The Portland daily press., 1893-06-30

trys law and power, and no internal dis
cord must be suffered to impair them. -
These were the latest instructions to
the United States minister at Honolulu,
on file at the Legation, for guidance in
case of circumstances precisely like
these which arose when thel Hawaiian
monarchy fell in January last. It was
the language of this dispatch which
Captain Wiltse of the Boston had for his
instruction.
The essential objects to be accom-
plished by raising the flag were gained
during the seventy-fve days it's bright,
starry folds were before the people of
Hawaii. The provisional government
had secured the necessary time to organ
ize an efficient police and military force,
to substitute reliable officials in place
of the unreliable and to consolidate
the new government, with the approval
of the best and responsible men of
all the islands. That country now has
the best government it has ever had, adj
ministreda by men of intelligence, edu-
cation, and character, and as thoroughly
American in sympathy and interest as we
have at the head of any of our American
states and territories. That government
and those back of it-all the responsible
and the best citizens of the island-ask
for the annexation of Hawaii as a terri
tory of the United States. This is desired
because it is believed to be best for the
native as well as the foreign born popu-
lation of the islands. The Hawaiian
monarchy has been especially injurious
to the welfare of the native Hawaiians.
The government and those supporting it
desire annexation because they justly re-
gard present Hawaii in reality an Ameri-
can colony closely identified with Ameri-
can interests and governed by American
ideas, American laws, and American
judicial rules and decisions. In report
ing the treaty of annexation in January
last the Senate committee of foreign at
fairs acted as American statesmen in
dealing with facts, events and interests
as they found them. They came to the
same conclusion as did the Democratic
administration of 1854, when Secretary
VIM. L. Marcy, authorized Commission
er Gregg to negotiate treaty of annex
alton, which that commissioner did nego-
tiate, though he exceeded his instructions
as to the provisions of the treaty
The treaty of 1854 failed through di-
vided eounsels at Honolulu an,l the prob
able duplicity of the Hawaiian minister
of foreign affairs--a willy Scotchman
who had no love for American institu-
tions. VIM. L. Marcy was a bold and
able man. and his view of the value OF
Hawaii to the United States was fully
shared by VIM. III. Seward, who had re-
markable foresight as to the vast future
of American commerce in the Pacific,
and looked forward to the annexation OF
Hawaii as necessary and inevitable, and
would have urged 1t during his occupan-
cy of the State department had he found
the Honolulu authorities ready for it.
Marcy, the able Democratic leader OF
his time, cool. sagacious statesman, il
dispatch to United States Minister
Mason at Paris, December 16, 1853
speaking of the Hawaiian Islands, said
''Both England and France are APP
prised of our determination not to al
low them to be owned by or to fall un.
der the protection of either of these
powers or of any other European nation.
1t seems to be inevitable that they must
come under the control of this govern
| ment.n
Luther Severance, an able. safe
andi sagacious man, whom
the people of Maine many years
knew SO well, whom DAME
Webster honored, after four years resi-.
dence at Honolulu, came to the same
conclusion as did Secretary Marcy.
None have defended this view more
ably than James G.. Blaine, in remark
able state paper during President Gar
| fields administration, and none more
| eloquently than Senator Morgan of Ala
| bama. just selected by his Democratic
colleagues, as the chairman of the senate
committee on foreign relations.
| Now this rich prize is freely offered
US. | cannot think it possible that our
| people and our statesmen will refuse te
accept it. To spurn and reject this i'm
portant and thoroughly American colo
ny, planted by some of the most devoted
Of Americas sons and daughters, fos
tered by American benevolence ant
sympathy, aided by a million and a hal
| of dollars of private contributions, en-
couraged for more than sixty years BY
the American goyernment-to abandon
them now at this crucial period of theil
history would becowardice and inhu-
manity that believe no self-respectine
Christian nation will be guilty of, the
least of all the great American nation
whose vast opportunities in the Nortl
Pacific it would be great want of wis
dom and patriotism to ignore.