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...next speaker, Mr. H. A. Davis, '91, argued for the negative. He declared that the interests of the Americans were insignificant in Samoa. What commerce there is carried on by Germans. A stronger government is needed to secure life and property there, for the natives are acknowledged to be incapable. There is no good reason why the country having the greatest commercial interests in the islands should not establish a firm rule there. Our treaty interests would not be infringed nor would our coaling station be lost...
...said that the right to a coaling-station was of so little importance that it had not yet been used. The islands are too far distant to need to be taken under the government of the United States, If our country undertakes to maintain the independence of Samoa, she must be ready to go as far as war. This would be disastrous, and for such an insignificant cause, would be infamous...
...commercial relations with Samoa are small.- N. Y. Times, Feb. 6, 1889; Boston Journal, Jan. 30, 1889; Samoan Affairs, p. 96-98. (b) Our right to a coaling station, although not used, is acknowledged.- Samoan Affairs, p. 124, Art. II; Cong. Record, p. 1455, Jan. 29, 1889; Samoan Affairs, pp. 59-60, 98; Public Opinion, Feb. 2, 1889, p. 344; Cleveland Leader and Philadelphia North American. (c) There is nothing in the German Samoan treaty denying it.- Samoan Affairs...
...There is nothing involved in the rights of our citizens in Samoa to call for interference.- N. Y. Weekly Times...
...should keep free from entangling relations with foreign nations. Washington's Farewell Address, in Sparks, vol. XII, pp. 231-2. (a) The Monroe doctrine should not be extended to include Samoa.- Public Opinion (N. Y. Tribune...