The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
CABLE TALK.
Views of American Senators and
Others ON the Pacific Cable.

Senator Stanford OF California said ::
81 am emphatically in favor of the
cable. We did the correct thing when
we decided to have cable from Cali
fornia to Hawaii, for the islands are 60
Ing to be especially important geogra-
| phical particles some OF these days. We
will realize that when our navy grows"
Senator Allen of Washington was sat
isfied with the cable legislation. 1T is
good thing" said he. Movements of
this kind are eminently proper, and
should be encouraged. Our Government
is on solid ground as TO the action it has
taken. We are bound to prevent any
and all foreign powers from assuming
control of the islands near our coasts.
The laying of this cable will be good
thing for the Pacific Coast, but in a
broader sense it will be good thing for
the nation. Commercial advancement
must soon follow"
No one could be more strongly in ia
vor of cable communication between San
Francisco and Honolulu than / am"
said Representative Clunie. 1t is
matter of much importance in a local
and general sense. 1t will help the in
dustries of San Francisco very mater
tally, and opens up Interestingly profit
able prospects for our merchants and
investors. This cable will bind Hawaii
and the United States very closely to-
geiher, and mutual interests will spring
up and bear pleasing fruit. Many Ameri-
cans will now, feel sure, migrate to the
islands, and it will be but little while
before we practically control the king
DOM"
That Hawaiian CABLE" said Senator
Mitchell of Oregon, :" is going to be of
much advantage to us in broad politi-
cal sense, although its commercial i'm
portance is no small affair. By our
legislative action we have politically
established a protectorate over the
islands, and those islands are going to be
valuable when our navy grows. The
American population in Hawaii will
very naturally increase as direct result
OF cable communication, because people |
will no longer feel as though they were
cutting themselves off from the world |
when they take up their residence in the |
Hawaiian group"
Senator Squire expressed himself on |
the subject in most enthusiastic manner. |
=" believe in the CABLE" said lie. ave !
are growing very rapidly on the Pacific !
Coast, and we need new facilities. Com |
mercially, we are now strong, but our |
growth under the new era will be wonder |
full. The sugar interests of Hawaii and |
the United States are closely intertwined, /
but this telegraphic communication will |
bring US so near each other that no in
truder can bring about even momentary
separation. | am glad 10 see our gov
ernment exercise a rightful and watchful
care over weak brother"
The commercial advantages OF cable
connection with the Sandwich Islands is
very great" said Senator Doph, Pacific
Coast member OF the Foreign Relations
Committee. Cooking at map OF the
Pacific ocean, you will see that Honolulu
lies directly on the shortest line from
San Francisco to Sydney, australia, and
also on the shortest line from Valparaiso
to Yokohama. The importance of this
cable to the United States will be more
apparent before the Congressional pc
riod OF fifteen years has expired than it
now is. There is great and constantly
increasing commerce between Pacific
Coast ports and the ports of China and
Japan. With the completion OF the
Nicaragua canal, which seems probable
within seven or eight years, there will
be an enormous increase of traffic, and
then the advantages of the cable will be
more evident than now. But the COM
mercial advantage is not the only thing
to be considered. The Sandwich Islands
are the key to the naval supremacy of
the Pacific, and the people of the United
States will never, under any admins
tration, be willing to see the Sandwich
Islands pass under the dominion of any
foreign power. The autonomy of the
islands must be preserved. With cable
connection one naval vessel at the isl
ands would be able to do the work of
two or three without the aid of a cable.
This is noteworthy consideration, but
1t is not more so than the fact that this
line I'm will ultimately extend to Australia,
China and Japan,"