The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

The ghost of Banquo again arises at the
feast of fat things taken from the confding
Queen of Hawaii and her simple people.
This time it wears a German mustache
and an English accent. Now again turns
ZIP the idle and exhausted theme, 1.-THE
Hawaiian InsIands," this time from Lon
don and Berlin. The new German navy
will not be idle. The English navy never
has been idle and will not be idle now.
Briefly and bluntly, the islands will never
be ANNEXED" while the present little
oligarchy and family of office-wearers there
are at the head of affairs. Why? Because
they themselves have made it impossible.
And why have they made it impossible
Because they do not desire annexation.
Yes, know they keep sending annexation
deputations TO Washington, but that is to
please and keep quiet real-estate dealers
and other people who see money in an
nexation, to say nothing Of some few I'M
selfish American patriots who really desire
annexation. But this shrewd little family
of usurpers has no intention at all OF STEP
ping down and out of their high honors
and tat Offices. They never had, else they
never would have made annexation under
their lead impossible. And how have
they made it impossible?
In the first place, and mainly, by the
very act of selling the peaceful and pros
porous little Government and betraying
the Queen, under whom they or the most
of them were, at the time of their treason,
holding lucrative Offices And then they
outraged all decency by the trick of re-
storing the flag to the natives to pacify the
United States, but at the same time hold
ing on to the money, lands and offices of
the plundered woman they had betrayed.
The Senate of the United States-black or
white, Republican or Democrats per-
haps the most humane body of men ever
gathered under one roof, and will not con-
done robbery. How was it that President
Grant, with all his powerful influence and
prestige, failed in his really humane and
polite effort to annex warlike and conten-
tious San Domingo? Why, some of the
Senators-Sumner at their head-detected
a speculation in it. ''It is plumber, not
patriotism" cried Sumner from his high
place to the people of the United States,
and the scheme, which really would have
been good thing for San Domingo, Grant
Aand indeed the whole United States as
well, was at once "a dead cock in the pit. F"
In the second place this little family
of office-holders and high-salaried sons of
missionaries, not to say robbers of confd-
ing woman, are really all there is of their
republic with little bodyguard of
natives in petty places on small pay. Wis
dom, had they desired annexation, would
have called at least few natives and men
of other parts of the union to the front.
But here you see that you can cover the
branch and stock of the whole family on
the map with the point of your finger
This means indifference at least, if moth
ing more or less, from all the Southern
States and all the Western States. In the
second place they have continually angered
one of the great political parties by insult
ing it's head, to say nothing of the head OF
the nation.
In the third place the envious attacks
on the good name of the one most revered
man of this century has aroused the in
dignation of every Catholic in Congress or
out of Congress. too, as to that, to say
nothing of fairminded Professionals.
Lastly, back of all these things lies the
cody labor or slave system of the islands,
and far more depressing form of slavery
it is said to be than was ever that of the
South. The poor slaves receive hardly
enough to sustain life, and of course are
left to shift as they may when oyertaken
by age or illness, and at best are generally
kept in debt at the company stores, and
although both the Portuguese and Jap
anese laborers are willing and patient
Aslaves their condition is deplorable if not
yhopeless.
But let US suppose all was swept aside
and that not one of these many grave mat
tiers stood in the way of this consumma-
ton and we stood fairly facing the ques-