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Last week I mentioned some of the issues involved in a brief speech in which I challenged the unfair and unjustified charge in a New York Times editorial that Southerners were opposing Hawaiian Statehood merely because we didn’t want two more Senate votes which we thought would be cast against so-called Civil Rights legislation.
The Capital of Hawaii is 2,500 tmiles from San Francisco and some of the islands to be included in the proposed state are 1,000 miles from Honolulu. Yet, Hawaii claims aH, the waters of that area are territorial and under the jurisdiction of fhe Hawaiian government. The islands have a population of 400,000 citizens about 16.5 percent of whom are of the white race. A large majority of the remainder are of oriental orign and have never been to the United States and never will come here, yet they would have j the voting strength to control all elections. The Senate Judiciary Committee will also consider testimony on the extent to which Communism has infiltrated these islands.
We are deeply concerned about disturbing the balance in our system of representative government by giving this small and isolated group of people legislative power equal to that of our largest states and we also fear the effect on other nations if we abandon the principle of the Monroe Doctrine by moving our national boundary 3,000 miles across the Pacific Oceaa
I expect to discuss these and other issues involved in more detail when the Statehood bill, which already has passed the House, is taken up in the Seafcte.,
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