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The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

V sit to Honolulu has confirmed him in
mis- former belief, he says, that the islands
should be annexed to :his country, but he
has nothing to add about President
Hole's recent admission that the republic
cannot permanently endure without extet-
nal assistance. II this is so would the a 10
sorption of HaNa a by the United States
be annexation or conquest? Who favor
the union, the ma joritv of the inhabitants
of the islands or the Office holding
ol garchy at the capital? And which
has the greater moral right to our con-
sideration?
The Senator from Alabama admits the
questionable propriety of adding TO our
national domain an island grouD within
The tropics and 1000 miles from our coast"
but he pleads that we need the archipel-
ago for deiense purposes. 1t we do not
take it Great Britain may, and, with Hon
olulu and Esquimalt, on the island OF
Vancouver, as her basis of operat ions,
would "cut our coast line in two and leave
us lncum bered with a mass of territory in
Alaska, whose defense would be almost
impossible, and the famous advantage of
which would be lost to u.s." But We have
been cut off from Alaska in the past with
out serious results. A long stretch
Of British territory has always interviewed
bstween US and our Northwest possessions.
Must we annex Hawaii, its Asiatic aliens.
It's Ignorant native population and its
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
THE WRONG REASON.

The Detroit Free Press, speaking with
regarl to the Hawaiian annexation
scheme, adopts the right conclusion, but
gives the wrong reason for II, as follows:
Annex Hawaii, $500 miles distant possess
ing population incapable OF appreciatlng
American ideas of government and morals,
and there can be no valid excuse for not ad-
mitting Cuba, lying close to our doors ana
possessing a Christian civilization. Let Mr.
Mckinley yield to the coterie of plotters who
are so cunningly working Congress for the
furtherance of their island abbing project
and he must, to be consistent reverse his at
titude toward the Cuban annexationists.
Our interest in Cuba and the other West
Indian islands is vital and imperative.
They command the Gulf Of Mexico and
the Caribbean Sea. They are within half
a days sail from our coasts and most
intimately connected with this nation III
commerce. Beyond that every instinct OF
humanity and American freedom, as well
as our traditional policy evokes our
sympathies and assistance with al efforts
OF these people 10 establ and main tain
their liberties.
Spain is ready to quarrel with US for her
supremacy over CUBA, which she has
reduced TO a desert. Germany is under
the suspicion of getting ready to grab a
West Indian foot hold in Haiti. y
The vital and traditional interest OF the
United States is in these islands. We
snouid be ready 10 prevent European ag-
gressions there. With these possibilities
pending, to waste strength in trying TO
hold an island in the Pacific that we have
not the slight use for is blunder at once
fatuous and pusillanimous.
Ii il be true, as reported, that the ad-
minis;ration will accept Spain's plan of
autonomy in order to push the Hawaiian
j ID through Congress, 1T means an aban-
donment Of American policy and fatal
error.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.
a COUNTRY OF LEPEKs.

Hawaii is a country OF lepers. Accord
ins to DR.. Prince q. Morrow. an eminent
m edicai authority. more than 10 per cent
of the Hawaiian race affected with lep-
rosy, aud this telrib BILE disease has made
notable advances within the past half
century, the islands which it is proposed
TO annex to the United States forming
one of the great leprous centers. DR..
Morrow says it is a contagious or rather
comm uni cable disease, and, while for
merry supposed 10 be of hereditary OIL
gin, it is now known that heredity has but
little or nothing to do with it. The lepers
in the Hawaiian Islands are isolated Il is
true. but this has not prevented the spread
OF the disease. According to DR.. Morrow
there seems no prospect of extingu shing
the disease in the islands. The death-ra'e
among the lepers has been lowered, but
L e numbe OF persons stricken has in
creased since the foundation OF the Ieper
settlements.
As TO whether annexstion would be
likely to bring leprosv into the Uni ed
States DR.. Morrow believes it would. He
says that If annexation comes it will be
idle TO think of confining leprosy to he
islands, or rather excluding it from this
country by quarantine measures. becaus1
no practicable means of inspection could
detect the symptoms of the disease in its
earlier stages. Leprosy would not de-
velop in our northern climate but il
would do 80 IN the south.
Doubtless the annexaticnists will pooh
pooh the idea that there is any such dan
ger as DIR. Morrow points out, but most
other people will oe likely to regard The
matter somewhat seriously. LeproSy is
not unknown to this country, but it is
hardy desirable to increase the chances
of its spreading here.
As to the opinion of Senator Morgan re-
gardiag the adaptability of the native
Hawailans for Am erican citizenship, it is
by no means conclusive. 1t may be true
that they are better adapted than the In-
dams. Mexicans and Aiaskans, but that
does not furnish valid reason for taking
under our care 81, coo Kanakas Having
taken some bad elements into our popu-
lation, it does not follow that we should
go on dong so.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
PHILADELPHIA TIMES.
UNJUST TO AMERICA

