The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-12-11
TALKS OF HAWAIIAN TRAVEL
Good Words of Govern
ment and Officials.
Should be Controlled by United
States-On Terms to be
Decided Later.

Capt. Nathan Appleton OF this city
has Just returned from stay OF a
couple of months in Honolulu, and
about Hawaii in general, observing
with a trained eye the social and po-
litical conditions, says the Boston
Daily Advertiser of November 14th.
He comes back not exactly an an
nexationist. but inclined to trust the
Hawaiian Republic to work out its own
problems for a while, then give them
place similar TO the District of Column
bia.
Iihad an interesting talk with Capt.
Appleton. He began by dwelling on
the pleasure OF his visit. Said he:
TO the American who has travelled
in many lands for considerable num-
Der of years there is something pleas
ant. even refreshing, to find himself
at least way out in the Pacific Ocean
in a place which really seems TO be an
American settlement. This is emphat-
ically the case with Honolulu. 1t has
the stamp Of the United States about 1t,
especially that part of our country
known as New England. Indeed, if
one of the proposed plans of annexa-
ton should be carried out by making
1t a part of one of our States, though
OF course California would be the one.
ali the same if we could only turn the
map of the United States round from
East TO West then the group OF Ha-
waiian Islands would swing into their
natural position and so be annexed to
the State of Massachusetts.
YOU see about you everywhere the
result of what the original New Eng
land settlers brought with them and
have added ever since they first came
here some 20 years ago. There are
first, plenty of churches, of various de-
nominations, beginning with the Cen
trail Union Church, modern edifice,
and a combination of the old Congre-
gational and Presbyterian places of
worship as established by the original
missionaries. Then there are churches
Japanese, and a Roman Catholic
Church, attended by many of the Port
uguese who are here.
There are plenty of schools of va
rious kinds, including kindergartens.
and the fine Bishop Museum devoted
especially to the ethnology of the Pa
cific Islands There is a. library and
a Young Mems Christian Association,
indeed two, as the Chinese have one
of their own, a fire department with
men and horses ready to start out like
any in our own cities. There is also
q Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and post of the Grand
Army of the Republic, named in honor
OF De Long, the commander of an i'll
fated jeanette expedition in search of
the North Pole, and camp of Sons of
Veterans, named for Capt. Wiltze of
the L. S. S. Boston, who hoisted the
Stars and Stripes in 1893.
This will give some idea of the
Yankee Americanism which has been
here for years, and is still stronger
than ever before, and which has never
had any other place in which to mani
fest Itself outside of its own geograph-
ical limits except on the Isthmus of
Panama in the early days of the rail
road and the American line of Pa
cific Mail steamers until this influence
became somewhat overshadowed by the
work on the great canal All this.
however. can easily be regained by
bringing out entirely the Panama Ca
nal, both the old and new companies,
and then taking hold and completing
the work which, with the appliances
of modern engineering and mechanics,
ought not TO be an affair of great diff
ficulty or length of time in execution,
with the ownership of the canal and
an island in time in the Bay of Pana-
ma our position as maratime power
would be tremendously strengthened. -
What would you say the chief need
of the Islands today, Captain was
asked.
The canal takes us at once to this
group of Islands and the important
part they must play in the future of the
development of commerce in the Pa
cifc Ocean. a glance at the map shows