Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-04
EA s T E r N.
associated PRESS DISPATCHES
A., aeDstions With she Hawaiian
Islands.

o., Relations With she Hawaiian
Islands.
CHICAGO, July 3.-The Times has an
..her long letter Of instructions written
:, Secretary Blaine to Minister Comley
=; The Sandwich Islands, Dec. LIST, 1881.
I. says: my late instructions, and es-
n..;aIly that of Nov. 10Th, will have
shown you the deep interest with which
.,s United States observes the course of
s.au.s in the Hawaiian Islands. The
soparent disposition to extend other in
s,suces there in lines parallel to or off,
citing our own must lie watched with
are and considerate frmness. The in
,.lliqent and suggestive character of
var recent dispatches naturally leads
ma TO review the relationship of the Ha-
xaiian Kingdom to the United States at
smewhat greater length than was prac-
a,able in the limited scope of my in
ursctious of Nov. 18th. That dispatch
vas necessarily confined to the consid-
sation of the immediate question of
pssible treaty engagement with Great
Ritaiu, which would give to that power
in Hawaii degree of extra territorial
;orisdiction inconsistent with the rela-
tons Of the Islands TO other powers, and
s,pscially to the United States. With
the abandonment of feudal government
nv King Kamehame-ha Iii, in 1859.
and h, Inauguration of constitutional
msttod !, the history of the Political le.
iations of Hawaii to the world at large
my very properly be said to be a recog-
n;tion Of the independence of its sover-
siputy By the great power, which took
mace soon after, which act on the part
Of the United States was dated from
1874 Even at that early day, before
tbe United States had become power,
or the Pacific Coast, the commercial ac-
,vity of our people was manifested in
their intercourse with the islands, of
the ocean. of which the Hawaiian group
il the northern extremity. In 1913 the
ssaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo confirmed
tie territorial extension of the United
States t. the Pacific, and gave to the
Union coast line on that ocean little
inferior in extent and superior in natu-
raj wealth to the Atlantic seaboarG Of
tho original thirteen States. In 4s4s
and 1919 the discovery Of gold in Cali
foruia laid the foundation for a mar
yelous development Of the western coast
and that same year the necessities of
our altered relationship to the Pacific
ocean found expression of friendship,
commerce and navigation with the sov-
srsign of Hawaii. The material con-
nection between the Hawaiian Islands
and the Pacific coast of the Union was
natural and inevitable, but being lately
admitted to the family separate states of
Hawaii were necessarily thrown into
closer kinship with California, then
Just entering upon the path of prosperi
ty and greatness, whose rapid develop
ment had never been quelled. Hence
the movement toward intimate CONNER
cial relations between the two countries,
which after the progressive negotians Of
1856, 1927, and 1859 eliminated in the
existing reciprocity treaty of January
Seth, 1875, which gave to the United
States In Hawaii and to Hawaii in the
United States trading rights and privi
lsges In terms denied to other countries.
have spoken of the Pacific coast line
given TO the American Union by the ces-
sion Of California in 1913 as little in
fesior in extent and superior in natural
wealth 10 the Atlantic seaboard of the
original Union. Since that time our
domain on the Pacific has bsen vastly
iucreased by the purchase of Alaska.
TakinR5San Francisco as the commercial
osntsr on the western slope, line
drawn enthusiastically to the Aleutian
group marks our Pacific border almost
to the confines Of Asia; corresponding
line drawn southwardly from San
Francisco to Honolulu marks the natu-
raj limit Of the ocean belt within which
Trade with the Oriental countries mus
now, aud Is moreover on the direct line
OF communication between the United
states aud Australia. Within this belt
lies the commercial domain of our west
srn coast. l have had recent occasion
10 set forth tho vitality integral impor-
lance OF our Pacific possessions in a cir
eular letter addressed ON the 9th of
'une last to our representative in Eu-
rope touching tho necessity of the guar
ansecs OF the proposed Panama canal
Is purely American water way. to be
treated "a our coast line. The extern
non OF the commercial empire westward
nom those states is no less vitality inn
pofsant to their development than il
0eir communication with the Isthmian
canal; and when We survey the stupead
oos progress made by the western coast
auf'ng the thirty years Of its national
"ls a. part Of our dominion, its enor-
NOUS increase of population, its vas,
sources Of agriculture and mines, and
" ooundless enterprise, il is not 80 easy
~&t limit to its commercial activity
"ioresee check TO its maritime su
femacy in the waters Of the Orient, SC
"aa As those waters afford as now new
sod natural scope for oar peaceful trade
~ sairty years the United States has ac.
q''fed legitimate domain of influence
'a'ns north Pacific which It can nevel
0osenf to be decreased by the intro
1a'oon therein Of any element or infiu
.a'e hostile TO its own situation, or L
We hawaiian Islands giving strategctit
Afol OF the Northern Pacific, which
'.'nH their possession within the rang,
~qusstions Of purely American policy
= much 10 as that of the Isthmus it
en- Hence, the necessity as recog
.usd IN our existing relations OF draw
au8 the tleS 0f intimate rolat;cua,;v, hx