The morning call., 1893-10-28
MR.. HITS SCHEME
Why the United States
Needs Hawaii.
TO PREPARE US FOR WAR.
Those Islands Better Than a
Fleet of Ships.
TO PREPARE US FOR WAR
THE GIBRALTAR OF THE PACIFIC.
They Could Be Held and Easily
Governed as a Military or
Naval Post.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The leading
members of the Committee of Foreign
Affairs in the House, and those of the ma
jority especially. think Cleveland will send
TO Congress mediately after the silver
bill is out OF the way message and the
correspondence in the Hawaiian matter.
1t seems to be the impression that the
message is already prepared, and that the
President will make his recommendations
in it and give Congress something to do.
One of the Democratic members of the
committee said there were three solutions
of the trouble in Hawaii. One scheme
was the restoration OF the old order Of
things by placing the Queen upon the
throne. The second was annexation
direct. and the third involved the estab-
lishment of a protectoTate over the islands.
That one Of these plans would be adopted
was thought very probable, but which
would be favored by the administration or
by Congress he could not say.
Hit of Illinois, for merly chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, says
the difficulty of dealing with the Hawaiian
problem is one which could not &c over
estimated. Annexation, with the pecu-
liar conditions existing in the islands.
is something that might well puzzle the
wisest statesman. With the Chinese
troubles we have in this country now, and
the additional questions which the annex
alton of the islands would raise, not only
in regard TO the Chinese. but the Jap
anese and the natives of the islands, IL
would naturally cause some deliberatlon
before the islands we're annexed as Ter
ritory and intended Tor statehood. Ii
would be the height of abSurdity to try and
set up the old Queen and restore her to
power. and to establish protectorate
weuld mean to abandon the republican
form of government for the islands. a
protectorate would not mean that this
Government was to offer its protection
alone, but that it intended as we'll to
govern the islands asia possession. If a
protectorate was established this Govern
ment would have to have the affairs of the
islands conducted in a manner which
would be satisfactory TO the United States
ana not be governed by what might be the
popular will of the people who now inhabit
the islands.
Hit says it is necessary to have the
islands. They are worth more to the
United States than fleet of ten Of the best
vessels afloat We build ships for defense,
and for the same reason we ought to ac-
Quire the islands, as they are the Malta Of
the Pacific Ocean and are absolutely nee
essary to the United States.
Hit. while presenting the difficulties in
the way of securing the islands. is not with
out a scheme which he thinks will be sat-
isfactory. He says the islands could be
acquired as a military and naval station
and governed as such by the United States.
TIE reason the United States wants the
islands is the same that induces this coun-
try to build war vessels and establish mill
tary posts. They are wanted for war pur-
poses, and if acquired as such could be
governed without disturbing the existing
conditions or submitting the islands to the
rule of the most numerous yet most ignor-
ant classes Of the population.