The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1897, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1897 11 HE IS CRUSHED BENEATH A MASS OF EVIDENCE "Senator Perkins Erroneously Declared That “The Call” Was BOSTON HERALD, | HAWAIIAN PROBLEM. ra vrotec | “assume tie | wnership d tha remain As a matter of fact, there is not a shade | of woral difference between the proposed ‘ annexation of Hawaii and the forcible | conquest of the €entral American states | or any other portion of the western hemi- B or of international friction.” | sphere. In Hawaii the Government and | be first of these two assumptions |its followers, representing some 3000 Id say that the Americ ovle | Americans, have taken it upon them- !¢ prepared to permit the control | selves to hand the islands over ‘to Wailto rest in the hands of those [ the United State<. It cannot in W nming the couniry. | this case be said that the action for interierin ppear Lo be avle to nan with arry entiy We could not logi- of the Guvernment is the action of| the people. The Dole adminisiration is purely a seif-con tituted body. The isl- | anders had practicaily nothing to do with 1 Ty S N STy T TS T YU T AT AT I I TTT LTI THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. § THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Le island ¥ manner; LK} ,=1807. ) S B S S S SBE S s 0GB B00000060000600000808000080 t the chances for currency reform at the approaching are slight, we do not at all mean that the advocates ive up the tigh: for And <o when we are compelled rrowiuily that the chances for the ification of the Hawaiian nnexation treaty are excellent, we wou!d not have the opp nentsof that aty cease the uggle against it. Rather sh d they redouble their In this connection we would eall attention to the plank in the an national platform of las ar. It went pretty far, butitdid demand annexation: H tian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign yower shou'd be permitted to interfere with them.” Yas the convention afraid he word annexation, or did it believe that annexation would be unwise? ~ Certainly the islands can be ntroll by the United States without annexing them. Indeed, they nally controlled by the United States now. The present govern- made possible by the activ tance of a United States Mi by United States marines. There is nothing that the present n Government would not do to please this country. The pred zence the islanis is American. No foreign nartion is inter- 1 Hawaii, or threatening to interfere with it. Japan, of whom s Were in such terror, has expressly disavowed any intention of with islands. There is no nation in the world that bing 10 Hawaii that it tnoueht would displease the Unitel re entirely safe, and they are known to beso.” In e control we need or ought to want. for annexation goes on apace. Tue President favors 1 that two-thirds of the Senate will vote for the d their platiorms in some matters ers, and we do not mean to insist that the Indeed, it by a not extravagant construc- n iavor of annexation. But the s not bound by its platform to take this dangerous erance can be construed in either of two wavs, itis to demand that the construction in favor of a wise owed. And we believe that the annexation of Hawaij ise, but positively dangerous. ose who share this view to zo to wors to prevent the treaty. It is, at Y, a good war, d it was, we Sidney who said that whenever one h=ard of a good =1 | | g : % § | : to u ass bac Hawaiia [ short of an platform commits the party against annexation. them in ¢ n be admi:ted that the plank may be made to read asa declaration s that the par Whe 1reason v sh 2 | o 3 For that reassn o o o o o =3 o o =3 o o o o o = = o > o =3 o 3 complete control their pol the without | 1ts formation. al American They bave never dele- gatel 1o 1t the powers that it assumes to exercise, and they protest acainst annex :- | medical aut { would do 8o 1n the south. | matter somewhat seriously. | PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, . just returned to Washington from his tour the Only Great Newspaper Opposed to Hawaiian Annexation. SEeE ! THE OMAHA DAILY . BEE. | A COUNTRY Hawalii is a ¢)u of lepers. Accord- o Dr. Prince Morrow, an eminent | ority, more than 10 per cent n race s uffected with lep- of the Huwai | rosy, and this terrible disease has made | notable advances within the past half a | century, the islands which it is proposed | to annex to the United States forming | one of the great lcprous centers. Dr. Morrow says it is a contagious or rather. a communicable disease, and, while for- merly supposed to be of hereditary ori- gin, it is now known that heredity has but little or nothing to do with it. The Jepers in tne Hawaiian Islands are isolated, it is | true, but this has not prevented th:e spread | of the disease. According to Dr. Morrow | there seems no prospect of extingu the disease in the islands. The deat among the lepers has been lowered, but | t e