The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-10-17

outspoken on the question OF the
advisability of the annexation OF
the Hawaiian islands TO the United
States, the article is reproduced in
full elsewhere. The significant por-
/ ton Of the editorial from the Herald
/ Is as follows and We freely commend
it to the royalists Of Hawaii who
have been hanging their hopes on
the present anti-American position
assumed by the Herald; Hawaii
Is the Malta Of the Pacific. Her
/ commerce Is almost entirely with
I the United States. We are bound
to Hawaii by treaty Of recipro-
city. So long as she Is independent
or free from foreign influences We
are content that she should govern
herself in her own way, under an
innocent, simple government.
When that government becomes so
helpless as to tempt the cupidity
Of the maritime powers it Is then
our duty TO shelter It under an
authority which the nsvies Of the
world viii respect. We take it for
granted that Mr.. Cleveland hss
made It known to the maritime
powers that the independence Of
Hawaii, so far SIS they are con-
cerued, and its dependence on the
United States must be accepted
and respected. This is so obvious
that We cannot doubt that Mr..
Bayard has been instructed to an
nounce the Monroe doctrine on the
Pacific with as firm a tone as Mr..
Adams announced it to South
American and Central American
nationalities sixty years ago.
Now this brings up the question as
to what the Monroe doctrine is and
what is its application to the de-
velopnent Of American interests.
Our friends the enemy who are st
present writing the auti-American
or 'ex-queen" cause through the
Bulletin are of the opinion the
Monroe doctrine would be knocked
into 8 cooked hat in case the Uni
ted States begins an aggressive
policy in the Pacific. As our royal
ist contemporary seems to be better
posted than its afternoon rival on
diplomatic complications liable to
occur in the Pacific, We viii kindly
hint that the Monroe doctrine as
interpreted by the royalists does
not apply in the Hawaiian matter,
for the reason that when properly
interpreted, this doctrine, as ap-
piled to foreign countries, means
the American doctrine. In Ha-
waii it has already been proved
that the lines are clearly drawn
between American" and anti
American" which, in plain
English, means that the
lines are drawn between
royaIists and Americans. While
nothing at the present writing is
officially known as to the future
trend which international diplo-
matte affairs may at any moment
assume in the Pacific, still you do
not have to knock q statesman or q
journalist, unless he be an amateur,
down to make him appreciate that
perhaps there are certain matters
going on in the world which may
be entirely unknown in the offices
Of both our afternoon contempor-
aries Such things have happened |
before, and may happen again, as
incoming dispatches from the outer
world may prove. 1t Is with the |
kindliest feeling these lines are
penned, and We hope they will not |
be misinterpreted. There is, or
should be, no rivalry between
American papers in Hawaii
what We need Is the closest friend
ship Of al Americans outside Of
legitimate business competition. |
There should be no iealousies as to
the securing of advance news. In
the present case even our ancient /
enemy" the Bulletin seems to have
anticipated the logic of events