One reason why I was not iu favor of the annexation of Hawaii was because I thought I realized the difficulty of bringing into entire harmony with our system and our theories that distant people. situated in a climate where necessarily conditions existed which differed from those which surround us. and how difficult it would be for us to apply all of our theories to that island. I have sometimes thought that the annexation of Hawaii to the United States would be. in the long run. a detriment rather than a benefit to those islands and the people of the islands. Take this matter of contract labor. I always doubted. so far as the interest of that people was concerned. the wisdom of extending. perhaps. not the immigration laws. but the contractlabor laws which we have in this country to those islands. because of the conditions which surround them there. the climate. and all that. My rcolle6tion is that the Senator from Alabama . who certainly is always frank and has for many. many years had the interest of that people very much at heart. stated in the last session of Congress. when an attempt was made by the Senator from Indiana who bad charge of the bill to extend the immigration laws of the United States and the contractlabor laws of the United States to Hawaii. that it would be extremely detrimental to that people.
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