They stand upon the halfway station between the western east of America and the teeming millions of Asia. where labor is very cheap. When those men go to make sugar there. will they take there those engaged in the industrial pursuits of America to Americanize that island. so as to fit it to become an American colony at some future day? Who believes that they will pay double to American citizens less qualified for the duty than they would pay to the Asiatics as well or better qualified for that duty ? If then the capacity of that territory is sufficient to develop a large production of sugar and molasses--on Which I do not propose to speak. for I have not informed myself particularly on that subjecttine sugarplanters there. following the instincts of interest. will apply to Asia for the labor that is to make the sugar and molasses which are to come here free. If they do that. and if there are fields. productive fields in the Hawaiian Islands open for a large population. that population. instead of beingAmerican. will boAsiatie. and when once that Asiatic population is planted upon the Hawaiian Islands in large numbers. American emigration. except such capitalists as may proceed there who are connected with commerce orthe sugarproducing interest. will not go there. cannot go there. cannot and will not mingle with the Asiatic population where it is in the ascendency as the policy of this treaty iu my judgment will place it. If I am right in this. we are net going to make an American colony on the Hawaiian Islands westward toward Asia. but we are to make an Asiatic colony eastward to the Hawaiian Islands. and plant there a population which will in future exclude the possibility of making there an American colony. If I am right about this. and I simply address the question to the House. I ask the consideration of it by those who are examining this question whether we arc not preparing to adopt a policy which would defeat the very purpose which is proclaimed here ?
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