Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Collections heretofore have been very successful, and the committee have been laboring to make this one equally so. The clothes are sent to wise and responsible charitable agencies for distribution among the poor of Boston and the vicinity...
...give stability of government to Hawaii and the consequent industrial expansion would increase trade with the United States. A base of supplies is needed to make our navy efficient in the Pacific. For this purpose, Midway Island, 1200 miles west of Honolulu, was annexed in 1867, but owing to poor harbor facilities was abandoned. The right of the United States to maintain a coaling station in Pearl Harbor is coexistent only with the treaty which may be abrogated by either party on twelve months'notice...
...undesirable material for American citizenship on account of their heriditary instincts and general character. Almost half are Buddhists and the illiteracy is very high, notwithstanding their boasted educational system. We shall expect political responsibility of the Mongolians to whom we will deny political rights. The natives show their poor self-governing qualities in the ease with which foreigners have ruled them since the revolution...
...shall be compelled to find a place in our political system for this anomalous population. She will, doubtless, apply for statehood which can hardly be refused on account of her size and population; yet 3,000 Americans and 61,000 foreigners will form a poor state to elect two senators and a representative. Neither can she remain a territory, for we have no place for a petrified territory, a dependent colony...
From 1901-C. F. C. Arensburg, H. V. Poor, J. C. Davis...