CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINESby@twain

CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES

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AT A DINNER GIVEN IN THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, DECEMBER, 1900 Winston Spencer Churchill was introduced by Mr. Clemens. For years I’ve been a self-appointed missionary to bring about the union of America and the motherland. They ought to be united. Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars’ admission)—any one except a Chinaman—standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. And how unselfishly England has wrought for the open door for all! And how piously America has wrought for that open door in all cases where it was not her own!
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