The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-13
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To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 I am delighted to see your remarks on the subject of annexation. But l fear that it has happened to you as it did to me when was very small and things went awry in the early part of the day with me. l was then told that mad gotten up wrong end foremost" and advised to take
 You must have had unpleasant dreams. or did the famous protest that Mrs, DominlS' political parasites and admlrers have eyolV- ed in her behalf OVershadoW you like a nightmare? What ever the protest may be it has all been threshed over and over by Mrs. D0minis and her popinjay attendant from Boston, Duke" Palmer As it opens with lie it will be imlnently proper that when it reaches the powers that be in Washington 1t shall be permitted to ''lie" in the same deep grave to, which the protests of. Til" and Palmer have been assigned without ceremony.
 The Hawaiian aborlgines have been dis franchised just as much and no more as Leo XIII has been made a prisoner in the Vatican. Just as the pope has the privilege of going when and where he pleases us every other law abiding Italian may do, so every Hawaiian born male is eligible to vote for representatives or senators on pre- cisely the same terms as the naturaiized citizens and the only reason they fail to register and vote is because they are acting under bad advice, and while they refuse to use their privileges no one can help them. LueIe IS uO Ol HilllNC born Hawaiians or discrimination against them in any shape in the constitution of the republic of Hawaii, q copy of which is be- fore me as l write this.
 There Is no more reason for permitting the vicious eX-queen and her Servle supporters few or many, to play fast and loose with the property interests of those who have creat- ed the resources of Hawaii and by thrift and Industry raised that lovely group of | islands from q condition of absolute pow erty to a state of marvellous prosperity and wealth than there is for putting South Carolina back under the scaluwags and car pet baggers of the days that immediately succeeded the reconstruction period.
 | When they talk about taking a. vote, of the people of Hawaii on annexation they may, or perhaps they will tell us how often this country or any other has ordered or asked that a plebiclte be taken in the ter ritory to be annexed. If, as has been as serted, the great majority of Hawaiians are l still loyal to the deposed woman who in sisted that if she was restored to the throne all who had taken part in the overthrow 1 should pay the penalty of that act by being 1 this alone is sufficient reason why they should not be consulted in the matter of an nexation. To understand just what that wretched, periured eX-queen proposed to do proposed to bring to the block and have their heads dropped into basket were then and are now in mental, intellectual and moral worth the peers of President Dwight, Judge Baldwin, Governor Cooke, and Lieu 1 tenant Governor Dewell, or in the exact l language of the late Minister Willis (who tried in vain to placate her wrath) ''men 1 who would grace any court in Europe. " Finally. there is not an argument now brought against Hawaiian annexation that i has not been worn threadbare in opposing every increase of our territorial possessions from the Louisiana purchase in 1893 to the Alaska purchase in 1867. Nor Is there any comparison in the case of Hawaii and Cuba. The civilization of Hawaii is of and from the United States of America, while that of Cuba is Spanish through and through.
 To oppose the treaty now pending with the Hawaiian republic is a blunder that is
 worse than crime, and a fight against manifest destiny. When Cuba has shaker
 off the chains of Spanish oppression and
 misrule and like the republic of Hawaii
 shown her right and ability for selfgov
 ernment it will be in order to treat witt
 her in the matter of a closer alliance thar
 now exists
 The constitution under which they gov
 erned and misgoverned themselves for fifty
 years gave the people no voice in the selec
 tion of the upper house in their legislature
 Those were appointed by the king, and af
 ter 1865 there was property as well a:
 educational qualification for electors of tn,
 lower house. Under the republic there i
 no property or income required to be al
 elector of representatives and not an eXces
 sive one for electors of senators. The fran
 chise very much enlarged under the repub lie. M. NJ. G0WER