The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-01
RESULTS OF ANNEXATION.
TIE EFFECT OF AMERICAN EDU.
CATION AND AMERICAN
INTERESTS.
A Strong Plea by the New York
Independe mt.


United States must say yes or no
to the Hawaiian offer of annexa-
ton, and thus far the Administra-
ton has given no sign that it means
to accept the offer. There has been
no evidence of that cordial recog
milton of great gift and a great
opportunity which might have been
expected.
An opportunity to enlarge the
domains of nation, and thus the
domains of international peace,
occurs scarce once in a generation.
1t will not soon recur, and it is not
something to be lightly despised.
Every case of union which is not
also a case of division is a blessing
to The civilized world. There may
be question about the union of
Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.
which were first violently torn from
France; but there is no question of
the benefit to the world by the adj
dition of Algeria to France, or of q
third of Africa to the British En-
pire, or of French Louisiana or
Spanish Florida or Of free Texas or
of Russian Alaska to the United
States. We can hardly conceive of
a willing annexation of any part of
North America or of the adjacent
islands that would not be bless
ing to its people and also to us.
Every annexation has been a
success. Not one has brought an
injury. Who is so lacking in sem
timent or sense as to wish that
Florida was no part of the United
States, and Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas,
California, Oregon, Washington
and Alaska were foreign territory?
What voice of apprehension has
been justified? What failure has
there been to fill this immense ter
ritory with an assimilated popula-
ton? What danger of domestic
strife has come from these new
territories2 Our danger, as a ma
ton, came in the days of our
peril, from the Old Thirteen, from
Virginia and South Carolina, not
from Minnesota or California.
What was done once will be done
again. Had the little island re-
public of San Domingo been an
nexed our institutions would have
overfowed it, as they have Texas
or Missouri, and there would have
been a mutual advantage.
But Hawaii is a special and pc
culiar opportunity. 1t is already
predominately American. Its con-
trolling population is of good
Yankee origin. It's civilization is
American. It's native population
is educated by American schools,
in American Christianity, and re-
spects and loves our country. If
there was a sentiment of loyalty to
an hereditary monarchy it has al
ready nearly passed away. 1t was
very curious to observe how the
white Hawaiians carefully fostered
and kept in fplace that native
dynasty as long as they could, just
for the sake of being careful not to
interfere with rights which can
never be real in the minds of those
who believe in liberty and human
equality. Now the time has come
for this Americanized people to
become a part of America, and it is
astounding that we should hesitate
and seem to be thrusting away
those who would come to us.
But we are told that we will
give them an American protector
ate, but will not annex them.
That has all the possible evil, and
very little of the possible good.
That gives US the possible foreign
complications, and gives them no
American rights. We are not sur
prised that in this case they are
inclined to go to England, and ask
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not a protectorate such as is given
to Afghanistan, but genuine incor-
poration in the Empire, such as is
possessed by Canada and Austria
liza.
OF all impossible Ethings this
seems the most impossible-and
yet it is whispered it may be done
that our government should in
sist on the restoration of the de
posed Queen Liliuokalani before
acting on any offer of annexation
or protection. That is the most
humiliating and absurd proposition
that could be made. That when {
people have risen and overthrow
a corrupt and vicious monarch, we
the chief republic of the world, vino
achieved our own independence by
war, should require a people whC
have risen against worse tyranny
to take back the government they
have discarded-this is something
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