The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-29
claiming the right to make a constitution
of her own and fasten it upon the people

claiming the right to make a constitution
of her own and fasten it upon the people
nolens volens.
''The queen believes in the divine right
of kings-as did her late brother-and
their objection to the constitution of 1881
was chiefly because it recognized no such
right. though it left more power to the
TIN one than the Queen of England dare
exercise. But after all the action OF the
queen is rather circumstance than the
cause of the revolution, the causes are
industrial and deep seated. The whites
established a free AngloSaxon govern
ment originally at the islands, and later
grated upon it the Asiatic Coolie system
| Lincoln said the United States could
not remain half slave and half free.' In
the same sense Hawaii could NOT remain
| politically Anglo Saxon and industrially
Asiatic: for while the Coolie system is not
slavery, it and the people it introduces
into country are hopelessly inimical tc
our institutions. The Coolie is an essen
tial part of Asiatic civilization. Half OF
the population consists of Chinese anG
japanese laborers.
The reciprocity treaty with Hawaii, by
which her sugars were allowed to come
free OF duty into the United States, aDo
which has been in existence some four
teen years, gave the islands great pros.
perity and postponed the crisis. Putting
all foreign sugar on the free list destroyed
this prosperity and soon it became appar-
ent that Hawaii must do one of two
things = throw down every barrier TIC
Aslatic immigration and by q flood of SER
vile labor, drive wages down to the starva-
ton point of an out and out coolie, or she
must throw aside cheap labor and accept
free, intelligent labor, and this she can
only do by being permanently incorpor-
ated into the industrial and political sys-
tenn OF some great western power.
In other words, Hawaii must now GO
either to Asia or America. This does not
of course, mean that any Asiatic power
will assume open control of the islands.
1t means that there Will be a two-bit ma
tive court with toy king or queen at the
head of it, thousand or two opulent
American or European land holders, a
beggared and disheartened fragment OF
the native race, and over all and through
all the subtle, aggressive and hostile
Aeiatic, no less the virtual owners of the
country because of the presence of for
eign ships of war to keep the peace and
hold the whites as task masters over the
people as long as possible.
''The situation at the islands, though
presented on very small stage, is one OF
the striking incidents of the close of this
century, for it marks the first preliminary
skirmish on neutral grounds between the
AsiaIic and Anglo Saxon-with the odds
OF battle thus far heavily in favor of the
Orient. The whites are being fast driven
ont and suppIanted in all lines of bust
ness, and the influence and control of the
Chinese among and over the natives today
socially, financially and otherwise, is
as strong if not stronger than that of the
whites.
"sThe great mass of the whites realize
this and are DESTROYS OF annexation with
the United States which will shut out
Chinese immigration and all Asiatic con-
tract labor-will bring in an influx of
whites once more and a flood of capital
with them, and at the same time give to
the United States the acknowledged STRAIT
egic key of the North Pacific ocean-and
an opportunity to establish great naval
and supply station in nid-ocean, among
a people entirely in sympathy with and a
part of her.
The only white men in Hawaii opposed
to this proposition are certain English
and Germans of the official class who in
their hostility to the United States would
rather see the islands become coolie
colony tLan white man s country under
the American flag. The plain business
men and common people among the Ger
mans and English have ne 80 lection to
annexation. The natives who already
constitute less than one-half OF the entire
population, occupy peculiar position in
this struggle. They are jealous OF the
whites because of the political control
exercised by them-and Jealous of the in
dustrial control exercised by the Asiatics.
Almost every Hawaiian at heart being in
favor of 'sHawaii exclusively for Hawai-
lans,' both industrially and politically.
s'This, however, is as idle and impos-
sible as the dream of Indian dominance
in the United States once more. Nation
ally their course was long since run, but
there is one hope and only one left to the
native. He can still become personally
and individually free and independent by
annexation and the establishment of in
dustries and wages on civilized basis.
This hope will be destroyed by allowing
the coolie system to dominate the
country. The whites who are opposed to
annexation, however, will work upon the
patriotic feelings of the natives, and no
doubt the United States will soon be
treated to a protest and appeal from
Hawaiians against annexation-and
this through the whites who
scenes, are planning an Asiatic influx
that will wipe their native dupes out
completely.
The trouble with this proposition for
annexation is going to be the American
public. 1t is easily stirred against any
proposition which seems like taking adj
vantage of the weak. The English on the
other hand by their great colonial system
have been educated up to quick appreci-
alton of an opportunity such as is now
presented to the United States. It in
wolves the acquisition of territory which
she must have if she is going to exercise
naval control over the Pacific in the fu-
ture. 1t involves the best hopes of the
native race even though they may not
realize it, and more than all, 1t involves
the salvation from an Asiatic and despotic
industrial, planted seventy years ago by
New England money and the devotion of
some of New England best blood"