The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-08
FAvORs HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Says That Every Consideration Of Honor
and Dignity Requires tho Same.

says Ihat Every CONSIDERATION ot h"""'
and Dignity Requires the Same.
BY a special message dated the 18th
day of June last, l laid before the SEN
ate a treaty signed that day by the
plenipotentiaries Of the United states
and of the republic of Hawaii having
for its purpose the Incorporation OF the
Hawaiian islands as an integral part
OF the United States and under It's SOW
ereignty. The senate having removed
the injunction of secrecy, although the
treaty is still pending before that body,
the subject may be properly referred
to in this message because the neces-
sary action Of the congress is required
to determine by legislation many de-
tails of the eventual union, should the
fact of annexation be accomplished, as
/ believe IL should be. While consist
emily disavowing from a very early pc
riod any aggressive policy of absorb
ton in regard to the Hawaiian group,
long series of declarations through
three-quarters of century has pro-
claimed the vital interest of the United
| States In the independent life OF the ISL
ands and their intimate commercial de-
| pendence upon this country. AT the
| same time II has been repeatedly as
| serted that in no event could the entity
| of Hawaiian statehood cease by the
| passage of the islands uncer the domi-
| nation or influence OF another power
| than the united StateS.
Under these circumstances the logic
| Of events required that annexation.
| heretofore offered but declined, should
| in the ripeness of time come about as
! the natural result of the strengthen
ing ties that bind us to those Islands.
and be realized by the free will OF the
! Hawaiian state. That treaty was unan-
imously ratified without amendment by
the senate and president of the republic
| Of Hawaii on the 10th of September
last, and only the favorable action or
the American senate to effect the COM
plete absorption Of the islands into the
domain of the United States. What
the conditions of such a union shall be.
the political relation thereof to the
United States, the character of the To-
cal administration, the quality and de-
gree Of the elective franchise OF the
inhabitants, the extension OF the red
eral laws to the territory or the en-
actment of special laws to fit the Pc
culiar condition thereof, the regulation
| IL need be, of the labor system therein
are all matters which the treaty has
wisely relegated to the congress.
If the treaty IL confirmed as every
consideration of dignity and honor re-
quires. the wisdom OF congress VIII SCI
| to IL that, avoiding abrupt assimila
ton Of elements perhaps hardly yet mt
ted to share in the highest franchises
of citizenship and having due regart
TO the geographical conditions, the mos
, lust provisions for self rule in loca
matters, with the largest political lid
critics as an integral part of our ma
! ton will be accorded to the Hawaiians
: No less is due to people VINO, afte
nearly five years of demonstrated ca
= pacity to fulfill the obligations OF sci
governing statehood, come OF their owl
free will to merge their destinies II
our body polite.
: The questions which have arisen be
tween Japan and Hawaii by reason O
the treatment of Japanese laborers EN-
! igrating to the islands under the Ha
waiian- Japanese convention or 1888 ar
I in a satisfactory stage of settlement
4 by negotiation. This government ha
I not been invited to mediate, and on tn
= other hand has sought no interventio
+ I'm that matter further than to evinc
8 it's kindlest disposition toward such
4 speedy and direct adjustment by tn
e two sovereign states in interest as sha
= comport with equity and honor. 1t
= gratifying to learn that the apprehen
i sions at first displayed on the part {
( Japan lest the cessation of Havana
( national life through annexation Nigh
s impair privileges to which Japan nor
i orally laid claim, have given place I
: confidence in the uprisntness or tn
government and in the sincerity OF II
t purpose to deal with all possible u
: terror questions in the broadcast spir
n of friendliness.