Word: south
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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REDUCED RAILROAD FARES.- To Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and all points South and West. J. F. Marsten, 39 Thayer Hall. Office hours...
Annexation would extend our frontier to a defencelss outpost, sufficently near the South Sea Islands for direct attack upon either of our positions...
John Kirkland Clark, speaking second for the negative, dwelt at length upon the strategic value of Hawaii. He said that possession of Hawaii would not shield the Pacific coast, since Vancouver, the South Sea Islands, China and Japan would become bases of poerations against us, and we would be forced to protect our seaboard and Hawaii in addition, involving an enormous expense for additional land defences and an increased navy. The natural defensibility of our Pacific coast makes this expense unnecessary. Our past experience shows the alternative, annexation without for-tification, to be preferred. Annexation would be merely following...
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