The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-10
UNSEEMLY HASTE.

UNsEEMLy HASTE.
President Harrison, in the closing
days of his administration, sends to
the senate message announcing the
negotiation of treaty with the
representative" of Hawaii, trans
hitting a copy of it and the cores
pondence of Minister Stevens, and
urges the immediate ratification of
the treaty.
What are the known facts? A
couple of thousand citizens of the
United States have settled in Hawaii
and engaged in business. With their
usual thrift and craft, they have OBJ
tanned large property interests there.
They have imported into the coun-
try large numbers of coolies to work
their sugar plantations. They have
grown wealthy and rapacious as
their wealth increased. They are
not content with the gains made un-
,, der our treaty with that country and
which they are deprived of by the
Mckinley act. They want a share
in the bounty given to sugar pro-
ducers in this country. To get this
they must make the islands a part of
our domain. They organize con-
spiracy to overthrow the legitimate
government. They carry it into eff
feet. The government is helpless
with it's army of less than hundred
soldiers. The minister of this coun-
try, without other pretext than a
pretended fear of trouble, recognizes
the usurpers and establishes a pro-
tectorate over the country, and our
man-of-war sends it's armed force to
sustain the usurpation.
The PROFESSIONALS charter steam
or and send commissioners to this
country to offer the islands to us.
They refuse passage to representa-
tives of the government on the same
steamer. They find a ready recep-
ton at the White House. Meantime
representatives of the deposed
Queen come to make their protest.
The natives send by them a protest
before whose simple words of pathe-
tic remonstrance, greed, avarice,
rapacity, should stink away ashamed.
Protests and, circumstances, the
rights of the native people, of their
rightful government, are unheeded.
A president of this country, retired
for cause by his people, on the
verge of oblivion, takes up the cause
of the spectators and recommends
this country to grasp that WHICH
they offer, but have no right except
that of might to give.
The Globe has not thought it
possible that the President would
take this course at all; much less
that he would take it with such in
decent haste. 1t trusts that there
will be found among the senators
enough with finer sense of right
than the President has shown to de-
( feat the plans of these freebooters.
| The above expresses the real senti-
ment of many papers in the States;
the reason annexation is favored is
purely from feelings of sentiment
and patriotism-a desire to acquire
little more territory, and feeling
that England may take the Islands.
l have talked with many business
men in this city, and have often
heard the opinion expressed that
the annexation business was "steal"
pure and simple. This feeling is
gaining ground as the facts are be-
coming known, and if all the details
of the affair in Honolulu had been
published in America two weeks
ago, the question of annexation
would not have been thought of.
Both people and Congress have
been laboring under a misapprehen-
sion, and some of the redhot annex
alton papers have refused to print
anything but the annexationists'
side of the story. 1 know this to be
a fact. Some people for the purpose
of manufacturing little false glory
for the American flag, are quite will.
ing to steal nation, especially as
Hawaii is poor and weak. But many
condemn the whole affair as the
subject is better known and as the
facts are being brought to light.
~ JNo. j. LENNON.
San Francisco, Feb. "a, 1898.