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Half-heartedness Never Won A Battle.

We Cannot Gamble With Anything So Sacred As Money.

Without Competition We Would Be Clinging To The Clumsy Antiquated Processes Of Farming And Manufacture And The Methods Of Business Of Long Ago, And The Twentieth Would Be No Further Advanced Than The Eighteenth Century.

Illiteracy Must Be Banished From The Land If We Shall Attain That High Destiny As The Foremost Of The Enlightened Nations Of The World Which, Under Providence, We Ought To Achieve.

Finally It Should Be The Earnest Wish And Paramount Aim Of The Military Administration To Win The Confidence, Respect, And Affection Of The Inhabitants Of The Philippines By Assuring Them In Every Possible Way That Full Measure Of Individual Rights And Liberties Which Is The Heritage Of Free Peoples, And By Proving To Them That The Mission Of The United States Is One Of Benevolent Assimilation Substituting The Mild Sway Of Justice And Right For Arbitrary Rule.