Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-26
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.

Hawaiian | lands to the United States
is one that the enterprising people of
those rich islands propose to have
those of this country consider, for they
are sending their daily newspapers and
public documents to the newspapers of
this country regularly. They are show
ing the conditions, resources, etc, of
their country in IL very ~tlattering man
ner, such as commends the good bust
ness enterprise of the people there, as
we'll as the rich of the
islands. The following extracts from
some OF their metropolitan appearing
newspapers will show some of the az
guments they are making in the inter
est of annexation to the United
States:
would it pay the United States to
adopt Hawaii as n new star i'll the
great union? This is the question
that we may easily imagine is asked by
the American voter at home. Well,
every probability at this writing is that
the trade of the Hawaiian Islands. for
the year 1897, will amount to a round
twenty-five million dollars. Where is
there q section of the United States
with a population no more than that
of these islands (11S,0OW which can
make an exhibit of wealth proportion
ate to that here shown in the m
oil this little archipelago? Yet AS part
and parcel OF that great nation there
is not tho least doubt that tie Via.
waiian Islands would present a grand
ershoving still."-The Honolulu Even
ing Bulletin.
"Of the total imports into the Ra-
walian Islands tor 1896. amounting to
a1.lGi.,'sl.a0. there came from United
States Pacific ports 1928. 77.23.07, and
from Atlantic ports of the same coun-
try ;E2E22s.l1S.23, Dr. grand total of 81
a6i.2oS.2o value of merchandise i'm
ported from the United States. Large
as this proportion OF purchases made
10y our people in the American mar
kets is, it would be greatly increased
by the action of eve closer conner
cial relations which, next to closer po-
l%itical, the Republic of Hawaii is de-
sirious of obtaining"
There is Il larger consideration for
the people of the United States. how
ever. than any relating to the balance
of trade between the two countries.
1t Is whether the local government, as
capable of local self government as any
state in the union, would not with
their trade of a round twenty-thrce
million dollars a year be a rather rich
addition to the United States. What
other country is ever mentioned
as a possible acquisition to
the Union which is anything like so
wealthy proportionally? Under the
Stars and Stripes the wealth of these
islands would rapidly increase and the
Uuited States would hold the most
convenient station for universal
commerce, as well as the most valuable
naval point of vantage in all the Pa
cific ocean,"
"The position of the Hawaiian Isl
ands can be readily placed in a nut
shell. The Star has repeatedly shown
it. but it seems as if it were impossible
to drive the issue into some peoples
minds. The Hawaiian Islands are per
fectly capable of taking care of them
selves. 1t is not our internal affairs
that trouble Is. 1t is our external af.
fairs. lnwardly we can manage and.
in fact, have for four years conducted
our home affairs with perfect ease. 1t
is the foreign aggression that we fear.
Were the men who are thinking of the
future to consider only their own adj
vantage. the annexation movement
would not be Il government scheme.
If merely personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and personal power were desired, they
would be capable of carrying or that.
1t is not the management of Hawaii
that its present rulers consider, it is
the future of Hawaii that they look TO.
Our statesmen are far seeing and look
beyond the narrow horizon of the
present. The men we have at the head
OF our government affairs are. forum.
ately, above the mere catch penny de
sire of power. They are there for /:
purpose. However we'll Hawaii itsell
may be ruled, however prosperous il
may become. unless it is an .integra
portion of some greater power, it ma,
be snapped up any day. The power O.
the government of Hawaii to keep in
ternal order is undoubted. The power
of Hawaii to meet foreign aggression i.
nil. A small gunboat of an Asiatit
state might force a capitulation at any
time. Do the United States wish fol
such a cap~itulation? Honolulu Even
ing Star.