freemen, in whose hearts and minds there was deeply fixed by heredity and tradition the living belief that all just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. It was the mockery of Fate that led us to an unexpected and unforeseen incident in this conflict, and placed in the path of our Government, while professing national righteousness, representing an honest and liberty-loving people, and intent on a benevolent, self-sacrificing errand, the temptation of sordid aggrandizement and the false glitter of world-power. No sincerely thoughtful American can recall what followed without amazement, nor without sadly realizing how the apathy of our people's trustfulness and their unreflecting acceptance of alluring representations can be played upon. No greater national fall from grace was ever known than that of the Government of the United States, when in the midst of high design, while still speaking words of sympathy with the weak who struggled against the strong, and while still professing to exemplify before the world a great Republic's love for self-government and its impulse to stay the bloody hand of oppression and conquest, it embraced an opportunity offered by the exigencies of its beneficent undertaking, to possess itself of territory thousands of miles from our coast, and to conquer and govern, without pretense of their consent, millions of resisting people -- a heterogeneous population largely mixed with elements hardly within the light of civilization, and all far from the prospect of assimilation with anything American.  In one hand the party in power held aloft before our people the dazzling and misleading promise of commercial advantage and the glory of rivaling monarchical expansion, while with the other it slaughtered thousands of the abject possessors of the soil it coveted, and sent messages of death and disease to thousands of American homes. In the wildest exhibition of partisan rancor the Democratic party cannot be accused of reactionary opposition to any movement within the lines fixed by our national mission and traditions that tends to increase our country's greatness. It demands, however, that this mission and these traditions shall above all things be inviolably preserved as guides to our national activity and standards for the measurement of every national achievement. Democracy will not be cajoled into silence by the transient appearance of a manufactured or heedless public sentiment, but will speak, and trust for its vindication to the sober second thought of our people. Refusing to accept the shallow and discreditable pretense that our conquest in the Philippines has gone so far as to be beyond recall or correction, we insist that a nation as well as an individual is never so magnanimous or great as when false steps are retraced and the path of honesty and virtue is regained. The message of the Democracy to the American people should courageously enjoin that, in sincere and consistent compliance with the spirit and profession of our interference in behalf of Cuba's self-government, our beneficent designs toward her should also extend to the lands which, as an incident of such interference, have come under our control; that the people of the Philippine Islands should be aided in the establishment of a government of their own; and that when this is accomplished our interference in their domestic rule should cease.Grover Cleveland Selected Works Selected Collections Annual Messages - Grover Cleveland Selected Works Ex-President Grover Cleveland on the Philippine Problem A Proclamation on the death of Ulysses S. Grant G Cleveland on Native Americans Message about Hawaii Message on the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act ************ The Century Magazine - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Magazine The Century Magazine was first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century ... According to an author writing in the New York Times, the publication of The Century "made New-York, instead .... figures, including a close friendship with Grover Cleveland which he wrote about upon the death of the former president. [PDF]Index to the Grover Cleveland papers. - Library of Congress hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101125003gc.1 Nov 25, 2010 - THIS INDEX to the Grover Cleveland Papers is a direct result of the wish of the. Congress and the ... of the Century Magazine and a longtime friend: "I have been so ..... that the writer of an unpublished letter or other manuscript ... 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Grover Cleveland - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/topic/person/grover-cleveland Commentary and archival information about Grover Cleveland from The New ... Grover Cleveland and William F. McKinley come under authors' microscopes. List of books and articles about Grover Cleveland | Online Research ... https://www.questia.com/library/history/united-states.../grover-cleveland Discover librarian-selected research resources on Grover Cleveland from the Questia online library, including full-text online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. ... FREE! Presidential Problems By Grover Cleveland The Century Co., 1904 .... Search by ... Keyword; Title; Author; Subject; Publisher. The Century Magazine - Topics www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=The%20Century%20Magazine... 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Searches related to The Century magazine author grover cleveland century magazine covers century martial arts magazine the century illustrated monthly magazine 1886 century magazine tesla century magazine cornell richard watson gilder scribner's magazine the century marvel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next *************** Reference: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=h&p=c&a=p&ID=23005http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/hcb/ID/214 http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/hcp/ID/28429 http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/gcleveland.html http://www.capitalcentury.com/1908.html **************************http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/20101125003gc/20101125003gc.pdf page 88 - shows 3 articles by Grover Cleveland  Jan 9, 1904 B.3 p.5 * THIS INDEX to the Grover Cleveland Papers is a direct result of the wish of the Congress and the President, as expressed by Public Law 85-147 approved August 16, 1957, and amended by Public Laws 87-263 approved September 21, 1961, and 88-299 approved April 27, 1964, to arrange, index, and microfilm the papers of the Presidents in the Library of Congress in order "to preserve their contents against destruction by war or other calamity," to make the Presidential Papers -more "readily available for study and research," and to inspire informed patriotism. Presidents whose papers are in the Library are: George Washington James K. Polk Chester A. Arthur Thomas Jefferson Zachary Taylor Grover Cleveland James Madison Franklin Pierce Benjamin Harrison James Monroe Abraham Lincoln William McKinley Andrew Jackson Andrew Johnson Theodore Roosevelt Martin Van Buren Ulysses S. Grant William H. Taft William H. Harrison James A. Garfield Woodrow Wilson John Tyler Calvin Coolidge The microfilm of the Cleveland Papers became available in 1960. Positive copies of the film may be purchased from the Chief, Photoduplication Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 20540. A positive print is available for interlibrary loan through the Chief, Loan D~vision, Library of Congress. ************************** U.S. President Cleveland decides that the Provisional Government Must be Overthrown The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, November 29, 1893, Image 1 Image provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1893-11-29/ed-1/seq-1/ Print this image | Download this image Criticism of U.S. President Cleveland: The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, January 27, 1894, Page 5, Image 5 Image provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1894-01-27/ed-1/seq-5/ Print this image | Download this image