The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-04
EELEGRAPHIC NEWS
THE o. $. AND HAWAII.
America Determined TO Main
tain the Dominant Xnflu-
enee In tue North
Pacific.

rotary Blaine to Minister Comey, at th e
Sandwich 1slands, Deem Der lst, 1851. |
Ilsays: Ny late Instructions, and eape-
cislly that Of the 18th ult., will have
shown you the deep interest with which |
the United States observes the course Of |
events in the Hawaiian Islsnde. The ap- |
parent disposition to extend other infu- |
ence there in lines parallel TO or Offset |
ting our own, must be watched with |
care and with considerable frmne s. The |
intelligea: and suggestive character of |
your recent dispstches, naturally leads |
me to a review Of the relation |
ship Of the HAWiiAn kingdom |
to the Unued States st somewhat |
greater length than WIS practicable in |
the limited scope of my Instructions Of |
November 19. The dispatch WAS neces-
sarily confined to the consider alton of the |
immediate question of possible treaty |
engagement with Great Britain, which |
would give TO that power in Hawaii q |
degree OF extra terrisorislity of jurisdic- |
ton inconsistent with the relations Of the |
islands to other powers, and especially to !
the United Ststes; with the abandon |
meDt OF feudaI government by King
KAmihsmahs, IN 1889, and the iuauguTa-
ton Of instltutioDGl methods, the history
of the political relation Of HaWaii to the
world at large May very properly be said
TO begin. he recognition Of Indepen-
dence of the sovereign bV the great pow
ers took place soon, which act on the
part Of the United States was dated from
1874. Even at that early day, before the
United States had become power on the
Pacific Coast, the commercial activity of
our people was manifested in their inter-
course with the islands of Ocesnica,
Of which the Hawaiian group is the
northern extremity. In 164S the treaty
OF Guadelope Hidalgo confirmed the ter
ritorisl exteDsion Of the United States to
the Pacific, and gave 10 the Union
coast line on thst ocean little inferior in
extent and superior in natural wealth to
the Atlantic sea board of the original thir-
teen states In 1848-49 the discoveries
of gold in California laid the foundation
for the marvellous development of the
western coast, and that same year the
necessities Of our altered relationship to
the Pacific Ocean found expression in q
comprehension treaty of friendship, COM
merce and navigation with the sovereign
King of Hawaii. The material connec-
ton between the Hawaiian Islands and
the Pacific Coast OF the Union was mate
rial and inevitable. But lately admitted
to the family OF separate states Hawaii
WAS necessarily. drawn into closer kinship
with Californ Is, then just enter
| ing upon the path Of prosperity
and grestness whore rapidity of
development the world has never
eqaa'ed. Hence movements toward iu-
innate comm eicial relations between the
two countries, which after the progressive
negotiations of 1856, 1867 snd 1859,
eliminated in the existing reciprocity
treaty of January 30th. 1875, which gave
10 the United States in Hawaii, ana
Hawaii in the United States, trading
rights aud privileges, in terms denied to
other countries. have spoken Of the
Pacific Coast line given to the American
Union by the cessiOn Of California in
| 1648, ss little inferior in extent and
superior in natural wealth to the Atlantic
sesbosrd of the original Union. Since
that time our domain of the Pacific has
been vastly increased by the purchase
Of Alaska. Taking San Francisco as the
commercial centre on the western slope,
line drawn westwerly to the
Aleutisr Rroup marks our Pacific
border almost to the confines
Of Asia. s. corresponding line drawn
southwardly from San Francisco
to Honolulu, marks the natural limit of
the ocean belt, with which our trade with
the oriental countries must flow, is more.
over the direct line Of communication
between the United States ard Austria.
/ have had recent occasion 20 set forth
the vitality integral importance OF our
Pacific Coast possessions in circular let
ter addressed on the Oath Of June last to
our representatives in Europe, touching
the necessity of guarantees OF the pro-
posed Panama canal, purely American
waterway, to be trested as our coast line.
The extension OF the commercial empire
westward from those states il no less
vitality important 10 their develOpm ent
than is their communication with tbs |
coast by au isthnian channel, and when |
We survey the stupendeus progress made |
by the western coast during thirty years |
Of its natural life, as past our
dominion, It's enormous 4 increase |
Of population. Its vast resources of sgri- |
culture and mines, and its boundless en-
terprise, 1t is not easy 10 set limit TO its |
commercial activity, or force check to |
its maritime supremacy IN wsters of the |
Orient, so long as the waters afford, IS |
now, q free and neutral way for our /
peaceful trade In thirty years the |
United States has acquired, legitimstely, |
6 dominant influence in the North Pacific
which it can now never consent to see |
decreased ny intervention therein by any |
element c, Influence hostile to its own. |
The situation Of the Hawaiian Islands |
giving them strategic control Of the |
North Pacific brings their possession |
within the range Of questions of purely
Amerieani policy, as much so SIS that of
the isthnnGs itself, hence the necessity Sc
recognized in our existing relations of
drawing ties Of intimate relationship
between the United States and the
Hawaiian Islands, so as to make
them practically part of the
American system, without derogation
of their absolute dependence. The recip-
rocity treaty of 1875 has made Of Hs-
wsiis sugar and rssin field Of the Pa
cife slope, and gives 10 our manufactur-
ers therein the same freedom as in Cali
fornis and Oregon. That treaty gave
Hawaii its Grst impetus in trade and de-
veloped that activity of production
which has attracted the esger attention
of European powers, anxious to share in
the prosperity and advantages which the
United States have crested in mid-ocean.
From 1881, the first full year succeeding
the conclusion ofthe reciprocity tresty Of
1880, the imports from Hawaii to the
/ United States we're nearly doubled, in
increasing from 81, $50, 1856 in value to
s., 606, ~, and the same period the ex.
ports fron the United Ststes to Hawaii
ne4n