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 Page 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 109 Address at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Miami University, June 15, 1899. VIII. LATER ASPECTS OF OUR NEW DUTIES 161 At Princeton University, on Commemoration Day, October 21, 1899. IX. A CONTINENTAL UNION 199 At the Massachusetts Club, Boston, March 3, 1900. X. OUR NEW INTERESTS 221 At the University of California, on Charter Day, March 23, 1900. XI. "UNOFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS" 259 At the Farewell Banquet to the Philippine Commission, San Francisco, April 12, 1900. APPENDICES 1. POWER TO ACQUIRE AND GOVERN TERRITORY 271 2. THE TARIFF IN UNITED STATES TERRITORY 277 3. THE RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS AS TO CUBA 280 4. THE PROTOCOL OF WASHINGTON 282 5. THE PEACE OF PARIS 285 I THE TERRITORY WITH WHICH WE ARE THREATENED This paper first appeared in "The Century Magazine" for September, 1898, for which it was written some time before the author's appointment as a member of the Paris Commission to negotiate the terms of peace with Spain, and, in fact, before hostilities had been suspended or the peace protocol agreed upon in Washington. THE TERRITORY WITH WHICH WE ARE THREATENED