The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-06
IA WAIT AND THE CONT
MENTAL. IDEA.

AAAAtsf a Va "a NAAa7 LAAA NA@s3AA~NA
family, sends us a copy OF an
address which he delivered at
Antrim, New Hampshire, on Dec
grafton Day. His theme was the
destiny of the American republic,
and some Of his ideas are as inter
esting now as upon the occasion
which called them forth. Con-
corning the sale Of Alaska to the
United States by Russia, in 1867,
Mr.. Anterior advances a theory
which, as far az we know, has
never before been stated so dis
tinctly:
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 simply for the
seven millions of dollars which Mr..
Seward paid her; but L 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
Gar, all the territory of North
America, from the Gulf of Mexico TO
the Attic ocean, should rightfully be
controlled by the United States"
Mr.. Atherton holds that the
manifest destiny of this country is
to control this continent. He
points out, as the Sun has often
pointed out, the mighty chain of
armament with which Great
Britain has managed TO surround
our present territory:
"She has 4 military railway from
Halifax on the Atlantic to Port Moody
on the Pacific, intended to be used in
military operations against this coun-
try, and on that account built in
great measure from the imperial treas
uTy. 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 coasting trade, and lay our unpro-
tected seacOst under contribution.
She has q similar coign of vantage on
the Pacific at Esquimault. English
dominion is eXerted over the
Bermudas, Bahamas, Jamaica, the
Belize, British Guiana, Trinidad, Bar
BADGES, st. Lucia, and the Leeward
| Islands. Bermuda, three days out from
Charleston and New York, is equip
ped with Notifications which are de-
! scribed in the Colonial Year Book as
! the most perfect and formidable in
| the whole world. A submarine cable
connects the fortress at Bermuda with
Halifax. 1t was laid only two year.
ago, and it cost $1,500,000, a,1m ten |
times greater than thec2changes be.
| tween the group.nd Canada. In the |
| hor OF N,Y,lo
GREG Britain has a shipbuilding |
| itaht, dry dock that will lift her |
heaviest seagoing battleships, coal
ing station; and a vast system of !
earthworks, mounted with the heavi- |
est guns. Since 1867, Great Britain
has immensely strengthened the garri- !
son at Kingston, and created an en-
tirely new one in the harbor of Cas- |
tries, st. Lucia.
'"Taking Halifax, Bermuda, King
ston, and Casteries together, chain |
of offensive Notifications is consti-
tuted within three days reach of
city. Each is mounted with guns of |
the most effective modern type. Each |
is capable of equipping vessels for sea
at an instant's notice. A cable con-
meets them all with each other and |
with London.
SIN the South seas, British empire |
spreads over immense oceans and |
holds almost every dot of land that |
rises above them. On one of the |
Falkland islands, just north and east |
of Cape Horn, there is British coal |
other. There is n third, recently !
built and equipped and splendidly |
at the Fiji islands, and there
are the great defenceS at Esquimalt, |
from which at an hours notice Seat
tie and Tacoma could be laid waste"
We take Mr.. Atherton's remarks
as an illustration Of the ideas that
are working themselves into shape
today in thousands of patriotic
For more than a hundred years
statesmen and philosophers and
seers and practical men of affairs
have had glimpses of the great
thought which Charles Sumner
put into n single phrase when he
declared that upon this continent
unity is written by the almighty
hand"
The development of that idea
will be the American issue of the
Twentieth century. The one OBJ
stacle to the development of that
idea is the almost perfect Gordon
Of iron and gunpowder which the
aggressive colonizing and fortify-
ing policy of Great Britain has
drawn around us. To I
complete the chain 4 single link is
needed.
Hawaii will be either ours or
Great Britain's. If it is not ours
within one year, when the oppor-
unity is offered, in all human
it will be Great Brit
inns before the century ends.-N.
Y. Sun.
PLANTERS MONTH";