Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands: Speech of Hon. Richard F. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, in the Senate of the United States, June 22 and 23, 1898
So we have refused on all occasions to acquire territory in the Tropics. Where the population is not capable of self-government.
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