The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-14
HAWAII IN HER GRASP
ENGLAND WOULD CONSIDER HER
MAP COMPLETE.
Significance of the Conference at ottawa
Situation as Described by
Diplomat.

in the opinion of well informed people.
| ish gold, which is and has been con-
stantly at work to destroy the strong
commercial and friendly tie that binds
those islands to the United States. That
influence, it is said, was never stronger,
never more active, than it is to-day.
! Hawaii is the one spot on the map
that England needs to complete the
chain of her possessions around the en-.
tire globe, and no effort is being spared
| by her children, Canada on one side
and Australia on the other. TO get some
hold there.
The intercolonial conference now in
session at Ottawa is composed of the
leading men from all the British col.
onies. Although the sessions are held
in secret, one of the main objects of
that conference is openly acknowledged
to be the laying of a transpacihc cable
between Vancouver and New Zealand
To carry out this plan a midPacific
station is a necessity, and the Hawaiian
Islands the only spot in the Pacific for
its location
This scheme has been for some time
on the boards at Downing street." said a
diplomat yesterday. British warships,
which have been constantly lowering
around the Hawaiian Islands for years,
although England has hardly any in
terests there to protect, have seized all
of the islands to the southwark of the
group, Washington even the name
would not protect it from British rapac.
ity), Tanning, Palmyra and lastly John
sons, an island that had been Tor thirty
years Hawaiian possession, against the
seizure of which that government has
made formal protest.
HAWAIIAN FLAG OVER NEKAR.
"Those islands are, however, too far
to the southwark and out of the line of
cable between Vancouver and Auck.
land, consequently Neckar, another is
land of the Hawaiian group, about 500
miles north of Honolulu, was thought
to be the most available spot forShe
purpose, and orders were given to the
commander of the British gunboat at
Honolulu to take possession. Fortuna
tely the intentions of the English can
tain became known 10 the Hawaiian
government through the particular at
tention to one of the British naval Off
GERS to the charts of the island i'll Il e
Hawaiian survey office, and by pointed
inquiries as to It's ownership. The Ha-
waiian government imme diately chart
cred a steamer, placed one of its cabinet
ministers ON board with secret instruc-
tions, and the race for an island be-
gan. The British vessel followed the
steamer out of Honolulu, but the Ha-
waiian steamer, whose captain was
familiar with the location of Neckar,
reached there first, and the flag of the
new republic was raised and formal
possession taken in its name.
"Only one way now remains by
which England can gain any advantage
in Hawaii, and that is by continuing
the attempt that has been carried on
relations with the United States VIII, re-
by this country maintains so strong a
hold over the Islands, and thus place
them at her mercy. In this way only
can England complete her chain,
Canada and Australia secure the
coveted halfway station, and the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company OBJ
tain the necessary harbor facilities for
the vast ships they are building for the
trans Pacific trade. The trade of the
Islands, now almost entirely with the
I United States and carried in American
bottoms, will then be divided up be-
tween the two colonies.
SENATOR PERKINS WANING.
mo truer words were ever spoken on
the floor of the United States Senate
than those uttered within the past
month by Senator Perkins, of Cali.
fornia. in speech against the abroga,
ton OF the Hawaiian treaty;
Canada and British Columbia stand
ready to-day to make a treaty with the
Hawaiian Islands. Their agents and
their emissaries have been pleading dur
ing the past year for them to make G
commercial treaty, but they have de-
clined to do so up to the present time
because in this contract with us they
declare that they would not entertain &
similar proposition with any othel
country"
1t is suggested that an intelligent
observer of Hawaiian affairs during tn,
past two years has only to note the con
slant activity of British Vice-Consu
Davies, of Honolulu, who is at present
at the secret conference at Ottawa, the
attitude of the British minister at Hon
olulu toward the present Government
in Hawaii and his bitter antagonsn /,
the American treaty, and, what is still
British war ships around the group, t.
be thoroughly convinced that Grea
Britain is animated by something NOR,
than mere friendly interest in Hawaii
During both the Republican anC
Democratic administrations that hav,
marked American progress for the las
twenty years, American statesmen o
both parties, by wise and liberal polio,
toward Hawaii, have succeeded in hold
ing against all corners much coveted
point of vantage of the greatest com
mercial and strategic value, and it j
hoped that the selfish clamor of factiona
and corporation interests at home, aidec
: by British gold, will never cause thi
nation to throw into the British lap 81
rich prize. - Washington Post.
A New Cave Opened.