People who try to cover the cloven hoof of empire with the petticoats of "Expansion" are as careless of the dictionary as of the constitution. The Philippines do not mean expansion. It does not expand the fire of freedom to pour water on it. ... Expansion is enlargement in kind. If the ex- Spanish colonies applied for admission to this republic and we accepted them, that would be expansion. -Charles F. Lummis, editorial in the Land of Sunshine Which statement best describes this excerpt?​