The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-26
or EX-GOy WELLS
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Washington. leaves for Vancouver eafly
next week. During his stay upon ~,
Islands be has made n careful study oi
public affairs. Coming direct from ~,
capital of the United States he Is wei
informed as 10 the status Of Hawaii IN
that country The Governor agreed t.
talk for the STAR this morning and
said
zone of the things which never
changes in Honolulu is the general and
open hearted hospitality which is al.
ways extended to people from other
countries. Perhaps it originated from
the isolation of the Islands. No matter
how it came about. il was never more
profuse or general than it is to day.
These people are eminent in the exer-
else of the social graces and have there
by endeared themselves to the multi.
tudes visiting this beulah land.
Certainly the country and habits of
the people are somewhat different from
what found them thirteen years ago.
Your marvellous climate-anl there is
none to equal it's unchanged. 1t is
Incompatible. The grandeur of the
mountains and the soft, inviting aspects
of nature make perfect and pleasing
prospect.
"There are on the Islands fewer
natives of unmixed Hawaiian blood
and more Americans, Europeans and
Asiatics. All, howev are domesti.
Gated, it seems to me, by the English
speaking tongue, as much or even more
than they are by the American flag
that flies everywhere. This is because
both the language and the flag are ag-
gressive, independent and self-assertive,
always going forward. never turning
never absorbed.
zone is struck by hearing bugle calls
and drum rolls as regularly as in mill
tary camp. There is not here anarchy,
revolution or disorder of any kind. On
the other hand, there is a condition of
perfect peace, undisturbed by violence,
lawlessness or clamor, and without a
single sign of resistance or hardly an
expression of dissatisfaction. One won
ders why the Government should be
called provisional" 1t is so apparently
de facto that the former appellation is IA
misnomer. 1t is government main
tanning security and authority in
every department of the public admin
istration without organized or morgan
lied resistance. There is not even a
challenge of its authority, and it is a
Government de jure in the highest
sense. When the public safety has been
preserved and the rights of the people
protected and respected at all times and
in all ways, as has been witnessed, this
becomes i'll the broadcast sense a just
government "of the people, by the
people and for the people, and as such
lis entitled to their grateful homage and
sincere respect.
Governor Wells speaks in the highest
terms of President Dole and of the ex.
queen in terms of forbearance. He de-
or paramount title, but simply the
measure of the love, respect and honor
in which he or she may be held. On the
subject of a pension for the retired
monarch Governor Wells said: One
might, in my opinion, have an equitable
claim for just compensation on ac-
count of peaceful acquiescence in the
public decision reducing a term of office
to period shorter than the incumbent
believed himself or herself entitled to.
Such claim, if reasonable would sell
dom be altogether rejected.
Several circumstances in connec-
ton with the great change here, simple
and quiet as it has been, will always be
pleasantly remembered. No attempt
has ever been made to repossess the
offices even by show of force. There
is only observable the differences which
politically distinguish the sins" from
the s'outs."
The causes of the great change are
not so important as the duties that are
imposed. 1t is impossible to glance at
the Pacific iportion of a map of the
world without being profoundly i'm
pressed with the incalculable import
aiice which the central portion of these
Islands give them. Lying as they do in
the direct line of international com.
merce, trade and civilization, Europe,
/ Aoia nrth
have not only vast interests at stake,
but the interests of each demand alike
and for the common benefit that there
should be established here great naval
station. 1t should have every appliance,
facility and equipment which expert
ence and invention have heretofore
shown to be necessary or useful to the
merchant or marine service of the world,
both in war or in time of peace. Moth
ing can interfere with or long postpone
such manifest necessity.
"The natural advantages of such an
establishment are all found at Pearl
Harbor, on this island. These include
proximity to Honolulu land locked
bay always safe and accessible, suffic-
lent depth of water for all ships and
and all purposes, and space literally,
if not for the vessels of all navies, fol
those navigating the Pacific, 1t has the
requisite front, and the adjacent land is
happily SO divided in ownership and
interests that it can be purchased at q
fair figure. AS for the lochs themselves
no equally desirable station is known
to exist and the advantages of the loca
ton cannot be overestimated.
1.-The naval station undertaking il
quite too important or vast to be en-
trusted to Individual enterprise. L