The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-03

any Of ita territory save with the con-
sent Of the United States. Hawaii az
the same time denounced 10 London the
articles in its English commercial treaty
which conhicted with the instrument
ratified at Washington. In 1881, when
q British merchant set out to abTogate
our treaty by q resort 10 the Hawaiian
| courts, Mr.. Blaine, in a dispatch to Min
lister Comfy, June 81, 1881, expressed m
energetic protest, and he followed this
up o few months later by declaring that
the United States could not and would
not permit q proposed immigration
| scheme by which a large mass OF Brit
ish subjects should DO introduced into
Hawaii" to be carried out,
In place OF this Mr., Blaine, with q
president wisdom indicated in the
very hour OF his death and burial, de-
clared that ian avowedly American
solution mnst be found for the grave
issues presented by Hawaii, and this,
later, he pointed out, could be best SO.
cured by "a purely American form OF
colonization" from 'the rice folds aud
cane fields Of the southern states I'm
any event." said Mr., Blaine, III the
islands drift from their independent
station it must be toward assimilation
and identification with the American
system, to which they belong by the
operation OF natural laws and must be-
long by the operation Of political me-
cessity."
The emphatic declaration has guided
tho policy Of every administration
since. When the time came for renew
ing the reciprocity treaty OF 1875 the in
strument which President Arthur had.
sent TO the senate, simply extending
the previous treaty for another term OF
seven years. was enlarged by President
Cleveland by adding two articles ceding
to us PearlsRiVer Harbor and giving the
United States exclusive jurisdiction
over its waters. This annexation OF a
part Of Hawaiian territory was urged in
the senate as a Democratic aud admin
istration measure, it had tho vigorous
support also Of Senator Edmunds
and it was ratified in the SEN
ate by a vote Of 43 to II. Mr..
Nj orrison introduced the necessary leg
islation in the house. When Sir L. s.
Sackville-W West protested that the guar
antee already cited by France and Eng.
land in 1S43, stood in the way Of this
cession, and that England by treaty had
a right to enter all Hawaiian ports, Sec
rotary Bayard responded, February 10,
1888, that the United States had "spe-
cial and important reciprocities" with
the islands and that "it does not seem
needful for the United States to join
with other governments in their guar
antees TO secure the neutrality OF Ha-
waiian territory mol to provide for that
equal accessibility Of all nations to those
ports which now exists"
There was no doubt when Secretary
Bayard wrote. and we believe there is
none now, that q Democratic admins
tration Is no less determined than q Re-
publican TO secure unchallenged Amer
lean supremacy to the Hawaiian Islands.
Ii this can be secured without annexa-
ton all the better, but for fifty years
every step in our diplomacy has brought
annexation nearer and made 1t moro
inevitable.
The apple is ripe. Let it be picked.
British loans to the islands, to the gov
eminent and for concessions reach
$6,000,000 to-day. II the United States
does not act these British bonds will
bind Hawaii as Egypt is to-day bound.