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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vengeance. Jehu utterly destroyed the posterity of Ahab and caused Jezebel to be thrown from a window; she, in fulfilment of Elijah's propheay, was eaten by dogs in the vinyard of that same Naboth whom she had formerly had put to death in order to seize upon his inheritance. Athaliah, having learned in Jerusalem of all these massacres, undertook on her part to extinguish finally the royal line of David by putting to death all the children of Ahaziah, her grandsons. But fortunately, Jehoshabeath, sister to Ahaziath, and daughter to Jehoram, but by another mother than Athaliah, having come...
...with a strong force. The day chosen is the Sabbath when croweds gather in the temple, and at this time when the people have filled the wide courts the young king is brought out to the central platform, when flanked by rows of armed men Joad places the crown upon his head and lays upon it a roll of the law of Moses...
Hawaii is a stopping station of interest to those commercially engaged upon the Pacific. Naturally the group of interested nations will not be pleased to see some one of the group in exclusive control of the common station. Russia, our sworn friend of the past, has for the first time begun to chafe. Germany has mainfested distrust of our chief justice in Samoa...
Thus we should be entering upon new diplomatic complications-we whose habit of unnecessary peremptoriness toward other nations makes us peculiarly liable to bungle with such untried and delicate responsiblities...
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...