The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-28


lad charge of this bill here, and who
nave given out to MS their views OF what
il correct, and which we have followed |
90 faithfully and without question, have |
seen proper to preserve all OF the rccip- |
rocal arrangements now existing which |
arose and were completed under the Me |
Kinley law, although it is very well
known that not one OF those arrange
meuts has the characteristics OF treaty,
and it is perfectly well known also that
none OF them has the slightest treaty
obligation Nothing but moral obliga-
ton exists there at all.
The Senator from Ohio spoke about
consideration that passed for this first
extension, the second term OF seven
years OF the treaty. Whom did that
consideration proceed from? From
Hawaii. What was itP The grant, as
the Senator says, in perpctuity and in
fee simple OF very important rights in
the harbor called Pearl Harbor, ON the
island OF Oahu, eleven miles distant
from Honolulu and commanding it abso-
lutcly in military sense.
Ii the Senator's argument is correct
Hawaii gave us that Pearl
IIarborl in consideration OF our
agreeing to this reciprocity; the
contract stands until the consideration
is surrendered; and it is startling to me
that the argument should be made in
the Senate OF the United States that be
cause Hawaii paid us Tor this treaty and
paid what the world will consider very
valuable consideration, therefore it is
our duty to abrogate it. That is Il very
peculiar attitude for us to occupy here.
Mr.. Pcttigrcw-I wish to know
| whether the amendment would be
more acceptable to him if we gave back
| Pearl HarbOr:
Mr.. Morgan--I would not give VI
! Pearl Harbor if Great Britain with hel
guns or her navy were to demand it
because l am satisfied that Pear
Harbor is the key to the mill
we put that very important provision il
there we acquire more than Hawaii
We acquire the right to put a nava
station there and to fortify ito plan
, ourselves in defiance of all the nation
of the earth without question-obtain
ing our title from the acknowledged
t sovereign authority there; and W
planted Giberaltcr in the heart of tn
Pacific ocean which is stronger am
better and more useful than the Git
raltar that commands the Mediterranean
sea. Therefore | would not give it bac
if every gun of the British navy wer
trained to-day upon the cities of tn
United States.
Mr.. NIills--Precisely but you ar
now seeking harbors in the midst OF tn
Pacific ocean; all the officers of tn
Army and Navy testify to its import
ance to this country; and we have ne
: one in the Atlantic ocean, over whic
niue-tenths OF our commerce floats.
Mr.. Morgan-More is the pity, Nj
President, and more is the shame upo
the American people, that when the
= came to close the Revolutionary war W
: did not close it by accepting and recei'
- ing that which they could easily HAY
!
around to Honduras. Let me ask IL
senator from Texas what are tho
- places, those lowering points around II
- but picket posts, armed at an enormou
, expense by the Government of Gre,
, Britain especially and by Germany an
Il France?
!, For what purpose? Not to protet
:. England; not to protect France; not
- protect Germany, but to hold IL
United States in constraint. There al
ornaments of the most magnificent AZ
:, costly character where in naval station
and fortresses they have treasured I
the munitions of naval warfare
amounts that we can simply cOnjectur
for we do not know how much is ther
We know how it was in the late wa
[ do not mean the war of the rebellio
[ mean the war of 1912.
We know how those lowering pick
posts were ranged, as | say, from No
=, Scotia to Honduras and kept our coas
" continually embroiled and always
danger; how from each one of tho
fortresses there was a near line up,
the most important sea posts of t
- United States; and, Mr.. President, ,
can imagine nothing more to the glo
- and safety of this country than that \
shall occupy now and hereafter in o
power all of those military picket pos
whose guns are put there merely to
!, turned in upon our shores That is
of it.
: | do not wish that to occur in Il
Pacific Ocean. Through the sagacity
the former Senator from Vermont ,
= put into the treaty, and Hawaii co
-, sented to it, that we should have PEI
Harbor IN the Paclhc ocean, the on
: point where we can obtain the SAL
~ advantages in the Pacific that Gre
Britain has over us in the Atlantic.
! congratulate myself and the countr
too. that we were making some start
last toward policy which when it W
aimed at us was threatening if not d
> structive, and some day may be d
1tructive, and which, when we adopt
" will fence off the nations of the woI
:, from any attack upon the western cot
~ of this country, reaching a thousa
miles to the westward of the Hawaii
group.
D. Our possession by lines Of longitu
are more than a thousand miles to /
's west of the Hawaiian group and the