And yet this gem of Republicanism. the product of the great national. union. Republican party of the United States says these people shall not sell their lands to foreigners. but they may lease them for a term not exceeding forty years. If a poor fellow wants to go to that country and get a little farm of 40 or 50 acres he can not get it. but if a rich fellow wants to go there and take a lease for forty years and have a great big sugar farm worked by coolies. and Japanese and Portuguese at $15 a month. they paying their own expenses. there is room for that gentleman provided in this Republican treaty. He can go down to Samoa and take a lease for forty years and carry the flag of the United States with him. and every morning before breakfast he can get up on the seashore and howl that he is a Republican and a patriot. Mr.