The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-29
enthusiastically in favor of an annexation

ENTHUSIASTICALLY III favor Oh an RnneXaIlOH
programme.
TT appeared strange to me that she CON-
missinners did not place the threatening at
titude OF tie japanese question In more
prominent light than the dispatches show;
yet within the limit OF the conditions sctu-
ally discussed it is safe to say that, from an
Hawaiian standpoint they promoted the
cause of annexation in the most effective
manner up to the time of the arrival OF the
ex-Queen's agent; aud that they are in no
way responsible Qrom what has been given
to the public for any dampening effect
which has undoubtedly followed the advent
of Mr.. Newman at Washington. This
latter, however. does not come within the
scope of your question.
"Secondly-The impression was not a
surprise, neither as to Liliuokalanl's revo-
lutionary act of January IA nor as>to public
sentiment developed by the progress of
annexation or by the Japanese situation. of
which latter too little account seems TO have
been hitherto taken. As to the ex-Queen,
it las been her declared intention to pro-
mnlgate, by force il necessary. a constitu-
tiOn which would restore to the sovereign
the prerogatives taken from Kalakaua by
the constitution of 1887. She had arranged
such a constitution Immediately after the
general election of February, 1892, and at
tempted TO enlist the original Hawaiian
Patriotic League in her plans to pTomul-
gate it previous to the opening OF the Legis-
lature in May of the same year. Having
failed in this she had thrown dragnet over
nearly one hundred men of the league-all
the palace party had succeeded in locating.
The subsequent state trials and Incl
dents Herewith connected are familiar to
all. Although certain influences Outside
the scope of your Inquiry led to the sup
preston OF evidence at the treason trials,
which might have involved the then Queen in
revolutionary conspiracy. the details were
we'll known to all on the inside and more
or less familiar to the politicians on all sides
then or later on. which fact may account for
the prompt manner in which her last revOlu-
tionary attempt was met and abored and
herself buried under the ruins of the walls
She had 50 lreacherously reared about her.
That the native population, who at first
assumed a waiting and hopeful attitude,
should have become FESTIVE when they
learned that the terms of the proposed
treaty involved their Observation-Disclosures
Is not only natural, but was inevitable, as
they had been led to believe that annexa-
ton meant political freedom and local
administration of purely local affairs.
Whether annexation Will eventually ap-
pease those who now oppose it under the
present conditions will depend on the
justice or liberality OF Congress In suisse
quent legislation. As TO the japanese side
of the question, the whole history of the
Invasion from Yokohama stamps every act
as in the line of systematic plan 10 make
Hawaii a political aprendage of this pro-
gressiye and aggressive representative OF
oriental empire, which is ceria ain to be
accomplished should the United States once
let go. aud should Eng and not forcibly in
teriere.
"Thirdly-Leaving politics out of the
question the future prosperity of the
Hawaiian Islands is synonymous with the
freest possible intercourse with the United
States. This can never be permanently
secured except by annexation-cerainly
never under conditions of dependence on or
connection with any other power. 1t has
been demonstrated that no stability can
ever be expected under Independent self
government, which has, during the last two
reigus, been a continual succession Of
multiplying evils and royal iniquities and
indecencies which have shocked civilization.
Foreigners and natives are equally depend
ent on annexation for individual and
national prosperity; while, as to the for
eigners alone, they might better at once
burn up such i'm edimenta as they cannot
proftably transport should Congress
abandon the idea Of political alliance
Annexation will, moreover, solve many do
nestle problems favorably to the Hawaiian
people by changing the current of invasion
by Asiatic hordes who have heretofore
loaded the entire population with their
pernicious influences; and with annexation
the future must be regarded as an era Of
prosperity, whether considered from a
political, commercial or social standpoint. I"