The Portland daily press., 1894-09-05


sideration. For myself as one who has
given the best years of his life to the
service of American interests i'll the
Pacific, and as a lover of the whole
Polynesian race, denounce it, At the
risks of criticism from those hold
most dear and of the termi-
nation, if need be, of person
come here tonight to denounce the
statesment and to appeal to theR intelli-
gence and patriotism of our State in its
refutation.
AS regards Samoa and Hawaii that
statement falsifies history, and while
seeking to datter the chief actor in it,
fails to please, for no one knows better
than Mr.. Cleveland that however much
he may ju stify his action towards these
peoples on other grounds it cannot in
the light of events be called humane
Humane!
Let the Samoans speak whom he
seeks now to abandon to their enemies,
to Great Britain and Germany the
greatest naval and greatest military
powers in Europe whose rule of native
races have been marked by bloodshed
and oppression the world around, if in
deed it has not meant 5heir extermina-
tion!
Let the Hawaiian speak, through the
wretched woman once their queen, now
pauper through her pursuit of the de-
lusive hopes held out by Mr.. Cleveland,
dependent on the charity of her people
and beggar at the halls of Congressl
But anticipate.
We are told nowadays in the dis
cussion of public questions to acquaint
ourselves with conditions rather than
with theories. What are the facts re-
garding our position in the Pacific?
On this immense ocean two-fifths of
the tQTrif0rV nf this nfrv fin6a ire
outlet. Our States on tine Pacific slope
give us u frontage there of over 1850
mlles, not including Puget Sound.
Alaska in it's measured extensions east
and west and north and south adds to
| that frontage twice as great.
10 the east lie
THE RICHEST NATIONS OF ASIA;
to the south. the future Anglo-Saxon
Republic of Australia, whose people are
today the aptest students of onr politi-
cal institutionsl
My friends, could the fathers have
foreseen the developments of a century;
| could they have foreseen this expansion
to the Pacific. and expansion which by
the connections of commerce finds it's
limit only at the shores which form that
oceans western bounds, and has robbed
/ the Orient of its name; above all could
| they have foreseen, as we foresee, the
| bursting of the Isthmian barrier that
! divides the two great oceans of the
| world, who can doubt that the hand
| that secured for us the vast territory of
the Mississippi, that was only stayed
| from Cuba because it was already in the
possession of jealous and powerful ma
ton; who can doubt, | say, that the
hand of Jefferson would have planted
our flag and planted it to stay some
| where on those fertile island groups
| that guard like sentinels the highways
| of the Pacific, the seat of the future
commerce of the world?
| But it was not in fate that this
| should he foreseen. And while our
whalers crowded the port of Honolulu
| as it never has been crowded since, and
their sails whitened the seas OF the arch
| ipelagoes to the south, the distant ma
| tions of Europe were establishing them
selves here where the valor of our
/ Wilkes ha made navigation safe for all
civilized mankind. Spain and Holland
were there long previously. France came
and took Tahiti and the beautiful Mar
| Quesas where Porter in the gallant Essex
| had raised our flag. Great Britain came
and took New Zealand and the Fijis.
| And finally Germany, the more eager
| because last in the race dividing New
| Guinea with
THE BRITISH, NOT CONTENT
with this division of the earth, ran
with her line lar into the Pacific de-
| limiting the seas as the sphere of their
respective operations.
| What have we, my friends, in this great
ocean on which our extended coast line,
our proximity, and the enterprise of our
| noOnla MARI n
| What have we there, or rather ] would
| say, what had we there, for it is hey ond
| human ken to know what we have there
now since Mr.. Cleveland, for reasons
which those who still try to believe in
| the integrity of his intentions, find hard
to explain. began to surrender what of
| our advantages he could in the Pacific.
and to intrigue against what he could
not surrender.
| The advent of Mr.. Cleveland to power
| in both his administrations found this
country in position of supreme and
momentous advantage regarding the
| Pacific
In 1885 treaty was before the Senate
which would have ensured the compile
tion OF the canal at Nicaragua, brought
the commerce of the world by our doors,
| Joined, as one, our two coast lines, and
made of the Eastern Pacific an American
lake. The Senate stood eager to ratify
| this treaty, and the country eager to
avail itself of the benefits that would
accrue. But wilfully, ignoring alike the
approval of the country which had gone
out to the measure, and to a consecutive
ness in our foreign policy which he de-
lights to disregard he Withdrew that
treaty, and we have today disappoin-
ment and failure where the achievement
| of glorious enterprise full of blessings
! for all mankind, was within our grasp.
Two years ago another treaty lay be-
| fore the Senate, transferring tosus
A RICH HERITAGE
from our countrymen beyond the seas,
! the sovereignty of Hawaii. pass by
! for moment the shameful stosy of how
this was lost to US, of the inJriuges con-
Quoted in our name against our country
men there, intrigues which inspired to
murder. I pass by, also, the story of
| Samoa, and of the attacks made upon
| our connection there, which ensures the
| neutrality OF those Islands and the pro-
| lection of our interests. / pass by these
to name the single foothold in this great
ocean which we can call our own, Mid
| way Island, small uninhabited coral
/ L. ~, -.