Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-06-23
NATIONS GREATEST DANGER.

Under the healing above the Iowa
State Register, the leading Republican
paper cf that state, has the following able
editorial upon the annexation question.
We commend it to the land grabbing jim
goes who are Justify shouting for the ac
QUESTION of Hawaii, the Philippines, etc.
"Thc Register firmly believes that the
annexation of Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Ribo
the Philippines, and other islands, is the
greatest danger the United States has
ever faced. The people who nhablt and
own those islands are not OF our race !;
and they will never be content TO be
ruled by any other race, as indicated by
the fact that wars have been in progress
in all those islands ever since they were
inhabited by the different and mixed
races struggling to gain supremacy in
their governments, and so it will be as
long as the racial differences exist,
whether annexed to the United States or
under their own governments.
"The history OF the United States tells
the story Of the future history Of the peo-
pie Of those islands in the gradual but
constant determination of the American
Indians, and "the survival Of the fittest."
That history will be repeated in every
instance, and with the extension OF the
policy Of annexation would come the
downfall OF the United States, merely be-
cause it would have more territory than
it could defend against all the nations Of
the earth. That is the handwriting on
the wall, yet during the progress Of a
war which should require the attention
of the government, the annexationists
are going to make desperate effort to
annex Hawaii, which will be the first
step in the downfall of the Nation if that
policy is extended in accordance with
the desires of the greedy schemers for
land ACQUISITION.
Sugar trust yells every newspaper
and man who is not able to sustain his
belief in annexation by argument! We
care nothing for the interests OF the
"sugar trust" but it is little singular
that the Statesmen" who yell "sugar
trust make no effort to extermininate
that trust Why resort to that sort OF
assertion, when the United States could
make any provision deemed necessary to
protect the interests Of the people OF this
Nation under Il protectorate that would
sustain the people OF Hawaii, and all
other islands, in their own governments?
England's colonial policy has been much
condemned by the press and people of
the United States, yet her colonial policy
is far better than that the anne xationists
are now endeavoring to force upon the
United States, for England merely pro.
tects Canada in its own government and
thereby gains the trade OF the people OF
Canada England has not annexed Can
ada, and certain it is that Great Britain
would have far more trouble if it should
annex and attempt to rule Canada.
The plan OF civilization is for the people
of the islands to govern themselves,
and all attempts OF the United States
against that plan, further than to extend
Lrotectorate over the government Of
the islands against the aggression of all
other nations, is a step toward the de-
struction and ..dismemberment of the
United States. Now, listen to the bowls
OF sugar trust" but let history record
the verdict"