Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-10
THAT RECIPROCITY TREATY.

II any proof was necessary to show
the complete power OF the San Francisco
sugar king, spreckles, over the Hawaiian
Islands, ii is found in the list of names
announced to-day as forming the new
Cabinet OF the King, and in the name OF
the Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States. As was explained in
these columns some time since, the
wealthy people OF San Francisco saw an
opportunity to gain immense wealth from
the cultivation Of sugar on the Islands ii
reciprocity treaty could be made be-
tween the Islands and the United States,
and steps were taken toward that meas
ure which resulted in its success. AS
the interests involved were entirely local
with San Francisco, the matter did not
challenge public attention until called to
it by the "unilatteral" condition OF things
in favor OF a few capitalists who, to all
intents and purposes, own the commerce
OF the Islands. To prove their power,
they have now saddled an ex-police court
attorney, of San Francisco, on the King
for Attorney General, an ex-editor OF the
| San Francisco Post for Minister OF For
| egn Affairs, and selected an ex- Attorney
General OF California in the person oi
Paul Newman, an eminent San Francisco
lawyer for Minister to Washington.
| With three such men under their
thumbs it is evident to any unprejudiced
mind that the California syndicate can
order governmental measures to sui
their own convenience, and laugh at al
competitors in the sugar trade OF the
United States, SO long as the present UNI
Just treaty is in force. Petitions have
been forwarded from San Francisco to
the National Congress, signed by th'
leading merchants, manufacturers anc
producers of California, and by the ship
builders, ship-owners and lnmbermen o
the Pacific Coast, setting forth the grea
advantages OF the treaty as it stands an'
imploring Congress not to lop off thi
fairest limb OF our commerce, Will
counter petitions have rolled in from tn
same class OF men on the Eastern sea
board, praying for relief from the ruinou
competition forced on them, by the ex
cess OF cost of their own raw material
which in as manufactured state, mus
compete with the Islands product. 1t i
for Congress to Judge between these pee
Pile and decide whether it is wise polio
to foster a local bonanza at the expens
of q great factor OF trade throughout th
country. The Hawaiian Islands shoul
be the property OF the United States, an
OF course it is to the interest OF the Sa
Francisco people to make them so, b,
until they are, the treaty should be a
rogated and all men given an equ
l chance to obtain footing there, in ord
that when the Islands become a part
the territory OF the Nation, they will NJ
: be owned and controlled by clique
n powerful nabobs who would be in pos
I ton to menace the trade OF the Nation
? advancing their personal interests. III
: control of the Islands should be held
u this Government for naval purposes if t
5 nothing else, and the case is strongly p
in the following paragraph from a CORE
pondent OF the New York Sun. who hi
long been resident there:
The fact is that though every administr
:, tion, from that of President Pierce (who
Y Secretary of State, VIM. L. Marcy, fran,
Z the first Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. to q
j, present, has been fully alive to the impol
y ance of this convention, the American pu
It lie is but just arousing to consciousness
q the vital necessity of controlling this grou
' not only in behalf of their commerce, b
s as a measure of national safety. Lying
|, they do the nearest land to our coast. NJ
l. our only stopping place in stretch of 20, Q
i miles to Asiatic ports, hanked by strong st
j. tions of England, Germany and France, nj
=, in the direct line of travel from the Domi
y ion of Canada to Australia, and from Pan
=, ma to Asia, a position could scarcely be CO
d ceived more invaluable to u.s. if under o
control, or more fatal to US if host
!. power, intrenchsd in the fortresses of the
n land-locked harbors, should hold our emit
. Pacific coast at its mercy.