The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-13
As MA ANIFES ST
DE STTNY.

There are some events in the
future relating TO the Pacific side
of the country that are now accept
ed as so certain of accomplish
ment that they are frequently
mentioned as manifest destiny.
Just how they are all to be accom-
plished may not be clear, while
the result is not doubted All
these will contribute to the build
ing up Of a great empire on the
Pacific Coast. There is, for in
stance, the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal. The completion
Of that great work will have an in
huence in building up the com
merce Of the Northern Pacific be-
yOnd any computation that can
now be made Just how this great
work is to be accomplished is not
so clear; nor can any one demon
strate at what date ships will be
passing through this waterway
But the strong conviction of mani
fest destiny, as to these two points,
is apparent, viz: The canal will
be constructed, and it will have
the stamp of an American nation
ality. 1t would be difficult to find
many intelligent citizens who now
think otherwise. The delay over
the financial features is not re-
garded as putting the ultimate re-
suit in doubt. This manifest des-
tiny has become q national convic-
ton. That insures the working
out of results in one way or an
other. Events in that direction
will hasten to a consummation,
even if they seem now to be de-
layed
In a less prominent way there
was something like a national con-
viction of manifest destiny about
Hawaii. For years there were in
dications of an impending change.
Somewhere in the future there
would be a crisis. The native gov
ernment would fail. There was a
forecasting of probabilities. As long
as the former status could be main
tanned the old order of things would
not be disturbed. But what would
be the inevitable result when that
order could no longer be main
tanned? What would become Of
that country? Would the change
be for the interest Of this great en-
pire looming up on the Pacific
Coast, or would it be otherwise?
The national conviction had been
slowly ripening until the future
status of these islands was accepted
as manifest destiny. To-day it
would not be possible to reverse
this judgment. The few doubts
and antagonisms amount to very
little.
An ocean cable will, at 20 distant
day, connect San Francisco with
Honolulu, because that will be in
the line of commercial development.
In the last Congress a bill passed
the Senate providing substantial aid
for any company that would under
take the laying of a cable between
these islands and the Pacific Coast.
That bill failed in the House. But
since that time the whole situation
has changed. Hawaii has, in pub
lie estimation, already ceased to be
foreign territory. Great Britain has
already laid an ocean cable from
Halifax to Bermuda, not because
| the small islands that constitute
the group are Of much commercial
Importance, but principally because
Bermuda, off the coast of the Uni
ted States, was deemed of great
strategic Importance. The Hawai-
ian group is of far greater CONNER
cial Importance and it may turn
out that the strategical value Will
not be less to the United States
than Bermuda is to Great Britain.
One event will be pretty sure to
follow the other. Hawaii viii be
moored to the mainland by an
ocean cable. All these events seem
to fall into line in an orderly way.
Call it manifest destiny or by any
other name, the result is to-day
practically beyond a serious doubt
rs F. Bulletin.