These islands are the key to the trade of the Pacific Ocean. We must take them with some incumbrances of population. There are elements among the inhabitants of these islands which we would not admit to our shores as immigrants. but fortunately the population is not large enough to involve us in any difficult social problems. The importance of these islands to our people for either commercial purposes or for defense entirely overshadows the conceded disadvantages which are involved in the addition to our population of a considerable portion of their present inhabitants. No change of policy is involved in this annexation.
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There are elements among the inhabitants of these islands which we would not admit to our shores as immigrants.