"Let me insist again upon the fact that our duty is twofold, and that we must raise others while we are benefiting ourselves. In bringing order to the Philippines, our soldiers added a new page to
the honor-roll of American history, and they incalculably benefited the islanders themselves. [T]he islands now enjoy a peace and liberty of which they have hitherto never even dreamed. But this
peace and liberty under the law must be supplemented by material, by industrial development. Every encouragement should be given to their commercial development, to the introduction of
American industries and products, not merely because this will be a good thing for our people, but infinitely more because it will be of incalculable benefit to the people of the Philippines
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings We committed plenty of blunders in our dealings with the Indians. But
who does not admit at the present day that we were right in wresting from barbarism and adding to civilization the territory out of which we have made these beautiful (United States? And now we
are civilizing the Indian and putting him on a level to which he could never have attained under the old conditions.
... We have always in the end come out victorious because we have refused to be daunted by blunders and defeats. We gird Courselves) as a nation, with the stern purpose to play our part
manfully in winning the ultimate triumph; and with unfaltering steps tread the rough road of endeavor."
Theodore Roosevelt, "National Duties," address given at the Minnesota State Fair, September 1901
Which of the following best explains a conclusion about United States foreign policy in the early 1900s supported by the point of view expressed in the excerpt?