The age-herald., 1897-11-19
Has Studied the Question From Relia-
 blO and Authentic Sources.
NO NATION WOULD INTERFERE
The Silent Invasion of the laps Violates the Declared Policy of the United States to Protect the Sandwich islanders
 From Foreign Interference.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-Senator Morgan, of Alabama, member of the committee on foreign relations, has reached hare on his return from Honolulu, where he went to post himself on the anneXaEon question. For the first time he sub the result of his trip and said:
 My conclusions, based or, my observa- tions, are only a full confirmation ot what I had previously believed that 1t is our national duty and will be in every way advantageous to all concerned to an nex Hawaii to this country. I have studied the questions from the most au thentie and reliable sources The estab- lishment of an outpost of the United States within the tropics and 2,200 miles from our coast challengt $ the inquiry whether such action Is necessary to our national welfare. Our northwestern possessions cn the Pa fife along the Aleutian archipelago are over 1,noG miles west of Honolulu. Th's gives us control
  of the North Pacific. The Intervention of the British possessions from the Straits of Fuca to the northen boundary of Alaska, creates powerful reason tor our occupation of Hawaii.
 -'Without imput,ng to Great Britain any other motive than to extend her na- honal policy of conquest, 1t seems very clear that if she should secure domina- Pearl harbor her military fortress at Esquimault on the island of Vancouver, cooperating. would cut our coast line in two and would leave us encountered with a mass of territory in Alaska, whose defense would be almost irnpossible and the enormous advantage of which would be lost to us The Vancouver coal fields would give the British navy almost ir- resdstlble advantages in war and virtual dominion of Commerce in time of peace
 Beginning with Key West, we have annexed the entire gulf coast to the Rio Grande by purchase of territory and extending up the Rio Grande up the continent to the Pacific, we have an nexed all the territory lying to the nor h of that line and have annexed the entire Pacific coast except the frontage of 610 miles conceded to Great Britain. Th.s dap.d and vast expansion has contributed much to civilization, and in none of the transactions have we cause for regret have no fears of such expansion, es- pecially as to possessions in the Pacific in those islands that constitute a part of the geographical and commercial system of the North American continent.
 ''There would not be the slightest diff ficulty in the character, condition or wi h of the 31 900 native people of Hawaii. They are far better adapted to American citizenship than many millions of thoze whom we have welcomed here from southern Europe, and better adapte than the Indians, iMexicans and native AIaskans. Except among the few who expect personal favors and advancement from re-establishment of the royal gov ernment, the general body of the Ha- waiian population will rejoice in the honor, safety, peace and prosperity which annexation will bring.
 'iMorally and practically the silent in- vasion of Hawaii from the Orient (the Japanese) violates all the declared policy and oft-expressed purposes of the United States to protect those people against foreign interference. The islands as a national possession would richly reward us for expenditure of hundred millions. The annexation would cost us nothing, and would not at present excite the open opposition of any nation.'