The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-15
Salvation in Annexation.

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destiny of these Islands furnishes
food for reflection. Fully aware Of
the present precarious condition OF
the country, we eagerly look ahead
into the yelled and misty distance,
expecting, or rather hoping to OBJ
tain a glimpse of some form of
salvation. Our eagerness and hope
is not in vain. One manner of re-
demption is perceptible. Strain
our anxious expectancy as we will,
there is but one course open to US,
and that course is, first, a repub-
lie; next, annexation to the United
States Of America.
Viewing the matter from an
unprejudiced standpoint, it is i'm
possible to avoid seeing that an
nexation is the sole and only re-
lief that can bar the existing state
of civilization, and comparative
prosperity from lapsing into the
former existence of ignorance,
superstition, and squalid poverty.
The benefits occurring through
such annexation are decidedly
evident. The sugar industry would
receive considerable advantage were
the United States to take US into
her fold. This industry is now
swiftly drifting into decadence,
owing to the policy of the United
States. The Sandwich Islands
depend mainly upon the sugar
trade. Unless we obtain the
bounty that annexation offers, this
industry is killed At first one is
not struck with the great advan-
tage the planter gets, but consid-
ering that plantation pays with
sugar quoted at 81 cents per
pound; when there is an addition
of 2 cents per pound making 81
cents or $11O per ton, the planter
will be doing as well as before the
tariff act was passed.
The question then arises, does
this increase in the price of sugar
compensate the planter for his loss
of cheap labor? Remember that
the United States does not exclude
Japanese, Hungarian, or Italian
peasants. In Austria and Italy
there are millions of human beings
starving, to whom the chance to
earn a decent living, would be an
infinite blessing. They would work
as cheaply as the Asiatics and i'm
prove the country, becoming in
time good substantial citizens.
This class of immigrants could be
readily induced to come here, and
the planter, while securing his
cheap labor, would also be doing
an invaluable service to the coun-
try by bringing into it laborers who
understand agriculture, and would
till the soil and make the islands
self supporting. Agriculture is the
basis of all wealth. Just as this
country at the present time cannot
exist without the sugar industry,
so, that industry cannot exist with
out the assistance Of the United
States. We have no choice. Bet
ter annex, or sink to everlasting
oblivion.
There is but one road to annex
alton, and that is by way of a Re-
public. For that reason it falls
upon US to investigate the necessity
and justice of a monarchial system
of government.
The origin of kings dates back to
time immemorial. The authority
and supremacy of such individuals
from what we can judge now, was
attained simply by a great amount
of brute courage and daring. By
first reducing his fellow man tc
slavery, then presuming upon the
weakness Of his slaves, he eventu.
ally forced them into the belief that
he was of a higher-a divine stock
and that they were plebeians, and
consequently, compelled to support
him, his family and descendants.
In time, part of these slaves
more enlightened than the rest, be
gan to do little thinking on thei1
own account, and finally concluded
that they could navigate the ship
of state without the aid of a roya
pilot, Thereupon they threw of
their senseless monarchial ideas
and formed a government of theil
own, which form of government
proved to be the most practical one
Intelligent men are utterly in
capable of sustaining such roya
vermin, with it's parasitical horde
of hangers-on. 1t is extremely re
, voting to these people to see thu
masses bear such injustice and in
equality without a murmur.
From the above we deduct tina
the people are at last beginning t,
realize the fallacy of monarchie
and all such monuments to man
duplicity.
The prevailing sentiment of thi
country, native as well as foreign
is that of the United States-tha
all political power is vested in tn,
great body of the people. The PEG
pie pay the taxes, improve tn