The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-12-11
THE PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press.l


In no part of the United States has
the end of President Cleveland's term
been awaited with more eagerness than
in PARKWAY Hawaii. When he with
drew from the Senate the Annexation
Treaty framed by President Harrison,
he planted himself in the way of as
pirations which had for more than a
generation Quickened the pulses of all
the more progressive elements of the
Hawaiian population aspirations to-
ward union with our great Republic,
which had well-nigh reached fruition,
when on Cleveland's Inauguration he
so strangely reversed the policy of his
predecessor and slammed the door in
the islanders faces. No American Pres
ident ever made himself so cordially
hated in Hawaii. Its people came TO
us with gifts. They offered us do
minion over the Paradise of the Pa
cifc." They rendered us the key to
the storehouses of the ocean and of
the Orient. They offered their Island
empire as a stepping stone for our
commerce, as a refuge for our navies,
as a bulwark of inestimable value in
case of war. In return they asked the
long-coveted boon of American citi-
Zenship-shelter under our flag, the
sight of whose folds unrolling over the
Government House at Honolulu had
been so long pleasing object in their
dreams. But they were repealed with
insult, and the wrong was deepened
by Cleveland's inexplicable attempt TO
overturn this newly organized Repub-
lican Government and to re-enthrone
the faithless and degraded Queen Lii
uokalani The Stars and Stripes,
which they had run up in anticipation
of the ratification of the Annexation
Treaty, were pulled down by the Amer
lean Presidents order, and they were
left, officially unfriended, to an uncer-
tain destiny
The strength of the Hawaiian's at
tachment to the United States, and
their faith in the reciprocal good feel
ing toward them of the vast majority
of our people, despite the strange at
titude of our President, is shown by.
their patience under Cleyeland's af-
front, and their Willingness to wait,
with their rejected offers in their
hands, until he should be superseded.
They have put aside alluring offers
from England and other nations, of
protectorates, commercial unions and
the like. They refused to cede to Great
BRIAN one of their small, uninhabit-
ed islands as place for the landing of
an ocean cable-a cession, by the way.
recommended by President
Cleveland. They have felt that they
had only to bide their time, and friend
lier hands would open for them the
dOOA VI Jul IcpuUliC anu now, WIN |
the election OF Mckinley, they feel that
those friendlier hands will soon be |
clothed with power, and their loyal |
patience is to be rewarded. There is
Joy in Hawaii, and the Island Govern
nent is reported to be again already
to appoint new Commits
'ion to reopen the question of annexa-
ion as soon as the President-elect shall
De inaugurated.
As prominent Bostonian remarks.
Who has just returned from long Wis
I TO Hawaii, the social and political
conditions in the Islands have already
the stamp Of the United States" about
hem The assimilating process has
'een going on so long that no jar of
.hange will be noticeable when annex
tion takes place-only quickening of
activities and Frightening of hope.
Annexation will bring with it the
construction of a trans-Pa-l