New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-01
NEW.YORkERS FAVOR ANNEXATION.
FIX SENATOR'S MILLER AND PLATT TELL WHY
IT Is DESIRABLE.

Ex-senator Warner Miller when at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday said that the time had come when
the Hawaiian Islands should be under the control OF
the United states. " am In favor said he. " OF
gaining possession OF the country by annexation or
Of having control Of the country through an American
protcctorate. The condition OF things regarding
Hawaiian affairs is In such shape at present that the
United states must decide way the other. and
there Is In my Judgment. only one way 10 decide.
Every naval officer is OF the opinion that the Islands
AS coallng station are indispensable, and they are
also necessary preserve commerce in the Pacific
The claim Is made by few that Hawaii j. too far
I'm the Pacific for the United states to have anything
do with IT, Its distance from shore ought not to
he regarded unfav0rabc. on the contrary. IT is
better to have coalng station 1000 miles away than
100 miles away from the shore.
The United states cannot afford to permit England
to get control OF Hawaii. and that is another way To
look at it, Ensands possessions in the Pacific are
already numerous enough. OF complications
may before the affair Is settled but there are no
treaties or anything of that kind in the way that
cannot be overcome. The natives, understand who
do not represent tho best element OF tho Islands, are
I'm the majority, and some ariH.Ien'ht' may nave
10 bc made 80 that they Will not be- In a position 10
contri its representatives If annexation should take
place
DO YOU believe Claus sprcckcls assisted In bringing
about the rcvOlati0nl'
No. 90 MT. sprcckcls q Co., understand from
what Mr.. Irwin, his partner, says, l'nl tI' Qu'fns
Government a large of money a m MT! or 50
before the outbreak and it is not likely that >pr'ckes
would ,ndcavor TO overthrow a nation that was IN
dcb;cd to him. Bcside>, Mr.. Sprechcls could not have
wished for more power than he had on the island
when tlls Queen reCned.'
nator +. G. lat is also Of the opinion that the
United states cannot afford permit any other nation
,o secure possession Of the Islands. There l. only
on sep to take said Mr. Ilatt last evening and that
Is for the United states either TO annex the Islands or
secure possession by ether honorable and fair means
We cannot cons mt that England should gain any more
prestige on the Pacific. America must look well TO
ber future commerce. 1t H. natural thai Hawaii
should turn the United States, It's best friend when
It's future pros perity is threatened 1t now appeals to
lis and We cannot afford to repel lis friendly ad-
yanccs. There many graspng powers Of Europe
who are ready TO act If We refuse 10 accept such a
desirable group in the FaciGc. Germany and Eng
land already have acquired possessions on the great
Western ocean. and the time has come when the
nltd states should step in the way to prevent Eng
land any other European power getting stronger
hold o n the Pacific
:" | certain that II n vote OF inc people were
taken on the Hawaiian question it would he found that
nnet.nths Of the voters In favor Of anneNaton
said ex-Congressman West last night, when at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. And am certain that large