Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-08-06
rur r,iaur or 80, r,oLr.

ness has . long article on the
newer developments Of United
States foreign policy. Some ex-
tracts therefrom are given below:
1.-THE United States nation is
made up OF as great a variety OF
elements perhaps as any on the
globe, but the informing genius
of il is the masterful Viking spirit
of the Anglo Saxon, whose ten
dency has been not only to assert
wherever he has gone the privi-
lege of self government, but to
impose his ways on all around
him. The time has evidently
come for the United States to for
sake its chrysalis traditions end
get out into the world beyond its
| shores. Its 'prospectors' have
been about the world little look
ing for presumption claims. Or
the plea of finding guano beds,
they have been stalking out Paci-
fic islands which other nations
had marked on the map with
their own colors, good many of
them British red, and registering
their claims at Washington with
out any ceremony of faghoisting
by the American Government or
the establishment of government
administration. A year or two
ago the United States Government
appeared as the feudal suzerain of
Venezuela, and made treaties with
regard to that country. And now
our neighbors are anDexing Ha-
wsii and looking protectively to-
wards Cuba"
LII the middle of succeeding
paragraph the Witness says:
eff we may judge at all from
the way in which the most con-
sentative elements i'll the United
States have received this treaty of
annexation of Hawaii y =
we cannot doubt that in spite of
its inevitably revolutionary char
acter, in spite not only of the
traditional policy that must be
surrendered, but in spite also of
the constitutional revision that it
will involve, it is going to be car
ripd through"
The Witness then refers to the
part Japan is playing in the Ha-
wsiian question, and concludes it's
article rs follows:
"What we may now regard as
fairly inaugurated is policy of
foreign meddling. The purchase
of Russian America and it's ada.
cent islands by Lincoln's admin
istration for seven millions of
dollars might be spoken of as the
begin ning of foreign acquisition,
but it was never so looked upon
by the people of the United States.
To them that was prospectively
contiguous territory, which would
be all part and parcel of the Unit
ed States when Canada should be
annexed. 1t could have no other
significance, as in itself it had no
prospect of ever becoming a state.
1t was, indeed, a means of threa-
tening and coercing Canada, as
anyone will realize who looks at
the map and sees how it robs US
of five hundred miles of majestic
and many harbored sea coast;
and it has been used as
means of irritating Canada ever
since. For the initiation of
this aggressive and nasty policy
againt us Canada holds the name
OF Seward in perpetual reproach.
United States meddling has not
gone hitherto beyond what is
usually included in the left hand
circle OF maps of the world, but il
has already spread itself good
deal over that circle, having say
in Samoa and laying claim to
Christmas Island. And it vii!
follow as surely as the world turns
round that the boundary of the
western hemisphere will no more
form a stopping place for Anne
rican epcroachment than the
coasts of the North American
| continent have done. And why
should it? Whatever fanciful
doctrines the United States may
have labelled with the names of
her past presidents, the Anglo
Saxon race in America has duty
to fulfil in snglicizing the face Of
the earth. 1t has we'll fulfilled
this task in North America, and it
will not be found wanting as OPP