Therefore. it seems to me that the Senator from South Carolina was on March"30 sound ground when he asserted that the manner of admission of the Hawaiian Islands as a Territory constituted a fraud perpetrated during a period of war hysteria. and that the islands "crashed their way into our Union as a Territory against every rule of constitutional law and against every precedent then existing." Our colleague also cited the 1898 debates in which one Representative said: Nobody pretends any purpose to take the Hawaiian Islands into the Union as a State. but .the purpose is simply and solely so far as the contention goes. to acquire them for the pupose of assisting us in our military and commercial operations. Another Representative said: There is not a man on this floor. there is not a man who hears my voice. who will say that he or this Congress contemplates the acquisition of Hawaii for the purpose of making a State of it. * * * On the contrary. this House is full of men who would not vote for this resolution except with the understanding in their own minds that Hawaii Is not to be introduced as a State into the Union. And a Senator said: No one for one moment pretends that we intend to admit the Asiatic people of Hawaii or of the Philippines into full citizenship under the Government of this country. In the light of that record. Mr.
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Generalization about the fitness of 'Asiatic people' for citizenship.