The Daily bulletin., 1893-12-15
Survival of the Fittest."


EDITOR Bulletin
The Advertiser of yesterday re-
produces another article from the
Portland Oregonian evidently writ
rem, as the one quoted yesterday, by
one Of the clique who has bargained
for space in that journal to boom
annexation.
The Oregonian starts in by stat
ing that "it is absurd to talk about
restoring the independence Of the
Hawaiian Islands. Civilization has
abolished it as surely through less
cruelty than it abolished the ancient
independence of Mexico and Peru"
To speak of civilization, in any
degree, as the force which wrought
or contributed to the extinction OF
the independence of Mexico or Peru,
is surely gross perversion Of lang
uage. Shall we hail Cortez as the
harbinger of our boasted western
civilization2 Then let the history
of humanity be rewritten, and the
Due de Guise be crowned champion
of religious federation, Hainan, the
Austrian woman Aogger, the apostle
of Hungarian freedom, and the par
tition of Poland the work Of liberia
tors. Such suggestion for a parallel
only serves to illustrate the char
acter of the enterprise trying to
prop itself up by such an example.
And yet this suggestion of an ana
logy is not without a moral The
Spanish invader made fair pro-
misses, only to be broken. He also
had his band of missionaries and,
like general p. G. Jones, urged his
followers that God was on their
side, while he raked in every shekel
from the Incas. 1t is also probable
that when Cortez got into the Blue
room of Montezuma's palace, his
followers raked in all tho crown
jewels and, like our own Soper
scorned not the shelter of the lowly
sand bag.
"When two races live in country
where it is worth while for the
: stronger to live, the separate social
life of the weaker disappears by ope-
, ration of a law of nature, whose
harshness humanity can mitigate
but whose execution nothing can
avert" So says the Oregonian; but
the hireling of the P. G.. writing
} from the scene of "where the two
. races meet" is we'll aware that the
: Hawaiian affair is not race con
flict in any sense, but the efforts OF
few land boomers, under what was
probably the mere pretext of desir
, ing annexation, to control the gov
ernment and the treasury as long as
! they could, just for what boodl'
there was in it. So we'll aware i:
= the p. G.. of the absence Of race con
r flict here that they would not dart
\ to take the vote Of the exclusively
, white section of the community
: whose names are now on the voting
register, to endorse their action
Q The claw Of nature r s whos'
g execution nothing can avert" is th'
! logic of shot and shell and dyna
mite, and it has yet to be demon
strated-should the arbitrator il
: the case drop the question-who j
s "the stronger to live" the ten
backed by mercenaries with machi
), merry, or the liberty loving thou
Il sands without either. The Orcgo
p nian has been counting its goldeI
beads for many, many months in an
n nexation prayer. 1t is a bad sign t
find in these last days of it's excl
: else, that it turns from mild entreat
n and persuasion, to cursins an
g threats. There is a proverb abou
5 such things coming home to roos
:, MAKEE AUPuNl.
u December 13, 1898.