Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-09
BLAINE'S PREDICTION
HAWAIIAN DEVELOPMENTS HAVE
FOLLOWED.

Further Instructions Are Expected From
the Provisional Government Upon the
Steamer Which Is Due In San Francisco
From Honolulu Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-No more complete
and striking expression of the American
view of the Hawaiian question can be found
perhaps than is contained in the dispatch
of Secretary Blaine to Minister Comfy,
dated Dec 1, 1881, some extracts from
which are here given:
In 80 years the United States has acquired
legitimately dominant influence in the
North Pacific, which it can never consent
to see decreased by the intrusion therein of
any element of influence hostile to its own.
The situation of the Hawaiian islands, Civ
ing them the strategic control of the north
Pacific, brings their possession within the
range of questions of purely American
policy.
We Started Hawaii's Growth.
The treaty of 1875 gave to Hawaii its
first great impetus in trade and developed
that activity of production which has at
tracted the attention of European powers
anxious to share in the prosperity and ad-
vantages which the United States has
created in midocean. From 1877, the first
full year succeeding the conclusion of the
reciprocity treaty, to 1880 the imports
from Hawaii to the United States nearly
doubled, increasing from 81, $50, 1886 in value
to S4,606, Al, and in this same period the
exports from the United States to Hawaii
rose from 81, ,272 949 to S2,026, 10. In a
word, Hawaii is, by the wise and benef-
lei of tha ,,rht
within the circle of the domestic trade of
the United States.
On the other hand, the interests of Hawaii
must inevitably turn toward the United
States in the future, as in the present, as
its natural and sole ally in conserving the
dominion of both in the Pacific trade.
Foretoid With Accuracy.
The United States does its simple duty
both to Hawaii and itself, and it cannot
permit such obvious neglect of national in
terest as would be involved by silent ac-
quiescence in any movement looking to a
lessening of those American ties and the
substitution of alien and hostile interests
1t firmly believes that the position of the
Hawaiian islands, as the key to the domi
nation of the American Pacific, demands
their neutrality, to which end it will ear
nestly cooperate with the native govern
ment. And if through any cause the main
tenauce of such a position of neutrality
should be found by Hawaii to be imprac-
ticable, this government would then I'M
hesitatingly meet the altered situation by
seeking an avowedly American solution
for the grave issues presented.
The Hawaiian Comm toner's.
The commissioners have not yet been re-
ceived by President HARRISON, and this
fact is causing some comment. They ap
pear quite satisfied with their status, how
ever, and one of them said that they did
not expect an audience with the president
till he had been fully satisfied of their
right to act and of the merits of their
case. The most important feature of the
information expected on the arrival of the
steamer at San Francisco is that concern
ing the attitude of the deposed queen.
The administration feels that it should
not act without giving Iiliuokalani op-
portunity to present her side of the case
There are many who contend that she rep
rescnts the native element of the island as
against the wealthy foreign element which
has now set up the provisional govern
ment.
The cabinet meeting revealed that
there was substantial unanimity among
the cabinet officers as to annexing the is
lands