New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-06
HAWAII IN OUR SYSTEM.
ITS RELATION TO ISTHMIAN TRADE AND
DEFENCE.


ENGLAND'S REMARKABLE CHAIN OF OFFENSIVE
FoRTrFICATIoNs AROUND TIE COASTS OF
THE UNITED sTATEs-AMLRIcAN
POLICY TOWARD HAWAII AS
SHOWN BY OFFICIAL
CORRESPONDENCE.
Whether Great Britain has or has not made
objection 10 the acceptance of thr Hawaiian pro-
posals by our Government. whether. indeed, shc
speaks at any time In any way during ue
progress Of the impending negotiation, 1t is both
pertinent and instructive TO consider her record
as an absorbent Power tine peculiar position shc
now snstains TO the American continent, and the
relation Hawaii must bear TO all conroN crsI"s ar
fecting commercial interests and political IN
fuencc. Englands long record OF Seizures ana
absorptions all over the world. the conquest oil
India, the appropriation OF Egypt, Of Hong Kong.
of Gibraltar and Malta and Cyprus, the "col"n-
zaton' Of every weak peoples territory from sun
rise TO sunset, should leave her rather poor one
would think. in grounds OF opposition TO the as
serton of dominion by another power. no mat
ter how arbitrary or selfish The dead hodles vi
dreamy Oricntals and dusky savages whom she
has civilized out Of their homes and into their
graves are numerous enough to people a consider
able continent. There is no timid or incompetent
race on whom she has not rained storm Of
bullets in the name Of liberty and progress. In
Asia TODAY. with her bayoncts steadily pointed
at the native and rghtful posscssors OF the soil.
she holds India and the Punjab, Burmah and the
Rancoon, the Malayan Peninsula, Ceylon, Sing
aporc Hong Kong and Rowloon, while every day
her intention TO seize Canton and TO ovcrrun Corea
is manifested in unmistakable acts Of aggression.
At Bombay, al Calcutta, AZ Ccylon, at Snea-
pore at Iabuan and at Hong Kong she maintains
naval and coaling stations from which che keeps
| the half-civilizcd natives OF Southern Asia for
ever familiar with the black muzzles Of her guns
and the ominous odor OF her powder.
In Africa, with Egypt curbed and fett"red
and both sides Of the Arabian Gulf garrisoned,
with n dozen groups Of little islands in the Ara
| HAN Sea and a dozen more in tho Indian Ocean
| protecting her route to India and tho South
Seas, she holds four times the territory OF the
| British islands By making constant wars on the
natives she protects" the entire country drained
| hy the Nile save only where il runs through
| the desert There are souls 10 save and ignorant
| minds to teach in the deserts as around the
water courses. but no ivory. British civihA-
| ing processes keep closely 10 the region whcre
| ivory can he obtained concidentally with the
| progress Of religious and other reforms In the
south of Africa English possessions include
| Bcchuana Land, Natal and Cape Colony, a ter
rtory three times great as the thirteen originai
| States Zanzibar and Nautilus also owe al
| legancc 10 England, and on the west coast, WIN
| outposts at Ascension, St Helena ana ich'"'''
| Islands. English dominion reaches over 'ah'''
Land the Gold Coast and lagos Sierra Leone
and Bathurst, with vast interior stretches on bo'n
sides Of the Niger Around this continent. and
| ,bo nj
| and Alden the British flag flies above eleven
nayalhnd coaling stations where garrlsons ana
storcs ore maintained. In the South Seas British
| onn;re spreads over immense oceans and holds
almost every dot Of land that rises above them
| With Australia almost equal in area ana pro-
| ductiyo capacty 10 the United States, a. 'he
base OF power, it includes part OF Borheo
cart of Ncw-Guinca. Tasmania. Ncw-Icamnn anu
| M loss than twenty-five groups OF smaller isia''
N the south and west Of Hawaii BESIDES IAN
| ada Newfoundland and Labrador and the hrc,i'
| lands. English dominion on ana near '''
| American continents is cXcrtcd over the berm"
das the Bahamas Jamaica, the Beilze' nri'i''
Guiana Trinidad. Barbados. San Lucia and th'
Toward Islands And of this Incompatible em
miro not enough soil to make a respectable grave
.d to- tbe armies that have died in its con
most has come to England by the voluntary ac
Of those 70 whom il belonged
10 Croat britain has views concerning the enter
r;, (which tbe Provisional Government
u.,y,ii l. about TO present, or even ii uiscr''
considerations shall temper her attitude '"""''
the matter the project itself should DE- 'N"i''''''
i; .ho ucht or Fnglands Imperial relations al'
nocia,l,- in the light of the facts illustrated u
| .h man nriuteI above The map shows EnSlah"
nose.asions in and around tho American con''he"
between the equator and the 5oth parai,e' y
north longitude 1t shows also the eN'rao'u'i''
Inn. NJ defenccs which England within few year
and at this moment has built and is building I'll
rectIv around the Atlantic coast OF the lhi'c'
States Guns and Notifications, naval dry-doch
and storcs are not by sane people interpret"
~ messengers of peace and brofi"rN INV
yyho, ono man wishes to manifest for ahother
. | iii, ~ confidence and regard he does not pom
T. ',odd n,.to, at his head or set n bunch oil Dull
docs down TO watch him The operations o
L,man nature are the same in Governments rs II
: ;ndividuak The same kind of acts flow Iron
A.. somo kind of motives. The same signs mea
. A.. com. things When Canada cOnfederated II
co. ,lr. fortress, of Halifax was in "A conditio
q docov and could not have resisted the gun
y, .hird-closs punboat. To-day Halifax Is Ill
rob,a II is an imperial military and naNa
J. stotion The nucleus of an army IL Kept wi'hi
-. fo,tresscs which are mounted with the mos
d ,ru;dable batteries that can be constituted III
ls all been done within the last twenty Year,
. W.T., tbeno Has the American Government hei
ood canada? In $50 il had a million men
. - aud tbe Alabama case to settle. Conieu'i
49,, cr,iscrs buiN and manned in England. Eh2iis
o,,rvuhere Lut at the masthead and In the capii
nod DESTROYED whole fleets OF American merchah
, Lima and swept American commerce from III