 | Francis Burton Harrison - History - 1922 - 384 pages
...make it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement; and WHEREAS it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to...government can be established therein; and WHEREAS for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of... | |
 | Francis Burton Harrison - History - 1922 - 390 pages
...it a war of conquest or for territorial aggrandizement ; and WHEREAS it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to...government can be established therein ; and WHEREAS for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of... | |
 | Edward Nelson Dingley - National characteristics, American - 1922 - 228 pages
...so-called Jones law of 1916 contained this significant sentence: "Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to...as a stable government can be established therein," etc. It will be recalled that Senator Clarke of Arkansas offered an amendment conferring complete and... | |
 | Frazier Hunt - Eastern question (Far East) - 1922 - 258 pages
...the Filipinos, the preamble of the law carried a definite pledge. "WHEREAS, It is and has always been the purpose of the people of the United States to...as soon as a stable government can be established." Then bang into the fire of the World War dropped America. The Philippines and their independence and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 1316 pages
...29 1916 the US Congress passed the Jones Act. The short preamble declared that " it has always been the purpose of the people of the United States to...to recognize their independence as soon as a stable form of government can be established therein." The Act created a Senate to supersede the Philippine... | |
 | Durant Drake - Nationalism - 1922 - 358 pages
...nation." In recognition of this long-proclaimed principle of Americanism, Congress in 1914 pledged the United States "to withdraw their sovereignty over...as a stable government can be established therein." President Wilson later declared, "We must hold steadily in view their ultimate independence, and we... | |
 | Charles Edward Russell - Philippines - 1922 - 472 pages
...explicit declaration that the purpose of the people of the United States "is, as it has always been, to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine...as a stable government can be established therein." Of this measure its author, Representative Jones, said in Congress that it was "the everlasting covenant... | |
 | United States Tariff Commission - Colonies - 1922 - 890 pages
...it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their iity over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can V<e Mtsbllabed tin r<-in; and of the Piiilippines as large a control of their domestic affairs as can... | |
 | Philippines. Commission of Independence - Philippines - 1923 - 322 pages
...make it a war of conquest or territorial aggrandizement; and "Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to...government can be established therein; and "Whereas, for the speedy accomplishment of the purpose, it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of... | |
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Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein... 
