Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-20
WILLIAM A. KINNEY SAYS 1T Is
WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
NATIVES NEED ANNEXATION.
THEIR ONLY HOPE FOR ESCAPE
FROM AsIATIC DOMINATION.
No Power Within Hawaii to with
stand the Asiatic Tide-FormaI
Statement Concerning Jap
anese Position Filed at
Washington.

Washington, June 19.-The Evening Star
publishes the following interview with Mr..
William A. Kinney, one of Hawaii's spe-
cial commissioners, in answer to Queen
Liliuokalanrs protest.
"It is charged in the queens protest that
the annexation treaty is an act OF wrong
toward the native and part native people
of Hawaii. Without attempting now to
reply to her statement as a whole, If there
is anything that the annexation treaty is
not it is just this that is charged against
it, for annexation is the sole hope of the
native Hawaiians 1 speak of the common
people. Their future is one OF two things,
to pass under Asiatic or Anglo-Saxon con-
troll The hope of these people as ma
ton was dead twenty years before this
queen ever ascended the throne. II Asiatics
dominate, the native must become a coolie,
for certainly he cannot expect to be bet
ter off than the rank and file of the domi-
nant race. If America takes Hawaii, the
native becomes an American citizen, and
the American scale of wages and the hon.
orable position occupied by labor in Amer
lea will prevail in Hawaii, and every ma
tive will have the benefit of 1t. 1t is a
choice between the status of white Amer
ican laborer and that OF an Asiatic coolie
laborer. The white race, IL Asiatics absorb
Hawaii, can get out to their own country.
The common native has no such choice.
He must stay and meet his fate.
Notwithstanding the indisputable bless
ing annexation will be 10 the common ma
tive. the queen, playing upon the inbred
devotion of the natives to their chiefs, has,
together with the official class among the
Hawaiians insisted upon the natives hold
ing out against their own good ana follow
ing with her the will-o'-the-wisp of a res
toration of the monarchy. which would not
cure or touch the Asiatic question, but
would. on the other hand. irrevocably COM
NIT Hawaii to Asia rather than to Amer
lea.
There is no power within Hawaii to
withstand the Asatic tide. It needs the
strong arm of the United States. The
patriotic thing for the queen to do Is to
secure TO her people the high and coveted
status of the average American citizen.
Instead of entertaining any such ideas
however she is evidently bidding for the
support of Japan to scramble back to her
throne at a fearful cost to the native peo-
pie. The fealty of the native Hawaiians
10 their chiefs knows no limit, and often
Is exercised in way beyond the pale of
reason or argument, and they will prob
ably follow her lead II they have their
own way, TO the undoing of themselves
and everybody else in Hawaii, but IL be-
comes a perfect caricature for her TO pro-
test against annexation in the name of
the native people and as a wrong to them -
The japanese minister has filed with the
secretary of state a formal statement of
the position of his government with re-
spect to the proposed annexation Of the
Hawaiian islands by the United States AL
though 1t is officially denied that Japan
has protested against the annexation
treaty. It is admitted that that government
has represented in the strongest terms Its
expectation that Its treaty rights IN Ha-