The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-14

ing order. The people, he says, pointing to the
result of the recent election, are nearly ali anxious
to be taken under the protection OF our Tag and
laws. They are tired and sick, he thinks, OF
faction and civil war and domestic discord, and
gladly hail the promise OF peace and a stable
Government. They are drawn to US, he adds, by
affection and sympathy on account of our entran-
chisement of the colored race here, and repOse
implicit faith and confidence in our professions OF
Justice and equal rights. Of the natural resources
of the island the President speaks in glowing
terms. saying they cannot well be exaggerated,
and under this head he presents many iigures TO
sustain his view. He is informed that the soil IS
very rich and produces all the fruits OF tropical
attitudes in great abundance. lie believes that
in ten years after annexation the exports OF the
island would exceed 800 ,000. 900 a year. Our
people, he argues. would quickly go down there,
open plantations, attract labor. give employment
to the natives, build railways and telegraphs, lay
out towns and villages, and establish lines OF
steamships to New York and New Orleans.
Quantities of sugar, coffee, tobacco, and other
tropical fruits would be grown and exported, and
our manufacturing and agricultural interests
would thrive thereby. He thinks it would be a
decided benefit to us to grow these things on our
own soil instead Of paying tariff rates on them
when imported from foreign countries. lie holds
that the expectation of valuable woods and
various minerals from the island would be great,
and that before the end of twenty years the COM
merce would equal that Of Cuba. The laws OF
the West India Islands are inimical to the inter
ests of our country, but once We get u toothold
down there q short time would work important
changes, so that in a little while trade would
prosper and m flourish.
He SAYS that, looking at the questions involved
from the standpoint of the Monroe doctrine, we
cannot refuse to receive the island, now that 1T is
offered to US by the almost unanimous voice OF
it's inhabitants; that if We reject their o%veftures
there is danger that they may turn to Great
RritaiD IN nhToip ,aaoa and nrOtectiDn. and if
they do, we shall have no right to resist inter-
ference by that power. He believes one OF the
next works of the world will be the construction
of the Darien ship canal, thinks our country will
not be likely to let any foreign Government rob
US of the advantages II THAI undertaking. and
holds that Il station q our OTn in the West
Indies is essential to the canal project if we hope
to derive from il such benefits as ne should.
He also thinks it very important, from a naval
and military point of view, to secure this strong
hold in the midst Of the West Indies, and says
it would be a great blunder in statesman
ship, to throw away this opportunity for getting
it on favorable terms. Our weak point, he ar
CUES, is the Gulf coast, and while he does not
anticipate any war, he thinks we should take the
island as an outpost against any possible danger.
He seemed to convey the idea that in his view we
are sometime to have all the West India Islands
under our flag, and added that it would be folly
to reject the best one of them all when we can
it SO advantageously. He does not say
whether he will or will not ask an extension of
on the treaty, but adheres 10 the hope that
some step in behalf Of annexation may yet be
taken by the Senate. He says he has worked
hard to show Senators its advantages, and eg-
presses the opinion that everybody would he IN
favor of it if they clearly understood all the facts
as he does. He would doubtless heartily approve
a project to send a Congressional Commission, or
even a steamer load Of congressman down there
on a tour of inspection, and it is by no means GER
that some such movement as this may not
be proposed in the Senate by friends of the treaty
before the end Of the session.