Word: ouring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Do you need a pair of shoes, if so just drop in to Newman 's and see his $3.00 shoe. All of Newman 's shoes are warranted to give entire satisfaction in wear etc., or a new pair given instead. All our $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 shoes are stamped Newman...
Annexation would extend our frontier to a defencelss outpost, sufficently near the South Sea Islands for direct attack upon either of our positions.
To fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel."
Letting the islands go would result in their acceptance by England or their senizure by Japan, the consequent abrogation of the reciprocity treaty, the loss of our rights to Pearl Harbor, and of our trade with the islands. Some other country, possibly an enemy, would hold the harbor and would...
The United States can not consistently with its past policy consider the question of guaranteed neutrality, since it refused to do so in 1888, when propsed by England and Germany. The present advantages under the reciprocity treaty would be lost. This would simply be a makeshift and likely to lead...