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DECEMBER 21, 1898: The policy of 'Benevolent Assimilation' is proclaimed by US President McKinley, the first official indication of American policy regarding the Philippines. It expressly indicates the intention of the US to stay in the Philippines by exercising the right of sovereignty over the Filipinos.

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When the Spanish War broke out Dewey was at Hongkong, and I ordered him to go to Manila and to capture or destroy the Spanish fleet, and he had to; because, if defeated, he had no place to refit on that side of the globe, and if the Dons were victorious they would likely cross the Pacific and ravage our Oregon and California coasts. And so he had to destroy the Spanish fleet, and did it! But that was as far as I thought then.

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And one night late it came to me this way—I don’t know how it was, but it came:

(1) That we could not give them back to Spain—that would be cowardly and dishonorable;

(2) that we could not turn them over to France and Germany—our commercial rivals in the Orient—that would be bad business and discreditable;

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And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly, and the next morning I sent for the chief engineer of the War Department (our map-maker), and I told him to put the Philippines on the map of the United States (pointing to a large map on the wall of his office), and there they are, and there they will stay while I am President!

Source: General James Rusling, “Interview with President William McKinley,” The Christian Advocate 22 January 1903, 17. Reprinted in Daniel Schirmer and Stephen Rosskamm Shalom, eds., The Philippines Reader (Boston: South End Press, 1987), 22–23.

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at least, that president acknowledged that christ also died for us.

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or maybe for methodists being catholic is not christian?

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Protestantism sprouted in the Philippines after the archipelago passed from Spain to the United States. During the Spanish colonial epoch, the Royal Audencia prosecuted heretics actively. Still, 100 or so years later, protestants only constitute a minority in the Philippines. The overwhelming majority of Filipinos still adhere to the Roman Catholic Faith, testament to almost 400 years of Catholic Spanish Rule.

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