In a speech that's timely once again, Grover Cleveland criticized the foreign policy of the McKinley Administration, and particularly U.S. colonialism in the Philippines, stating:
We can conquer the Philippines, and after conquering them probably can govern them. It is in the strain upon our institutions, the demoralization of our people, the evasion of our constitutional limitations, and the perversion of our national mission that our danger lies. . . As a distinguished bishop has said, 'The question is not what we shall do with the Philippines, but what the Philippines will do to us. Our country will never be the same again. For weal or woe, we have already irrevocably passed beyond the old lines."
He was right, then and now.
Cleveland as McKinley is sworn in.
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