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Annexation would extend our frontier to a defencelss outpost, sufficently near the South Sea Islands for direct attack upon either of our positions.

To fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel."

Charles Grilk '98 made the third speech on the afflrmative and said in part: There are four practical solutions of the problem. First, letting the islands go; second, joing with other nations in guaranteeing their neutrality and independence; third, assuming a protectorate over them; fourth, annexation.

Letting the islands go would result in their acceptance by England or their senizure by Japan, the consequent abrogation of the reciprocity treaty, the loss of our rights to Pearl Harbor, and of our trade with the islands. Some other country, possibly an enemy, would hold the harbor and would command our western coast as well as all our trade routes ot the west. Captain Mahan declares that this would put our Pacific coast entirely at the mercy of the nation holding the islands.

The United States can not consistently with its past policy consider the question of guaranteed neutrality, since it refused to do so in 1888, when propsed by England and Germany. The present advantages under the reciprocity treaty would be lost. This would simply be a makeshift and likely to lead us into many quarrles. A protectorate, either one which would retain Hawaii's sovereignty or one which would given the United States the supreme government, is both inexpedient and incompatible with our national policy. The former would mean eventual Japaness domination, the latter would in reality be annexation. Neither is a final solution to the problem.

Some solution must be found and we have it in annexation. We refused to annex the islands in 1854 because they came to us in fear of an aggressor; and in 1893 because they had a suspicious record; but now they come of their own free will and with a clear title. We must carry out our policy of the last 60 years to its only logical solution-annexation.

Herbert W. Fisher, the last Yale speaker, said that it must be borne in mind that foreign powers entertain two sentiments towards the United States-the one a healthy disinclination to get into trouble with us; the other a growing discontent with what they call our arrogance. Now, aunexation is perculiarly qualified to put us in a position of offend others, and also such a change as will diminish their fear of offending us.

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.

Mr. Fisher closed his remarks by asserting that our present policy of continuing the status quo of the islands was sufficient to keep out other nations; that their very community of interests in Hawaii would incline them to help us maintain that policy, and that this was better than risking diplomatic complications.

Harvard's set speeches were much superior to Yale's, but Yale's delivery was better than Harvard's for the first time. Yale won by her splendid rebuttals, where her points were clearly brought out in criticism of Harvard's set speeches.

Harvard in her rebuttals merely reiterated what she had said in her set speeches. Jump, Yale's speaker scored a strong point for Yale. Harvard contended that the Uaited States needs a coaling station in the Pacific; that in the event of a foregin war the United States would have to have such a station in order to sweep the Pacific of her enemies' ships. Yale answered this statement by saying that the annexation of Hawaii would only extend the boundary of the United States 2000 miles further westward, and would necessitate doubling the number of ships in our navy, increasing the army by 15,000 men, and it would cost $30,000,000 to fortify the Hawaiian Islands. All of this would be to only gain a drop in the bucket of our commerce.

At the conclusion of the contest the Yale Union tendered the Harvard debaters and visitors, with the judges and a few invited guests, a banquet in the New Haven House.