Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-05-06

III w ooilAS lOu DIS d SpGlldl COlu-
missioner for the purpose of help
ing along the annexation idea,
has presented a statement to the
senate committee on finance
showing why Hawaii doesen't
approve of the proposition to pro-
vide for the abrogation of the
reciprocity treaty, in the Dingley
tariff bill. After enumerating
reasons why the United States
should not abrogate the treaty,
MIR. Tlurston says: "If the
treaty is abrogated, Hawaii will
be free to make such arrange
Ments with other countries as cir
cunstances may require. Strong
and steadfast as the American
feeling is in Hawaii, if the island
products are barred out of the
American market by practically
prohibitive duty, they will be
compelled, III order to avoid ruin
to their chief industry, to seek
market in Australia, Canada and
England, and will be free to offer
in compensation for special trade
privileges accorded to Hawaii the
rights and privileges heretofore
accorded to the United States,
and now exclusively held by it
under the terms of the existing
treaty." Mr.. Thurston concludes
his statement with this pen pic
ture of what would follow the
abrogatlon of the treaty: I'm
stead of the United States remain
ing the practical suzerain power
over Hawaii, as it now is, by the
voluntary act of the United States,
Hawaii will be turned loose to
become the prey of the first great
power which chooses to gather it
in, and the United States will
have placed itself upon an equali-
ty with England, France and
Japan, to thereafter engage in
scramble for the control of Ha-
waii under the disadvantages of
a self-inflicted handicap"
Representative Hit, of ILL.,, has
been telling some tales out of
school which he thinks account
for the enormous number of ap-
plications for consulships at the
beginning of every new admins
tration. He said: ''It is the
women. You know how it is.
Brown or Jones or Smith. when
he has means and leisure, likes
to take his family abroad. When
they come back his wife and
daughters are filled with their ex-
perlences. The whole town is
fired with emulation. Now, John
Jones may not have the means to
take his family to Europe, but
he has influence in politics. When
the political wheel turns and his
party is UP, he looks around to
see what the reward for his ser
vices shall be. Left to himself,
he would probably be content
with the postoffice. But his wife
and daughters have had to listen
to what the Brown women or the
Smith women say of life abroad,
and, woman-lile, they have list
ened with envy and a fixed pur-
pose to some day enjoy the
experience for themselves. So,
instead Of letting John Jones ask
for the postoffice, they insist that
he must be a consul somewhere.
Their ideas may be little indef-
mite about the nature and duties
of a consul's office, but they know
it means going abroad, and that
IS enough for them. So John
Jones makes out his application
to be consul-general to Paris, and
writes his congressman that,
while Paris is his first choice, he
will take something equally as
good, but it must be abroad. And
thus are the lives of congressman
made a burden for the first six
months after new administers
tion comes into power. By that
time the consu1ates are disposed
of, and the disappointed appli-