The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-22
BOTH SIDES OF HAWAII.
FOR ANNEXATION.

Boston Globe (dem.): Hawaii must
be ours.
Philadelphia Inquirer (rep.): Let
us have them.
Boston Globe: If annexed, should
be as a Territory.
Chicago Times: If not annexation
at least protection.
Philadelphia Press; The apple is
ripe. Let it be picked,
Springfield Union: Canada, do you
hear Hawaii knocking3
Hartford Post: The islands belong
to this country, if to any one.
Elgin News (rep.): Cannot afford
to let the opportunity slip.
Baltimore American: The reasons
for interference are ample.
Utica Herald: Hawaii has com
merce which we must not lose.
Meriden Republican: National OPP
portunity and manifest destiny.
Elizabeth journal: Balance OF
argument seems in favor of annexa-
ton.
Detroit News (ind.): There is every
reason why the islands should be ac-
copied.
Indianapolis Journal (rep.): An
mex them or establish native gov
eminent and protectorate.
Detroit. Tribune (rep.): Annexation
is the proper solution of the prob
lem from our own standpoint.
Springfield State Journal(rep. ):Ac-
cept the overtures of the commits
sioners and at once possess the ISL
ands.
New York Advertiser (rep): 1t is
scarcely more a privilege than a
duty to annex the islands sans cere-
mony.
Providence Journal: We could
hardly stand by and see some other
foreign nation acquire a control in
Hawaii.
New Haven Leader: There need
no longer be any hesitation about
annexing some Of the islands near
our coast.
Atlanta Constitution (dem.): 1t is
no party question-it is matter of
business. We want naval and coal
ing stations.
Chicago Inter Ocean: No stand
point from which desirability, if not
imperativeness, of American, supre-
macy is not apparent.
New Orleans Times Democrat
(dem.): Accept the Hawaiian offer
and place the islands under the terri
torial government of the United
States.
New York Mail and Express (rep.)
Every consideration of safety, of
great interests, now and hereafter to
exist, points to annexation as a ne
cessary step.
Washington Post [ind.]: That
Hawaii is absolutely Indispensable
to our safety in time of war and our
prosperity in time of peace is too
obvious to admit of controversy.
The opportunity now presented
for accomplishing it is an excep-
tionally favorable one; and it is to
be hoped no obstacle will be found.
Detroit Free Press.
The question presented to Con-
gress by the arrival of the Hawaiian
delegates is not question of parti-
san politics, or of conventional poll
tics, but of national opportunity and
manifest destiny.-New York Sun.
The Government of the United
States is fully competent to enforce
whatever policy it may determine on,
and there are many reasons why
that policy should embrace the Ha-
waiian Islands as American terri
tory Washington Post.
Will the United States accept the
Hawaiian Islands? There are many
reasons for doing so, and about the
only one against it is the departure
from precedent in having a posses
sion SO far away. In point of fact
the islands have been for some time
virtually an annex to the United
States.-Cleveldnd Plain Dealer.
AGAINST ANNEXATION.
Buffalo Express: Respectfully de-
clined.
Norwich Bulletin: Do we want the
ignorant Kanakas? ~
Boston Herald Gnd. dem.): Ha-
wall would be our one weak point.
Milwaukee Sentinel (rep.): 1t is
contrary to the genius of our insti-
tutions.
Kansas City Star Gnd.): The desir-
ability OF annexation is by no means
apparent.
Buffalo Express (rep.): 1t would
be little less than a crime for the