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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20

1t is evident that the eX-Queen had
Il sleigh ride in Boston and found the
weather dreadfully cold. Upon this an
American contemporary comments
that the cold of the sleigh ride would
be "as mild ythe steam room of
Turkish bath compared to the recep-
ton she would have received in Wash
ington.' 1t is quite probable that the
eX-Queen is a disturbing element to
the retiring Administration. In point
of fact white elephant is nothing To
it, but then the Administration Gre
ated its own white elephant
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
WV. DIMOND,S

If you have passed our store
at night during the past week
you may have noticed lights
burning and the force of clerks
at work opening boxes and
cases and marking up goods.
The customers took up all the
time the clerks had during the
day, and the only time we
have had to get on with the
work is at night.
Lots of novelties have been
brought by recent vessels from
the Coast, and we are now
ready for our spring cam
paign. The beauty of our
novelties lie in their useful
ness. There's no wear out to
them, and each fills a want.
The Primus Oil Stove is the
latest good thing to reach
here, and it is destined to
revolutionize the cooking in
dustry. 1t burns nothing but
kerosene oil and on the prin-
cipal of gasoline, but without
the danger. The Primus will
boil water in three minutes.
Mann's Green Bone Cutter
is not of much use anywhere
but in the poultry house, aud
there it is a necessity. No
other store in Honolulu hand
les this article.
Soap is wasted in the
kitchen unless a Soap Saver
is used. We have them made
of wire and they are economic
gems.
The Grown Self Basting
Roasting Pans are so well
known as not to require men
ton beyond saying that we sell
them.
The same thing goes with
our Ice Picks-nothing like
them have ever been sold here
for the money or convenience.
Extension Toasting Forks
belong in every house where
toast is eaten.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20

The Arena" not the American pub
LEGATION of that name, Out the one pub
lished in the Holy City, has an article
upon the Roman Catholic Church in
the United States. There have been
discussions between the high digna-
taries in America, chiefly between
Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Keene and
Archbishop Corrigan. In an interview
with Bishop Keane the Pope "absolved
him of the alleged errors of which he
was accused" according to the state
ment made in the magazine quoted
FROM AS sop to cereberus, however,
the Pope will raise Archbishop Corri-
gan to the Cardinalate. This of neces-
sity will for some time take him out
of America and allow the bitterness of
ecclesiastical conflict to simmer down.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
HARPERS' WEEKLY NO. IL.

The chief reason why annexation is
not desirable, from the standpoint of
the United States, is as follows; "We
have always been proud of the advant-
age we had over other nations in need
ing only a small standing army and
navy for our defenses. The Hawaiian
Islands are two thousand miles distant
from our Pacific coast. If we annex
them they will be a part of the terri
tory of the United States, and, in case
of an embroilment with any foreign
power, will have to be defended as
such. This will require not only large
and costly Notifications and strong
garrisons, on the Islands themselves
but will also require these to maintain
communication with them, and a very
much larger naval and military estab-
lishment than we now have" That is
the position of the mugwump.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
@imeRy @o1oice'
JANUARY 90, 1897.

In our advertisement last
week we announced that we
would mention the new coffee
machinery which arrived by
the "W. H. Dimond."
We have been negotiating
for the Guatemala" Coffee
Pulper for some time, it being
recommended to us as especi-
ally adaptable for the coffee
growers of these islands.
The Improved Guatemala
Cylinder Coffee Pulper is con-
ceded to be the most perfect
machine yet devised for the
purpose. Experience and the
brilliant results which have
been uniformly obtained with
this machine, amply confirm
all that has been claimed for
it. To those who inspect this
machine we wish to particu-
larly call attention to the feed
roll, which is a recent addi-
ton. The new adjustable
gates in the breast plate enable
it to pulp any size of coffee
WITHOUT BREAKING THE BEAN.
The arrangement Of the hop
per prevents pebbles and other
foreign substances, which are
sometimes found in coffee,
from reaching the cylinder.
The approximate capacity of
ripe coffee in the cherry per
twelve hours is 5000 pounds.
Weight of machine for ship
ping, 400 pounds. Height, SO
inches. The diameter of the
fy-wheel, % inches, gives a
rapid, and, at the same time, a
steady motion.
The simplicity of the con-
struction recommends it to all.
With each pulper is furnished
an extra copper drum and
extra gates for the breast
plate, without additional cost.
ErE
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
HAWAIIAN VOTERS.

