The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-27
Caffery and CocMell Advance Sound
Reasons.
DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADD
TON OF ALIEN PEOPLE.
of Cuba Would Follow
That of Hawaii; Then Danish
America and More of Spanish
America-All of Which is For
eign to Americanism.

New York, Nov. ga special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Hawaii viii be annexed to the United
States during the coming session of
congress. This is one of the certainties
of the session. Senators and represen-
tatives, both advocates and opponents,
who have thus far arrived in Washing
ton, are practically unanimous on this
question.
President McKinley's message win
strongly urge upon the senators early
ratification OF the annexation treaty,
and it will be one OF the first topics
brought up in the legislative sessions.
CAFFERY'S REASONS.
Senator Caffery of Louisiana, who
will oppose annexation in any form,
said: Il am radically opposed to the
annexation of any more territory TO
the United States. L think it is foreign
to the best policy we can pursue to eX-
tend the limits Of our jurisdiction over
regions of the earth far remote from
our national boundaries.
The acquisition of territory now in
Guided in the United States, excepting
Alaska, was the natural result of ca
sonable and powerful impulses TO eX
tend our dominion from ocean to ocean,
between the British possessions on the
north and the Latin people to the south.
Now that this has long been accom-
plished and the entire included region
amalgamated, with it's population, in
intelligent sympathy with the consti-
tuition and the institutions which exist
under it the question of territorial an
neXatiOn should rest
DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.
q can see no reason or advantage in
reaching out 1000 miles into the Pacific
to take in little group Of alien is
lands which are not geographically al
lied to this continent, and the acquisi-
ton of which can do little for us be-
yond constituting an outlying naval
station which we are already able to
establish there without annexation.
That their territorial extent is small
does not prevent their annexation from
constituting a dangerous precedent for
the addition of alien peoples.
Cuba is so much nearer 40 us than
Hawaii that she is almost a part of US
geographically, but her people are as
alien to us as if they lived in the an
tipodes. The annexation of Hawaii
would naturally serve as an argument
for the acquisition of that island also.
The annexation of Danish America and
more of Spanish America would then
follow, all of which is foreign to our
policy. as l understand it. I achnoWl-
edge the existence of powerful ele-
ment in the senate in favor of annex
ing Hawaii, but can see no reason in
following its leadership
COCKRELLS OPPOSITION.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri is also
| opposed to the treaty, though he be-
! lieves that Hawaii will be annexed by
legislation, probably during the next
session. He said:
Il doubt very much if the necessary
two thirds of the senators will be
found in ratification of the annexation
treaty when the time comes to VOTE !
/ expect, rather. to see the islands be-
come part of the United States by an
act of congress in the same manner in
which we acquired Texas. An annex
! alton treaty could not be passed at that
time, but legislation to annex the re-
public was easily passed"
Senator Burrows of Michigan ex-
pressed a belief that a majority of the
/ senators are ready to ratify the treaty
and that annexation will be an accom-
plished fact in a short time.