After that it became impossible, not only to defeat the Treaty,
but to defeat the policy which had inspired it. The Treaty
pledged that the Philippine Islands should be governed by
Congress. It undertook obligations which require for their
fulfillment, at least ten years' control of the Islands.
It put the people of the Philippine Islands in the attitude
of abandoning the Republic they had formed, and of acknowledging
not only our supremacy but that they were neither entitled
or fit to govern themselves or to carry on the war which had
unfortunately broken out. I do not mean to imply that, as
I have said, a large number of the Democratic Party both in
public life and out of it, were not sincere and zealous in
their opposition to this wretched business. But next to a
very few men who controlled the policy of the Republican Party
in this matter, Mr. Bryan and his followers who voted in the
Senate for the Treaty are responsible for the results.
I have been blamed, as I have said already, because, with
my opinions, I did not join the Democratic Party and help
to elect Mr.
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