The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-05-04
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BY wholesale annexation of some of the
groups to the southwark Of us
With regard TO the Treaty the utter
ances are vague. The subject occupies,
as it should do, the principal position in
the speech A large number of United
States citizens resident here, dislike its
tone. There can be no doubt however,
that the latter portion of the paragraph
contains a hint that this country can get
along without the Treaty How our sugar
planters will regard this it is not difficult
to foresee.
IL is right that royal speeches under a
Parliamentary Government should be
thoroughly non-committal. To define a
policy would be for the Monarch to com
NIT himself TO the policy of men who
might, in a short time after the commence
ment OF the Legislature, be called on to
resign. What really is the policy of the
Government we will learn in few days.
The latest news Of the Treaty is again
encouraging. Our planters may make up
their minds that it will not be abrogated.
From information which comes from an
assured source IN Washington we learn
that the subject has had the attention not
only Of the Cleveland Cabinet. but also OF
the German Government. Communica-
ton has passed between the two Govern
ments relative to these Islands and they
are now in accord. The new treaty which
Is being framed. is. it is said, drawn up on
lines which have been acquiesced in by
Germany, and there seems very little doubt
indeed that the Pearl River clause will be
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treaty will be purely political, and viii be
granted for the express purpose Of Ameri-
canizing the islands, in point Of fact, for the
purpose Of carrying on the work that has
been going on for the last ten years. The
bonds between this country and the United
States have been tightening for years,
but as time goes by they must be made
stronger.
The day viii come, and It is not so dis
tant, when there will be great clash be
tween the teeming hordes Of the East and
the brains and muscle Of the West. The
first sounds of the coming storm are al
ready heard They have been voiced un-
mistakably in the Western States; they
have even found an echo here.
With such a prospect before her, the
great bulwark Of Western civilization, the
heiress Of ages of Anglo Saxon culture and
institutions, cannot look idly on, What
the Janiculum was to Rome. the Hawaiian
Islands are to the United States. There
is no doubt that the United States regard
our present japanese Immigration as
granted for a political purpose, and any
careful thinker, who has informed himself
upon the policy of Japan, must agree that
the view Of the United States Cabinet is
not very wide of the mark
From the Hawaiian stand point there
are shoals and quicksands ahead. A cool
and careful man at the head of their af-
fairs would be invaluable to them At the
present moment they have no sach man.
This crisis requires head such as that of
S. g. Wilder. Instead of his keen, pene-
trating intellect, we have a very Cheap
John. A man who insults the nation upon
which he has to lean, by practically tell
ing her that Hawaii confers benefits upon
her, and unless things go as the Minister
of Foreign Affairs likes, the Treaty may
60 hang.