The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-06

lcare nothing for reason any more
than they do for truth The petition
Iof 5000 voters among that native pop
ulation to have their old government
restored. even if it is not acted upon
lby the United States. ought to cause
thinking people to see that somebody
else in Hawaii has rights as well as
the handful Of whites, who have
seized control and propose to rob the
islanders of their legitimate share in
the government Of their country.
| A gentleman connected with the San
Francisco Examiner, who was on the
Islands at the time of the
overturning OF the monarchy and
who was recently in the east, gave to
an interviewer the following particu-
lars Of affairs in Hawaii:
THE scheme to annex Hawaii" he
said, had its origin in the mind OF
James G. Blaine. He saw what mag
lnificent station it would make and
what a splendid rendezvous for the
ships of the United States when the
Nicaragua canal was completed, and
the commerce of the United States
and Europe and the orient passed
| through the canal. Hawaii, in the pos
session of the United States, in the
event of the completion Of the canal,
would be the key to the situation in
! the Pacific waters. All ships plying
the Pacific between the canal and ports
of Japan, China and other oriental
countries, would naturally pass by the
Islands. The Republican administra-
ton was doubtless of the opinion that
to close the regime with such an eclat
would be feather in the cap of the
party and an argument for reelection.
Minister Stevens was at heart an
lannexationist. He, no doubt, was in
touch with the movement to make
Hawaii a part of the United States.
1t is true that the queen believed
the United States government to be
behind the movement to annex the
islands. Standing in awe of such a
power, she surrendered the reins of
hef government upon conditions.
one OF the arguments advanced
against annexation was that the pau
per and coolie labor contracted for to
work in the sugar fields in the islands
was so cheap that should the system
be allowed in case of annexation the
sugar men in Louisiana would claim
the same right to employ similar labor
in the production of their sugar. Fifty
cents per day would probably cover
The amount of wages paid to the cool
les They are employed on contract
Tor two years, but they generally stay
longer No other class of people
Americans or Europeans-could stand
the work on account of the climate
ana the privations it brings upon COM
mon labor
Now that the settlement of the ques-
ton of what shall be done with the
Hawaiian difficulty is in the hands of
Congress, it seems as though it is time
to cease abusing the President for en-
deavoring to repair the wrong done by
"a representative of the United States.
But it seems that papers which hate
Cleveland with a bitterness that is
savage and maniacal in its intensity,
cannot relinquish the opportunity
which is afforded them to dart their
venomous shafts against him, by the
common lack of understanding on Ha-
waiian affairs that prevails in this
country. There will be a mighty
change of public sentiment concerning
the matter when reason and knowledge
have their sway,