The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-09-17
Annexation.
EDITOR BULLETIN

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suggested by that Hawaiian Juve-
nal. He should not have been surpris-
ed that supplemented workman
failed to grasp the fact that his as
sertions anent the postal union were
meant for ridicule merely. That
sort of satire is usually called by
harsher name by the matter of fact
class to which | belong. Having
his assurance that the scheme is
defunct and cannot be galvanized
into life it behooves us to repress
our boisterous grief now that he has
so decently Inferred the corpse and
seek some other means for relieving
our financial embarrassment. The
only measure whose gravity eleyates
it to dignity secure from the as
saults of cheap-witted ridiculc and
the finesse of political charlatans, is
that which was lately alluded by 5.
E. Bishop, openly advocated by d.
J.. Huntsman, and secretly favored
by the Advertiser-.the question of
annexation to the United States.
This is live issue and should be
discussed without any flights of
imagination" or Satire untruths.
And first we should ask what advan-
tage we, as community, would
secure by becoming mid-Pacific
territory, for, with our sparse popu-
lation, something less | am told than
that of Alameda County, California,
it would be preposterous for us to
expect to attain the dignity of state
hood. To borrow phrase from 81.
b." america wouldn't stand it."
We will take it for granted that
America, Observation-Disclosures of
whose people do not even know our
geographical position, will accept
our overtures, our kingdom, our
debts and our horde of Asiatics, and
merely ask if the proposed radical
change in our civil polity will make
our soil more productive, our eli
mate less enervating, or our people
more industrious and prosperous.
We should also question the stabi-
lily of the Government with which
we seek to become amalgamated. 1t
may not be amiss in this connection
to call attention to the prophetic
utterances of Thomas Carlyle in
1913 when Europe was practically
under mob rule and M. de Lamar
tine, with nothing in him but melo-
dious wind " was the acknowledged
priest, seer and prophet of the tur-
bulent multitude.
"America too will have to strain
it's energies, to crack its
sinews, and all but break its heart,
as the rest of us have had to do in
the thousandfold wrestle with the
Pythons and mud-demons, before it
can become habitation for the
gods. Americas battle is yet to
fight. Enormous Mega
therions loom huge and
hideous out of the twilight Future
of America"
That twilight future has become a
terrible to-day and social convul,
sion is shaking the political founda
tions of the republic. So grave ha:
the situation become, so widespread
the industrial discomfort, and anar
chistic principles so widely dissent,
mated, that one of Americas most
celebrated journalists, Ambrose
Bierce, lately published some power,
full articles calling attention to al
approaching baptism of blood and {
probable renewal of the awful scenes
of carnage that Mortified the world
in 1893. We have an object lesson
in the fratricidal strife waged in Ten
nessee between the coal miners and
the State and Federal troops the
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New York militia and the striking
switchmen at Buffalo-in the horri
BILE butchery of Carnegie's employees
at Homestead by Pinkerton detec-
tives, and in the labor troubles that
have eliminated in bloodshed in the
Northwest. republics are still on
trial" We see the sun of France
setting to an eternal night. The
Central and South American Re
publics are grooming beneath the
weight of national bankruptcy anC
oppressive taxation. Those of W
who have noted the changes upor
the dial plate of time realize but too
sadly that for America the hour o
disruption is at hand. That he
government of the people, by thu
people is fallacy-a specious false
hood cloaked in gilt and tinsel to
dazzle the eyes of the ignorant. The
conditions under which the labor
ing classes exist are becoming more
precarious and less enviable year by