The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-10

tunitieS FOR study ana reHectlou tne
educational process has developed,
and, in spite of the sentimental idea,
there is now strong and healthy
sentiment regarding the annexation
of Hawaii. Mr. Blaine has especially
rendered great service in this educa-
tional process. In 1892, when Mr..
Thurston was in Washington for sew
erai days consulting public men on
the subject of annexation, provided 1t
could be legally and constitutionally
made, / visited Washington at his
request, and found that there had
been remarkable growth OF senti-
ment In favor of ii. The arrival of
the Commissioners for annexation in
tensified that sentiment, but, perhaps,
not sufficiently strong to overcome at
once the settled continental idea.
The recent events In this country,
the downfall of the queen, and the
attempts to restore her, have done
that for annexation which nothing
else could have done-attracted the
serious consideration of this people TO
their relations with US. This is only
another and long step in the educa-
tional process.
If now we turn to Hawaii, we find
series of complicated political prob
lens, which cannot be solved without
more serious consideration. These are
real and live matters, Government
must be made here, as elsewhere, by
the people. Who then are the
people In America. if n new terri
tory is opened for sale by the Govern
ment, men start for it at midnight,
reach it in the morning, erect their
shanties at once, and by twelve o'clock
have established Government. But
these men have the traits and tradi-
tions of Government. They build
them as easily as the churchmen built
them in New England in the old days
when each man knew what his special
duty was, and the timbers were
quickly placed, and the rafters and
roof put on, and the belfry raised, in
different. You have in round numbers
ZOO natives, 5000 half castles, 1000
Hawaiian of foreign descent, 1000
American, 400 British, 100 Germans,
5000 Portuguese, 1000 Chinese, and
$1,000 Japanese, besides others. There
are twelve nationalities here, and even
then Government must be organized.
The serious question is, how shall the
| two thousand Americans impress the
| American idea on the institutions to
| be created here How shall all other
nationalitles be drawn into line Gov
| ernment must be just or it will fail.
| All men, by the mere fact of existence
| are endowed with certain rights re-
| garding life and property. This ri ght
cannot be disregarded-
! We must consider especially the
case of the native Hawaiians. In re-
| gard to them, every man here is
| missionary" We stand together in
determination to protect and pre-
| serve these people. Loud applause. I
| They do not understand our system OF
L 1Tnn nnf hAr 0na anf
| and they cannot govern themselves.
| They are simple and often childish.
We, who have inherited love for
| them, who have been born among
| them and know them, are bound to
see that in no event, at any time, or
under any circumstances, shall they
receive any other but just and hui
name treatment. You who have come
| here TO reside, will argree with US In
this, because you are just and humane,
| and have no desire to do other than
what is really for the best good for the
natives. We are pledged here for and
to ourselves, and to the people of the
| United States, that in all cOnsidera-
| tiOns for the establishment of govern
| ment here, we shall in every respect
| see to it that no change Of government
| here shall work detrimcnt to the ma
| tive, but, on the other hand, he shall
| be benefited by such changes. Loud
| cheers.
Out of the compile ted elements
here you must form Just and stable
government. It is not an easy task.
We have no precedents, only our sense
! of what is right and just to all. We
desire to impress on the institutions
created here, the true American ideas
OF government, so far as it is ap-
plicable to the condition OF things. To
Il hi -
and the work of your best men.
While this case is before you, YOU
must remember that you are confront
ed at the same time with your rela-
tions toward the United States. These
relations very materially modify your
form of government. The States are
not asking you for annexation; YOU
are asking them for it. They can
afford to wait. You cannot. In pre-
senting your case to them, now or in
the future, you must present it in
such form and substance that it is
satisfactory to them. 1t must be, so
far as possible the American sys-
tenn; not the English, or the German.
or the Portuguese, but the American
system, such as the American people
will approve. Otherwise, you will
fail in your object and be left to an
other reconstruction.
On the 18th OF January, 1898, the
old rotten ship of State went to pieces.
You were left as if on desert island
| to suddenly construct a new shin of
State. You seized the material living
around you and built raft, a snug lit
tie raft, into which you put a Jury
| mast and nailed your flag to it. You
| put good man at the helm and good
officers at quarters, and you your
! selves became the willing and
stalwart crew. When the time came
and it was demanded that you haul
down that flag, and the guns of the
Philadelphia were pointed at the little
raft, you manned what guns you had
and pointed to the flag which was
nailed to the mast But there Reached
out from across the seas the long hand
of the American people, which spiJxed