1t might be we'll 1or the Federal Govern
ment to ask itself at this time, has this
country not got more diverse and opposed
races under its flag than it can deal with
successfully2 Why should it seek to re-
ceive into citizenship at one swoop $4,000
people who are tainted with an awful and
ineradicable disease, whose customs are
alien TO those of this republic, who are
idle If not vicious, immoral if not crimi-
nal, and at the same moment keep guard
at the ports of the Atlantic Coast 80 that
no sin. lie Objectionable immigrant shall
set foot on these shores?
Are these Europeans who are thus de-
buried refused admis ission to this country
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

wishes of almost the entire aboriginal
population of these islands,"
AS to the real nature of the existing
regime. it is held that the alleged repub.
lie ''is not founded on basis OF popular
government or republican principles. Its
constitution was adopted by conYen ton
majority of whose mem bers were self
appoin ed, the rest having been elected
by n Insignificant minority of the white
and aboriginal citizens" The majority
of those who voted for the mem bers of
the convention. according TO the nj emoris!,
were "aIiens without properly or social
ries in the islands," The con 1titution
adopted by this sell-con stituted conven-
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
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C.lly enter into complete control without
4IsDossessing them, as their political sys-
tenn Is antagonistic to the American
democratic theory, and with their dis
possession the Government of Hawaii
would be less efficient than it is to-day.
Oar possibility would end in securing
them against foreign nterference-a guar
antee that would afford US the right,
which We fancy could be readily exercised,
OF preventing the Hawaiian Government
from acting in manner calculated to
affront other nations.
This statement covers the second as
sumption, because, if Hawaii under a
protectorate contin ued to be San incubator
OF international friction" it would simply
be because the Government of the islands
disregardel the wishes in this respect of
the protecting power, and we imagine that
If the issue presented itself in this way our
Govern ment would easily find the means
of bringing thoughtless ana obstinate
local rulers into more complacent frame
Of mind. II, as Mr.. Thurston maintains
it 10 necessary that the United States
should own Hawaii in order 10 protect its
Western coast from naval attack, then it
would also be necessary for this country
TO establish a strongly defended naval
station at Hawaii. In fact, the line of
policy that he suggests is but the first step
toward making of this country a great
military nation with an army and navy
somewhat similar to those maintained by
the great war powers uf the Old World.
Some of our fellow citizens appear 10 de-
sire this, but we do not and We see in
this Hawaiian project the germs of a
policy which, when full grown, would be
found 10 be destructive of American
liberty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
HE Is CRUSHED BENEATH A MASS OF EVIDENCE
Senator Perkins Enormously Declared That 1.-The Call" Was
the Only Great Newspaper Opposed to 9@=@1n %
BOSTON HERALD.
TIE HAWAIIAN PKoBLEM.

Mr.. IhurSton says that under protec-
torate the United States vii! assume tie
responsibilities incident TO ownersbin
without the power Of control" and tha,
Hawaii would still continue TO remain
an incubator OF International friction"
AS 10 me hrst OF these two assumptions
we should say that the American people
are quite prepared 20 permit the control
oi HAWAII to rest in the hands of those
VINO are now governing the country.
1here IS no reason for in nteriering with
HEN, Tor they appear to be able to carry
on theatfairs OF the island in an eminen;lv
satisfactory manner. We could not logl.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
SAN DIEGO UNION.
UNPArR1orIC AND UNAMERIoAN.

