Under that treaty American influence and supremacy soon became undisputed. and the advancement of American interests and of the people of the islands in civilization was remarkable. I ask Senators to contrast articles 6and 7 of the treaty of 1850 and its effects with the articles of the present subsidized convention or any proposed modification of it as the equivalent of the subsidy! Let us be informed not in secret but in the light of day why the treaty should be continued for one instant. a treaty that has condemned those islands to the baneful influences of coolie slavery and blasted their development as a rising commonwealth in the Pacific sea and an outpost for American institutions and civilization. Let us if we intend to embark on the doctrine of manifest destiny. the urbi et orbi policylet us proclaim it openly and boldly and buy the islands outright. but I protest against the continuance of a vulgar subsidy so large to aliens who can well afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollais to perpetuate a bounty so extravagant while so many of our own people are plunged in distress. No questions could be more safely discussed byand before the people than these. and every consideration of national welfare should induce us to open wide the doors when treaties that tax the people and take from their hard earnings are to become the laws of the land.