Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion This is a proposition of vast importance to the people of the United States and absolutely novel. The problem does not present itself in this light, perhaps, to a majority of those who advocate annexation, but it is because they belong to that optimistic class, governed by sentiment rather than reason, who refuse to burden their minds with investigations of fact, but who trust that somehow and in some way, in the Lord's good time, everything will, by virtue of the good luck which has heretofore attended the American Nation in its various experiments, eventually turn out all right. These men read that the Philippine Islands are eight thousand miles from our shores, but they do not stop to reflect that this means that they are more distant from us than any portion of the Continent of Europe, that they are as far from us as Persia and Arabia and the sources of the Nile, that Manila is as distant from San Francisco as Mecca and Khartoum are from New York, and that their capital city of 250, 000 inhabitants contained four American residents during 1896-7. They do not consider that these islands lie wholly within the tropics, reaching to within less than five degrees of the equator, and that, in climate and general characteristics, they are all that is implied by the term tropical and equatorial. And I say this without any disposition to speak disrespectfully of the equator. They lie within a zone in which no white race, let alone Anglo-Saxon race, has ever been able to establish itself successfully in the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.