ng the whole Philippine Archipelago in the very first
conference of the Commissioners in the President's room at the White
House, in advance of any instructions of any sort. If vindication for
it be needed, I confidently await the future."

This measure of responsibility for the expansion policy upon which the
country is launched has necessarily given special interest to Mr.
Reid's subsequent discussions of the various problems it has raised.
They have been called for on important occasions both abroad and in all
parts of our own country. They have covered many phases of the subject,
but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of
ideas throughout. They appeared at times when public men often seemed
to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident
that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they
marked out. As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the
addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the
new policy required by the new situation in which his country is
placed, and has the courage and candor to say it."

It has seemed desirable with each paper and address to prefix a brief
record of the circumstances under which it was made. A few memoranda
which Mr. Reid had prepared to elucidate the text are added, in
foot-notes and in the Appendices which include the Resolutions of
Congress as to Cuba, the Protocol of Washington, and the text of the
Peace of Paris.

C. C. BUEL.

NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK,
May 25, 1900.

CONTENTS

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I. THE TERRITORY WITH WHICH WE ARE THREATENED 1
In "The Century," September, 1898.

II. WAS IT TOO GOOD A TREATY? 25
At the Lotos Club, New York, February 11, 1899.

III. PURPORT OF THE TREATY 35
At the Marquette Club, Chicago, February 13, 1899.

IV. THE DUTIES OF PEACE 53
At the Ohio Society dinner, New York, February 25, 1899.

V. THE OPEN DOOR 65
At the dinner of the American-Asiatic Association,
New York, February 23, 1899.

VI. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE TREATY OF PARIS 71
From "The Anglo-Saxon Review," June, 1899.

VII. OUR NEW DUTIES