In no other Oriental country, whether ruled by Asiatics or by Europeans, is there anything approaching the amount of individual liberty or self-government which our rule has brought to the Philippines.

The truth is that the Americans are learning in the Philippines some of the things with which England has become familiar in India and in Egypt.

Like Great Britain, we have reached the point of rapid city growth and a relatively diminishing agricultural population. In colonial possessions, in the relations of an advanced country to countries less “civilized” or backward, in the export of capital for foreign investment and in the competition for raw materials and foreign markets, we have moved toward the English situation. While our problems may be different in detail, they involve us in the study and settlement of questions often similar to those of Great Britain. Panama has many resemblances to Suez, and our relation to Panama is in many respects analogous to that of Great Britain to Egypt. It was constantly on the tongues of the Englishmen at the Peace Conference that many of our new problems in the Philippines resembled their own in Egypt and the Far East. The wide geographical distribution of our territorial problems –…the Philippines, Alaska to Panama – puts us at last in the same general position that Great Britain has long occupied; that is, we impinge upon most of the major problems of the world.