The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-09
HAWAII.
Her Relations to the Continental Idea
of Chas Sumner.


of Chas Sumner.
Mr.. Henry B. Anterior of Nashua, a
member of distinguished family, sends
us copy of an address which he de-
ivered at Antrim, New Hampshire, on
Decoration Day. His theme was the
destiny of the American republic, and
s0me of his ideas are as interesting now
as upon the occasion which called them
forth. Concerning the sale of Alaska
to the United States by Russia in 1907,
Mr. Atherton advances theory which,
as far as we know, has never before
been stated SO distinctly:
at is thought by some that Russia
coded to US her vast American pos
sessions in Alaska and the waters and
islands OF Behring S sea simpIy for the
seven millions of dollars which Mr.
Seward paid her. but | hazard the
opinion that the Cession was not made
for the paltry price we paid, but rather
to serve notice on all the world that,
in the view of the White Car, all the
territory of North America, from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic ocean,
should rightfully Be controlled by the
United States.
Mr. Anterior holds that the manifest
destiny of this country is to control this
continent. He points out, as The SIN
has often pointed out. the mighty chain
of armament with which Great Britain
has managed to surround our present
territory
"She has a military railway from
Halifax on the Atlantic to Port Moody
on the Pacific, intended to be used in
military operations against this country,
and on that account built in a great
measure from the imperial treasury
She has free entry for her fleets to the
St Lawrence, through which flow the
waters of the great lakes. From her
fortress at Halifax she could let slip a
swarm of armored cruisers that in forty
eight hours might ruin our Coastlng
trade, and lay our unprotected seacoast
under contribution. She has similar
coign of vantage on the Pacific at
Esquimault. English dominion is eX-
erted over the Bermudas, the Bahamas,
Jamaica, the Belize, British Guiana,
Trinidad. Barbados, st. Lucia, and the
Leeward Islands Bermuda, three days
out from Charleston and New York, is
equipped with Publications which are
described in the Colonial Year Book as
the most perfect and formidable in the
world A submarine cable connects
the fortress Of Bermuda with Halifax
1t was laid only two years ago, and II
cost ST., 500, 900, a sum ten times greater
than the exchanges between the group
and Canada In the reef-enclosed
harbor at Bermuda, Great Britain has a
shipbuilding plant, a dry dock that viii
| lift her heaviest seagoing battleships, Z
coalng station and a vast system OF
earthworks, mounted with the heaviest
guns. Since 1867, Great Britain ha:
Immensely strengthened the garrison al
Kingston, and created an entirely new
one in the harbor of Castres, st. Lucia
Taking Halifax, Bermuda, Kings
ton and Castries together, a chain o
defensive Notifications is CONSTITUTED
within three days reach of every Amer
lean Atlantic seaboard city. Each il
mounted with guns of the most effect
i've modern type. Each is capable 0
equipping vessels for sea at an nstant'
notice. A cable connects them witt
each other and with London,
SIN the South Seas British empire
spreads over immense oceans and hold
almost every dot Of land that rises above
them. On one of the Falkland Islands
lust north and east of Cape Horn
There is A British coaling station. A
Sydney there is another. There is /;
third, recently built and equipped anc
splendldly armed, at the FIJI Islands
and there are the great deiences a
Esquimalt, from which at an hour
notice Seattle and Tacoma could b'
laid waste"