As the discussion upon annexation
goes on, the questions under it, which
need careful thought and responsible
answers, multiply. A point to be con-
sidered is the Hawaiian vote. OF course
if annexed it depends entirely upon
the United States to give us the fran
chise or not. When anneXing neigh
boring states and cities the Republic
of Rome seldom gave the franchise till
many years after the annexation. On
where with annexation the citizenship
came very shortly after the details of
the annexation were carried out.
But the methods of Rome are not
likely to be the methods of the United
States of America. There are distinct
historical parallels between the meth
DDS of government, but the time and
the age have made entire differences
in detail, and it is a matter of detail
that must be considered.
Logically, when annexation comes,
only those who are absolute citizens
of Hawaii, as it now is, will become
voters. There seems to be no reason
to think that it can be otherwise.
Those Hawaiians, who have taken the
oath to the Republic, will at once
enter upon the free right of franchise.
Those who have not will have to quail
ify by some years of waiting. From
this point of view it would seem wise
for Hawaiians to take the oath and
properly qualify themselves for what
is inevitably coming.
AS was shown yesterday the young
Hawaiian is really capable of being an
intelligent voter. He reads and he can
think for himself. As voter he is far
superior to many voters in the United
States. Ignorance and prejudice are
to be found in many "A back county
There, where here would be found a
broadness of view that would surprise
the traducers of the Hawaiian.
From the point of view of those in
the United States who oppose annex
to consist of few wealthy and edu-
Gated men and the rest of the popula-
tions is equally supposed to be plunged
in the depths of ignorance. 1t is not
fact. But of this more at some later
day. The point under discussion is the,
probable position of the Hawaiian as
voter when annexation comes. The
Star now talks to the Hawaiian. 1t
will, as it already has tried to prove to
the outside world, that the Hawaiian
is far more capable of voting well than
many classes in the United States and
Europe.
1t is The Stars opinion that under
annexation the voting status of the
Hawaiian who supports the present
government will be the same as that
of the American and European. That
there will be required an oath of al
legiance to the new Government is not
only likely but is absolutely certain,
but who would be wrong headed
enough to refuse the oath of allegi-
ance to the government of great and
free power? The thing seems, even
viewed from the standpoint of senti-
mentalism, absurd.
But if the Hawaiian gets the voting
power, it is equally certain that the
Asiatic will not. In taking us over it
is very plain that only those who are
qualified to vote can become voters.
Neither under our law nor under that
of the United States can an alien Asia
tic obtain the franchise. The bug-a- boo
of an Asiatic voter may be laid aside
or, perhaps better, quietly put in its
little grave.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
In OIDEN TIMES

People overlooked the Importance OF
permanently beneficial effects and
were satisfied with transient action;
but now that it is generally knnwn
that Syrup of Figs will perman 'rtly
cure habitual constipation, well in
formed people will not buy other !aN-
atives which act for a time, but final
ly injure the system.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20

From some of the L. S. papers it
looks as if annexation is going to be a
live issue at the coming special session.
At all events the Washington Post"
thinks so, and the Washington Post"
is quite live paper and far more re-
liable in its information than the
monster dailies.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-20
M!N@~~~>~Q~.
Won HOLT BLOCK.
GOOD THINGS ALL!

The quality Of groceries and
specialties made in England
has never been surpassed;
some of the lines have never
been equalled even by our
good friends in the States.
There's knack in putting up
certain goods which the Yank-
ees have never fathomed, con-
sequently English manufac~
turers hold the palm.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
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similar but even stronger resolution.
Why should there be a change of front /?
The islands are safe; their freedom from
foreign control is guaranteed by us; we
have their trade IS we always have had,
because it is to their great advantage; an
nexed we would need to defend them at
great cost, and they require no defense
now. Besides what was right, and Con-
gress declared it TO be right in 1894, is
right now. We have nothing to do
with organizing the affairs of Hawaii
They are her own business. If the
people want monarchy let them
have ii; if a republic, they know how TO
form and maintain it; but we have no
right 10 steal a country under a philau-
thropic mask, nor to consummate an
annexation upon pretext that covers 8
'job," and especially have we no right to
do it without the consent of the people of
that country.
The case of Alaska is In no way parallel.
1t was Ceded TO the United States by ma
ton having the power 10 do so, but quite
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16

ndependently of that Alaska had a mere
handful of Indians neither qualified to
consent nor reject, and Senator Morgan
is beside the question when he uses it as
justification of the Hawaii project.
The strategic argument for annexation
has been used with many variations. To
send coal 1000 miles across the sea, and
then send warships there to get it in order
to defend San Francisco and the Oregon
coast, is strategy that must appear incom-
prehensible to the average mind. 1t is
said, too. that the islands lie in the path
of commerce between the Pacific Ceast and
Japan aud China. As matter of tact they
are 1900 miles south OF the line of direct
sailing.
The pending treaty proposes that the
United States shall assume the de bt of
four millions contracted by the Dole oil
garchy and pay it. After that, i'll order to
make the alleged strategic position de-
fensible-oply by an almost impossible
com bination of circumstances can it be-
come valuable-five or six millions more
will be needed. And that will be only the
beginning in a vain effort which will
profit no one and benefit not at all the
people of Hawaii.
1t is further urged that England is
making new Gibraltar at E Quimalt,
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
PHILADELPHIA TIMES.
HANDS OFF HAWAII.

