{"1": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a04-", "height": "5129", "width": "3379", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "ANNEXATION JUSTIFIED IN THE INTERESTS OF PEACE AND\\nAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE OF DUTY.\\nREMARKS\\nOF\\nHo:^^. j. i-i. walkee,\\nOir IM^SS^^CIIUSETTS,\\nHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,\\nSaturday, June 11, 1898.\\n1898.", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "68708", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "SPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. J. H. WALKEE.\\nThe House having under consideration the joint resohition (H. Res. ?j9) to\\nprovide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States-\\nMr. WALKER of Massachusc-tts said:\\nMr. Speaker: I hope I shall be able to relieve the House from\\nany effects which may have been produced by the lamentations\\nof its Jeremiah. [Laughter.] In the discussion and decision of\\nthis question there is not the first element or purpose of territorial\\nexpansion. We enter upon the discussion and decision of this\\nquestion of accepting Hawaii in precisely the same manner and\\nupon the same principles that we would enter upon the discussion\\nof the question of building a ship of our Navy. It is within as\\nnarrow limits as that question. It is clearly a question of our\\nnational defense, our national duty, 0 :r national existence, in\\nthe position in which the great Former of the destiny of nations\\nhas placed us.\\nI have struggled against this decision. 1 have been opposed\\nto the annexation of Hawaii until I heard the shot of the guns of\\nDewey at Manila; and then I wakened to the importance of this\\nquestion to the great destiny, as I believe, of this nation. No\\nman has a moral right, in his power and strength in any commu-\\nnity, to shut himself up within his own selfish interest and advan-\\ntage and there live, seeking what he may for himself and forget-\\nting those about him. He has not this right either in a State or\\nin a nation, nor has any nation such a right. It has no right to\\ncut itself off from all the moral obligations that rest upon it to\\nsecure righteousness and maintain peace in the great community\\nof nations.\\n3553 3", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Are there any obligations resting upon that great empire of\\nGreat Britain to secure justice? Do we look upon her to discharge\\nany of the duties that become her in her place of power among the\\nnations? And are we to be absolved from every obligation that\\nrests upon England? Was that the idea of our fathers? Have w^e\\nreceived nothing in blessing from Almighty God? Shall we re-\\nturn nothing to our fellow-nations in interest in them as our fel-\\nlows? I do not make any claim that it is our duty to right the\\nwrongs of every people and of every nation under all circum\\nstances, but I do say that it is the duty of this nation to take its\\nproper place among the nations of the world, and that we stand\\nverily guilty before God if we do not do our full duty, maintain-\\ning peace in the world. We are seeking Hawaii for peace.\\nThe roots of all moral courage rest in physical courage. The\\npower of moral courage, in the l^st analysis, rests in the physical\\ncourage of the man or the nation, and the certainty that moral\\ncourage will find exercise in physical courage and in action when\\nduty calls. In order that we may have practical courage, phys-\\nical courage, and moral courage we must have the means of legit-\\nimately exercising our physical power, else we are as weak as\\nChina when attacked by Japan. Where was this nation in prac-\\ntical physical power when Chile threatened us but a short time\\nsince? If Chile had pursued her purpose to the end she would\\nhave won as against us for a time. Where should we have been\\nin this contest with the w eak power of Spain ten years ago? Spain\\nwould have won if the contest had been then commenced.\\nMr. Speaker, I have become convinced that this nation, to main-\\ntain her self-respect and the respect of the nations and in the in-\\nterest of peace, must have a navy as powerful as any nation in the\\nworld ship for ship, man for man, fort for fort. [Applause. We\\nmust have Hawaii as a part of our naval outfit. We must have\\nthe Nicaragua Canal as a part of our naval as well as mercantile\\noutfit. [Applause.] Those are three things that this nation owes\\nto itself and owes it to every other nation of the world to have.