The Philippines

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The two stripes are royal blue and scarlet red The white triangle has a golden sun representing the

country’s first group of provinces that started the Philippine Revolution in 1896 against Spain

The 3 five-pointed golden yellow stars represent the country's3 main regions - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao

In a state of war, the red and blue stripes switch positions

Admiral

George Dewey

Emilio

Aguinaldo

General Jacob

Hurd Smith

William

Howard Taft

~OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS~

“We were told that we needed Hawaii in order to secure California. What shall we now take in order to secure the Philippines?.… We shall need to take China, Japan, and the East Indies, according to the doctrine, in order to „secure‟ what we have. Of course this means that, on the doctrine, we must take the whole earth in order to be safe on any part of it, and the fallacy stands exposed. If, then, safety and prosperity do not lie in this direction, the place to look for them is in the other direction: in domestic development, peace, industry, free

trade with everybody, low taxes, industrial power.”

William Graham Sumner, laissez faire liberal and Yale sociologist

“I thought it would be a great thing to give a whole lot of freedom to the Filipinos, but I guess now that it's better to

let them give it to themselves.” Mark Twain, popular author and

humorist