I appreciate the excellent argument the Senator from Texas is making. I mentioned a few moments ago the fact that the admission of Hawaii as a State would be a departure from established tradition. Is it not a fact that while the United States has always. throughout its history. held its doors open to any refugee people who might want to come to its shores. who were willing to leave their homeland and their friends and move to the United States and join with us In the. work which we were doing. and while we would welcome them. and give them the benefit of our democracy. wealth. and bounty. never before in our history have we embarked upon a program of reaching out and admitting as a State a group of islands far removed from our shores. leaving their Inhabitants with their own surroundings. their own culture. traditions. and language. and not being able to assimilate them and teach them the ways of America. as has happened when the other States were admitted? Does not the Senator think it might be a dangerous course which. if once started. would weaken our system?