Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-06-29
FOR ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
Congressman Burleigh Earnestly Fayors This
Move by Our Government.

gressiran Burleigh's address in favor
of annexing Hawaii, as published in
the Congressional Record Of Thursday
June 23rd:
Mr. Speaker: am heartily in favor
of the annexation of Hawaii. | have
long been convinced of the advisab ability
of this move. 1t is one, in my judg-
ment, in which this government has
much to gain and nothing to lose. 1t is
not to be wondered at that foreign ma
tions look with amazement at the OPP
position in this country to the securing
of a vantage point of such immense
strategic Importance in protecting the
vast interests of our Pacific coast.
There is not the slightest doubt as to
what the course Of any one of them
would be under similar circumstances,
and it is not surprising that they
should view our delay and hesitation
in securing this rich prize which is
ready and anxious to come to us with
out money and without price as con-
elusive evidence of American short
slghtedness. Europeans are slow to
comprehend the conditions which may
operate, in a country like ours, to
blind people to the obvious demands 0e
self-interest and lead them to ignore
the very laws of national life.
Westward the course of empire
takes IT'S way" and events are already
demonstrating the prophetic wisdom Of
Secretary Seward when he declared
that the Pacific ocean, its shores. it's
islands, and the vast regions beyond
were destined to become the world :
great theater of events" Had the
spirit which today opposes the annexa-
ton of Hawaii prevailed with our
fathers, We should not have more than
quadrupled our territory. and instead
of the $500 900 square miles that now
constitute our magnificent domain we
should today be limited to the 500, ,01D
square miles secured from Great
Britain in the struggle for indepenj
cnce. Since the birth Of the republic
we have added . 800, 900 square miles 10
our territory.
Louisiana Florida, Texas, the territory
secured from Mexico in lS4S ana is53.an
Alaska have in turn extended the area
IF the nation. out of the great do
main thus acquired have come .
''t'tb'9' - t'iN NUM- "A44'A NV tA'4hi-
ttons have ever been made to our terri
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have called forth bitter denunciatlon oi
the administration then in power.
The greatest of all our acquisitions Of
territory vas tn purchase Of LousI-
ana in 1Nn&.
out Of the country thus secured have
come. in N-iol, or in part. II l1tnsperous
states Of the Union. REPRESENTED in thjs
Congress by " senator's and renr.-
The purchase of Louisiana
is easily the greatest Siual. achieve
ment of American statcsmanshjp. ana
Vet il was the occasion Of bitter protest
from many citizens Of the country
whose range of vision Gid not extend
beyond the narrow limits 81 their oWr
dav and generation.
Mr.. EIain. in his Twenty Years of
Congress. saws:
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