The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-04

and such reciprocity of benefits as
would give Hawaii the highest ad-
Vantages, and at the same time
strengthen its independent exist
ance as sovereign state. In this 1
have summed up the whole dispO-
sition Of the United States TO-
wards Hawaii IN its proper !
condition. The policy of this |
country with regard to the Pacific, |
Is a natural complement to its At
lantic policy. The history OF our
European relations for fifty years !
shows the Jealous concern with |
which the United States has !
guarded its control of its coast from |
foreign interference; and that |
without an extension of territorial
possessions beyond the mainland, it
has always been its aim to pre- !
serve the friendly neutrality Of ad- |
jacent states and lnsular possessions. |
Its attitude towards Cuba is in |
point. That rich island, that key to !
the Gulf of Mexico and a Geld for |
our most extended trade in the |
western hemisphere, is, though in |
the hands of Spain, a part of the |
American commercial system. Our |
relations present and prospective |
toward Cuba lhave never been more |
ably set forth than in the remark
able note addressed by my predces-
sOr, Secretary Everett, to the minis
tiers o. Great Britain and France in
Washington, on the 1st Of Decem-
Der, 1852, in the rejection of the sug-
gestiOn Of a tri-partite alliance to
forever determine the neutral
ity of the Spanish Antilles.
In response to the proposal
lat the United States, Great Brit
ain and France Should severally and
collectively agree to forbid the &C
QUESTION of Cuba by any or all Of
them, Mr.. Everett showed that
without forcing, or even cOveting
possession of the Island, its c0ndi-
ton was essentially an American
question of contingent interest
therein, and would be far broader
than a like annuneiatiOn by Great
Britain or France. That, if ever
ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must
necessarily become American, and
not fall under any other European
dominion; and the ceaseless move
ment Of segregation Of American in
terests from European control and
publication in the broader American
sphere of independent life. could
not and should not be checked by
any arbitrary agreement. Nearly
thirty years have demonstrated the
wisdom Of the attitude then main
tanned by Mr. Everett, and have
made indispensable its continuance
and its exten-ion to all parts Of the
American Atlantic system. where
distinction of the existing status
might be attempted in the interest
Of a foreign power. The present
attitude Of this government toward
any European project for the control
Of an Atlantic route is but the lOgi-
cal sequence Of the attempt made in
1852, when it was attempted to press
the action of foreign influence in the
West Indies. Hawaii, although
much farther from the Californian
coast than is Cuba from the Floridan
peninsula, holds in the western sea
much the same position as Cuba in
the Atlantic. 1t is the key TO the
maritime dominion OF the Pacific
states, as Cuba is the key TO the
gulf trade. The material possession
of Hawaii is not desired by the
United States, any more than Was
that of Cuba, but under no circum-
stances can the United States per
mt any change in the territorial
control of either, which might
cause them to be cut adrifJ
from the the American system
whereto they both indispensably
belong. In this aspect Of the
question it is readily seen with what
concern this government must view
any tendency toward the introduce
ton into Hawaiin of foreign ele-
ment destructive to its necessarily
American characteristics. The
steady diminutien of native pOpUla-
ton of the islands, amounting to
some 10 per cent. between 1872 and
rs, and still continuing, is doubtless
due in a great measure to the
government of the kingdom, and it
is no wonder that solution should |
be sought with eagerness in any
seemingly practicablequarter The |
problem, however, is not to be met
by substitution of Mongolian |
supremacy for native control, as
seems at first sight possible, through
the rapid increase of Chinese emil
grafton to the islands. Neither is
the wholesale introduction Of the |
Coolie element, prOfessedly Anglo |
Indian, likely to afford any more
satisfactory outcome to the difficulty
of the Hawaiian Islands. 1t cannot |
be Joined to the ASiatic system; il
they drift frem their independent
station, it must be toward aSsimila-
ton and Identification with the
American system to which they be-
long by the operation Of natural
laws, and must belong by the opera
ton q political necessity. The
United States was one Of the first
among the great nations OF the
world to take an active interest in
the upbuilding of Hawaiian indie
pendence and in securing political
| life for its people. 1t has constant
" endeaYoTed, and with success, to
enlarge the material prosperity OF
Hawaii on such an independent
basis. 1t proposes to be equally
unremitting in its efforts hereafter
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