The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-09
4 POINT TO NOTICE.

1t would be hard to fathom the
personal motives behind all the
attacks which have been made upon
the Republic since its establish
ment, but it may be announced i'll
a general way that journalistic
war has been declared against the
present Government because 1t
favors the annexation OF these
Islands to the United States.
Americans, however, never forget
that the signal and single aim OF
the friends of Republican Govern
ment in Hawaii is to merge the
weaker Republic with the stronger
and by securing stability for
Hawaii to secure a geographical
and strategic outpost in the Pacific
for the United States, which power
will be destined in the not distant
future to hold in check, ifnot domi-
nate, the long threatened partition
of the Pacific.
1t is quite true there is no imme'
diate fear of national rivalry in this
particular part of the Pacific Ocean,
but it is also true that those nations
who take the pains to secure senti-
nal posts will be first warned of
encroachments by foreign nations
upon territorial or continental
water fronts.
The stand taken thus far in the
Pacific by the United States has
been a most conservative one,
viewed from the European stand
point. 1t has been extremely con-
sentative from the standpoint of
American residents in the Pacific
owing to their appreciation of the
importance of the situation and the
capabilities of Hawaii as national
outpost, which, it is quite evident,
have not, as yet, been fully real
lied by either the citizens or
statesmen Of the United States.
Probably the first awakening the
authorities at Washington ever
had upon this point was through
the repeated and seemingly ultra
American stand taken first by the
Provisional Government and after
ward by the Republic of Hawaii.
The fact that the Ameri-
can colony here has had a
clearer and truer insight into
the needs and demands of future
American interests in the Pacific
than even home Americans have
heretofore had, would prove no
mystery to the future historian
after he had reviewed the situation.
That it has been somewhat of
puzzle to the local politician and to
the statesman, far removed from
the scene of action, is not to be
wondered at. Neither of these
has been favored with the clear
view of those who have had Ameri-
can interests both in heart and
hand in Hawaii
As has been insisted by the
STAR from the first the matter of
annexation, or the continued
independence of the Hawaiian Isl
ands, is, for both geographical and
strategic reasons, bound to play
large part in the international
partition of the Pacific, which must
certainly come sooner or later.
The anti Republicans but an
other name for anti Ameri-
cans - are playing their po-
litical hand for all it is
WOilu III I1dWdll at TIC present
time. Their last hope is to keep
alive an anti-Americau, or, as they
term it, an anti-republican feeling
among the native Hawaiians. This
is done merely in the hope that
international complications may
arise which will hereafter enable
them to retrieve what has already
been lost as the result of their late
struggle with the Americans of
Hawaii for political supremacy in
the Islands.
The policy which has been pur-
sued by the defenders of republi-
canism in these islands has made
Roadway because it has had the
backing of the material and indus
trial interests Of the country be-
hind it. The establishment of the
present Government is largely due
to the trend of political forces which