number of persons stricken hasin- creased since the foundation of the leper | settlements. ‘ [ | | | to whether annexstion would be ligely to bring leprosy into the Uniled States Dr. Morrow believes it would. He says that 1f annexation comes it will be “idle to think of confining leprosy to ihe 1slands, or rather excluding it from this country by quaraiitine measures,” becavs: | no practicable meuns of inspection couid | detect the symptoms of the disease in its earlier stages. Leprosy would not de- velop in our norihern climate, but it | Doubtless the annexaticnists will pooh- pooh the idea that there is any such dan- ger as Dr. Morrow peints out, but most other people will e likely to regard the Leprosy is | not unknown to this country, but it is harily desirable to increase the chances of its spreading here. "o * As to the opinion of Senator Morgan re- garding the adaptability of the native | Hawatians for American citizenship, it is by no means conciusive. it may be true that they are betier adapted than the In- dians, Mexicans and Alaskans, but that under our care 31,000 Kanakas. Having taken some bad elements into our popu- lation, it does not follow that we should 20 on doine so. — e SENATOR MORGAN ON ANNEXATI | party, the Senator Morgan of Alabama, who has { of observation in Hawaii, gave out yestar- day for the first time a deliberate state. ment of his views on annexation. His | | credited with having driven a sharp bar- | zain when he got Alaska for $7,000 000, but | of those whom | from Southern Europe, and better adapted | Thisis damning t' em with faint praise in- deed, thougu it is pernaps as zood a rea- son as the annexationists are likely zerus projact. | marines will keep order in these | does not furnish a valid reason for taking | | These are the Japane-e. " Americans.” nd with their dis- | tion. For the United Sistes to compel | sSe8: vernment of Hawaii | these 40,000 Hawaiian natives to change X < nt than it is to-day. | their nationality at the bidding of San- o bility would end in securing | ford Dole and nis followers would be sim- 5 t foreign interference—a guar- | ply to use the power of this republic to woud afford us the right, | deprive foreigners of thcss very rights ncy could be readily exercised, the Hawaiian Government ations. T: atement covers the second zs- sumpLic because, if Hawaii under a ctorate continued to be “‘an incubator friction,”” it would simply ment of the islands s in this resvect of otecting power, and we imagine that e presented itsel nment would easily find the means thoughtless and ovstinate e o a more complacent frame Ii, as Mr. Thurston maintains, that t from naval attack, then it necessary for this country a strongly defended naval Hawaii. In fact, the line of t be suegestsis but the first step k of this country a great natior with an army and navy similar to those muintained by reat war powers uf the Old World. ne of our fellow-citizens appear 10 de- this, but we do not, and we see in Hawalian project the germs of a which, when full grown, would be be destructive of American also b i 10 UNPATRIOTIC UNAMERICAN. AND Tue people of the United States are so oud of this great republic that 1tis not 1l stran when the question of Ha- nexation 1s considered, that they assume to make the islands a part of this nation wou'd be the greatest kindness that could be done to the na Grant- ing that this is true, although: much can 1'the other side, the question be asked, Does this country pro- pose to deprive a foreign people of their waiian a ves. pven’ though they pre- as they are? If the reply yat ve, there would seem to od reaton why a desire to give as any people as possible tie benefits of Amer.cay free institntions should not inspire a nationat policy of annexing as much territory as possible and using :orce tain that end—a policy of conguest, the hypocritical pretextof z the v a manner calculated to | 1 this way our | the United S:ates | Hawaii in order to protect its | which the American Declaration of Inde- | vendence so sturdily affirmed, and af- firmed, too, not for the thirteen colonies | that wished to be free from Englana, but | for “all men.” | Tnls nation has no more moral right to | annex ‘Hawaii, under existing circum- | stances, than it would have to take pos- | session ‘'of one of the Central or South | American republics, whose dictator, find- | ing himself shaky in his seat, mizht see in annexation to the United States an i ; There1s no occas on to consider whether | tbe Hawaiians would be better off under e American flag. The question is simply whether this great republic pur- noses to lend itself to the unpatriotic and un-American scheme of robbing 40,000 islanders of a nationality which is seewm- ingly as dear to them as ours is to ns. e NEW BEDFORD JOURNAL. Tuesday, November 18. HAWAIL A STATE. | | Why the journal clerk of the House of Representatives shou!d be considered an authority on this subject we are unable to say. But he is quoted a3 expressing this i opinion: | 1would not admit Hawaii i:to the Union as a State immediately. Indeed, a stipulation | that 1t should remain in a Territorial con- dition for, say, not less than thirty years should be inserted in the treaty of annexation or joint resolution as adopted by Congress. This seems rather like putting off the evil day of decision upon a difficult question than like statesmanlike attack | of it at present. Thirty. years fiom now | new men will have the re-ponsibility of deciding how they will meet this diffi- cult question which was thrust upon them by their pre ecessors,. and per- baps they will not be so lost in admi- tation of the annexationists zs the an nexationis's are lost in admiration o themselves. Tuis tentative suggestion | that at some distant day Hawaii may be made a State of ihe American Union | opens up some interesting speculations. ‘lv. is wiolly a new tuning to admit a | distant colony to participation in the affairs of home government. It would {'bs possible that the Sandwich Islands | might he the crucial point in a Presi- liare of the conquered. 1 dential election. nmwmfimmmmmm PHILADELPHIA -RECORD. Tiiere is nothing more ¢ rta ag pect to make € “«jOoB” IN ANNEXING HAWAL than that the annéxation of Hawaii is igantic job by which a few speculators in lund, sugar and polities exe ormous profits at the ex; ense of the people of the United escape from ali his political perplexities. | It woula cost the American people more in ten years for the ance of a Territorial government in Huwuli_‘nnd for the erection the mense fortitications demanded by the jingoes than the reve- es from the islands would amount to in a century. P_resmem. Dole of i * republic’” of Hawa i adm ts indirectly that neand his associate ad- venturers are ruling against the will of the people, and -thn:‘tney Funnot maintain tneir power unless the United States shall come ©o their help. Butis the dilemma of Dole any reason whv the American people should shoulder inis O.d Man of the Facific Ocean? 299999999299929020292R02022229022292929929200992229298 | | QmTKUEHUDUbBDBObJDbFBDUHD Two reasons, interested mind. a handful of rebels in power. Oar Min took counsel with them, and gave them against its authority. compircity in the plot. make any atonement. other 95 per cent oppose annexation. order to make annexation 1ossible. *i**k*ttkit"fl'kttttikfl*tittflfit;ii;;*ifl*kfi*fiittti*t*t**it*k*tfifikfi!*tl¥ lished in 1897 or in 1898 if the Hawaiian which will send & Delegzate to Congress? thralldom. of our westward expansion, sir! visit to Honolulu has confirmed bhim in uis former belef, he says, that the isiands should be annexed to this country, but he nas nothing to add about President Tole’s recent admis<ion that the republic cannot permanently endure without exter- nal assistance. If thisisso would the ab- sorption of Hawa iby the United States be annexation or conquest? Who favor the union, the majoritv of the inhabitants of the islands or the office-holding | ol garchy at the capital? And which | has the greater moral right to our con- sideration? The Senator from Alabama admits the questionable propriety of adding to our national domain an island gronp 'within the tropics'and 2000 miles from out coast,’” but he pleads that we need the archipel- { ago for de.ense purposes. It we do not take it Great Britain may, and, with Hon- olulu and Esquimalt, on the islana of | Vauncouver, as her basis of operatiohs, would “cut our coast linein twu and leave us incumbered with a mass of territory in Alaska, whose defense would be almost impossible, and the famous advantage of whicti would be lost to us.” Butwe have been cut off from Alaska in the past with- out serious results. A 'long stretch of Bruish territory has always intervened bstween us and our Northwest possessions. Must we annex Hawaii, its Aviatic aliens, ils ignorant native population ana its THE NE NEW {ORK, SUNDAY, NOV. 21, 1 We cannot lawfully take advantage of our own crime. to make American goverament possible. versal suffrage from the moment of their annexation. the free—as there were thirty-five years ago. leper=, all for the sake of protecting Sec- retary Seward’s purcaase? Mr. Seward is it will prove a costly one for us if weare | compelied by reason of it to take all the | stray islands ot the Pacific under our pro- tection, Mr. Morgan’s arzument that we have never had occasion to regret any of our previous annexations of territory is a weak one, and might be applied with cquul force 10 any wild scnemes of na- tional expansionin thefuture. We might say that Greenland, Antarctica, or any otl.er far re ian, ought to b2 taken under the flag because we are not sorry we added Florida, Texas and California to our Fede- ral domain. Nor is the Senator more feliciious when he declares that tke na- tives of Hawaii ‘“‘are far better adap ed to American citizenship than many millions we have welcomed here than the Indaians, Mexicans and native Alaskans.” We have been all 100 lavish in our hos- pitality in the past. We have erred in ex- tending tne right hand of fellowship in- discriminately to the newcomers from the siums of Europe. Scarcely anybody has been too ignorant or debased to be turned away from our national gateways. We havye prided ourselves on offering an *‘asy- lum” to the “‘oppressed,” and incidentally have let in a preat horde of thugs and scal- awags. Senator Morgan does not help his argument by telling us that the native Hawaiians are better than such as these. | 0 give for their d THE COURIER-JOURNAL. : Louisville, Saturday, Nov. 2o0. ! | W. N. Armstrong, editor of the Ha-| waiian Advertiser, says that “‘annexation | means that the Uaited States flag and | sslands. | Without that flig and these marines the i | GIGANTIC SWINDLE A most acgress've and. intellicent people here, the largest in numbers, will rule. Their numbers, their activity, the value of their labor, will soon enable them to dominate the As a corre:pondent who | has been looking into this matier says: Annexation is desired by specusators, the earpet-biggers and ihe politivinzs who see fat appropriations and pickings under a Territorial form ot Guvern- | ment. ‘AnneXation is opposed by thrce: | fourths of the entire popuiation. including | the Portuguese, the Japanese and nearly all | tne natives. i w { commerce. i United States the American | se PITTSBURG DISPATCH. REASON, THE WRONG The Detroit Free Press, speaking with regar! to the Hawaiian annexation scheme, adopts the right conclusion, but gives the wrong reason for ii, as foliows: Annex Hawaii, 2500 miles distant, possess- |° ing a population incapable of appreciating American ideas of government and morals, and there can be no valid excuse for uot sad- mitting Cubs, lying close to our doors and ing & Christian cfvilization. Lot Mr. ield to the coterie of piotters who | are so cunningly working Coneress for the furtherance of thelr island-grabbing project, and he must, to be consistent, reverse his at- titude toward the Cuban annexationists. Our intercst in Cuba and the other West Indian islands is vital and imperative. ‘They command the Guif of Mexico and the Ceribbean Sea. They are within half a day’s sail from our coasts and most intimately connected with this nation in Beyond that every instinct of bumanity and American freedom, as well as our traditional policy, evokes our sympathies and assistance with ail efforts of these people to establish and maintain their hiberties. g 1 Spain is ready to quarrel with us for her supremacy over Cuba, which she has reduced to a desert. Germany is under the suspicion of getting ready to grab a West Indian foothold in Haiti. ~ The vital and traditional interest of the is in these islands. We snouid be ready 1o prevent KE.iropean ag- gressions there. With these possibilities pending, to waste strength in trying to hold an island in the Pacific that we have not the slignt uss for 1s a blunder at once fatuous and pusillanimous. If 1t be true, as reported, that the ad- minisiration wtl accept Spain’s plan of antonomy in order to push the Hawaiian jibthrough Congress, it means an aban- donment of American policy and a fatal error. HARPER'S - WEEK LY. EVIL OF ANNEXATION. Mr. McKinley is reported to expect the annexation of Hawaii. We fear that his expectation is likely to be realized, and we deeply regre: that it is sp. The day when annexation shall beaccemplished will be an evil one for this country, and | the troubles that will come to us in con- juence will be gratifyinz to jingos, unsound-money men, spendthrift state: | men, high proteetionists and lynchers— to ali who dread the causequences of in- telligent and needed legi:lation, of sound instruction of public opinion on domestic affairs, and of good government. | tt*t***itttfitt***tifi*tii'k*i*!ii*ttt*i**tt*t*kt‘kiittittiittttit**ttttfi*ltit*ttfit: YORK TIMES. 1897. THE HAWAIIAN DISGRACE. among many others, whv we cannotdecently annex Hawaii must impress every reasonable and dis- help. At the time apnointed for the tp isin States to be landed, not for his own protection or for tne protection of the property of our Gavernment or its citizens, or for any law!ul purpose, but to oyerawe the e<tablished Government of Hawaii and prevent it from quelling the revols , Under the protection of United States troops the rebels deposed the sovereign and set up the Dole Government, which Minister Stevens, in the name of the United States, recognized with an indecent haste that proved his Tn violation of the principles of international law, of moral law, and of our own traditions of strict neutrality, we overthrew a friendly Government, and set up anotherin its place. We committed a crime for which we have refused to The Hawaiian jobsters propose that we shall immediately proce:d to take the prosts of our lawless entervrise and blacken our record of guilt by a fresh crime. 2. We cannot set up a republican form of government in whole tra'n of supporters, partners, accomplices and sympathizers, constituie less than 5 per cent of the population. First we put the immense majo- iy in subjection to an insignificant minority in Then we must continue to ovarawe the majority and keep it 1p subjection in order Slaverv was abolished in the United States in 1863. sneeuiators have their way. If the peopie of Hawaii are fit material for American citizensh:p they are fit to have the ballot; they are fit for uni- Wiil Presiagent McKinley proclaim the islands a Territory of the United States, appnint a Territorial Governor and authoriz: a popular election for members of the Territorial Legislature Where in the constitution will he find authority for any other course? We have made no preparation for colonization, for proconsuls or for expansion by jobbery. representative government we ourselves enjoy, or there will henceforth be two classes of American citizens—the bond and And everybody knows that it 18 no part of the jobsters’ plans to set np free institutions in Hawaii. The Dole gang of usurpers will rule.. Five per cent of the people will hold the other 95 per cent in Yet, when you call the attention of a Hawaiian annexitionist to these things he begins to talk with great rapidity of our naval needs; of the K-y Lo the Pacific; of the protection of the canal; of German, English and Japanese designs, and The argument from moraiity and the argument from slavery pass him by like the idle wind. actaal truth, the hideous ieprous rottenness of the people of the island, their unnamable vices and progressive degenera- tion; be isstill untoncied and talks faster thn ever of the *‘changing front ot the world” and other fantasies. In all uges men have been willing to plunee into filth to pick up money. The jobsters who are after their profits in Hawalian annexation are willing not only (o got down into that awiul filth themselves, but to drag the administration and the American flag into it wich them. e e e e D R e Voo ooy More than that it means the perpetra- tion of a much bigger job than the ap- propriations and pickings would provide. It means a gigantic swindle, by which about 3 per cent of the Hawaiian popu- lation, who have already swindled the natives of their heritage, are to hand over the islands to the Unitad States, which in turn is to be swindied now and per- petually burdened with responsibility for an alien and mongrel people, two thou- sand miles from our shores. 4 LOS ANGELES EXPRESS. Founded March' 27, 1871 Saturday, November 20, 1897. "HAWA.L NOT WANTED, Last night, at the great meeting in Music Hali, the fight against. Hawaiian annexation was begun by the people of this city. Resolutions which set forth many strong reasons against annexation were offered and . put to a vote. They were carried without a dissent:ng voice and amid lively enthusiasm. Hereaiter, there can be no doubt as to wnere the people of this city stand on this annexation ques- tion, % 3 We upset the rightful Government of the islands and put ister, John L. Stevens, was hand in glove with the rebels. the Hawaiian Isiands. He knew their plans, g he caused armed forces of the United The Dole u-urpers, with their The It is going to be re-estab- ‘We must give the islanders the same It you touch upon the NN NN NNNY NN RN NN NN RN NN NN NN NN N NN NN NP NN NI NN RN NRNN Y b8 22 BALTIMORE SUN. THE HAWAIJANS' PROTEST. As all interests have been given a hear- ing on the question of annexation except the people most concerned, it is to be hoped that the voice of nineteen-twen- tieths of the population of the islands will receive attention. What the Ha- n delegation will say on reaching Washington is indicated in a2 **mamorial’’ adopted at & mass-meeting of Hawaiian citizens at Honolulu on the 8 h of Oc- tober lust and printed, in. the Homnolulu Independeat of October. 16. This me- morial, which is addressed *‘to the Presi- dent, Congress and people of the United States,” reci:es tha' a majority of the me- morialists are aboriginal Hawaiians, qual- ified -voters under the constitution that existed prior to the cverthrow of the mon- archy by a few foreigners in January, 1893, but now disfrancnised and *held in sub- jection” by the armed forcesof the alleged “Republic of Hawaii’; that. they hav: neveryielded and “do not now acknowleuge willing allegiance to the said republic’’; that the government of the said republic ‘*has no warrant for 11s existence in the pport of the peopie of the islands,” and ow exists and maintains itself solely by force of arms agamst the rights and 1 A TIMES. PHILADELPHI [ | ANNEXATION UNJUST TO AMERICA | wishes of almost the entire aboriginzl population of these islands.” As to the real nature of the existing It might be well for the Federal Govern- ment to ask itself at th:s time, has this country not got more diverse and opposed regime, it is held that the alleged repube | races under its flag than it can deak with lic “is not founded on a basis of popular | successfully? Why should it seek to re- government or republican principles. Its| ceive into citizenship at one swoop 80,000 constitution was adopted by a conven tion | people who are tainted with an awful and a majority of whose meinbers were se! ineradicable disease, whose customs are appoinied, the rest baving been elected | alien to those of this republic, who are by a n insignificant minority of the white | idle 1f not vicious, immoral if not crimi- and aboriginal citizens.” The majority | nal, ana at the same moment keep guard of those who voted for the members of | at the ports of the Atlantic Coast so that the convention, aceording to the memorial, [ no sin.le objectionable immigrant shall were ‘‘aliens without property or social | set foot on these shores? ties in the islands.” The con:titution Are these Europeans who are thus de- adopted by this sell-constituted conven- ' birred refused aamission to this country -~ THE SUNDAY STATES. NEW ORLEANS, NOVEMBER 21, 1897. 09104 THE HAWAIIAN SCHEME. Everything points to the fact that the annexation of Hawaiiisa matter which has been cut and dried, but it isto be hoped the cpposition in the Senate will rally sufficient strength to defeata scheme which is clearly in the interest of a ring of speculators and politicians, and which, 1f successful, will cause to be injected 1nto our body politic a large mon- grel element. Senator Caffery bit the mark squarely when, in a recent interview with a New York paper, he said: “The Americans in Hawaii are sugar-planterstoa great extent. They own the largest-and most valuable properties. They are t"red of keeping up a gevernment called by courtesy a republic. A good way out of the expense and worry of paying taxes and keeping down the Japanese end Chinese. is to transfer the job to the United States. Tne fortunesofa handfil of sugar-planters do not justify us in undertaking the dangerous ‘experiment.of mid-ocean government over a population alien, unassimil. able and un-Christian. No republic has flourished after conquering or acquiring dominion beyond the seas. The destruction of Carthage was but the precursor of the destruction of Rome.” All the work looking to the annexation of a colony of lepers neasly 3000 miles from our shores has been done in the dark, and at no time has tbe administration snown the slightest inclination to take the American peovle into its confidence and ascertain their opinion regarding the acqui- sition of territory beyond the seas. President McKinley did not care to hear the people express themselves on the subject, because he is well aware of the fact that the intelligent classes are opposed to the annex. ation scheme, and the more it is considered ths greater becomes the oppo- sition. In the Senate there are men who are determined to fght agaiast the rafification treaty to the last ditch, and there is reason to hope and be- ireve they will succeed in arousing public sentiment to such a pitch that the Senate will be compelled to yicid to the demands of the people and reject the treaty. E’ E E | E : E E Gwmmmnunmmmxm&uuuumfi tipn has never been, submitiea io a vote sufel;' because they would 'cheupen the of the people, but is maintained by forc: | priceof Iabor in a market which 1S already of arms against the will of the vast ma- nv~vflowm_g? Not at ail. Those are rea- joritv of the population. The oligarchy | sons, and important ones, but there is a | existing under _this constitution ‘‘as- | greater principle in th: background. It sumes,” it is complained, *‘the rizht to | is that they hnvp come _ln numbers too extinguish the Hawaiian nationality and | vast to be assimilated in our repubiicin cede rights of sovereignty to the United | life and that their increasing presence is a States.” And the “memoriafists learn with | mensce to the state. | grief and dismay that the President of the E ThEn. why should these peonle_ of th» | United States has submitted to the Sen- | Sundwich Islands be brought into the ate a treaty whereby it is proposed to an- | Union? Their social lifeis as antagonist.c nex oyr territorv.” to ours as that of that flood of immigra- — tion we are now stopping on the Eastern NEW YORK WORLD. | coast, They have a country, it is true, SSTIONS, 2922200 022280090020000220000020200000202000RR0002RR2R0000202220 that is rich with possibiiities, but it is far distant, exposed to attack in case of war— indefensible, requiring great outlay for administration purposes—and out of touch everywhere with the genius of the Ameri- can peonle. There is no commercial profit to be looked for thatis not ours already, or that the legitimate efforts of trade cannot se- cure. There is no strategic value in an island, which, if rezarded as protection to the Pac fic Coast, is 2000 miles from it. One might as well say that the island of St. Helena serves that end for the Cape and South African colonies. It can be of no value as a coaiing station, because there is mno probability that the great fleets will ever maneuver there. Its ane nexation would be unjust to its people and our own, CRESCENT CITY NEWS. ANNEXATI{ON-NO! ONE OF THE AGSURD SUGG The supporters of t e Hawaiian annexa- tion Job meet the objaction to any more | rotten pocket-borough Staies by sugges- ting that the islands be attached to Cali- fornia as a county. Considering that the Hawaiian group is distant 2400 miles from San Francisco, what illimitab e possibili- ties of growth this idea opens! Why not “annex’ Ireland on the east as the *‘bor- ough of Erin” in Greater New York, and take "in Greenland on thé north and Samoa on the south as further frills on the ragged edge of the globe-circling re- public? Ifitis ‘*manifest destiny” to sloo | over on one s'de why not all arouna? SACRAMENTO BEE. THE PLOT OF ANNEXATION. The Bee has been a vigorous opponent to the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands ever since the scheme was first broached, and itis glad to see so many influential newspapers and so many thinking men coming over to the side of right and jus. tice. This paper has gone deeply into the inatter on many 8n occasion, but its primal and most votent reason for its vigorous denunciation of the annexation plot isone of principle—this nation should not be the recipient of stolen goods, knowing the same 10 have been stolen, L0S ANGELES HERALD. With nations that have their dependen- cies tbat they may disciaim. or ignors when the exigencies of occasion demand, the acquisition of the isiands might be valuable and desirable. Such powers would find in the relinquishment of their clainis no sacrifice of Government policy or principle, but the United States Gove ernment is not estab.ished that way. Once a part of our nation the Hawaiien Isiands would of necessity be permanently so. We are not socially or pelitically constituted to pay hostages by the sure render of our lands and people. With this view of the situation it would seem but common-sense policy to look to the cost and difficuliy of protecting and main- taining authority of territory before as- suming to take it as a protege. More« over, admitting that the islands could be amaleamated or assimilated into healtn« ful c:tizenship, there yet remains a seri- ous question correlative with such admis- sion: The extent of territory is such that the money power that favors Chinese immi- gration could colonize the isiands in the interest of their scheme and of conse- quence make them a sort of ante-chamber and preparatory grounds for the in- troduction of as many coolies as they might desire. ———————————————————— Senator Morgan finds satisfaction inthe fact that there are no snakes in Hawaii. Nevertheless, the wriggling and slimy an- nexation job 1s a snake that ought to be scotched.— Philadelphia Record. L LI IR I T R R LR AR AR AR R AR AR R R AL 1L PHILADELPHIA LEDGER. THE “STATE” OF HAWAIL One of the strongest reasons in opposition to the annexation of Hawaii is that, although in no mannar suited for Statehood, there is a probability that political exizencies would soon result in its admission as a State for the purpose of aiding two votes in the United States Senate to the membership.of some political party driven to such desperate step to retain contiol. Captain McKee of Indiana, a well-known Kepublican politician, and ar empioye of Coungress, says that he thinks Hawaii could be maintained as a Territory for thirty years preparatory to its. admission as a State, tut he admits that a treaty provision to this effec would not be binding on Congress. We have seen several new States within recent years aumitted, not becanse there was any positive neces- sity, but to increase the Republican vote in the Senate, and we have also noted the boomerang effect of this in the action of these States in going over to the Democracy and the Popuiists. Hawaii is doing very well as she is, as she is admitted by the powers to be within the sphere of Ameri- can influence, but to annex her and her mongrel and leprous population . would ve equivalent to opening Pandora’s box. K222 IR, SUBJECI FuR GRAVE DISCUSSION, The subject of annexation bas not been sufficieatly aired before the pecple of this country. It should be more thoroughly discussed before the treaty now pending before the Senate is acted cn. It is a ques- tion of the greatest gravity, and svmpathy with the few Americans on the islands should not overcome sober judgment, The step of annexation, when once taken, eannot be retr: ————————————————— The Hawaiian Government will soon offer for sale to the highest bidder the crown silver, china and glassware in use during the reign. of the Kamehameha kings and qneens. Relic-hunters have been trvirg to purchase these relics, but the Government has sold only a few of the articles belonging to the royal palace. The Hawai.an Government must be very short of funds as well as anxions to un- load its debt by annexation.—Omaha Bee. LTI AR R R LR R LR LA LR L L]