“I am afraid that some people at home will lie awake [at] night worrying about the
ethics of this war, thinking that our enemy is fighting for the right to self-government ...
[The Filipinos] have a certain number of educated leaders – educated, however, about
the same way a parrot is. They are, as a rule, an illiterate, semi-savage people who are
waging war not against tyranny, but against Anglo-Saxon order and decency . . . I, for
one, hope that Uncle Sam will apply the chastening rod good, hard and plenty, and lay it
on until they come in to the reservation and promise to be good ‘Injuns.’”



How does Document B also provide evidence that many Americans opposed the
war in the Philippines?