The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-01
HAWAII AWAITS ADMISSION
TO THE GREAT SISTERHooD oF
UNITED STATES.

American Residents Hope That Major Me-
Kinley Will Favor Annexation-suoh
Action Would Abolish a Pract,oal svs-
tenn of Slavery Now in Force There-The
New Cable Project.
Washington, Nov. 3O.-Ex-Secretary
John w. Foster is In the city again
after his trip to Hawaii, whittier hewent
to secure a. concession from the Ha-
waiian government for cable from
Honolulu to Japan and Australia as a
part of the concession which that gov
ernment had already given Colonel
Spaulding. General Foster found the
Hawaiian government undisposed to
grant any further concessions west
until the congress Of the United States
had decided what action it would take
with respect to the cable from San
francisco to Honolulu. If congress
votes a subsidy for this latter cable,
then Hawaii will grant the concession
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United States does not subsdize the
San Francisco and Honolulu cable the
Hawaiian government prepares to be-
in position to entertain propositions
from other governments which desire
to connect the islands with Japan and
the south.
General Foster reports a strong senti-
ment among the Americans and some
of the British and German residents in
Hawaii in favor of annexation. The
British and German planters as rule
oppose the proposition, principally be-
cause annexation would abolish the
contract labor system now in vogue in
the islands Under existing arrange
| ments the Japanese Iaborers in the is
| lands, to the number of about 10000,
are all under long time contracts, which
make them practically the subjects Of
| the planters by whom they are en-
| ployed. The American planters, who
also use the contract system, do not as
a rule believe that 1t is well for the
country and their argument Is that
| what Is bad for Hawaii must be in the
end bad for themselves. They are will
ing, therefore, to relinquish what tenn
porary benefit they may get from the
| system for the ultimate good which
they believe will necessarily follow.
| General Foster believes that the
United States should take some definite
action speedily with reference to Ha-
wall. 1t is not right, he says, to leave
| the islands in their present uncertain
position We ought either to annex
l 10 svn1xe ~ A1,r
world that we have no further concern
in their affairs. If this be done it will
leave them free to make other arrange
ments which would doubtless result in
the maintenance Of stable form OF
government, such as now exists.
The foreign element iri Hawaii is
very large and sooner or later they
must become a dangerous menace to-
the present peace and prosperity Of the
| islands. If the United States should
annex Hawaii the moral influence Of
this government would be sufficient to
insure the permanence of present con-
ditions, and the islands might be adj
mitted on any terms satisfactory to
this government, provided they were
| such as to throw its protection around
| them. In General Fosters opinion, If
the United States does not give it's sup
port to the present Hawaiian govern
ment and the latter should become too
weak to maintain itself in the face Of
| it's present difficulties, it is not unlike
| ly that some of the great maritime
powers may seize the islands in pur-
suance Of their colonial plan Of con-
| quest.
1t is the American element, General
Foster says, which largely dominates
the trade of the country, and Ameri-
cans, for more than sixty years, have
left their impress upon the destiny of
the country. Americans represent to-
| day not wholly, but very largely, the
best thought Of the country.