| 1907 - 640 pages
...affection. They are human, and hate us with an abiding sullen hatred ; and there is not much love lost. " He may be a brother of William H. Taft, But he aint no brother of mine." \ expresses the personal regard of the average American for the average Filipino. Secretary Taft is... | |
| Frederick Dumont Smith - East Asia - 1907 - 400 pages
...down. By the way, speaking of our brown brother, here is a favorite song among the Americans here : "He may be a brother of William H. Taft, But he ain't no brother of mine." Of all the races of the Pacific, I think the Filipinos are the least attractive. They are ugly —... | |
| Oscar King Davis - 1908 - 420 pages
...hearing on the streets a song of a gentleman who did not agree with my view of what we ought to do by the Filipinos, " He may be a brother of William H....bound to say that the restraints of public opinion that one finds at home to keep men in the straight and narrow path are loosened in the Orient, and... | |
| Robert Lee Dunn - Campaign biography - 1908 - 292 pages
...remember hearing on the •streets, sung by a gentleman that did not agree with my view of our duty toward the Filipinos : He may be a brother of William H. Taft But he ain't no brother of mine. Now that is the spirit that we are too likely to find among the gentlemen who go into the East for... | |
| Baptists - 1908 - 568 pages
...conference on social problems, Brahmins and men of low caste dined together without distinction. C." He may be a brother of William H. Taft, but he ain't no brother of mine," the song which Mr. Taft caught on the lips of an American citizen on a street in the Philippines, illustrates... | |
| William Howard Taft - United States - 1910 - 636 pages
...affections as few people could — at least that is the way I felt. I know they had a verse out there, "He may be a brother of William H. Taft, but he ain't no friend of mine"; but that was because I occupied a different relation to him from that which the army... | |
| James Henderson Blount - Philippines - 1912 - 704 pages
...Day, 1902, giving preference, out of their repertoire, to a campaign song whose ominous chorus ran : "He may be a brother of William H. Taft But he ain't no friend of mine," and between songs they would say purringly to one another, "Remember Balangiga. "... | |
| Helen Herron Taft - Philippines - 1914 - 530 pages
...song which they sang with great gusto and frequency and which ended with the conciliating sentiment: "He may be a brother of William H. Taft, but he ain't no friend of mine!" We insisted upon complete racial equality for the Filipinos, and from the beginning... | |
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