The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-23
HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.
Continued from First Page.

OF the Islands. Not a hand was lifted
Ill defense of the semi-barbarian throne
when it fell, conclusively .disproving the
assertion of the INSCRIPTIONS agent OF
the fallen queen, sent to Washington OF
secure as large sum of money as possl-
BILE for conveying to our government all
her right and title to the Hawaiian
throne and to the crown lands, to which
she had never had any other claim than
to the income SO long as she reigned.
This agent before embarking for Wash
ington made sure of "a large advance fee
OF thousands of dollars, which the fallen
queen paid out of her own purse, and he
thought it It might help his case by the
use OF the utterly baseless statement
thatsthe United States Minister and
naval commander had deprived Liliuo-
kalani of her throne, and Claus Spreck-
les, who. wants "a weak Hawaiian mon
archy for his tool, though he was two
Thousand miles away when the queen
fell sees fit to repeat this absurd story
of the queens lawyer, who happens to
be one who had formerly served Spreck-
les in California, and whom the unscru-
pulous sugar king makes use of in
Hawaii.
In presenting themselves for admission
into the American Union, the Islands
come under more American aspects than
ahy u ouI PIeVlously adunCAcu DudbCo VI
Territories, as the facts / have just stat
ed abundantly attest. Why should they
not be permitted to come underline flag
SO deeply loved in the Islandsf A recent
writer in an American magazine, a man
of European birth and education, and of
more or less sympathy with his native
fatherland, and who does not seem to be
animated by.American sympathies, OBJ
jects to the annexation of the Islands
hot in
1850 but nineteen hundred and
twenty Americans living upon. them.
He is evidently unacquainted with
the real facts, else he Intentionally
states a truth in way to utter an
untruth. 1t is literally correct to say,
according to the Hawaiian census tables
of 1890, there were then but about 1900
born in the United States. But in adj
dition to these a large part of the $500
born on the Islands of foreign pa
rentage, and put down as Hawaiians,
are OF Americaa ~parentage, and they
make an important portion of the
American colony. They were educat-
ed in American ideas and sentiments,
their leading men being graduates of
American schools and colleges. Some
of these served in the army of the Union
in the War of the r ebellion, suffered in
rebel prisons, bear on their persons hon
orablesscars or sleep in graves redolent
of American patriotism. l have seen
some of these men on Decoration Day
march through the streets of Honolulu,
in their Grand Army Post to the beauti--
full cemetery where a goodly number OF
their comrades are buried, amid tokens
of public respect not surpassed in any
of our American cities. One of the dead
heroes, born in Honolulu of American
father and mother, who did long and
noble service to rescue the Islands from
barbarism and to save them from hostile
European domination, was Gen, Arm
strong, who for many years served this
country so devotedly in the great educa-
tional work for colored men at Hampton,
and who, not long before his lamented
death, made powerful pleaato Ameri-
cans to stand by Hawaii in her trials and
in her aspirati ons to come under the
American flag
But hear whisper in the air: Let
the Islands vote on the question: This
demand comes from three distinct sourc-
es. 1t was first made by the British Min
lister at Honolulu, Tory III his political
views, many years a resident in Hawaii,
persistent antagonist of American in
terests, and by personal bonds and family
relations strongly attached to the fallen
Hawaiian monarchy. immediately after
its organization in January last, he
government This scheme was subse-
quently brought forward by the queens
attorney. The lottery and opium rings,
of which the fallen queens lawyer is be-
lieved to be the agent, favors the plan.
While the ultra Tory English and the
Canadian Pacific railroad have purposes
in view other than those Of the fallen
they are agreed as to the method of de-
featinQ annexation
The e1-queen's attorney has often been
the paid agent of Claus Spreckles, and
the latter makes part of ==the alliance to
kill annexation by the plebicitum. This
is an alliance powerful as it is disreputa-
BILE. It lis not admissible by honest
Americans for the following reasons: 1t
would surely, result ssin the raising of an
enormous corruption fund By the allied
parties. The Canadian Pacific railroad
q great power in Canadian. politics, and
in the past has used vast brides 10 ac-
complish its designs, and wants to have
it's foot and hand firmly in Hawaii.
Claus Spreckles is very rich man, holds
money to be the chief power in politics,
and would pay out enormously to keep
the sugar planters of the Islands under
his grinding monopoly, to restore his
prestige lost by the fall of the monarchy,
and to carry out his scheme to make the
Islands an outside field, mainly for cheap
ASlatic labor and raw sugar production.
He could carry out his threat to load
his steamers and out vote the Provisional
government by an extensive colonization.
The powerful Pacific opium ring..with it's
ramifications in British Columbia, Cali
fornia, Hong Kong, and Honolulu, wish
to make a sure depot in Hawaii from
which they can operate in their vast
field, which they could not do with
u nited States authority established in
the Islands. By this combined power
operations would be surely carried on in
tie name OF popular suffrage, which
might overcome seven-eighths OF the
property holders and permanent resi-
dents, and all Of the really responsible
men ofsthe Islands-the smen who have
made them what they are and on-whom
their. future welfare depends. The re-
spectacle citizens of the Islands do not
believe in wholesale bribery and the i'm
portationsof voters, and should they even
take into consideration such method of
accomplishing their wishes they could
not fail to see that Spreckles with his
millions, the opium and LOTTERY rings,
and the ultra Britishers in Canada and
England, could throw into the contest
bribery fund which they could not
and would not try to equal. 1t is there
fore ohvious Ri q tho pInbio;tr,po eoba,,,o