The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-04-26

Thousand years, and has four hundred
million people. What power she will
be when Western civilization breaks
through its encrusted shell?
England, Germany, France and
Spain control the islands of the South
Pacific; with them we have nothing
to do except through an unfortunate
agreement with Great Britain and
Germany about Samoa, in regard to a
joint protectOrate.
The Hawaiian Islands are the key
to the North Pacific ocean. Ameri
cans have large and important inter-
ests here, which we are bound to pro-
tect. The United States to-day is the
strongest government on earth: We
have sixty five million people. In
fifteen years, by past ratios, We will
have one hundred million; in forty
years, two hundred million,! Our
strength lies in free institutions, which
form peaceful, progressive nation;
but we look ahead with view to
avoid war, hence we have inaugurated
the policy of arbitration; and it is in
the interest of peace that the two ma
tions of America and Hawaii should
become one. A protectorate involves
great sponsibilities on the part of
sating advantages, while it means in-
ternal broiIs and dissensions for ninety
thousand people of many nationalities
and races. By law of common in
terest and obvious destiny these Ha-
waiian Islands must become part of
the United States and the people
American citizens, name of which
any man may be proud.
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with some first-class power that can
give them absolute protection, and
the sooner the better, for there is
much distress in the land. They are
the choice spots in all the world for
climatic sanitariums; free from frosts;
free from indigenous malaria; with
bracing trade winds nine months in
the year; with good sea bathing the
year round, yet with perpetual snow
on her highest elevation, affording
every variety of climate; two thous-
and miles from a continent; at the
crossroads of the great ocean high
ways, these mountains in the sea stand
forth monuments of the Infinite love
of the Infinite Father, beckoning
America to bring good stable govern
ment> to a cosmopolitan people who
have suffered much from a maiadmin-
istration of their affairs, and who
were threatened with moral ruin.
There are many problems of local
character to solve, but time will cure
all. Brave men, of stock who never
finch, have opened the way; wisdom
and experience will do the rest. When
annexed, the Crown Lands ought to be
subdivided into homesteads (kule-
anas), and the first option of location
for two years should be given to those
Hawaiians who are not now owners of
land; and in order to secure it to their
families as a home, it should be in
olienabIe for thirty years.
Forecasting destinies fifty or hun
dred years, does any statesman sup
pose that these islands will remain as
in the past? If America declines to
accept of the offer now made, it might
result in an Asiatic occupation or a
war to prevent it. This would not
mean step forward for Christian
civilization, but an obstacle to such
advancement, and menace to Ameri-
can interests. The planting of the
American flag in the midst of the
Pacific ocean will be most powerful
factor in the interests of peace; and,
if war should ever come, batteries of
heavy guns on Punchbowl and Dia-
mond Head, defending the only good
harbor that exists here, would make
any enemy give it wide berth.
The natives of Hawaii are kindly,
gentle and generous race--hospitable
to the last degree, full of good points;
the world moves for them as well as
for others. Grass houses, idol wor-
ship and the monarchy are things of
the past; under the new regime they
will have the same territorial Hawai-
ian flag, supplemented by the flag of
the Union; under its projecting folds
they will fear no evil, and a reign of
prosperity and happiness will be in
augurated. So mote it be.
Aloha,
AN AMERICAN,