The next line of argument pursued by the gentleman was the familiar resort of the sophist. which is to erect men of straw for the purpose of knocking them down. He said. "You can no longer pursue your old policy. you must either annex these islands or abandon them." And then. pronouncing that phrase "abandon them" in a manner as if it meant untold calamity to the Republic. he undertook to tell us what would happen. He said. "Why. if you abandon them. you offer them up upon the altar of Mongolianism." My heavens! Mr. Chairman. are we to go around the earth in the chivalric spirit of old Don Quixote. with his faithful squireseeking to annex islands everywhere as missionaries to prevent their being Mongolianized? What have we to do with that? And in addition to that. if that were our mission upon the surface of this earth. it would be too late for us to go as missionaries for that purpose to the Sandwich Islands.
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