The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-26
ATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898
THE HAWAIIAN OUTLOOK.

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that the annexation issue will be laid
over until Congress meets IN Its regular
session next winter. The House and
Senate are now organized, not to dis
cuss things that may be postponed, but
to deal with a specified emergency
With a panic prevailing and financial
cholera in the air, and with the remedy
for these ills a matter of contention and
dispute, it would be almost an impertl-
nence for the President or for any legls-
lator to open the Hawaiian question
As well say to half spent swimmer,
struggling to reach the shore, that he
had better tread water for awhile and
do some fishing. However, he might
like to fish under ordinary conditions,
his first business would be to get HIM
self on terra trina and find dry cloth
ing.
The fight in Congress over the gold
cure and silver prescription is likely to
be long one. The weather in Wash
ngton is equatorial and the hours
given to debate will be short This
will tend to spin out the session as
whole. 1t is doubtful, in the minds OF
many people on the ground, If Con-
gress will be able to adjust the
currency before its legal existence
comes to an end. Even if II
should solve the money question
quickly, its members, who have met
together now with such ill-grace and
without extra pay, would hardly con-
sent to proIong their labors tor the sake
of making a foreign treaty winch
could be safely left to the states
manship OF their successors In office
who would have more time than they
for its deliberate consideration.
As to the effect of delay upon the
Annexationist program there will be
various opinions. Speaking for our
selves we do not think it can be harm
full. Every week and month that goes
by without the occurrence here OF the
distress, revolt and financial upheavaIs
which Sprecke's and Nordhoff have
heralded - the substance of things
hoped for, the testimony of things un-
seen-wil increase public confidence
abroad in the strength of the Provls
ional Government The Annexation
cause and party wear well and bear
analysis, while the Royalists lose stand
ing as their history, purposes and
character become better known. lime
also effects, in a favorable way, the
question raised by Judge Cooley as TO
whether the Provisional authority has
sufficient hold and footing here to i'm
part a valid title and make Salts
factory transfer of this group. By the
same process that turned a critical and
prejudlced Commissioner into friendly
and respectful Minister the process
of time--a great and valuable re-en-
forcement may be had to the number
of our friends in the executive and
legislative branches of the American
Government.
So, after all, delay may prove a
blessing in disguise. As to the final
outcome it seems to the STAR a valid
matter of congratulatlon. Mr. Blount
himself, in his conversations with Chiei
Justice Judd, with various members Of
the Government, with the ex Queen
and with Honolulu passengers IN the
GAELIC, has dismissed 1t to the limbo OF
issues for which there is no future, The
Hawaiian monarchy, like Tom Corwln's
mule, has neither pride Of ancestry non
hope of posterity. 1t may be dismissed
from a calculation which now includes
but two questions Annexation to the
United States or to some other foreign
power
1t will be annexation to the United
States. The Democratic party can
not afford to leave these jeweled
islands to be picked up either
by a future Republican Presl
dent and Congress and added to their
escutcheons of success, or by one Of
the rival powers on the other side OF
the Atlantic. The United States can
not afford to have Pacific Bermuda
planted opposite its western shores and
lined with English cannon. Politics
and patriotism both support the an
nexaton program, and their behests
are imperative upon the party in power.
1t may be three months from now;
it may be six, and it may even be nine;
but the time will certainly come when
upon the towers of the deroyalized
house of Government and upon their