If this debt exceeds $4.000.000 and the debt of the Hawaiian postal savings bank to its depositors is a governmental debt. and it exceeds $4.000.000. then annexation. having accomplished the submergence of that Republic into the United States. its complete obliteration as an independent sovereignty. where would the creditors. the holders of the bonds. and the depositors in this bank get their money? Could we. in the face of an implied moral obligation. shelter ourselves under the technicality that we fixed the limit of our liabilities at $4.000.000? That. in my opinion. sir. would be as gross a violation of a moral obligation as the overthrow of that Republic by the military arm of the United States was a violation of another moral obligation. Agaiji. reading this resolution further. there is a prohibition of any further immigration of Chinese.
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