Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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Question: "Resolved, That the United States Government ought to interfere at once to protect American interests in the Samoan Islands...
Best general reference: Samoan Affairs, Cong...
...There is no political reason for interference. (a) The United States has refused to assume the protectorate alone, or to join with England and Germany in one.- Samoan Affairs, p. 31. (b) The three powers interested in Samoa have agreed not to change the status quo without general (consent.- Samoan Affairs, pp. 31, 35. (c) There can therefore be no question of a German protectorate without the consent of England and America...
...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...
...should use arbitration in preference to war.- Sherman in Cong. Record, Jan. 31, p. 1461. (a) We have not the navy for a Samoan war.- Boston Transcript, Feb. 1, 1889, p. 4; Samoan Affairs, p. 87; Cong. Record, Feb. 5, 1786, pp. 1595-7; (b) war is more costly than arbitration, is wasteful, inhuman and demoralizing...