[5] Senate Document 148, p. 19.
[6] Chairman of the Spanish Commission.
[7] Meaning evidently payment of some of Spain’s debts with money she could probably get from us for the asking, as a matter of sympathy for the fellow who is “down and out.”
[8] Mr. McKinley had before that sent word significantly that he was not unmindful of the distressing financial embarrassments of Spain.
Chapter VIII
The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation
Prometheus stole the heavenly fire from the altar of Jupiter to benefit mankind, and Jupiter thereupon punished both Prometheus and the rest of mankind by creating and giving to them the woman Pandora, a supposed blessing but a real curse. Pandora brought along a box of blessings, and when she opened it, everything flew out and away but Hope.
Tales from Æschylus.
The ever-memorable Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, the Pandora box of Philippine woes, was signed December 21, 1898, and its contents were let loose in the Philippines on January 1, 1899.