If we refuse to extend our own sovereignty and protection. the United States can not. with any show of justice or sanction of right recognizable by other nations. invoke the principles of the Monroe doctrine against a voluntary treaty of cession to Great Britain or to Germany or to France. which may become necessary to the preservation of the rights and the protection of the lives of the Hawaiian people against domestic or foreign violence. But whether as a matter of principle the Monroe doctrine could be applied or whether it could not be. yet. nevertheless. in the absence of a voluntary cession to a European power. the gravitation to Japan and finally absorption by that country will be the inevi. table destiny of the Hawaiian people.: Under the constitution oi that Republic it is easy to be seen that it is only a matter of time when the Japanese population may lawfully acquire control of all the legislative and administrative functions of the Government. in which event the transition to a colonial system. autonomous in its character. but yielding allegiance to the Emperor. would be altogether too imperceptible to justify interference at any particular period of time. or even to render interference possible without a war with that Empire. Thus. by a movement similar to those which have heretofore characterized the migration of nations. there would be eventually precipitated that greatest of all conceivable calamities. the planting of an Asiatic population and the founding of an Asiatic cult twothirds of the stretch across the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Speaker. another point of contention against this measure is that by the acquisition of these islands we will largely increase our coast line necessary to be defended. and therefore the acquisition would be a source of weakness rather than of strength.
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The paragraph expresses fear about the 'planting of an Asiatic population' and the founding of an 'Asiatic cult'.