The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29

Sandwich Islands. There are two great
parties in the Hawaiian Islands; royal
lists, who want the queen, and annexation
lists, who want to come under our eagle
wing.
Neither of them will triumph. The
final result will be republic by itself, of
which the PRESENT. government is an ante
past. The Hawaiian nation is strong
enough TO stand alone. Because a nation
is not gigantic is no more reason why it
should not have self-control than a man
with limited resources of physical or
financial strength should be denied in-
dependence, If God had intended Homo
lulu to belong to the United States, he
would have planted it hundreds of miles
nearer our American coast. The United
States government is not so hungry Tor
more land that it needs to be fed on few
chunks of island brought from 800 miles
away. No danger that some other foreign
nation shall take possession of the islands
and give us trouble when we want to run
into Honolulu for the coaling and water
ing of our ships. With some ironsides
from our new navy and the aid of our
friends on the islands, we would knock
into smithereens such foreign imperti-
nence. Besides that, if we become as a
nation, a great maritime power, and we
will, none of the islands of the Pacific
would decline US sheltering harbor, or
supply for our ships. What though they
belonged to other nations, they would
sell US all we want. 1t is not necessary
10 own store in order to purchase goods
from it.
..- HAWAIIAN PROGRESS.
These are venerable islands. Those
who can translate the language of the
rocks and the language of human bones,
say that these islands have been inhabited
]. 400 years at least. When found in IT'S,
they were old places of human habitation.
The most unique illustration in all the
world of what pure and simple Christ
ianity can do is here Before the super
natural force began, infanticide was CON-
mon, and not by milder forms of assassi-
nation, but buried alive. Demented people
were murdered; old people were allowed
to die of neglect. Polygamy in its worst
form reigned. and it was as easy for a
man to throw away his wife as to pitch
an apple-Core into the sea. Superstition
blockened the earth and the heavens.
Christianity found the Sandwich Islands
hell, and turned them into semi
heaven. AS in all the other regions where
Christianity triumphed, it was maligned
by those who came from other lands to
preach their iniqulties. Loose foreigners
were angered because theywere bindered
in their dissoluteness by a new element
they had never before confronted.
There is Honolulu" cried many voices
this morning from the deck of the Ala
media. These islands, called by many an
archipelago, | call them the constellation
of the Pacific, for they seem not so much
to have grown up, as alighted from the
heavens. The bright, the redolent, the
outrageous, the fioralized, the orcharded,
the forested the picturesque Hawaiian
Islands. They came in upon US as much
as we came in upon them in the morning.
Can't. Cook no more discovered them in
ms than we discovered them today.
He saw them for the first time for him
self. and we see them for the first time
this morning for ourselves. More fortu-
nate are we than Capt. Cook. He looked
ont uoon them from a filthy boat, and
wound up his experiences by furnishing
his body as the chops and steaks OF a saw.
ACES breakfast We from a graceful
ship alight amid heritage and aborescence'
and snail depart with tde good wishes
and prayers from all the islanders.
HIGH OFFICIAL COUHrEsiEs.
As YOU approach the harbor there Is IN
sighL q long line Of surf, rolling over reels
nj cora. High mountains, hurricane-cleit
and Hghtning-spNt, but their wounds
bandaged with the green Of perennial
FOLIAGE in q few minutes AFTER landing
"a ehamberlain ~ the queen called 70 lh-
We us to her mansion. ana cher Justice
fued called with a delegation 20 ask mo
fe preacA that afternoon. ] apceViea lae