The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-04-04
ANNEX HAWAII.
1t Will Insure Stable Govern
nnent and Prosperity.

1t VIII Insure Stable Govern
ment and Prosperity.
The following interview with Mr..
Alexander Young is taken from the
S. f. Call of a late date:
MIR. Young is a Scotchman by
birth and came to Hawaii some
thirty years ago. He is the chief
owner of the Honolulu Iron Works
Company, and has also been actively
engaged in the sugar industry for
the past fourteen years He says:
Il am in favor of annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands to the United
States Of America.
"First-Because Hawaii has her
almost entire business enterprise
and wealth in the hands of foreign
ers, of whom Americans and those
heartily in sympathy with that great
republic largely predominant.
"Second-Because the trend of
Hawaii's late sovereigns has been
toward an absolutism or centraliza-
ton of power that is utterly incom-
patible with business prosperity at
home or the inspiration of financial
confidence abroad, and this trend
has brought about such a state of
political unrest and discomfort
among all classes that further self
government in Hawaii seems to be
impossible. The ballot being largely
in the hands of unsophisticated
native Hawaiians, who have little Or
no financial stake in the country, has
been easily manipulated by that
class of politicians whose chief aim
is to destroy, not build up, national
prosperity. Such are the parasites
who by bewildering the people with
false hopes of Office and Intoxicating
the sovereign with assurances of
unlimited power have sapped the
foundations of the independence of
Hawaii, and made annexation an
unavoidable necessity.
"Third-Because annexation under
reasonable conditions would insure
stable government and universal
prosperity to the Hawaiian Islands,
by which all classes Of both Hawaii
an and foreigners would be greatly
benefited commercially, socially and
politically.
Fourth - Because, failing self
government in Hawaii, to the United
States geographically belong these
beautiful gems of the Pacific Ocean.
Commercially America is the market
for our products, and better than any
other nation she can furnish all our
needed supplies. To the American
people do the Hawaiians owe their
civilization, their Christianization and
their excellent system of education,
and to all this is added the fact that
residents of all nationalities who
have been prosperous or become
wealthy during the past years of
prosperity in the Hawaiian Islands
owe the same to the generosity and
psternal fostering care of our near
neighbor, the United States.
"Fifth-Besides the above reasons
In favor of annexation, / would men
ton lastly but not least that such a
state of things once fairly established |
would be boon to the native Ha
waiian people socially, financially, |
and religiously For |
it must be borne in mind that the
aptness of Hawaiians, coupled with |
the advanced state of education |
among them, fits them for spheres of |
usefulness hitherto not within their |
reach, and increased prosperity. |
which would be the natural outcome |
of annexation, would multiply the |
for the application of |
native Hawaiian energy and talent"