Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands In my judgment, the Hawaiian Islands are the key to the Pacific and are, and of right ought to be, a part of the sovereign territory of the United States. Their acquisition is absolutely necessary for the protection of our great Pacific coast line. In this respect they constitute the sentinel of the North Pacific, and to us a Gibraltar indispensable for the protection of our Pacific coast. All our great naval and military authorities say this, and there can be no doubt about it in the opinion of any person who will give the question investigation and due consideration. Our possession of these islands will give us a strategical position in the Pacific that will always be an incomparable advantage in case of trouble. It is well known that the Pacific is so wide that war vessels can not cross it from any foreign naval station to our shores without recoaling, and there is no place to recoal in all the Pacific but Hawaii. The exclusion of foreign countries from Hawaii will practically protect our Pacific coast from trans-Pacific attack. And no less an authority than Captain Mahan has said that the possession of these islands by the United States is a military necessity; that no greater navy would be needed for the defense of our Pacific coast than would be required with the islands unannexed, and with them annexed the advantage would be entirely with us. This opinion is concurred in, I believe, by all our naval and military authorities. To-day we are confronted with this situation: The people of the Hawaiian Islands through their duly elected officers petition us for annexation. They have a little Republic away out there on the Pacific, and they believe they should become, and they want to become, a part of the great Republic of the United States. They ask us to take them under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. They give us everything. Shall we accept the magnificent gift they offer or shall we refuse it? Looking at this question from every standpoint, I say for one we should accept. Why should we hesitate? Why should we not welcome them to the protection of the great Republic? If we accept them, there is no nation on earth that can or will object. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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