The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-21
WE DID WORRY ALONG.


Senator Morgan has come back from
Hawaii. having found there what he
went to find. This was some additional
reason for indulging in his jingo pro-
pensities. and some new excuse for de-
ciaring in favor of annexation. The
things which lie under his nose have
no attraction for Senator Morgan. The
institutions, prosperity and develop
ment of this country are as nothing to
him compared with the opportunity to
go off filibustering to some of the four
quarters of the globe to get ourselves
into row with saane other nation over
emi-civilized provinces and islands of
the sea. The destiny of the United
States reveals itself to him in the form
of chronic meddling with the affairs of
every other government on earth. With
this disposition the annexation of Ha-
wall is a proposition after his own
heart 1t carries US 2,000 miles away,
involves and embroils US in matters
in which we have no part and it
promises to add to the complications
and difficulties of our domestic policy.
This is enough to secure for it the en-
thusiastic support of Senator Morgan.
He has come back more enthusiastic
than ever" and is already casting the
horoscope of the future state of Ha-
wall No wonder it attracts him, be-
cause, if such state ever comes to be-
ing, we can predict at least one thing
with reasonable certainty, and that is
that the representatives whom it
sends to the United States senate will
doubtless be combination of Nor
gans and Platts.
Mr.. Morgan says that ''the argu
ments in favor Of the movement (an
nexation) have been underestimate.
In my opinion, Hawaii is absolutely in
dispensahle to the United States, and
we must have those islands" Like the
other people who take his side of the
question, Senator Morgan does not con-
descend to present his arguments to
the public. He tells us simply that
they have been underestfmated AS
there has never yet been brought to
the notice of the G o b e one argu-
m1ent for annexation, save the ''stra-
tegic Importance" sof the Hawaiian
islands-that is, the military and naval
policy of strengthening our advance
line by establishing a corporaPs guard
2,000 miles from the nearest base of
supply or support-we are still wait
Ing to hear what are those valuable
considerations in the mind Of Senator
Morgan and his fellows and nowhere
else There is absolutely no demand
for or enthusiasm over the annexation
scheme among the people of this coun-
try. Go out where you please and
talk to an intelligent voter, and,
whether he be Democrat or Republi-
can, you will find, in nine cases out of
len, that he does not approve it, The
plot is one conceived in the inner circle
Of politics, to be carried out by the ad-
ministration and congress without ref
erence to the people, and one in which
they have neither part nor approval
This TACT, Known to every intelligent
citizen, throws strong light of alb
Burdity upon Senator Morgans state
ment that Hawaii is absolutely in
dispensable to the United States.
Singular, is it not, that the great
leaders of the American revolution
should have established here a govern
ment giving full recognition to the
rights of man; that we should have
fought two bloody wars with England;
that we should have endured a civil
war, the most terrible in history; that
we should have placed upon the record
a century Of national progress, only in
order that we might add to the ma
tional domain a few square miles of
territory peopled by Chinese, Japanese,