Webster. when Secretary of State. who said: "We cannot permit another power to take possession of these islands." We occupy a position which enables us. if we will be just to other nations. to say to them that they shall not menace our national security. A policy indicated through the State Department of a determination to permit no other power in violation of the Monroe doctrineand in extension of it if you please. if that can be called an extension which would reach to the Hawaiian Islandsthat we will not permit any other government or power to occupy. fortify. and hold these islands. will afford us all the security we may need. We are more likely to have these islands come to us through natural laws than through the operation of a treaty which makes it the interest of a few sugarplanters to colonize these islands with laborers from Asia. to make it an Asiatic colony. in order to produce an alrundance of cheap sugar. to come in competition with thatproduced by our own citizens on our own soil. and requiring the great body of American people to pay a bones to them as individuals. and to do so under circumstances which can hardly lead us to suppose that we can ever make that an American colony. I have said more. Mr.
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Asiatic laborers are only being brought in to produce cheap sugar and will not become American.