imperialism hostile to liberty

carl schurz states that the imperial states that the united states is unjustifed by the acts of the war itself on the philippines. schurz is comparing the war itself and the handling of the war to the spanish and how they used brutal ways of reducing its enemy. he feels that the government that the philippines has etablished is in their hands that this the choice that they would like to make let that be their discussion not one of the united states that it stands as a conuntry on it own.