It will probably, in spite of all shortcomings, have its average of ability and utility kept up.

Congress may go wrong, but will not betray.

Our outlying possessions must be Territories until they are Americanized, and we take it Americans know what that word means.

If a specification is wanted as a definition, we have to say the meaning is just what has happened in California since our flag was there.

In the case of the Philippines, if we stick, and we do not see how we can help doing so, the President will, in regular course, appoint a Territorial Governor, and as a strong Government capable of quick and final decisions must be made, the Governor should be a military man, and have a liberal grant, by special Act of Congress, of military authority.