{"1": {"fulltext": "M^7\\n3e", "height": "5072", "width": "3349", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4585", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "6/ JL.^. du^\u00c2\u00abZ3 ^zt\\nft\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\\nSPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. JAMES F. STEWART,\\nOF NEW JERSEY,\\nIN THE\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\nJUNE 13, 1898,\\nWASHING-TON.\\n1898.", "height": "4585", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "QS5M", "height": "4585", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. JAMES F. STEWART\\nThe House having under consideration the joint resolution (H. Res. 259) to\\nprovide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States-\\nMr. STEWART of New Jersey said:\\nMr. Speaker: Our nation, now the envy and admiration of the\\nworld, has grown from a feeble confederacy of thirteen struggling\\nStates to its present posture of grandeur and importance not alone\\nby its superiority of race, but by means of expansion of territory\\nand by a very wonderful expansion of the means and methods of\\ncivilized life. Nations, like individuals, are a development, a\\ngrowth, an expansion, an extension, an aggregation of means and\\nmethods.\\nThe silly argument of national isolation, the outgrowth of fear\\nand timidity, is lame and impotent. No colonial nation has been\\ninvolved in war by reason of her colonial possessions until she\\nbecame degenerate and lost the regard and allegiance of her colo-\\nnies. Every nation must at all times be prepared to protect its\\ncitizens and interests abroad, and in order to do this we must have\\nmid-stations as bases of supply and resort, in order that our just\\nresentment against foreign nations may be sure and certain of\\nmanagement and control.\\nThe argument that gentlemen make with reference to these\\nislands not being contiguous is unworthy of support. They face\\nand confront the whole Pacific coast, either frowning at us as a\\nmenace or smiling as a blessing. These islands are necessary if\\nthe Nicaragua Canal is to be built, a project soon to be consum-\\nmated, and to be one of the greatest and most beneficent public\\nworks of modern times, and to be to us a glorious blessing or an\\negregious curse. Gentlemen on the other side, with tearful SOlici-\\n3475 3", "height": "4585", "width": "2804", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "L BRARY OF CONGRESS\\n019 944 345 8\\ntude for our Constitution, and knowing our tender regard for that\\nmajestic instrument, interpose it as a bar, forgetful that such dis-\\ntinguished jurists as Marshall and Taney have justified the acqui-\\nsition of foreign territory, indisputably, under the constitutional\\nprovisions of the treaty-making power and the right to declare\\nand carry on war.\\nNow, Mr. Speaker, it was reserved to the scriptural gentleman\\nfrom Missouri [Mr. Clark] to fear the result of our contact with\\nthe degenerate inhabitants of Hawaii. If history is read aright\\nthe solemn lesson is taught that when the superior race comes in\\ncontact with the inferior the inferior must go to the wall or else\\nbe capable of development and advancement. The Indian is fast\\ndisappearing, like his favorite buffalo that he delighted to hunt\\nand regretted to kill, while the negro race is advancing and grow-\\ning in numbers, power, and importance. The doctrine of the sur-\\nvival of the fittest is as enduring as time itself and as certain.\\nOur country has arisen from lusty youth to vigorous manhood.\\nWe must share the responsibilities as well as the blessings of mod-\\nern civilization. We must participate in the world s destiny.\\nThe stars of both hemispheres will light us on, and the clouds of\\nboth perchance at times will darkle in our path. The bitter and\\nthe sweet must both be partaken of. Sturdy manhood is used to\\nboth, and together are the reward and fruition of all ripe experi-\\nence. The blessings of our free republican Government should\\nnot be selfishly isolated or hugged to our own bosoms alone, but\\nthe Stars and Stripes, amid the Pacific and Atlantic, should salute\\nthe dying dynasties of the Eastern World and bid them a cordial\\nwelcome and renewed life and a vigorous existence under its\\nstarry folds. [Applause.]\\n3475", "height": "4528", "width": "2757", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4528", "width": "2757", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "WBl\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "4853", "width": "3283", "jp2-path": "hawaiispeechofho00stew_0008.jp2"}}