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Died. Harold M. Sewall, 64, Republican National Committeeman from Maine, father-in-law of Senator Edge of New Jersey, onetime Consul General at Samoa, quondam Minister to Hawaii; in Manhattan, after a minor operation...
...necessitate knowing who wrote it. This tempts us to paraphrase a proverb and say "Suspicion begins at home". We read that in the "Council of wise men" Senator Watson had an audience of six Senators when speaking on how we are going the way of empire. Considering Haiti and Samoa, this danger at least is not to be disregarded...
...under which Australia is given control of all former German possessions lying south of the equator adds to our responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense of the American western coast line...
...purpose of the expedition was to study the volcanic formations and coral reefs of Samoa, under the auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Washington...
...literary friend, by Mr. P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia, in order that he might present them to the new library. Of the letters forming the series, twelve were written during the author's Pacific voyages between July, 1888, and October, 1890, and forty-five during his residence in Samoa between November, 1890, and November, 1894. Many are long, and taken together they furnish the fullest and most continuous record of the author's doings and feelings during the last seven years of his life...