The people of the United States are so
proud of this great republic that 1t is not
at all strange, when the question of Ra-
waiian annexation Is considered. that they
assume to make the islands part of this
nation would be the greatest kindness
that could he done to the natives. Grant
ing that this is true, although. much can
be urged on the other side, the question
NAV y ell be asked, Does this country pro-
pose 70 deprive a foreign people of their
nationality and compel them to belong to
the United States, even though they pre-
fer TO remain as they are? If the reply
be in ;he affirmativ We, there would seem to
be no good reason why desire to give as
many people as possible the benefits OF
Amer!can free institutions should not
inspire a national policy OF annexing as
much territory as possible and using iorce
to attain that end-a policy OF conquest
in short, under the hypocritical pretext OF
promoting the welfare OF the conquered.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
HARPER'S WEEKLY.
EVIL OF ANNEXATION.

Mr.. Mckinley is reported to expect the
annexation of Hawaii. We fear that his
expectation is likely TO be realized, and
we deeply regret that it is SO. The day
when annexation shall be accomplished
will be an evil one for this country, and
the troubles that will come to US in con-
sequence will be gratifying to jingos,
unsound- money men. spendthrift states
men, high pro,ectionists and lynchers-
10 ali who dread the consequences of In
telligent and needed legislation, of sound
instruction of pubic opinion on dome site
affairs, and of good government.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
Hawaiian Annexation.

leperS, all for the sake OF prote citing Sec
retary Seward purchaser Mr.. Seward is
credited with having driven sharp bar
gain when he got Alaska for 81, 900 900. but
it will prove q costly one for us if we are
compelled by reason of it to take all the
stray islands OF the Pacific under our pro-
lection.
Mr.. Morgan's argument that, we have
never had occasion to regret any of our
previous annexations of territory is a
weak one, and might be applied with
equal force 10 any wild schemes of ma
tlonal expansion in the.future. We might
say that Greenland, Antarctica, or any
otl er far re ion, ought to be taken under
the flag because we are not sorry we added
Florida, Texas and California to our Fede-
raj domain. Nor is the Senator more
felici;ous when he declares that the ma
tlves of Hawaii ''are far better adap ed to
American citizenship than many millions
of those whom we have welcomed here
from Southern Europe. and better adapted
than the Indians, Mexicans and native
Aaskans."
We have been all TOO lavish in our hos
pitality in the past. We have erred in ex-
tending the right hand Of fellowship in
Discriminatory to the newcomers from the
sums OF Europe. Scarcely any body has
been too ignorant or depased to be turned
away from our national gateways. We
have prided ourselves on Offering ar Easy
lum" to the oppressed" and incidentally
have let in great horde ofthugs and seal
awags. Senator Morgan does not help his
aroumant hv telling us that the ratlVe
Hawaiians are better than such as these.
This is damning EN- with faint praise in
deed, though it is perhaps as good a rea-
son as the annexationists are likely 10
give for their da Heerpus project.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
THE COURIER-JOURNAL.
Louisville, Saturday, Nov. 20.
A GIGANTIC SWINDLE.

w. n. Armstrong, editor of the Ha-
waiian Advertiser, says that annexation
means that the Uaited States flag and
marines will keep order in these islands.
Without that flag and these marines the
most aggressive and intelligent people
here. the largest in mum bers Will rule.
These are the Japane-e Their nun bers,
their activity, the value Of their labor,
will soon enable them 10 dominate the
Americans" As a CORE 4pondeut who
has been looking into this matter says:
Annexation is desired by the American
party. the speeuiators, the carpet-bnCgers and
The politicians who see fat appropriations aid
plckings under Territorial form OF Govern
ment. Annexation is opposed by three
foucths of the entire population. incluiing
the Portuguese, the Japanese and nearly all
the natives.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
PHILADELPHIA LEDGER.
THE "STATEn OF HAWAI-.

one OF the
probability political
10 he OF some political
10 retain Mckee of Indiana,
of he
could be maintained Territory thirty preparatory
would not be binding Congress We
recent
sy ut TO increase the Republican
noted the boomerang going
over to the Democracy and Popusts
she Is as she admitted by
would be equivalent to opening Pandora box.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

As matter of fact. there is not a shade
OF moral difference between the proposed
annexation of Hawaii and the forcibe
conquest of the Central American states
or any other portion of the western hemi-
sphere. In Hawaii the Government and
lis followers, representing some 5000
Americans, have taken it upon them
selves 10 hand the islands over to
the United States. 1t cannot in
this case be said that the action
of the Government is the action OF
the people. The Dole administration is
purely seif-con tituted body. The ISL
anders had practically nothing to do with
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

ton has never been. submit ed 10 vote
of the people. but is m antained by iorce
of arms against the will Of the vast ma
ioritv of the population. The oligarchy
existing under this constitution "as-
sumes," it is complained, "the right to
extinguish the Hawaiian nationality ana
cede rights of sovereignty to the United
States" And the "memoriaIists learn with
grief and dismay that the President of the
United States has submitted to the Sem
ate treaty whereby it is proposed to an
nex orr tarritorvb
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
NEW YORK WORLD.
ONE OF THE ABSURD UGGEsTIoNs.

