The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-16

solutely necessary IL the lives and
property of the European residents
on the islands are to be preserved"
SAID Chapman of Michigan: Il am
in favor of acquiring the islands and
making them part of the United
States. We entered into a reciprocity
with them and made a great sacri-
flee, and yet who complains of that
We did it because the islands are liz
the pathway of all the Pacific com
merce; because for many years
statesmen of all parties have recog-
nized their military and commercial
Importance. IL we have ever had a for
eign policy on any subject it has been
on this. That policyseems to have been
the encouragement of a reliance on
Us by the Hawaiian people to render
ourselves more and more necessary to
them. Who doubted the wisdom of
the reciprocity treaty? We made it
for political reasons. We aimed to
form closer relations with the ISL
ands commercially and politically.
We desired to draw them nearer to
US and to bind them, if we could, by
their greatest interests. Now it is
computed that we have indirectly
been at cost of about SAC, 100000 to
carry out the treaty of reciprocity.
Elk Senator Williams says: It is
time that our nation Of 65,000,000 of
people take possession of what be-
longs to us as the leading nation of
the earth. A gentleman has said it
is changing our policy somewhat.
What was our policy when Texas
came knocking at the door? We adj
mitted her. Hawaii, as has been
truly said, has been under our pro-
lection for the last twenty five years.
The gentleman who is soon to assume
the reins of government signed the
treaty that l had the honor to vote
for, ceding to us the jurisdiction of
Pearl Harbor. That gave us foot
hold on the Sandwich Islands that we
intend to hold on to henceforth.
With the Nicaragua canal built, and
the Sandwich Islands in the posses
sion of this nation, we have the con-
troll of the commerce of the Pacific
ocean. With coaling station there
and at the end of the Nicaragua
canal (which question this one will
force to favorable conclusion) and
another at Pago Pago we would con-
troll the ocean. It would be worse
than criminal to deny these people
what they desire. There is more
tonnage under the American flag be-
tween the United States and the
Sandwich Islands than between
them and every other country on the
globe. This is the one place in
which this country has been able to
maintain its commercial supremacy.
This country is commercial coun-
try. We are surrounded by the
great oceans of the world. Our peo-
pie are naturally seafaring people
and should control the commerce of
the world. Shall we then remain
simply the producers of grain and
allow the other people of the world
to do our manufacturing and trans
portation for US, or shall we assume
the position that God intended we
should assume?
Senator Teller, of Colorado, said:
'This Government cannot afford to
let this appeal for annexation pass.
Those islands are rich in soil, invalu
able as an outpost, and we ought to
control them. This same matter was
carefully considered by President
Arthur and his Cabinet, and [ was
specially commissioned to- look up all
the valuable data bearing on the sub
iect. President Arthur favored an
nexation, but the situation was such
at the time that the question could
not be pushed"
Regarding sentiment in the Senate
on the subject Mr.. Teller said: 81
don't think I overstate it when I say
that four fifths of the members of the
Senate are in favor of annexation
1t is as popular proposition as could
be presented to the Senate"
William T. Coleman said: "The
world we'll knows that the Sandwich
Islanders were reclaimed from bar
barism and Christianized by Ameri
can missionaries, educated and fos-
tered by American men and women,
and supported by American moneys,
their lands cultivated, their young
government organized and crystal
lized; their commerce regulated, sus-
tanned and advanced by Americans,
and all done for lovesof human kind
and for the. glory of God long before
the American Government had their
present possessions in California, or
without any conception or dream of
the present political possibilities. AS
time has rolled on, and as the island
ers have finally proved untitled to
govern themselves properly and salts
factorily, and feeling it to their own
best advantage and best interests,
after many struggles, they finally
ask q closer relation with our system /;
and as all know, or everyone looking
a second time, can plainly see that,
geographically, strategically, COM
mercially and socially, that group
belongs naturally to our system, and
gravitates towards it, and, now that
it is OPPORTUNITY rendered to US in
good faith, without word from US,
and they reach out their hands and
ask us to take theirs, failure to
promptly and cheerfully accept the
situation, and embrace them, and
protect them, and make them a part
of us, would be an acutely painful
and damning political and national
crime"
The most expensive legislature
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