The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-22
REVIEW JUDGE COOLEY
A TELLING REPLY TO THE
FORUM" WRITER.
Judge Hartwell Takes Up the Gauntlet
for Annexation Much Sophis-
try Exposed.

Judge Cooley article in the Forum
contains too much partial and inCor
rect statement, irrelevant matter and
wrong inference, to permit the belief
that he has FASTENED into print from
dsinterested motives. His utter
ances donot indicate the judicial spirit,
or an attempt to discover the facts,
or the significance of the facts, which
relate to the Hawaiian situation He
exhibits the heat and something of
the nervousness of a well paid, but
i'll prepared advocate, addressing a
Jury whose minds are so uniformed
on the issue as to be susceptible of
entirely new impressions. He does
not even take the pains which the
skillful lawyer seldom omits, to state
the other side in his own way. In
this article of Judge Cooley's S, one may
search in vain tor any alterdm bdytem.
This again leads to the surmise that
the Judge is "a willing witness" His
grave obstacles to Hawaiian annex
alton, include several objections to
the particular form and non essential
terms of annexation contained in
Mr.. Harrison's treaty. Apart from
such immaterial discussion, his lob
staCles' may thus be summarized,
viz:
/, Hawaii is not on the Ameri
can Continent, its people are not
homogeneous" with the American
people, in fact they would form a
"discordant element"
2. The Provisional Government
ought not to negotiate a treaty for
annexation without first taking a
vote of the aboriginal Hawaiian
voters.
He thus states his first objection.
'Its (referring to the United States
anticipated expansion was to en-
brace states whose citizens would be
homogeneous with the people who
created it. The Union was to be OF
United States of America, and if it
could reach out into the sea for the
bringing in of a people so different
from our own as those then occupy
ing San Domingo, or for the found
ing of States of colored races, it
might so far as the Constitutional
question was concerned equally well
be extended to cover colonies in
Arabia or Zululand.
1t is impossible to see why the &C
curing of extra continental territory
within the direct influence of the
United States, in a locality near
enough to allow hostile armed cruis-
ers to prey upon American commerce
and naval expeditions to be fitted out
against the American coast, involve
the planting of colonies in Arabia OF
Zululand, or the doing of anything
else which is foreign to the objects
for which the union of the States was
formed.
To say that the population of Ha-
wall is not already homogeneous
with that of the United States. is
saying what few Americans who have
lived long enough in Hawaii to know
the characteristics of its people viii
admit. That the population would
become fully homogeneous long be
fore the period of Statehood could be
reached is not open to reasonable
doubt For Mr.. Cooley's claim thai
contlguity of territory is essential tc
its forming part of the United States
no argument is vouchsafed. 1t is moi
apparent why Martha's Vineyard or
Long Island is not as solid a portion
of American soil as if no deep sea
soundings could be taken between
them and the main land. 1t is near
lily as easy now to steam from Sar
Francisco to Honolulu as it was fifty
years ago to sail from Boston tc
Nantucket. Accessibleness is more
desirable than contiguity.
| When Louisiana, California anc
Alaska were acquired, they were hard
er to get at, and had in them more
discordant element than is now the
case with Hawaii. The treaty powe
which acquired Louisiana did no
depend for its existence upon the fac
mentioned by Mr.. Cooley that "Tht
purchase was not only needed to pro
vide for the natural and inevitable
expansion of the settlement theI
going on in the territory of the UniteC
States" 1t was no more true o
Louisiana then than it is of Hawai-
now that, sit also fitted perfectly in
to the American SYSTEM" or that
"the purchase brought nothing of ;
discordant nature into the existing
| Union.
If Hawaii shall now or in some
future day be annexed, either by ex
ercise of the treaty power or legisla
tive power granted by the Constitu
ton of the United States, or by thu
exercise of both of those powers, i
will not be difficult to show that i
was because Hawaii "was needed tC
provide for the natural and inevitable
expansion" of the United States al
we'll as to guard the interests of the
United States against the natura
and (but for anneXing HawaiD, inev
table expansion of other countries
bordering on the Pacific Ocean. /
will then be easy enough to show
that Hawaii "also fitted perfectly into