Hawaii is ended, and the deed is accom-
plished. . It is sufficient to say
now that the annexation project was dead
beyond the hope of resurrection, then the
war with Spain broke out. That event and
Admiral Dewey's victory at Manilla brought
it to life once more. The argument that
we must have a half-way house between San
Francisco and the Philippines carried the
day, although it is not yet settled that
we are to retain the Philippines or any
part of them. Our own views of the annex-
ation policy are not changed by the vote
of the Senate, but we shall hope that the
consequences flowing from it may be better
than our anticipation, and that the various
kinds of leprosy, moral and physical, and
industrial, prevailing in the islands may
not be engrafted upon the United States."

13.

Stanwood concludes the story of the annexation of Hawe ii with the following:

"The transfer took place and the flag
of the United States was raised at Honolulu
on the 12th of August. Thus, before the
close of the Spanish ar which was to carry
the country much further in the same direc-
tion, the government entered upon the policy
of so-called imperialism,
the sovereignty
over and control of distant territory inhab-
ited by an alien race.

14.

13. Nation, July 14, 1898. 14. Stanwood, II, p. 23.

CHAPTER III

THE PHILIPPINES

Peace with Spain and the Treaty

The France Minister, M. Jules Cambon, acting at the instance of the Spanish Government opened negotiations for peace on July 26. A protocol was signed by lir. Day, Secretary of State, and M. Cambon on August 12. On the 26th the President appointed the five commissioners who rere to serve in the negotiations during the making of peace. The commissioners met in Paris on October 1, but a treaty was not signed until December 10.

As we shall see from the discussion which was carried on in the newspapers of the country, the President only instructed for the cession of the Island of Lugon in the Philippines but the commissioners believing that this would not be compatible with the altruistic ideas for which the United States entered the war demanded the cession of the entire group of islands. Let us go back to June and see that the sentiment of the country was in regard to a cession of the Philippines.

On June 2 the Nation contained an editorial which comments upon the change that was taking place in the minds of a certain group of people from that of iving the island people their independence to that of protecting them under our flag from the other powers in the Pacific. The editorial follows: