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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALlL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16 ‘THE ANNEXATION SCHEME FOREDOOMED ‘The Reputable Press of the Nation Denounces in Thunder Tones the Plot to Rob and Enslave the People of Hawaii. NEW YORK TIMES. L TO THE MONROE DOC . RINE, Hawaiian annexation will utterly wreck the Monroe doctrine. fllf Germany coveted a foothold in the New World and should take advantage of the Lueders incident to scize the republic of Hayti, our protest would be robbad of all its moral impressiveness by our own guilty designs upon Hawaii. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1820, three years before Monroe had formulated the | rinciple, that any attempt of European | ations to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere must be re- | zarded as dangerous to our peace and | salety, “that the day is not distant when we may formally acquire a meridian of par- ;jvvvivvvvvviv;ii‘ » = : NEW YOR »———— : ABSORBING THE b » A treaty such as the administrati 'A\‘x.ri! vote of the Senate, and this i o Nerefore, of taking over the islands s bare majority of both houses shall be » ut as undesirable a lot of citizens # To bring about annexation by act of Co! % tion of the spirit, at least, ¢ @, colony out in the Pucific Oce rable element to our population, but « millions of doilars for guns and foriif # tlecarnings of theworking masses. the fund. N ‘AaAQ“Q““.“Q‘!“QQ‘AQQ B tition through the ocean which Le two nemispheres on the hit ch no European gun shall ever be heard or an American on the other.” With what face could we oppose Ger- | vasion of our bemisphere on the we w adventuring half way e Pacific on the wes zobble | separates | er side of y force and fraud the territory of a | the islands is utterly unsound and unten- ent 95 per ce of whose people | sble. That, however, is the case witth disapprove our purpose? We seized Ha- | pretty much all annexation argument. our years ago, when our troops made agent of the ring of speculators rulers | island. The pending treaty of only the peaceful consum- plot begun in biood and out- grant as would be the forcible 1 Prince. t our hands are soiled and record disgraced by un act ence and rapine we lost o rebuke other aggressors. We rt the Monroe doctrine as the western world. If European not recognize tne principle, t are careful not todeny 1t | v and officially. They are impa- | it, however, and would gladly e use of the first fair opportunity to ot s do at nat 1 will, if brouzht about, not only add a most urde- | for the reason that it believes that we have | country and its rightful owner, Russia. We are not | proposing to pay anytning for Hawalii | except to assume obligations amounting | to $4.000,000. The plan is to take that | territory from the hands of a few politi- cial adventurers, regardless of the will of majority of its people. There is nether justice nor morality nor republican prin- ciple in this. But our Baltimore con- temporary cites the example of Euro- pean nations that do this sort of thing | as justitying such a course on our part. Is the United States, then, to emulate the countries of the Old World in their greed for territorial aggrandizement? The great | | American statesmen of the past did not | YRV PFRYR R R PRSP R ERRRRRy X K DAILY NEWS. LEPER COLONY. on has readv must be ratified by a two- t will be difficuit to get. There is talk, by act of Congress, which means that a considered sufficient to saddle us w as can be found anywhere in the world. ngress will be a subterfuge and a viola- amental law. Annexation of this leper will compel us to expend miilions uyon ications that will have to come out of AGETLEIEILITLEIQRSEINA think it wise to do this and we of to-day may safely Le znided by their judgment. | It will be a serious thing for this republic | | when it shall follow the example of the monarchies of Europe in territorial acqui- | sition. The American may sincerely be- | lieve that this country needs Hawaii, but its argument in justification of aunexing I0WA STATE REGISTER. WE HAVE TERRITORY ENOUGH., The Register is opposed to annexation ample territory now, and if we take inany more in the future it should be land con- nected with the United States by land. We can gain all the aavantages of Hawaii by extending a protectorate over that letting its people govern themselves in accordance with the will of their majority. We think that this is the only way peace can be muintained among the very much mixed population of Ha- FRAAIAKAIIKARIRAIRKEXAKRES | % BOSTON TRANSCRIPT. TO BE of Hawail won'd at or Americanize 21,000 | ( 51,000 Hawaiians and balf-bree:s, ge number of ese, to say nothing of the resentatives of various other L) lities who could hardly he conditions of the pro- restrictive immigration at would be the basis res. of future ebood. How do the people like outlook for future American that shall grow from nings? Not hsrath is ts elements B ritorial gov- | Hawaii under such %/ Whom this fatuity is x| to benefit is not ar ; cer- %*| t 1ot the American Govern- | T AR e g e e ke e Ak Ak e b ment or the American people. e * F RN AN NN N RE NN K by some deliberate | ance of our preten- overset i OMAHA BEE. ANNEXATIONIST LOGIC. ! The annexationists are as lame in their logic as they are deficient in the sense of political d moral obligation. The Baltimore Americen advocates the | annexation of Hawaii regardless of the jus i s of the natives of the islands “Did the first settlers in this country concern t:emselves much about the prejudices of the Indians? Did the country bother about prejudices when it took the immense southwestern territory from Mexico? Hasa word ever been said about the prejudices of the Alaskans? Great Britain, France, Germany, when they find it pecessarv to annex territory, do not trouble themselves about the prejudices of the nafives”” Think of a leading American newspaper arguing in siashion in support of a scheme for the absorption of territory to which this country caanot show the slightest claim. | We conquered the territory taken from | Mexico and therefore paid for it the cos! | th waii, and they can govern themselve more cheaply as an independent country than they can be governed as a portion of the United States. Hawaii and Cuba | s ouid both b free and under the pro- tectorate of the United States, but the Register is opposed to giving the people of those and other neighboring countries | the rizht to a voice in the government of the United States. Congress has become | 100 important a power to risk tie balance of power therein that might be gained | from calling representatives from hbalf- civil zed countries. Representatives from mountain and southern States are about all this government can assimiate ut present. ———— | LOUISVILLECOURIER-JOURNAL | SENATOR JONES’ REASONS, steps out of the financial swamp it is into the sunlight of true Democracy. Read, for example, his views on the question of Hawaiian annexation: “Iam opposed to it “First, because I am unalterably op- | posed to extending our territoriai limiis beyond this continent. “*Second, because the Hawaiian Islands | are so remote frcm our coast line their de- fense in the event of war would be enor- mously expensive and troublesome. “Third, because they do not comprise sutlicient area to make a State, and their | maintenance as a Territory would violate the intent of the constitution. “Fourth, because 1t would be almost impossible for Congress to devise a gov- | ernment for them that would not result | in confusion and failure. | “Fifth, because of the unfit and unde- sirable character of the population. No | matter how favorable surroundings for improvements might be made, the large percentage of the population would re- main unfit for citizenship.” Any one of these reasons would be more than sufficient to prevent annexation if there were not a big job behind it. LOUISVILLE POST. { — | AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE, ine-tenths of the people of leprous Hawaii are opposed (o annexation. and nine-tenihs of the peopie in this country | care nothing about it, but those who d care are 80 much in earnest and have such great financial interests at stake that it seems impossible 1o prevent the unholy of conquest. We purchased Alaska from b4 i v BUFFALO, N.Y. FEFPY PRV R R R PR R VPR Y P PR R R R R R R R R R R R R R RNy X alliance. , COMMERCIAL. WRONG NOT THE HAWAIIANS, == will have to be answered or dodged. the consent o: the governred”? If thequ power is submitte i to a fair vote by the a large majori'y. Morean thinks that formality would be suppressing the votes of black men and ticket.”” But what answer can republ suppression of the votes of a colored stretch of conscience to consent to a sim curse of s:ch wrongdoing is that 1t react: PREPENRPR RV RGT IR RR PR R R e P een » Before Hawaiian annexation is carried through some awkward questions the bedrock American principle that **Governmen:sderive their just powers from Probably it will not be submitted to popuiar vote. and reproaches such a course would expose the Republican party, which spent the best years of its existence in fighiing for human freedom and the right of a weak and more or less colorea race 10 equal political rights. Already one hears that Senator Morgan naturally thinks it a small matter to ignore the rignts of an inforior race, “"beciuse he belongs to a class who are in office by virtue of this point? Perhaps the best they can say is that having acquie<ced in the ):\7!:QQ(QQ&-QQQQQititdi(“QQQQQ!Q‘Q‘QQQQ“Q&QQQ& For example, what are we to say about estion of transferring Hawaii to another natives of Hawaii it will be defeated by Senator But see to what taunts unnecessary. also of such whites as do not vote their icans make 10 searchingz questions on m.inority at home, it reauires no great ilar wrong in distant Hawaii. But the s on the perpetrator. SRS AAARARREARAAAR IR E AR EARANEW quunmvhmmnmnrmnnrmmvnfimn Whenever Senator Jones of Arkansas | | but they have not suoceceded R 22222232 R R 2R LR R AR RA22L] SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN. IT WOULD WE OUR POWER. President Garfield was fortunate to die when he did, not only because of his low tariff views, but because of his opposition to the annexation of tropical islands. “We occupy,’’ he once said, *'a portion of that great morthern zone which girdies the world, and which has been the theater of the greatest achievements, especially in the history of Anglo-Saxon races, but hould we extend our possessions into the tropical belt, we would weaken the power of our people and the Government.” It happens that Hawali Is in the *tropical | belr.” e ————————— 7771NDIANAPOLIS NEWS. ¥IGHT XATION, AG ST A The people who have, for the most part, been indifferent to the Hawaiian matter are beginning to realize what is involved in the propesed policy ; tha: it means the bsorption of the islands against the wishes of the people living in them, gov- ernment of the many by the few, tie con ferring of statehood upon a people unfit ernment is of a power not found in the constitution, the necessity must be clear and impera- tive. Without this itis a violation of the oath of office. The life of the constitu- tion is as sacred to the people as natural life is to the individual. * * * « | will endanger the Monroe doctrine; we cannot acquire distant ocean lands, ana yet debar Europe from American posses- sions. NASHVILLE AMERICAN. TRAVESTY ON FE¢E GOVERNMENT. The whole Hawaiian affair has been a travesty on free government and republi- can principles. The coup by whicn the native Queen was deposed and the so- called republic established was a disgrace to the American flag. The annexation will virtually be forced. The Dole Gov- s usurping dictatorship and doesn’t represent the people of Hawaii, It is very bad policy, furthermore, for | the United States to take into its family | union these distant islands, with their mongre! population. It isaltogether con- trary to the scheme of government on which this country was planned and the | new acquisition will constitute a scurce of weakness rather than strength. LEELERS | sovereignty. by political adventurers. and protected. quired to defend this priceless jewel. but a number of additional vexa: business. reali to receive it, and the establishment oi a precedent whicn will be appealed to to support every future proposal to extena our national domain. The time to stin tieimperial programme is at the begin- ning. The sum of this whole matter is that we do not need Hawaii and the Hawalians do not want to be annexed. That ought to be enough for rational * MILWAUKEE SENTINEL BES L LEF NDONE, The advocates of annexation have a great deal to say about manifest destiny, in hiding under large words the-e facts—that the United States has never annexed an island, that if it now proceeds to annex Hawaii it will make a sharp change of policy, a change which will lead very far, though how far or into what dangers | no man can wholly foresee. Among the SR L R R L L R T R R L L L R L L L R I AR R T L R R D T R R T LR R L L L R R T SHALL WE IMITATE EUROPEAN DESPOTISMS? | before the Senate, PHILADELPHIA LEDGER. A FLAGRANT PIECE OF JOBBERY. To add Hawaii to our territory means to take into our family thousands of native islanders who are opposed to our Added to these are many thousands of Chinese, Japanese and other Asiatics, who are in every respect hos- tile to our civilization, our methods, manners, customs and traditions. A«atic Territory destined to become an American State if it ever becomes American territory. vean populatien of the islunds is trifling in comparison with that of the mongret and leprous Asiati tion would be a good thing for President Dole and the other conspirators who dethroned Queen Liliuokalani, assisted by United States marines, but it would be bad for the United States. Hawaii as an American possession would bs governed by carpet-baggers from the United States and open to plunder It would be a never-ceasing thorn in the side of the body volitic. constitution is that unorganized Territories shall be admitted to statenood when they are ripe for that distinction, but experience proves that States are made only to increase the strength in the Senate of the dominant political party. Hawail's turn would come whenever some political party, having the power and opportunity and feeling assured as to the political comvlexion of the new Senators, deemed it necessary to secure two additional Senatorial votes. Thus, in the event of a close vote, Hawail’s representatives might determine the policy of the American Government. Annexation would mean a great increase in our navy. NEW ORLEANS STATES. PROJECT WILL BE DE ATE It is gratifying to note the growing hosiility to the Hawaiisn annexation scheme, end there is some promise of its ‘being defeated and ignominiousiy booted- out of Congress auring the present ses- sion. The American people have been pondering over the question of annexing the Hawaiian Islands, and the more they tLink the stronger becomes their opposi- tion to the ratification of the treaty now The people are begin- ning to realize the fact that asida from | the financial and political jobbery that underlies the proposition to annex Hawaii, the policy of acquiring territory 2000 miles from our shores is entirely un- wi e, The thought which the country is civ- ing to the Hawaiian question is having its effect on Congress. We are now told that the friends of the annexation treaty If we admit these to citizenship we wonld have an If Hawaii is a strategic necessity it would bave to be guarded It would need to be fortitied and made impregnable to attack, and American men-of-war would be re- And what would the United States get in return? ous problems for Congress to settle and unseitle. is the innovation in our potitical system. We enjoy the blessings of peace because we have been content to mind our own Once we embark in the fisld of colonization we shall trespass upon the armed camp of Europe. of the powers is based upon their rivalry in annexing outlying territory. of Africa and Asia and nearly every island group within sight, and in so doing have zroused jenlousies that compel the maintenance of vast armies and navies that are consuming the substance of burdened agriculture. republic were opposed to any such policy and our wisest statesmen have always warnea the people against it. thousands of miles away, is properly the suvject for annexation, what of Cuba, Hayti. Porto Rico and the other nearer and vastly richer lands that are at onr threshold? Jingoism may delieht in the thought of the addition to our territory of a partly savage, partly civilized, leprous colony far away in the Pacific, but it is a matter to make the judicious grieve. only in Congress but in the columns of the press, and the advocates of this flagrant piece of jobbery should be made to that their constituents are opposed to this measure, which is so repugnant to the American idea of attending to our own affairs and carefully refraining from entangiing alliances. uummunuzmmuuumwmmmmnmummmmmu&mfl They have possessed themselves of a large part The project should be stoutly resisted, not PHILADELPHIA TIMES. HANDS OFF HAWAIL Whether Hawaii is annexed or not, the great wrong will not be accomplished | without the country being thoroughly in- | formed as to the step and its conse- | quences. It will be opposed in Congress | and out of it by the right-thinking men of the country irrespective of party, and | by a great majority of the press. The | lesson that the colonial troubles of Eng- | land in Africa are teaching, the irritation in Europe about petty questions of dis- | tant and unimportant buundary marks, | the spectacle of the hogs trying to get | all four feet into the trough, will not be without their weight, but there are ques- tions of right and wrong—more important than those of decency or policy—ques- tions of national morality and honor, of | principle and the rights of the oppressed. | In 1894 the Senate unanimously sdopted a resolution that “*Hawaii had a right to establish and maintain their own form of government, the United States not to in- terfere therewith, other nations not to intervene.” doctrine of Webster and all our great statesmen, The same year, on February the House of Revpresentatives adopted The American and Euro- Doubtless annexa- The tueory ot the American Not a single substantial benefit, But the gravest danger in annexation The militarism The fathers of this If Hawaii, | & similar but even stronger resolution. | Why should there be a change of front? | The isiands are safe; their freedom from | foreign control is guaranteed by us; we tave their trade as we always have had, because it is to their great advantage; an- nexed we would need todefend them at great cost, and they require no defense now. Besides what was right, and Con- gress declared it to be right in 1894, is right now. We have nothing to do with organizing the affairs of Hawaii. They are her own business. if the veople want a monarchy let them | have it; if a republic, they know how to form and maintain it; but we have no right 1o steal a country under a philan- thropic mask, nor to consummate an annexation upon a pretext that covers a “job,”” and especially have we no right to do it without the consent of the people of that country. | The case of Alaska is In no way parallel. It was ceded to the United States by a na- tion having the power to do so, but quite He must be It would be, for her, a descer from the max! prosperous nation of two hundred mt!lions of people. JAMES BRYCE (AUTHOR OF “AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH”) IN THE FORUM. sanguine man who thinks that & democratic Government, intended to be worked by educated men of the best European stock, whose ancestors have enjoyed freedom and been accustomed to seli-government for centuries, can, without danger to its new sutjects and injury to itseif, either set up among an inferior and dissimilar population its own democratic institutions or so far depart from ail its own traditions as to attempt to govern that population and its own citiz:ns abroad by despotic methods. The United States has already a rreat and splendid mission in building up between the oceans a free, happy and And one of the noblest poris of her mission in the world has been to show to the older peoples and States an exampie of abstention from the quarrels and wars and conquests that make up so large and so lamentable a part of the annals of Europe. Her remote position and bher immense power have delivered fier from that burden of military and naval armaments which presses with crushing weight upon the people of Europe. from what may be called the pedestal of wise and pacific detachment on which she now stands, were sbe to yield (o that earth-hunger which has been raging among the European States, and to imitate the aggressive meihods which some of them have pursued. The policy of creating great armaments and of annexing terri- tories beyond the sea would be, if a strai:ger may venture to say =0, #n un-American policy, and a complete departure ms—approved by long experience—of the iliustrious founders of the republic. Guxmuxmumxmuwxuunuuxmmmuuunmmnmwmwxmj things which Congress is almost certain to do at this session the annexation of Hawaii is the thing best worth leaving undon NOT JUSTIFIED BY PRECEDENT DANIEL AGNEW IN THE FORUM. There is no express power in the con- stitution to acquire and incorporate a for- eign territory and peonle into the Union. Precedents are cited to justify the annexa- tion of Hawaii. Precedent does not amend the constitution. Amendment requires a vote of two-thirds of Con- ziess, and of three-fourths of the States. Consent o: the Senate alone 18 not enough. Precedent belongs to the leges non scriptas; it has no force except by usage and consent, and must be precisely in point. There is no pre- cedent to justify the admission by treaty of Hawaii. The purchases of and Alaska are cited; but these are a0t n point. A purchase unauthor- ized by the constituiion can be justified only by an overruling necessity for the national safety. To warrant the exercise Louisiana, Florida will not be avle to get the required two- thirds majority of the Senate to secure the ratification of the treaty, and they are now depending on the passage of the Morgan bill which provides for the an- nexation of the islands by a simple reso- lation of both nouses of Congress. It this statement is correct there is not the slightest prospect of the annexation for the reason that the opposition in the Sen- ate is strong enough to talk the bill to death, or at least prevent it reaching a vots. BALTIMORE WORLD. LET US BE CONSISTENT. The administration has warned Ger- many that she must not take any steps to- ward the annexation of Hayti, and at the same time the President is exerting every effort to make Hawaii a part of the United States. Has not G rmany, Japan or any other nation as much ri-ht 1o oppose this scheme as the United States has to object to Germany gzobbling up Hayu? Let us be cons 13 —e Forty-tive thousand of the 52,000 peopie of Hawaii are opposed to annexation. —~Sacramento Bee. independently of that Alaska had a mere handful of Indians neither qualified to consent nor reject, and Senator Morgan is beside the question when he uses it asa justification of the Hawaii project. The strategic argument for annexation bas been used with many variations. To send coal 2000 miles across the sea, and then rend warships there to get it in order to defend San Francisco and the Oregon coast, is strategy that must appear incom- prehensible to the average mind. It is said, too, tkat the islands lie in the path of commerce between the Pacific Ceast and Japan and China. As s matter of fact they are 1600 miles south of the line of direct sailing. The pending treaty proposes that the United States shall assume the debt of four millions contracted by the Dole oli- garchy and pay it. After that, in order to make the alleged strategic position de- fensible—only by an almost impossible combination of circumstances can it be- come valuable—five or six millions more will be needed. And that will be only the beginning in a vain effort which will profit no one and benefit not at all the pveople of Hawaii. It is further urged that England is making a new Gibraltar at E quimalt, That was in line with the’ : : : : : and that we need a balance to her devel- oping streneth on the Northwest coast. It may be so, but let it be on our own coast. Let it be a Gibraltar that defends and protects something. There are strategic positions at the mouth of the Columbia, in the waters about Port Townsend ana Seattle, and the port of San Francisco has possibilities for an ideal defense. If, then, a naval and military stronghold is needed on the Pa- cificlet it be where the people of this coun- try will profit by it, where it may serve to defend our owr people and property, and not the interests of a race alien in spirit and character to our own. We have one NEW YORK EVENING POST. A CONQUEST. THE PLUNDER OF One of the Washington correspondents writes “'that the supporters of the admin- istration and other advocates of annexa- tion are very anxious to secure the earliest possible consideration of the treaty with Hawaii,” and that “Senator Davis, chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions, announces his intention of pressing annexation at the earliest possible mo- ment.” But there is no ‘‘treaty with Hawaii” before the Senate, in the Amari- can sense of the term. There is, in the American sense of the term, no Hawaii except the inhabitants of Hawaii. A transfer of populated territory to a toreign power means, in the Americ.n sense, a ,;{’9)?.))iiiiiiiiiiiii?iiii’*ii‘#i"iiiii?iiii‘"fi SIOUX CITY TRIBUNE. in these columns. POV VPP RVEP R VPR ERE R color problem unsolved. Wedo not seem to assimilate the black people who are our fellow-citizens, nor the red men who are not, and it is more than certain that we will also fail with these children of the islanas of the sea who can only repay our intimacy with the leprosy that is their racial heritage. | SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER T ANNEXATION. REEAONS AGAL The main question should be not what is hest for Hawaii, but what is best for the United States. Tried by no other test than that, the people wou!d never have worked mselves into the belief that our interests necessitated annexation or that our honor was involved in the failure to annex. A protecterate over ‘the isl- | ands, holding them against all other | comers, would have resulted, had we | forced it, in an agreement by the European | and Asiatic powers that Hawaii should be |to the world what Switzerland is to Europe — an independent autonomy, | whose boundaries and rights are vo be for- | ever re: pected. The strongest reason against annexa- tion is that the 1slands are so remote they | will be a source ot weakness rather than | of strength in time of war, without affording any advantages of a coaling station or base of supplies not to be had Tne second great objection 1s the chars acter of the population, which, under the most favorable conditions, cannot be made for many generations fit for Ameri- can citizenship. Oar difficulties with our | own Indian tribes and the lower elements ot alien populations bave taught us this, There are also minor objéctions, among which may be suggested the limited ares, which, together with other considera- tions, precludes the idea of statebood and i leaves us the alternative of territorial government, which has always been un- gatisfactory. OBNOXIOUS TO REPUBLICANISM. Annexation is obnoxious to our scheme of government. It is the wooden horse with belly filled with enemies of our Je- publican principles, and is urged by a gang of self-expatriated put their selfish interests against the fu- ture of the republic. It cannot be justi- fiea upon strategic, commercial or moral principles, and if time be given to divert public attention to it it will be defeated, as was the San Domingo proposition. Tuere are things above bread and meat. The spirit of seltish money getting is not higher than the aspirations of liberty. The men who have absorbed to themselves in Hawaii the opportunities which be- longed to the people, who boast that they own everything in the islands, that the natives are not to be considered because they are not rich and are poor because they have been robbed, are seeking now to | place their gains under the protection of | this Government and to sanctify their | theft by hiding it under the stars and stripes. Let them siay where they are to settle their accountability with the people whom they have despoiled, and if they | offer the sovereignty they have usurped to any other nation, let us under the Mon- roe doctrine compel them to lie on the | bed they have made and garnished until they feel the power that is always finally | asserted by the majority. Ii patriotism had any share or part in this indefensible undertaking Hawaii | would not beannexed; but as there is | cause to believe that pernicicus polit cal jobbery has inspired and now sustains the scheme, the sordid politicians interested 1 the success of it will probablv consum- mate it regardless of the protests of rea- son, justice and patriotism.—Philadelphia Leiger. equally well without assuming their care. | schemers who | MENACE TO LABOR’S HOSTS. The nature of the menac: to our labor has been pointed out several times A few days ago the country had a very unpleasant reminder of what would be in store for some classes of our labor if Hawaii is annexed. In the face of difficulties which would not exist after annex mine operators in Illinois announced their intention to import coolie labor to work the mines in the place of ths present poorly paid white miners. entire country entered strong objections and not much has been heard of the proposition since, but with the occurrence fresh in mind labor should unite in a prompt and vigoreus protest against a move which would open wide our ports to the cheapest class of coolie labor. the United States Senate hear from American workingmen on the subj 2, NAABEEASEAREEAASESREA RS EE IR S S SRR E RS AR SR Fe A 2 e g ok e Aok ek sk e e e A A e ek b ok | States the receiver of their plunder, | their own superiori ! publicar party’s ion several coal- The There is no time to bs lost. Let AARAEAEARSESAREAEEAES transfer with the consent or by the desire of the people. The document cailed “the treaty with Hawaii’’ now before the Sen- ate isin reality an agreement with a band oi pseudo-religious adventurers, who have seized a friendly state, overturned a friendly and barmless Government by fraud, and now want to make the United Their plea that they havedone th eed in the interest of civilization, owing to y in enlightenment to the masses, wonld justify the overthrow by professors and ministers of the govern- ment of two-thirds of the States in this Union. It would justify a coup d’etat by the Mugwumps in New York City and make all the “'superior people” rulers of America, with the power of transferring territory to Great ‘Britain or Germany. The plea is the more brazen b-cause it is a confession of the failure of their own Work as missionaries. The depravity and heathenism which they assign as a reason for annexation are the very things which they and their fathers were sent 1o cure fifty years ago by simple-minded Ameri= cans. The use of these things now to jus- tify the plunder of the naiives, after.tue missionaries have drawn salaries for half a century for their conversion, is the quintescence of audacity. We cannot re- FORR AR Ak e ok ke kR ko ok SACRAMENTO BEE. OPPOSE AN- TION, The people of California are not in favor of the annexation of the Hawuaiian Islan Senator Perkins’ views to the contrary notwithe standing. The owners of steam- ship lines, and a number of San Francisco merchants who hope to increase their trade by annexation, favor it, but the vast majority of the farmers of. California and every workingman in the State are bit- terly cpposed to it; and we submit that those who till the :oil and those who work tor wages form the majority of the voting vopulation of this State, as in every other. HARNRRRRNA AR NN NN RN N B NN RRN * R e e S S S S S S 2 2 RS TS call a similar case. Conquest by tired and disappointed Christian missionaries is a new thing in history. —_— DETROIT FREE PRESS. IN DEFIANCE OF NATIO DITIONS, NAL TRA- If the administration puts through tha Hawaiian annexation conspiracy to please the speculators, contractors, place-hunters and plotters it will have to do it in defi- ance of national traditions ana the Re- professed regard for equal suffrage; it will have to do it against every consideration of public in- terest; it will have to do it despite the earnest protests and arguments of Amere ican citizens who understand the condi- tion of Hawaii and who appreciate the worries and bardens this Government will run into if it acquires that distant archi- pelago. NEWMAN WEST SIDE INDEX. FooA 2r b - The United States is already large enough, its interests from east (o west and from north to south are so diversified that itisaserious problem to make laws that are just to all our citizens, The annexation of Hawaii will only complicate matters and we are sure the sugar we would get in the deal wouid not in any adequate mease ure recompense us for the undesirable elements we would have to engraft on our civilization. s ALREADY. ’é’!i’i?i’ii’iii)b”i’.@i??’ii?i@iii)i(ét(é!!’% SAN BERNARDINO FREE PRESS. fathom. worth the exertion. that cannot even be ciassed a luxury. wheat and good people. especially uothing tha PR PP RII R R RE R R E YRR NO ANNEXATION FOR Us. Just how the tomfool idea of this country’s annexing Hawaii has gained such a footing among American people is more than mortal understanding can It seems as though Americans want to take that island to show the rest of the world that they can do so. hop up on some high fence and crow, even though the point gained is not If no other rooster had his eye on that beetle ours would not even turn aside for it. We are giad of one thing—the whole matter is en- tirely out of politics; no party is anything near a unit on the matter. That island can but prove a menace to our peace—an expensive something 1 der that speaksdefiance 10 him who dares to molest it. The course of our empire has moved west and south just far enough. If we move again, let us go north—go to a country that naturally grows good We have no use whatever for any otier territory, and ‘s within the tropics. acquisition, but the iand of the Mongol and Kanaka, never. 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