must seem inexplicable to many in view of the fact that the Peace Treaty provides neither that the Philippines shall be annexed to the United States nor that they shall be held asacolony. There is, therefore, no opposition of any real strength to the treaty pure and simple, for practically none of the Senators but would insist that Spain shall cede sovereignty over the Philippines, as the Treaty provides. The Who object to the natives of the ippines, as possible future fellow citizens, and the men who believe that the Constitution of the United States forbids such extension of territory or the institution of colonies, and the men who feel that the policy of a hundred years in confining the sphere of American interests and efforts to this Continent should be adhered to, feel that they have a greater chance to make their opposition count in a case where a two-thirds vote of their opponents is necessary than when, the Treaty ratified, only a majority vote is needed in dealing with these same questions.
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