The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-04
NO. 1S9.
MR. HITS SCHEME.
Why the United States Needs Ha-
waii

WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-The lead
ing members of the Committee Of
Foreign Affairs in the House, and
those Of the majority especially, think
Cleveland will send to Congress i'm
medately after the silver bill is out of
the way a message and the cores
pondence in the Hawaiian matter. 1t
seems to te the impression that the
message is already prepared, and that
the President will make his recon-
mendatons in it and give Congress
something to do
One of the Democratic members of
the committee said there were three
solutions Of the trouble in Hawaii
One scheme was the restoration OF the
old order Of things by placing the
Queen upon the throne The second
was annexation direct, and the third
involved the establishment of a pro-
tectorste over the islands. That one
Of these plans would be adopted was
thought very psobables. bua which
would be favored by the adfiiExration
or by Congress he could not say
Hit Of Illinois, formerly chairman OF
the Committee on Fore go Affairs, says
the difficulty Of dealing with the Ha-
waiian problem is one which could not
be overestimated Annexation, with
the peculiar conditions existing in the
Islands, is something that might well
puzzle the wisest statesman. With the
Chinese troubles we have in this coun-
try now and the additional questions
which the annexation of these Islands
would raise, not only in regard to the
Chinese, but the Japanese and the
natives of the Islands, it would natur.
ally cause some deliberaton before the
Islands were annexed as a Territory
and intended for statehood. 1t would
be the height of absurdity to try and
set up the old Queen and restore her
to power, and to establish protectorate
would mean to abandon the republican
form Of government for the Islands. A
protectorste would not mean that this
Government was to offer its protection
al ne, but that it intended as well to
govern the Islands as a possession. If
proteCtorste was established this
Government would have to have the
affairs of the Islands conducted in a
manner which would be satisfactory to
the United States and not be governed
by what might be the popular will of
the people who now inhabit the ISL
ands
Hit says it is necessary TO have the
islands. They are worth more to the
United States than fleet of ten of the
best vessels afloat. We build ships for
defense, and for the same reason we
ought to acquire the islands, as they
are the Malta of the Pacific Ocean and
are absolutely necessary to the United
States
Hit, while presenting the difficulties
in the way of securing the islands, is
not without a scheme which he thinks
will be satisfactory. He says the ISL
ands should be acquired as a military
and naval station and governed as such
by the United States. The reason the
United States wants the islands is the
same that induces this country to
build war vessels and establish military
posts. They are wanted for war pur-
poses, and if acquired as such could
be governed without disturbing the ex-
isting conditions or submitting the isl.
and to the rule of the most numerous
yet most ignorant classes of the popu-
lation.