The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-18
A FIEND'S REPLY.

policy against the acquisition OF
new territory by the United States,
starts IN It's new campaign against
the annexation Of Hawaii by polk
ing what it terms fun" at. the
opinion expressed by-eX-Secretary
Foster that the Islands should be
taken into the. United States at as
early a date as possible. The Post
cannot see how the Islands can be
so prosperous and the Dole gov
eminent so weak before the in
trigue of other powers. 1t laughs
at the thought of some grabbing
finger being lifted to wrest this
country from American control.
The Post, weak in its arguments
and weak in its representation Of
the popular Will of American peo-
pie, finds ready opponent to take
up the fight and refute the impe
cunious bantering with which it at
tempts to throw discredit upon the
Hawaiian government and upon its
staunch and able friends in the
political circles of the United
States. The Washington Star takes
mp the gauntlet and gives review
of the situation, past, present and
future, which, as demonstrating
the force of the efforts of our
friends in America, should stir the
people here to more strenuous act
ion, that nothing may be lacking
from the Hawaiian side in the
struggle to gain annexation.
The Star Suggests to the Even
ing Post and the following it rep
resents that it fails to notice, or is
not frank enough to acknowledge,
that the United States, despite Mr..
Cleveland, has been the sustaining
force behind the Hawaiian govern
ment these four years past, and
that that explains the failure of
any 'impudent monarch to lift a
grabbing finger Mr.. Cleveland's
policy was so emphatically repudi-
ated by the American people that
all the world took warming. Coun-
tries with land grabbing records
and propensities have kept their
hands off the Islands, believing
that Mr.. Cleveland's policy would
be reversed as soon as a new adj
ministration over here could get at
the business. ..r..
''The same feeling has prevailed
in Hawaii. The people there have
been advised of the friendship of
the people of the United States for
them, and have been assured that
Mr.. Cleveland's successor, support
ed by public sediment here, would
give sympathetic heed to their APP
peals for recognition. And that ac-
counts for the progress they have
made, and for the unusual degree
of prosperitF they are enjoying.
They have. worked with all the
greater energy for the assurance
that the day of their permanent de-
liverance from all peril and for the
fruition of their hopes was APP
preaching.
''The day for the realization of
their hopes, or for dashing them to
the ground, is now close at hand.
The question of the annexation of
the Hawaiian Islands will be pre-
scented to the new administration
soon after it assumes power. If it
is rejected the moral support of
this country will be withdrawn
from the Islands, and the present
government there, worthy as it is
and beneficial in its operations, will
not be able to support itself against
stronger powers that will begin at
once maneuvering for territory so
valuable.
Prompt annexation by Mr..
Cleveland would correct the most
conspicuous blunder of this admin
istration's foreign policy, placing
Hawaii with Venezuela in the list |
of names which mark notable and |
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