President. the moment we annexed those islands we were notified by every lodge of Odd Fellows and. Masons and Knights of Pythias that it was no place for an American to stay unless he hail enough money to take care of him as- long as he wanted to remain there and to. get. away with when he. tired of staying. that. the labor market was overcrowded. that there was no place for American: laborers or American toilers.. But in the meantime they imported. after we annexed the islands. 37.000 contract laborers from Asia. Now. what have we annexed? We have annexed 3.085 people of American blood. many of them citizens of Hawaii. whose fathers went to that country to carry the blessings of a Christian religion. and whose sons. had become the prosperous sugar planters of that country.
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