The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-01-06
KING KALAKAUA In AMERICA.
Spirit of the America Press.

| sentiment towards our King and people, as Mt
tered through the press. The New York
Herald of December 9Th, devotes two entire
columns to valuable statistical and historical
information about this Kingdom, and among
its editorial comments, says: King Kalakaua
has arrived at San Francisco, and is now the
guest of the American people. As general
rule, monarchs with real crowns seldom visit
this country. We have had monarchs without
crowns such as Mr.. Louis Napoleon" Sc. . :
1t is therefore with unusual pleasure that the
advent of His Majesty of Hawaii is received.
- He is not common King, but one to
whom we can give cur allegiance for a time
with clear conscience, for we believe him to
be good man, who has the happiness of his
nation at heart, and good friend to the Amer
lean Republic. Long live King Kalakaua, and
long may he reign will be the Christmas
greeting our royal visitor illreceive through
out the length and breadth of the land"
The following from the Boston Post free
trade paper, utters the sentiment of large
portion of New England
young and enlightened King of the Sandwich
Islands on our shores is an event of national
and commercial, as we'll as of social i'm
portance. King Kalakaua, in venturing across
the Pacific, has manifested curiosity which
it is we'll that we should satisfy, and regard
and interest in our condition which it is worth
while for us to cultivate. 1t is we'll known
that Kalakaua's only object is not to find ex-
citement and variety in travel, or to observe
for himself the civilization of which he has
heard so much The United States are the
nearest of his powerful neighbors; they have
supplied to his fourishing and advancing little
State not only valuable precepts and principles
of government, commercial encouragement and
hints of material progress, but refining infu-
ences in the persons of active missionaries,
and judges and officials in the persons of cul-
tivated and trained New Englanders. At Ho-
nolulu American influences are constantly
coming into rivalry with those of England.
That country appreciates the benefits in pros
pect from close and cordial relations with the
Hawaiian Court, and has long been active in
endeayoring to secure them. 1t behooves us
to lose sight of no wise and amicable method,
and of none of our many and evident advan-
tages, in establishing our own relations with
the Sandwich Islands on the best footing
We do not seek, as has been sometimes charged,
to acquire those islands for ourselves by force
or stratagem. But by reciprocity and alliance,
by proving the United States to be both able
and willing to be of more service to them than
a distant European power can be, we may de-
rive profits of by no means insignificant
character from them.
The. King comes to us attended by a suite
which itself shows how large an influence
Americans already have in the councils of his
Government. BE has already learned, from
the visits of two of his predecessors, and of
the charming Queen Emma, the interest which
Americans take in the welfare of his kingdom;
and the hospitality, during his brief reign,
who have found themselves at
Hawaii, render it eminently proper that every
considerate attention should be paid him in
return. This is an excellent opportunity to
repair, as far as possible, the culpable negli-
gence which has marked our official relations
with the Sandwich Islands, as with many
other nations, for some years past. 1t is said |
to be one of Kalakaua's main objects in COM
ing hither to negotiate reciprocity treaty. |
There is no reason why this object, which |
would result in evident profit to our own COM
merce, and would moreover give us the advan-
tage over England, should not be speedily &C
cOmplished. That such attempts have failed
in the past was due to a singular inapprecia-
lion of the value of such treaty, both direct |
y and indirectly. The Sandwich Islands are |
fruitful in articles which we need, especially |
IN sugar, of which they exported last year
more than "a, 600, 900 pounds; while we fur
lish them with stuffs, lumber and groceries. |
If reciprocity treaty is granted, and if, more
over, the King is able to return convinced of
he friendship and sincere interest Of the
United States, we shall have gone far to out
"trip the English influence, and to have won
confidence which is for our immediate material
profit, as well as, not impossibly for our fu-
ure military and National welfare.
From an editorial in the same paper, we clip
he following paragraph
The arrival and honorary reception of the
King of Hawaii at San francisco is a pleasant
of the mission he is engaged 1t is
lot often that real King considers closer re-
atoms of amity or commerce with the United
states of sufficient Importance to bring him
lere in person, and though King Kalakaua's
calm is hardly greater than Augustus Smiths
,cilly Isles, and his subjects would make little
more than an average American cityful, the
interests he represents are far from being pro-
-incial or unimportant in character. Reciproc-
ty is what this ruler comes to urge, and the
ause he pleads is sound one. For the year
$40 the total value of Hawaiian exports was
2, I2s,055, and the importsof the same period
we're 81 ,349, AS, trade which, though not
charitable, If is worth the while OF the United
tates to secure on the very favorable condi-
ions that can be commanded without the i'm
OsitiOn of any hardships. The Hawsiians
esire the removal of duty that they think
oppressive of their agricultural staples, and
hey are willing to offer an immediate equiva-
emit, besides the prospect of an increased
rade in consequence. By such an arrange
,enf American citizens both in the Sandwich ]