The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-04-08

ture seeking for its application to our
selves, a stranger without the gates, and
offer not one consideration in return, of a
nature which will guarantee our good
faith. An individuals word may be as
good as his bond. Between nations
treaties are the only proof of intended
good faith.
We are not about to discuss the max
ing OF treaty with any European power
with all the complications and possible
ties incidental thereto. We seek to re-
new partnership, greatly one-sided
heretofore and, in the very nature of the
case, to be forever one-sided at best, but
with nation which has proved, since
the pioneers first landed in Hawaii, its
friendship and good will; with nation
which has shown that behind any treaty
phraseology lies hidden no dangerous
possibility; that all that is meant and
intended is said, and that he who runs
may read. Now we believe that enter
| ing into treaty, agreeing to make no
other treaties without the full knowledge
OF this our partner, will be considered a
guarantee of our faith plus an added
consideration to them. In consideration
of their guarantee of our indepen-
dence even Of themselves, we guarantee
not to bind ourselves by treaty with any
other nation without their full prelimin-
airy knowledge To have added "and
consent" would be no less than they
could reasonably ask. But it has not
been asked nor is 1t proposed. 1t may
be imagined the possibilities of annexa-
ton lie within the proposed treaty. l
| beg to state that l am an Hawaiian, lit
orally and in sentiment; have never
owed another allegiance; have never
voted in any other country; have been
from the beginning a believer in the
wisdom and benefit, both for ourselves
and others, of Hawaiian independence
and more strenuously so than ever once
admitted autocracy has given place to
constitutional government To believe
that the proposed treaty would mean less
than it says, or be strained to uses be-
yond its face is to comment on the hol-
| lowness OF treaties as between other ma
tons, and to impugn the intentions OF
the United States as endorsed by the
whole of American history in its foreign
relations If the United States are fav-
orable to the lately proposed treaty,
Your Excellency, they are asking less
|
waiian independence, would be per-
fectly willing to pledge and guarantee,
namely the so-called supervision of our
foreign Office" by the United States De-
partment of State which is such bug
bear to few of foreign birth, but the
treaty proposed would be more generous
to us for it would be the supervision of
counsel and of knowledge, without the
| demand of even a partners voice in the
control. 1t is the strongest guarantee
which we can seek that constitutional
government shall go on to it's full ex-
preston and an Anglo-Saxon civil
ization have the opportunity of its
highest development, unhampered by
perpetual commercial uncertainty.
Mark you, no consent is demand
ed preliminary to our treaty max
| ing with other powers, but the mere
knowledge of such treaties as are intend
ed and desired. This can not possibly
| compromise our independence and is
very moderate concession to nation to
| whom we owe so much. Such supervi-
sion might be called by loose thinkers an
equivalent of annexation. On the con-
trary it would be the strongest guarantee
which this country has ever received of
its independence even from the United
States. believe in such a treaty, if it
is possible to secure it, for the sake OF the
native Hawaiian. Let commercial col
lapse or tremendous depression at any
time ensue and our only escape then
from utter stagnation and retrogression
would be the alternate of annexation to
the United States or the wholesale immi-
grafton of Chinese, already depicted.
Such annexation, as far as we can fore
tell, would be for the native Hawaiian
political obliteration and the wholesale
Chinese immigration, race extermina-
ton. This treaty would give US all the
advantages of annexation and all the
opportunities of independence.
Apology for taking the time of those
who listen to this would be impertinent
The great Importance of the subject JUS
titles effort on the part OF every one who
desires Hawaiian prosperity and pro-
gress, to continue to assist in the acquisi-
ton of such treaty. We should unite
as one man in the determination that
nothing less than a legal or religious
cause shall prevent or even delay the
commission that will enable negotiations.
The situation is urgent. The late report of
vi Tue SOuST0SSlOIldl COIULulIC66 T6COIH-
mending bounty payment none here pro-
badly anticipate seeing made law. None
the less is it a ringing note OF warning to
US Of the weakness of our foundation and
the instability of our commercial values,
which it would be suicidal not to heed,
promptly and effectively. If one doubts
the business of my estimate of the
Treaty's importance to our commercial
prosperity and almost existence, a study
of the Custom Statistics for fourteen
years, supplemented by review of the
worlds sugar manufacturing history for
the same time will, l think, convince the
most skeptical. 1t is long since re-
course to figures became necessary to
enhance the sense of Importance of the
treaty. | have therefore not taken your
time in statistics. am, sir,
Your most obdt. servant,
(Slgnedj JAMES B. CASTLE.
Other gentlemen made remarks and
finally the Cabinet was advised to pro-
coed with negotiations for a new treaty
with Article 4 left out.