Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-19
AT WASHINGTON.
Senator Morgan Warmly fa-
vors Annexation of Hawaii.
Has Just Returned from Islands on
a Tour Of Investigation.
Senator Chandler on important Measures to
Come Before Congress.

Washington Nov. Ex-senator Nor
gan of Alabama. member Of the COM
mittee on foreign relations. has reached
here on his way back from Honolulu,
where he went to post himself on the
annexation question. For the first
time he submitted himself. today. to an
interview on the results of his trip, and
said:
MY conclusions based on my OBJ
servations are only full confirmation
Of what l had previously believed-that
1t is our national duty and will be in
every way advantageous to all con-
cerned to annex Hawaii to this coun-
try. l have studied the questions from
the most authentic and reliable sources.
The establishment Of an outpost of the
United States within the tropics and
1000 miles from our coast challenges the
inquiry whether such action is nesces-
sary to our national welfare. Our
northwestern possessions on the Pacific
along the Aleutian archipelago are over
1000 miles west of Honolulu. This gives
us control of practically the entire
American coast of the north Pacific.
THE Intervention of the British pos
sessions from the Straits of Fuca to thu
northern boundary of Alaska creates
Hawaii. without imputing to Great
Britain any other motive than to eX-
tend her national policy of commercial
conquest it seems very obvious that if
she should acquire the dominion OF
Hawaii and open and fortify Pearl har-
Dor. her military fortress at Esqui-
mault, on the island of Vancouver, CO.
operating, would cut our coast line in
two and leave us incumbered with a
mass of territory in Alaska, whose de-
fence would be almost impossible and
the famous advantage of which would
be lost to US. The Vancouver coal
fields would give the British navy al
most irresistible advantage 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 the purchase of territory and
extending up the Rio Grande across the
continent to the Pacific, we have annexed
all the territory lying to the north of that
line and have annexed the entire Pacific
coast except the frontage of 900 miles
conceded to Great Britain. This rapid and
vast expansion has contributed much to
tons have we cause for regret.
Il have no fear of such expansion, espe-
cially 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 difficulty in
the character, condition or wishes of the
$1,000 native people of Hawaii. They are
far better adapted to American citizen
ship than many millions of those whom
We have welcomed here from southern
Europe, and better adapted than the In
dams. Mexicans and native Alaskans
Except among the few who expect per-
sonal favors and advancement from the
of the royal government,
the general body of the Hawaiian popu-
lation will rejoice in the honor. safety.
peace and prosperity which annexation
will bring. Morally and practically. the
silent invasion of Hawaii from the Orient
0he Japanese) violates all the declared
policies and often expressed purpose of
the United States to protect those people
against foreign interference.
THE islands as a national possession
would richly reward us for the expendi-
ture of 800. 900 600. The annexation would
cost us nothing and will not at present
excite the open opposition of any nation"