Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the United States should annex the Hawaiian Islands...
...statement by saying that the annexation of Hawaii would only extend the boundary of the United States 2000 miles further westward, and would necessitate doubling the number of ships in our navy, increasing the army by 15,000 men, and it would cost $30,000,000 to fortify the Hawaiian Islands. All of this would be to only gain a drop in the bucket of our commerce...
Yale' s strong attack on Harvard 's argument was her denial that the possession of the Hawaiian Islands would strengthen this country from a strategic point, but that the possession of the islands would weaken her and cause her a vest item of expense in defending them...
...shortly after 8 o 'clock when W. Morse 1900, opened the debate for Harvard. He declared that "the United States should annex the Hawaiian Islands because it is for the best interests of both nations, is the consumation of the policy of the United States toward Hawaii for the past 60 years, is necessary to the successful carrying out of our naval and commercial policy, is the only guarantee to the perpetuation of American civilization and American supremacy in the islands, and is at once the simplified and easiest, the most farsighted and statesmanlike, and the only final solution...
...Keith was the second Harvard speaker. His position was that the loss of the influence of the United States in Hawaii and the accession of some foreign power are imminent, because Hawaiian government is insecure, and because other governments have designs on the islands. He began by showing the impossibility of independent sovereignity in Hawaii. The islands must form an alliance. If not with the United States or England, Japan is ready to push her interests...