The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-30

the political prisoners will serve out
the long terms Of Imprisonment inn
posed upon them. / was impressed
with the fact that half a dozen of the
ringleaders OF, the uprising are men
that we would call anarchists in this
country, and the country would he
better off if they never again gain
their freedom. But / think that the
better class of people implicated were
not rebels at heart, but were forced
into the rupture by strong influences
brought to bear. All revolutionary
feeling seems to have died out and the
recent strife seems now to be consid-
cred more in the light of joke than
an actual war. However, had Presi-
dent Cleveland attempted to land
marines to replace the queen on
the throne, bloody fight would have
been the result, and il [ have sized up
the present administration correctly,
the marines would have had to walk
over their dead bodies.
"While in Honolulu [ had an OppOr-
tunity of visiting Pearl harbOr, which
has been offered to our own govern
ment as a naval coaling station. Min
lister of Foreign Affairs Hatch had
charge of our party, and we had de-
lightful sail on the bay, which is
seven miles long by five wide. AS
for me, cannot possibly see why the
United States Government can hest
tate to accept so important a strate
gical point in the middle of the Pa
cific. If the Nicaragua canal is ever
completed, the Hawaiian Islands will
be the stopping place for the com.
merce of the world, and then it will
be an absolute necessity that we have
a naval station there. Were the most
skilled engineers in our navy to plan
such a place, they could not find a
better model than Pearl harbor.
Lieutenant Woods, brother of G.. z. s.
and Mel. Woods, of this city, now
stationed on the cruiser Philadelphia
in Hawaiian waters, has made the
only survey and map of the harbor in
existence. 1t shows the bay to be
irregular in shape, with a long en-
trance quarter of mile in width,
protected by high headlands, heavily
timbered. The shallowest portion of
the bay shows depth of twenty four
feet, but the deep portions are of suffi-
cient extent to float the navies of the
world. A long, narrow peninsula runs
from the mainland right into the en-
trance of the harbor, and offers the
finest opportunity for an almost i'm
defense at q comparatively
small cost. The only improvement
required is the removal of a sandbar
1000 feet wide at the entrance, which
would not cost very much, according
10 the engineers estimates.
"A1 that the Hawaiian Govern
ment asks of our Government is to
improve and take possession of Pearl
Harbor, to establish a naval station
here, and to give them a cable. They
are not anxious for annexation at this
line, for they are amply able to take
,are of themselves; but they do want
20 establish closer relations with the
United States. verify believe that,
or every dollar we will give toward
he establishment of cable, they will |
i've five. This ought to be of the !
greatest interest to the people of Port !
and, for just as soon as the proposed |
inc is established between this city |
nd the Orient our trade with Hawaii |
will increase to wonderful proportions.
he islands are rich in resources, and
re steadily increasing their exports.
'ortland Will get it's share, and ought
ow to be looking out for it,"