Whether Hawaii is annexed or not.
the great wrong will not be accomplished
without the country being thoroughly in
formed as to the step and its conse-
quences. 1t will be opposed in Congress
and out of it by the right-thlnking men
of the country irrespective of party, and
by a great majority of the press. The
lesson that the colonial troubles OF Eng
land in Africa are teaching, the irritation
in Europe about petty questions OF dis
tant and nnimportant boundary marks,
the spectacle OF the hogs trying to get
all four feet into the trough, will not be
without their weight, but there are Ques-
tions of right and wrong-more important
than those of decency or policy-ques-
tions OF national morality and honor, OF
principle and the rights of the oppressed.
In 1894 the Senate unanimously adopted
a resolution that Hawaii had a right to
establish and maintain their own form Of
government, the United States not to in
terfere Herewith, other nations not to
intervene" That was in line with the
doctrine of Webster and all our great
statesmen. The same year, on February
Z, the House OF Representatives adopted
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
Observation-Disclosures
SENATOR JONES REASONS.

Whenever Senator Jones of Arkansas
steps out OF the financial swamp it is into
the sunlight of true Democracy. Read,
for exam pie. his views on the question OF
Hawaiian annexation:
II am opposed to il.
First, because I am unaIterably op-
posed to extending our territorial limits
beyond this continent.
Second, because the Hawaiian Islands
are so remote from our coast line their d E.
tense in the event of war would be enor-
mously expensive and Troublesome
Third, because they do not comprise
sutti cient area to make State, and their
maintenance as Territory would violate
the intent OF the constitution.
Fourth, because 1t would be almost
impossible for Congress to devise gov
ern ment for them that would not result
in confusion and failure.
Fifth, because OF the unfit and unde-
sirable character of the population. No
matter how favorable surroundings for
Improvements might be made, the large
percentage of the population would re-
main unfit for citizenship"
Any one of these reasons would be
more than sufficient to prevent annexation
if there were not big JOB behind it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16

tltloa through the ocean which separates
The TWO hemispheres on the hither side OF
which no European gun shall ever be
heard or an American on the other" 1"
With what face could we oppose Ger
many's invasion of our hemisphere on the
east If we were adventuring half way
across the Pacific on the west to gobble
up by force and fraud the territory of a
Government 50 per cent of whose people
disapprove our purpose? We seized Ha-
wall TOUR years ago. when our troops made
the agent of the ring of spectators rulers
OF the island. The pending treaty of
annexation is only the peaceful consum-
nation of a plot begun in blood and ont
rage as hagranU a 5 would be the forcibls
seizure OF Port au Prince.
The moment our hands are soiled and
our honorable record disgraced by an act
OF territorial violence and rapine we lost
the right TO rebuke other aggresso We
now assert the Monroe doctrine as the
law OF the western world. If European
nations do not recognize the principle,
they at least are careful not to deny 1t
formally and officially. They are impa-
tieni OF it, however, and would gladly
make use OF the first fair opportunity to
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
IOWA STATE REGISTER.
WE HAVE TERRITORY ENOUGH.

The Register is opposed TO annexation
for the reason that it believes that we have
ample territory now. and ii we take in any
more in the future it should be land con-
nected with the United States by land.
We can gain all the advantages OF Hawaii
by extending a protectorate over that
country and letting its people govern
themselves in accordance with the will of
their majority. We think that this is the
only way peace can be main tanned among
the very much mixed population OF Ha-
waii, and they can govern themselves
more cheaply as an independent country
than they can be governed as portion of
the United States. Hawaii and Cuba
ouid both be free and under the pro-
tectorate OF the United States, but the
Register is opposed to giving the people
of those and other neighb boring countries
the right TO voice in the government of
the United States. Congress has become
too important a power TO risk the balance
of power therein that might be gained
from calling representatives. from half
civil zed countries. Representatives from
mountain and southern States are about
ali this government can assimiate at
present.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
OMAHA BEE.
ANNExATIONIsr LOGIC.