\\nIt is a duty that we can not shirk. Any man who belittles his\\nown power and shirks his own duty, shrinks and shrivels and does\\ninjury to his town as long as he exists on this earth. Every na-\\ntion that forgets its high place, every nation that fails to do its\\n3553", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "5\\nduty, must shrink and shrivel in the life of each one of its citi-\\n2ens all the days of its existence.\\nI was struck, as I never have been struck before by any event\\nin our history, even more than when the guns were fired on\\nFort Sumter, by the electrical effect upon this nation when we\\nheard the guns of Dewey at Manila. [Applause.] This nation\\ntowers to a height more than double what she ever had attained\\nbefore. And I say here that we must come up to our opportuni-\\nties, that we must be in the possession of the physical power to\\nmake our moral decisions effective, or we must see civilization\\nhindered if not retrograded.\\nWhat are the other nations of the earth doing? Where is the\\nnation standing for liberty among the nations, with the power\\nand disposition to enforce it, except England? I ask here and\\nnow, are we to enter into alliance with England? No! Are we\\nto have an alliance with England? Yes. What kind of an alli-\\nance? None whatever in form, but an alliance of good fellow-\\nship, of duty done, seeing our duty eye to eye for humanity. I\\nbelieve that this Government, uniting with Japan and Great\\nBritain, should enter into a treaty to-morrow, if possible, that the\\nports of all three nations, under all circumstances, should be\\nopen to each one and all of the three nations. How long? Not a\\nday beyond the time when either nation shall give notice that the\\nagreement is terminated.\\nThe most lasting alliance that can be made, and the only one\\nthat can be lasting, is an alliance which will last during the free\\nconsent of the parties to it. The moment you make an alliance\\nfor all time each party begins to think when and where and how\\nit shall be terminated; but when you make an alliance that can\\nbe terminated at any moment, each party is studying to maintain\\nand perpetuate it. What shall we add to that? Following the\\nexample of the three American commissioners, who alone settled\\nthe trouble of our southern neighbor Venezuela, we will agree\\nthat when any difficulty arises between any two of the three na-\\ntions that the two nations that are at a misunderstanding shall\\neach appoint\u00e2\u0080\u0094 what? A court of arbitration? No; for a court of\\narbitration will breed war. What then? The countries at odds\\n3553", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\nshall each appoint three commissioners of its own citizens, and\\nthat for two years they will take no further action.\\nThen each commissioner of each country is in duty bound and\\nunder bonds to find grounds of agreement, not of disassent. But\\nif you have a court of arbitration, the commissioners of each na-\\ntion become counsel for their respective nation, and are studying\\nfor grounds of disagreement, and not of agreement. This is all\\nthe alliance we want with any nation. The time has come, and\\nin the interest of peace, when this country must and will have the\\npower of enforcing the just and righteous decision of a righteous\\npeople. The righteous are in the majority always in this country.\\nThey always have been in every exigency in the past, and will be\\nin the future; and not only in this country, but in every other\\nnation that speaks the language of the Anglo-Saxon race.\\nNow, what will become of our friend Russia, that has always\\nstood by us? Because of our power and because of our friendship\\nto the mother country we will see that neither she nor any other\\ncountry does injustice to our friend Russia, or any other nation\\nthat is friendly or even unfriendly to us. The time of our swad-\\nling clothes has gone. The pitcher is broken at the well, and\\nnever can be restored. We can not shut our eyes to the fact that\\nwe have attained to-day, as I said before, to a stature such as none\\nof us dreamed we should ever reach in our day or even in that of\\nour immediate children. We can not shirk its responsibilities.\\nWe can not return again to the place of a physical pigmy or a\\nmoral dwarf. [Applause.]\\n3553", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "iimitt CONGRESS\\n019 944 353 7", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4580", "width": "2725", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n019 944 353 7\\nHollinger Corp.\\npH8.5", "height": "5171", "width": "3221", "jp2-path": "hawaiiannexation00walk_0012.jp2"}}