Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-16
as TO HAwAIIAN ANNEXATION.

as TO HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Under the title Of immigration and
annexation the current number Of Hdr-
per's Weekly has an excellent article up
on the proposed annexation Of Hawaii.
After showing the difficulties of assimi-
lation in this country Of some OF the
Latin and Slavic races under the most
favorable conditions, as to climate, ETC.,
it discusses the dangerous possibilities Of
attempting the assimilation of African
aud Indian races with the Germanlc
races in tropical climates, and illustrates
its view by the situation in the Central
and South American States and on some
Of the West Indian Islands. The ar
tlcle contends that this population is on
its tropical soil the assimilating force,
and If Anglo-Saxons go among them to
stay they will appear as exotic plants,
and in the process Of assimilation the
Angl-Saxons will lose mere than the
Indian-African-La mixture will gain.
II will be assimilation downward, de-
grading the higher type to lower one.
1t is hardly necessary to elaborate how
the population flourishing in the Ameri-
can tropics has indeed succeeded In
founding commemorative with nomi-
nally free inititutions, but how these
commonwealths have drifted into a
chronic state OF lawlessness and revo-
luton. There never was stable demo-
cracy ia the tropics. Tropical repub-
lies have continually oseilated between
two extremes-liberty which meant an
srchy, and order which meant des-
potism. AS BOLIVAR himself once
said, the attempt to plant democratic
institutions in those tropical regioss is
like plougning the sea.
In drawing its conclusions upon the
Hawaiian craze for annexation IL
makes several forcible points which
are commended to the attention of
readers who wish enlightenment on
this complex subject.
Nothing is more curious than to hear
serious men, who are terrified at the perils
brought upon this republic by the immi-
grafton of few hundred thousand Italians
and Hungarians, speak with the utmost
GOODNESS of the annexation Of tropical
countries as thing devoutly to be wished.
10 is true they ask at present only for the
annexation Of Hawaii, because it is the
''keyn TO the interoceanic canal in particu-
lar and the Pacific ocean ia general; or for
Cuba, or San Domingo, because 1t is the
key 70 the Gulf of Mexico, and necessary
for the security OF our coast, and so on.
But they forget that key needs another
Key, an outpost another outpost, for its
protection, and that if we need then we
must encircle the globe with our posses
sions, and require large fleet to protect
them, like Great Britain. In other words,
one annexation will call for another, that
for another, and there will be no visible
end For instance, If wepossess Cuba, we
shall fnd that the other West India Is
lands in the hands OF other powers
threaten Cuba, and to secure what we
have we must have the other Islands too;
we must command" the Gulf Of Mexico,
and to that end possess the western shores
OF it-that is, Mexico and Central America.
We shall not stop north Of the Isthmus Of
Darien. If we possess those countries, we
shall have to embody them in our political
system, that is, make States out
OF them, and permit the people Of
those States not only to govern
themselves, but to take part in governing
the United States, In governingps, through
their Senators and Representatives. While
entertaining serious apprehensions as to
the safety OF the republic in admitting to
our shores a few hundred thousand Hunga-
rians, SlavS and Italians, who may be abb
sorbed by our people under the favorable
conditions OF our Northern climate, we are
to add to our population by annexation
many millions of people Of the Latin-Afri-
can-Indian mixture who have nothing in
common with US, neither language, nor
habits, nor ways of thinking. nor political
institutions, nor morals; and these people.
too, by the baneful influence of the tropical
climate, rendered incapable to acquire
those habits Of calm reasoning, of sober
self-restraint, OF orderly acQuiescence in
the will of the majority, which are neces-
sary to true democratic government Nor
can we hope 70 Ill those countries by nil
grafton with population of the Germanic
race. for il is well-known fact that the
HlLLdlAOu u utooSCo VI RCOpAC AO4AONo
certain isothermRl lines, and that the Ger
manic race never goes in masses 70 the
tropics for permanent settlement.
We may sometimes be told that such
people wish to be annexed to the United
States. What does such q wish meant Not
only the desire to be a part OF this Republic,
but also TO have their proportiOnate share
OF power In governing it. II the people of
the Canadian Dominion expressed such
wish, people who speak the same Ian
guage with US. have the same code Of NOR
ais, the same WAYS Of thinking, the same
habits and experiences OF self-government
well and good. But as 10 the people OF
the tropics, no commercial advantages, no
addition 20 our natural resources and our
wealth, no increase Of external power, can
pay for the dangers they would bring with
them May a benignant fate save us from
such acquisitions May the American
people well beware Of the beginning
SENATOR HILLS CHALLENGE.
He Wants to Control the Federal Patron
are of New York state.