The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-07-05

system OF Europe. w die maintaining
their autonomy and independence, IL rs
for the people OF these Islands 10 deter
mine whether they prefer the United
States or the Asiatics for allies The
great American nation has only good
will for the Hawaiian Kingdom. OF this
the past and the present are complete
guaranty. In the annals of mankin |
know not OF more striking example OF
national generosity than that of the con-
duct OF the United States toward Hawaii.
1t is conceded by all we'll informed per-
sons, that the prosperity OF the United
States, for the past twenty-five years, has
no parallel in the commercial history OF
nations, and there is every reason 10 be-
lieve that this prosperity will continue in
the century to come. By the Recipro-
city Treaty now in force, the United
States allows Hawaii to share in her
wonderful prosperity, thereby more than
doubling the property value and wealth
producing power of this country, without
| perceptibly increasing the vast aggregate
property of the United States. Thus not
one of the States OF the American Union
| is treated by its National government
with more liberality than the Hawaiian
| Kingdom.
The American Republic has been COM
pared TO ancient Rome in the prosperous
| periods of her dominion. 1t is correct to
say, that in her proudest days, Rome
| held not in her hand such elements of
| power as the United States now pos
sesses. But Rome was always menace
to other nations. Conquest and annexa-
ton were fixed in her policy. For the
| most obvious reasons other nations stood
in dread of her. But the American Re-
| public seeks not to enlarge her borders
at the expense of others. Since the
| slave power in the United States went
| down forever on a hundred battle fields,
annexation ceased to be the policy of the
American nation This is plainly shown
in that, when at the close of the war in
1865, with one million veteran soldiers
at her command, Mexico on the South
and Canada on the North, then at her
mercy, were untouched, unsought. That
vast army, twice as large as that which
| Napoleon led on his memorable Russian
campaign, and much larger than that
with which Germany smote down i'm
perial France in 1870, was quietly dis
banded, and not an inch of foreign soil
was coveted. The like aversion to an
nexation was manifested when the Am
erican Senate refused to annex San Do
mingo with her luxuriant soil and genial
climate, though it was offered by her
own rulers, and that rich domain lies
near the American shores. Yes, Amer
lean statesmen and the American people
realize that they have land enough, and
by education, by conviction, and by in
terest, they hold it to be just and wise to
respect the autonomy and the rights Of
other countries and of other peoples.
They do not believe it we'll to send forth
fleets and armies to seize islands and
foreign lands, to appoint over them Gov
errors, judges, and other officials OF
political and military power. In the
place of forcible annexation, the Amer.
lean Republic has substituted peaceful
} fraternity, generous reciprocity and good
will. 1t is this fraternal, humane policy
of Christian civilization which BELTS
America, and by which she can best
maintain healthfui life, and achieve tina,
true glory, worthy of her commanding
continental position and of her exalted
! of the world. While it could not Justly
be expected that the people of these in
dependent and prosperous Islands shoulC
refuse any good thing or commercial ad
vantage from Europe or Asia, the obvious
| Sku CScClltidi Ill utl Sltailuo uLtCtutCu ny
facts or reason, that America and Hawai-
have reciprocal relations, stronger anC
closer than the latter can possibly hay,
. with other nations. There is no natura
antagonism between them In standin,
on fraternal lines they follow the rules o
common sense and of commercial logic
Near neighborhood has the obvious ad
vantage over vast distance. Even whel
the enterprise and wealth of the Unitet
States shall have completed the Nicara
qua canal and placed it at the service o
1 the worlds commerce, Europe will b.
fve-fold more distant from these Island
than America, and San Francisco will b.
seven thousand miles nearer Honolulu,
than London. No cunning devices @
I men can overcome the cold mathematic
1 of this great odds in distance. Besides
. the United States and Hawaii belong +
the new world, and their advancing
civilization has common stamp, as al
who have travelled from Boston via Ply
i, mouth Rock, New York, Independence
Q Hall, and San Francisco have quickl
observed. 1t will not be by war, nor b
: diplomatic fencing and formularies, tina
8 Europe will grow less and less in tn
u Pacific, but this will come by the IRE
{ sistible logic of increasing population an
i of superior commercial and social forces
j. 1t would DE vain to oppose this resistles
: march of nature and destiny, which ar
+ agents of Gods will, before which i'm
j. perial ambitions perish and armies an
D navies crumble aud melt away as tn
q mists on the mountains are dissipate
C by the sun, and icebergs are crushed an
e dissolved by the ocean waves. Whe
e America shall have her *six hundre
Q millions of people and Australia, Chin
and Japan as many more, then Seward
e prophesy will be more than verified, an
b around the shores and on the waters
Q the Pacific will transpire the great event
It and be developed the larger commerce
e the world. In this splendid drama {
e future civilization and of commercis
g power these Islands will have their par
q In the presence of such an auspiciou
g future as these facts indicate, patriotism
/. is a supreme duty-a patriotism not {
u Carthaginian or Roman type, which, il
o spired by heather selfishness and amb
IL ton, hated and antagonized other rs
IS tons, but patriotism born OF the Sc
J, mon on the Mount and taught by th
G great Apostle to the Gentiles, whic
d recognizes that God has made of on
Is blood all the nations of the earth-a pa
q riotism which in Philadelphia, July
), 1776, gave wisdom and power to that n
Il markable body Of men who made tn
q day immortal-a patriotism which seel
lr the highest good of all within its horizon
% whose radiant circle OF hope include
q this world and the great hereafter
= patriotism of moral and heroic devotion
!. which would keep America on the plan
q OF fraternal and humane development