The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-05


thereby, or because the interests of
Americans residiDs in Hawaii would
then be vastly more secure.
Nor, let 1t be said, are sentimental
reasons to prevail. The British lion
may not only protect his own lair, but
see to it that the whole world shall
contain no place wherein one of his
onspring can be touched, even to q
hair Of the head.
Palmerston's words went straight
to the English heart in his speech
about enforcing against the Greek
Government the preposterous claim
of the wretched London Jew In
Athens. While England has Pre-.
miers like him, it will continue to be
"the proudest boast Of a British sub
ject to say, Gives Britanicus sum-"
That the heart of the American
people responds quickly to any appeal
| to its pride or sympathies concerning
| the interest of American citizens
| abroad, whether native or natural
| lied, is clear enough from the way in
which they took the Martin Koszta
| incident.
'Martin Koszta, a Hungarian, had
| taken part with his country in the
civil war and fed to Turkey, where
| be was arrested but released upon
promise to leave Turkey. He came
| to the United States, and had acquired
| q residence there, and made the de-
| claration preliminary to naturaliza-
| ton, but had not become q citizen.
In this state of things he went to
Smyrna for temporary commercial
purposes, and placed himself under
| the protection of the Consul Of the
United States at Smyrna and their
| Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople,
| and was furnished with q tezkerch
| (passport) by them. He was seized
by Austrian officials, and placed In
| confinement on board an Austrian
| vessel of war in the harbor.
tsThe Turkish authorities disavowed
| and protested against this act, as q
| violation of Turkish sovereignty. The
| commander of vessel Of war Of the
! United States demanded of the Aus
| tian vessel the release of KosZta, and
prepared to open fire upon her, when
Koszta was, by agreement, placed
under the protection and custody of
| the French Committeeman, to await
| the action of the powers concerned.
| In the subsequent correspondence
| upon this subject between the Gov
| eTnments of the three countries in
| volved, the United States claimed the
right to relieve q domiciled subject of
the United States, although not natu-
| allied, from arrest OF his person, made
within the territories of friendly
State where he was temporarily So
| journing for business purposes, by the
| agents of any other State, although
/ that of his birth; and If the arrest was
in violation of the sovereignty of the
State within which it was made, and
| that State could not or would not re-
| lease the prisoner, the United States
would do so by force, within that ter
| ritory." Dana's Ed. Of Wheatons
Inter. Law p. 146.
The names of Commodore Ingra-
| ham, who opened his ports on the
| Austrian man of-war, and Admiral
Benham, who saw to it that American
merchantmen should ply their bust
with those of PIeble, Decatur and
Somers in the love aud admiration of
the rising generation OF American cit
| iZens
| But apart from considerations of
| sentiment for Hawaiian resident Am
ericans, or for the past associations OF
| America with Hawaii, as they affect
| the question of annexation, let the
| question stand on its cold merits, as
an American national, and not as an
American party question.
| A patriotic American is rot neces-
| sarily blind to the interests Of his own
country because he lives in Hawaii.
| On the contrary, there arr many
things which he can see and sppre-
ciate more correctly than he could do
at home. Whether the annexation OF
Hawaii is Objectionable as an extra
continental acquisition Of territory,
either because it would initiate an un-
desirable, and, as some term it, a
lingo" policy, or not, is broad ques-
ton, which Americans, both at home
and abroad, will answer according to
their individual temperments or ways
] Of looking at such matters, or as they