United States Colonies and Dependencies

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Excerpt from United States Colonies and Dependencies: The Travels and Investigations of a Chicago Publisher in the Colonial Possessions and Dependencies of the United States, With 600 Photographs of Interesting People and Scenes, Illustrated Even in the day of the birth of our own Republic the time was hardly ripe. Owing to much ignorance. But a basic idea not before employed was used in laying the foundation, and that was the Christian conception of the equality of all men before the Creator Without much doubt this belief saved us. Hold ing the structure together until enlightenment became more general. This brings us to a vital question. A movement at present is under way to give up the Philippine Islands. One of our most important colonies. And allow the inhabitants to attempt to form themselves into an independent republic. Have they the first requisite, a religious belief that all men are equal. Or the second and perhaps greater requisite of know ing enough. As a whole people. Intelligently to conduct affairs of state With liberty for all3 My conviction. Growing out of observation and investigation. Is that they as yet have not good grounds for government as a republic. Always in dealing with our history and position in the world, we instinctively go back to Columbus. For us the procession of events begins with him. His three little ships, Santa Maria. N ina and Pinta. Bobbing across the billows toward the American shores, in 1492, lead our procession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.