Joseph Crooker, who was actively against imperialism, thought that the addition of the Philippines was a violation of other men’s rights. In one pamphlet written by him, he writes that “to buy 10,000,000 distant islanders is the expansion of Jefferson Davis, not the expansion of Abraham Lincoln” (Dudley 47). The point that he is trying to get across in this quote is just how hypocritical taking over the Philippines actually is, considering it promotes slavery, a practice that had been made illegal in the United States some thirty odd years prior, due to its intent to control many men that do not need to be controlled by Americans. Another quote from the pamphlet was one in which he wrote “we cannot