This proposition of annexation is not only hurtful in itself but is the forerunner of a policy of colonial empire which challenges the wisdom of the past and bids the American people abandon their traditions and build their future from new plans copied from the war charts of the monarchies of Europe and Asia. You can not build a lasting commerce on conquest. nor can you maintain by force an empire of alien races scattered over the globe. We have excluded the Chinese from our shores. and the agitation has almost ripened into law to prevent the further immigration of the poor and the ignorant of Europe. The policy of exclusion which these acts indicate is inconsistent with any theory of territorial expansion which embraces the alien races of the Pacific. England and France and Germany may plausibly find a pretext for their experiment in extraterritorial empires.
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