The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-09
ELEVEN GOOD REASONS.
DIR. CORWIN'S ANNEXATION
ARGUMENT.
A Former Pastor Of the Fort Street Church
Addresses Chicago Ministers,
Meeting.

lulu, between the years 1858 and 1903,
when Commissioner Thurston, Carter
and Castle and General 5. G. Arm
strong were boys in his parish, read a
paper on "The Annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands before the Congre-
gational ministers meeting yesterday
says the Chicago IHtey.OcedH. He
gave as among the more manifest
reasons for the annexation of the
Islands to the United States the fol-
lowing
I. Those Islands have been deve'-
oped physically financially, intellectu
ally, socially and spiritually chiefly by
the American residents A nation
which our countrymen have created
most naturally gravitates in this direo-
ton
2. The Hawaiian people were, N
the lifetime Of single generation, from
1890 to 1860, lifted up from abject
barbarsm to take their place among
the civilized and Christianized nations
of the earth almost solely through the
labors and beneficent influence of the
American religious community on the
islands.
3. The American foreign residents
and their children born on the islands
have been the champions of civil as
well as religious liberty for the native
Hawaians, and have been most inAu-
ent al in securing all the civil rights en-
ioyed by those who, little more than
half century ago, were degraded serfs,
having no title to the lands they titled
or to the fruit of their toni, extorted
from them by their kings and chiefs,
who ruled them with a heartless
tyranny.
4. Fully two-thirds of the property
on the islands belong to the American
residents who have come into posses
sion of it by intelligent and honest in
dustry, and by developing the agricul-
tural and commercial resources of that
wonderland; so that while they have
been enriched the natives have not
been impoverished, but have partaken
of the general prosperity.
{. While the Americans, the Ger
mans, the better class of progressive
British, and some of the other foreign
residents have been the stanchest ad-
vocates of civil and religious liberty, as
they are now the most earnest advocates
of annexation, another small class Of
British residents have been the leaders
of party of obstruction, jealous of
American influence, advocating a retro
erosion toward absOlutism in politics,
and lowering of the standards of NOR
aity which the missionaries and their
children approved and illustrated. Not
ably during our civil war the English
who sought to maintain the dominance
of British influence favored the blotting
out of American ideas from the Hawai-
ian constitution and the Curtailing of
the liberties of the people, as they now
bitterly oppose annexation and plot to
restore justly deposed and detested
monarchy.
6. The future of the Islands as to
political stability, financial prosperity,
security of life and property, educational
advancement, social culture, and spirit
ua progress, depends very largely upon
the supplanting of thoroughly corrupt
and untrustworthy monarchy, which has
repeatedly broken the most ,sitive
promises and violated solemn oathS
has attempted to license the death
dealing opium traffic and to establish a
demoraizing lottery among people
too easily led into the vice of gambling
and has patronized a retrogreSslon to
ward the morally loathsome old heather
customs, and restoration of the horr {
orgies of the ancient heather worship
7. The United States SHOULD
promptly and heartily welcome the
generous offer of the Islands by the
government, not only because annex
alton is every way desirable for TIT
Islands, but because duty demands
and parental instincts dictate that w
throw our protecting arms about our
own children, whose filial voice we re
cognize, and who, with a heroic loyalty
alike to Hawaii and their fatherland
have staked everything upon this issue
s. A clear provision Of this as tn,
ultimate destiny of the Islands ha!
prompted all our great statesmen, with
out distinction of party, to guard tn
independence of this group till it shoulC
be ripe for annexation. Now that tn
long cherished and eagerly coveted
fruit is ripe and ready to fall, it woulC
indicate paralysis of statesmanshi
not to reach out our hands to take It.
g. The contiguity of these Island
to our western coast, the intimacy an
growing importance of our commercis
relations, their position as the half wa,
house at the grand crossing of on
Pacific commerce, the extent of whiC
but few years hence no man can est
mate our need of them as a Coaln
station, which we can not afford to hay
under the control of a maritime rival
our need Of them as a base of ope
atoms in conducting war, wheth,
with a South American, a European c
an Asiatic power, and our need of thtl
as central position from which to d
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