And no effort on our part should be spared to this end. We must not forget as well that there was a large population there of Chinese and Japanese in addition to the Americans. English. Germans. Italians. etc. Consequently. when we acquired possession we took over in part a European and an Asiatic population as well as the Hawaiians. In connection with Samoa. we may have drifted a little further from the anchor of safety than we did with Hawaii. There we had no excuse for taking territory except our desire to secure a good anchorage and harbor for our vessels. and a coaling station.