The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1895, 1895-06-08
Jingoisrn.
From the outlook, May %, 1895. ]

soon, Durn 1tSelt out. LII IS ap-
parently confined to a few news.
papers which are not above SEN
sationalism in editorial policy
when the news columns afford no
opportunity forit, and few dem
agogues in politics who either are
playing to the gallery" or are at
tempting to divert public attention
from real problems by a mock
heroic endeavor to create fictiti-
GUS ones. AS yet the public has
shown little inclination to respond
to this pseudo military spirit, this
artificial bravado which is the
forger's counterfeit of bravery;
but should the fever prove cpl
demic and extend, it might easily
become dangerous. There is not
only demand to increase our
navy and strengthen our army
demands which might be innocent
enough and even, within natural
limitations, justifable-but there
is an ill-concea.ed desire to show
what the navy can do by picking
a quarrel with some neighbor or
eagerly inviting her to pick
quarrel with us. Now there is
demand that we take the first
occasion to seize Coba, or either
seize her without waiting for an
occasion, Now there is a call for
US to absorb Hawaii, because we
must have a Pacific station for our
White Yacht Squadron. Now
there is a proposal that we under
take the building of a Nicaragua
Canal, in order to prevent Great
Britain from building it, and that
we resent Great Britain's sum
mary collection by sheriff S pro.
cess Of her debts from Nicaragua.
Now there are covetous desires
expressed for Canada. And finally,
one statesman, not to be outdone
in the raw. head-and- bloody bones
policy by his competitors, warns
us solemnly that England is get
ting foothold near this continent,
and constructing Notifications
here, and naval station there, in
preparation for an assault upon
our liberties, for which our fathers
! fought and bled and died, and we
must be up and arming for the
fray, if we do not wish to be
caught mapping.
d The truth is that there is not
the least danger that this country
will become involved in war, I'M
less by the cultivation and exhib-
ition of its own pugnacious dis
position. There is no country OF
the South American continen
. strong enough either to attack vi
or to defy any reasonable and jus
demands which we might make
We certainly need no standing
army to protect ourselves agains
: Mexico. Great Britain is doubt.
less shrewd, enterprising, ant
aggressive notion, and its policie
y are not dominated to any grea
extent by altruism. But becaus
it is shrewd it is quite unlikely t.
provoke needless war with tin
United States, from whose goot
= will it has much to gain, who's
i'll will might infict upon it seri-
Gus loss. Self interest binds tn
mother country to US, did M
stronger ties exist; but a common
history, a common tongue, and {
2, common religious faith are strong
or ties-they make Of these tive
nations one people. He who at
tempts to dissolve or weaken thes'
bonds is o traitor to both nations
3 AS to other European powers, i
is wholly improbable that any
condition will arise in the future
!. more favorable to their interfer
It ence in American affairs than thai
of our Civil War. The tragical
failure of France and Austria tc
impose foreign yoke on Mexico
at that time has furnished warn.
. ing to Europe which will not need
\ to be repeated.
If we have nothing to fear from
other nations which requires that
we prepare for war, neither have
a | I'VE anvthino IN ooin NV war poli