The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-30

MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.), Aug. 15.-
| Judscn n. Cross, one of the ablest
lawyers in the Northwest, and a re-
Gently appointed commissioner to re-
port upon the labor problems of for
eign countries, has a bright idea. 1t
| looks to the solution of the Hawaiian
| question, and Captain Cross has given
| it to President Dole of the Hawaiian
Republic in letter.
In nutshell, Captain Cross propo-
sition is that the Hawaiian Republic
| shall annex itself to the United States
by sending delegates who shall de-
mand admission to the American
Congress on the same basis as other
territorial delegates. Captain Cross
believes that such delegates would
be admitted by Congress, and that the
annexation question would thus be
easily, quickly and definitely settled.
According to his idea, all the Ha-
waiians have to do to become citizens
of the Republic of the United States
is to annex themselves, organize a
state and run up the old fiag-Con-
gress, of course, concurring. That
isn't the regular way, and the prOpo-
sition seems little startling at first,
because it is SO out of line with the
prevailing idea of how such things
should be done.
Presumably Captain Cross has not
Ventured this suggestion without in
vestigating all phases of the subject.
Congress has the power under the
constitution to admit new states, and
if a proposition of annexation should
have a majority of both houses in its
favor the president could not object,
as he has officially and publicly re-
ferred the whole Hawaiian matter to
congress. The proposition is an inter
esting one and may lead to important
results.
The letter is long one and refers,
first, to the noble sentiment announced
by President Dole in his late Inde-
pendence Day grafton, and then says:
If the King of Spain, the EmperOrs OF
France and Russia, as in the Florida,
Louisiana and Alaska sales, purchase
and annexatiOns, could sell, transfer
and annex to the American Republic
parts of their peoples colonies and
territories, why should not other peo-
Piles, colonies and countries, by their
own volitiOn, their own acts and de-
claratiOns, transfer and annex them
selves to the great republic which was
created and has been maintained on
the rights of man?
'If the people of the American re-
public may create, formulate and
crystaliZe into administrative and con-
gressiOnal acts the principles of the
Monroe doctrine, then why may not
the peoples and countries coming
within the range of the principles of
that doctrine, themselves initiate, an
nOUnce and proclaim the logical Sc
quel of that American doctrine, the
right of placing themselves under the
protection of the strong republic, yes
the right of annexing themselves to
the political methods, its administra-
tive, judicial and law making fedora
ton.
eff the American congress can an
nounce to the governments of the
world that an unfriendly act to the
Republic of Hawaii will be considered
as an unfriendly act to the American
Republic, why have not the Hawaiian
people, the Hawaiian congress, the
correlative right to proclaim itself to
all people and governments to be a
part of the Great Republic itself?
1.-THE Texas Of annexation times was
an American colony. Their right TO
protection and incorporation was re-
cOgniZed to the extent of going to war
with Mexico. Hawaii is an American
colony. Will not the great American
people recognize the right of its own
colonies to protection, to incorpora-
ton?
''Let the Hawaiian people be the
first to round out the Monroe doctrine
to it's logical conclusion, that all
American colonies which are indie
pendent, and all American republics
at least, have a right to annex them
selves and demand incorporation into
the republic which is the OutgrOWth
of the idea that the people may gov
ern themselves, by uniting in repre-
sentative, republican form Of govern
ment in a union of adjOurning or ad-
iacent states or states allied in inter
ests."
The letter then advises the Hawai-
ian people to declare through it's rep
resentative law-making body that it
is a part of the Republic of States to
carry out the principles of united SELF
government, and to send delegates to
the American Congress with a Re
publican constitution and demand ad-
mission. In conclusion the letter
says:
1.-The American people, through its
congress, will recognize the justice of
the demand from its far-off, though