The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-25

L
: and the Foreign Relations Committee O
: the United States Senate saw the ered
4 value OF Hawaii when they gave their sig
: natures to the treaty of annexn ION. Or
: those Islands is established ar american
: colony with a solid basis OF American
2 civilization, the creation o. the sterling
2 | men and women who. mary wears ago
left their homes under the powerful in.
SEPARATION of Christian faith, whose mum
} bers were supplemented by men of in
, duStry and of commerce. These persons
took with them American ideas and Am
erlcan sentiments. In none of our Am
erican states Is the a more earnest.
more loyal American people. They look
to the flag which their fathers reared
and consecrated to American liberty
| and good government for protection.
They stretch out pleading hand to this
mighty nation of freemen not TO aban-
don them in the days OF their imperative
need. The American people hear their
cry for sympathy and support. Shall
they plead in vain? What would the
leading nations of Europe do in like cir
cunstances? Would England, France
Germany or Spain abandon their people,
their colonies, men of their own blood,
| IN like stress of need? Those nations
would scorn any such abandonment of
those of their own kith and kin to the
pitiless chances OF relentless fate. Some
OF the brightest pages IN the history of
European nations are those that record
their heroic defence of their colonies
abroad. Did Greece or Rome, pagan
! though they were, desert their country
1 men in other lands? The Grecian and
Roman citizen and soldier would have
! looked with ineffable scorn on such
proposal. Humanity, patriotism and
| craftsmanship demand that the Hawaii
an Islands should be at once and forever
| placed under the American flag. Beside
! the vast Importance of the American
commercial and naval interests involved
| in the Hawaiian problem, is the question
of Christian civilization i'll danger from
an amalgam of Polynesian and Oriental
| sensualism. Shall European-American
ideas OF life, of morals, of religion, and
Of government, planted by American
hands on those isles of the ocean, pre-
vail? Or shall they be uprooted and de-
stroyed by opposing forces? Shall the
Plymouth Rock of the Pacific, which
American Christian men and women for
more than half a century have watched
and guarded with so much care, be sub
merged by the tide of semi-heathenism
and anarchy which now threaten it? Or
shall that outpost of American ideas, |
American law, and American interests
that ocean fortress OF Christian civiliza- |
ton fronting the Asiatic world, be aban |
doned to the Ubiquitous and selfish de- |
signs of INSCRIPTIONS adventures who |
care nothing for country, for religion, for |
civilization itself. This is one of the is |
sues closely involved in Hawaiian an |
neXation, which the men and women of |
America are now called to decide. There |
are those of narrow, provincial views, |
who are like the snail that limits its do |
main to its own shell. or like Diogenes, |
who wanted to live only in his little tub.
Such as these opposed the annexation of |
Louisiana, of Texas, of California and /
Alaska, saying that our country was and
is large enough. Not so thought Presi-
dent Jefferson when he repudiated his
former contracted theories of the Consti-
tuition and for sixty millions of francs
acquired the domain so essential to the
future greatness of his country. / re-
member, and some of you remember well,
when these provincial, special-pleading
theorists said: why lumber up the ma
ton by annexing far-off California, thou
sands of miles across an arid, worthless
desert, beyond the Rocky Mountains"
Not SO thought our early statesmen
when, for sixty millions of francs, they
acquired the domain so essential to the
future greatness of their country. l re-
member, and some OF You remember
we'll when these provincial, special
pleading theorists said: Why lumber
up the nation by annexing far-off Cali
fornia, thousands OF miles across an arid,
worthless desert, beyond the Rocky
Mountains ?"
Fortunately, our statesmen then in
power had not bats eyes--.hey saw
plainly that 1.-The star OF. empire west
ward takes its way"
Every American patriot, whatever
may be the state of his domicile, every
American statesman whose vision is not
limited to section, who loves and cares
for the prosperity and greatness of the
nation as unit, desires the speedy COM
pletion OF the Nicaragua canal by Ameri-
can capital and under American con-
troll. The elaborate Investigation OF
competent engineers and of competent
financial experts show that the compile
tion of this magnificent enterprise can
be secured at figures of cost which would
render it a sure and profitable invest
ment. Bringing San Francisco, Por;-
land and the Puget Sound cities nine
thousand miles nearer New Yo;:, Lon {
don and Hamburg, it would thu; give
vantage in the future commerce OF the
Pacific. The immense land, timber,
mineral and other resources of the
Pacific States would be duplicated in
value. The great Nicaragua lake would
give the American navy healthy and
safe esh wafer harbor, from which our
ships at telegraphic order from Wa ching
ton, could steam out TO the Pacific or to
the Atlantic, as American interests and
necessities might require, vastly increas-
ing our available naval power. Thus it
is obvious that the construction of the
great canal and The annexation OF the
Hawaiian islands, both for commercial
and naval reasons, are embraced in the
matured plan of uur ablest statesmen
and of all thoughtful Americans. Will
we ANONYMOUSLY neglect Americas great
while cur rivals are busy
in making themselves masters of what
is logically and fairly ours? Ninety
years ago, when we were small nation
OF six millions, President Jefferson cast
aside and ignored his previous theories
of the constitution, and annexed Lousi-
ana, because he and those acting with
him saw the future value to his country
OF the territory thus acquired. l hesitate
not to express the opinion that the COM
pletion OF the Nicaragua canal and the
acquisition of the Hawaiian islands will
be as important to the great future of the
United States IS the acquisition Of New :
Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi
have proved to be to the wealth and .
power OF the Union since 1903. Viii
we allow oJIr partiSan differences ar