The annexationists are as lame in their
logic as they are deficient in the sense of
political justice and moral obligation
The Baltimore American advocates the
annexation Of Hawaii regardless of the
prejudices OF the natives of the islands
and saws: Did the first settlers in this
country concern Il emselves much about
the preiudices OF the Indians? Did the
country bother about preiudices when it
took he immense south western territory
from Mexico? Has word ever been said
about the prejudices OF the AIaskans2 ?
Great Britain, France, Germany, when
they find it necessary TO annex territory.
do not trouble themselves about the
prejudices of the natives" Think of a
leading American newspaper arguing in
this fashion in support of scheme for the
absorption of territory to which this
country cannot show the slightest claim.
We conquered the territory taken from
Mexico and therefore paid for it the cost
of conquest. We purchased Alaska from
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
PHILADELPHIA LEDGER
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The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16

transfer with the consent or by the desire
OF the people. The document called 1.-The
treaty with Hawaii now before the SEN
ate is in reality an agreement with a band
oil pseudo-religious adventures, who have
seized friendly state, overturned
friendly and harmless Government by
fraud, and now want to make the United
States the receiver of their plUnder
Their plea that they have done this deed
in the interest of civilization, owing to
their own superiority in enlightenment to
the masses, would justify the overthrow
by professors and ministers OF the govern
ment of two-thirds of the States in this
Union. 1t would justify coup d'etat bv
the Mugwumps N New York City and
make all the superior people" rulers OF
America, with the power of transferring
territory to Great Britain or Germany.
The plea Is the more brazen because it is
confession OF the failure of their own
work as missionaries. The depravity and
heathenism which they assign as a reason
for annexation are the very things which
they and their fathers were sent 10 cure
fifty years ago by sim mple-minded Amer;-
cans. The use OF these things now to JUS
tify the plunder of the natives, after the
missionaries have drawn salaries for half
century for their conversion, is the
quintescence of audacity. We cannot re-
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
REASONS AGAINST ANNEXATION.


The main question should be not what
is best for Hawaii, but what is best for
the United States. Tried by no other test
than that the people would never have
worked themselves into the belief that
our interests necessitated annexation or
that our honor was involved in the failure
to annex. A protectorate over the ISL
ands, holding them against all other
corners, would have resulted, had We
forced it, in an agreement by the European
and Asiatic powers that Ha waii should be
to the world what Switzerland is to
Europe an independent autonomy,
whose boundaries and rights are TO be for
ever re- pected.
The strongest reason against annex a.
ton is that the islands are so remote they
will be a source OF weakness rather than
of strength in time of war, without
affording any advantages of a coaling
station or base of supplies not 10 be had
equally well without assuming their ca re.
The second great objection Is the char
! acter of the population, which, under the
most favorable conditions, cannot be
made for many generations fit for Ameri-
can citizenship. Our difficulties with our
own Indian tribes and the lower elements
OF alien populations have taught US this.
There are also minor objections, among
which may be sugges ted the limited area
which, together with other consldera-
tions, precludes the idea of statehood and
leaves US the alternative of territorial
government, which has always been I'M
satisfactory.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
Tones the

Its rightful owner, Russia. We are not
proposing to pay anything for Hawaii,
except to assume obligations amounting
to 81. 100000. The plan is to take that
territory from the hands of few politi-
claI adventurers, ref ardless of the will of
majority OF its people. There is ne ther
justice nor morality nor republican prin-
ciple in this. But our Baltimore con-
temporary cites the example of Euro
pean nations that do this sort of thing
as lustitying such a course on our part.
Is the United States. then. 10 emulate the
countries OF the Old World in their greed
for territorial aggraGdizement2 The great
American statesmen of the past did not
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
STOCKTON MAIL.
OBNOXIOUS TO REPUBLIoANIsM.

Annexation is obnoxious to our scheme
of government. 1t is the wooden horse
with belly filled with enemies of our Ie-
publican principles, and is urged by a
gang of self-ex xpatriated schemers who
put their selfish interests against the fu-
ture of the republic 1t cannot be justi-
fed upon strategic, commercial or moral
principles and if time be given to divert
public attention to it it will be defeated,
as was the San Domingo proposition.
There are things above bread and III eat.
The spirit of selfish money getting is not
higher than the aspirations of liberty.
The men who have absor bed to thems selves
in Hawaii the opportunities which be-
longed to the people, who boast that they
own every thing in the islands, that the
natives are not to be considered because
they are not rich and are poor because
they have been robb bed, are seeking now to
place their gains under the protection of
this Government and to sanctify their
theft by hiding it under the stars and
stripes. Let them stay where they are to
settle their accountability with the people
whom they have despoied, and if they
offer the sovereignty they have usurped
to any other nation, let US under the Mon
roe doctrine compel them to lie on the
bed they have made and garnished until
they feel the power that is always finally
asserted bV the majority.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-16
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will not be able to get the required two
thirds majority OF the Senate TO secure
the ratification of the treaty, and they
are now depending on the passage of the
Morgan bill which provides for the an
nexaton of the islands by a simple reso-
luton OF both houses of Congress. Ii this
statement is correct there is not the
slightest pros poet of the annexation for
the reason that the opposition in the SEN
ate is strong enough to talk the bill 10
death, or at least prevent it reaching a
vote.