The supporters OF t. e Hawaiian annexa-
ton Job meet the objection to any more
rotten pocket borough States By sugges-
ting that the islands be attached to Cali
fornia as a county. Considering that the
Hawaiian group is distant 2400 miles from
San Francisco, what illimitab.e possibii-
ties of growth this idea opens! Why not
''annex" Ireland on the east as the "bor-
ough of Erin" in Greater New YORK, and
take in Greenland on the north and
Samoa on the south as further frills on
the ragged edge of the globe -circling re-
public? If fit is manifest destiny" to slop
over on one side why not all around?
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
SACRAMENTO BEE.
THE PLOT OF NExATION.

The Bee has been vigorous opponent
to the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
ever since the sche me was first broached.
and it is glad TO see SO many influential
newspapers and so many thinking men
coming over to the side of right and jus.
tice This paper has gone deeply into the
matter on many an occasion, but its
primal and most potent reason for its
vigorous denunciatlon OF the annexation
plot is one of principle-this nation should
not be the recipient Of stolen goods,
knowing the same 10 have been stolen.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
THE SUNDAY STATES.
NEW ORLEANS, NOVEMBER 21, 1897.
THE WAIIAN SCHEME.

to Hawaii
opposition
politicians which,
polite
when, recent interview
with New York paper he said
THE Americans in Hawaii planters great extent They
keeping
keeping Japanese
justify undertaking the
population alen
No republic fourhed after conquering
butt the O he destruction OF Rome"
annexation OF colony of
slightest inclination to take the American
hear the
considered
,
determined
in public
the Senate compelled
,
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
LOS ANGELES EXPRESS.
founded March 81, 1871.
Saturday, November 20, 1897.
HAWAI- NOT WANTED.
Founded

Last night, at the great meeting in
Music Hail. the fight against Hawaiian
annexation was begun by the people OF
this city.
Resolutions which set forth many strong
reasons against annexation were offered
and put to vote. They were carried
without dissenting voice and amid
Lively enthusiasm. Hereafter, there can
be no doubt as to where the people OF
this city stand on this annexation ques.
lion.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
LOS ANGELES HERALD.
SUBJECT Fur GRAVE DISCUSSION

The subject OF annexation has not been
sufficiently aired before the people of this
country. 1t should be more thoroughly
discussed before the treaty now pending
before the Senate is acted On. 1t is ques-
ton of the greatest gravity, and sympathy
with the few Americans on the islands
should not overcome sober judgment.
The step of annexation, when once taken,
cannot be retraced.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

More than that it means the perp etra-
ton of a much bigger job than the ap-
preparations and pickings would provide.
1t means gigantic swindle, by which
about 3 per cent of the Hawaiian popu-
lation, who have already swindled the
natives of their heritage, are to hand over
the islands 10 the United States, which
in turn is to be swindled now and per-
petualIy burdened with responsibility for
an alien and mongrel people, two thou
sand m lies from our shores
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
cannot be retraced

The Hawaiian Government will soon
offer for sale to the highest bidder the
crown silver, china and glassware in use
during the reign of the Kamehameha
kings and queens. Relic-hunters have
been tryirg to purchase these relics, but
the Government has sold only few of
the articles belonging to the royal palace.
The Hawaiian Government must be very
short Of funds as well as anxious to un-
load its debt by annexation.-Omaha Bee.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
PHILADELPHIA RECORD.
JOB IN ANNEXING HAWAII.

that the annexation of Hawaii
gigantic lob land politics
of the United
people In ten for the
Hawaii and for the
demanded by the jngo than the
nu from the century President Dole OF
indirectly and his ed
will OF the people, and that they cannot
shall their help
the American people should
shoulder n is 0 d Man of Pacific OceanH
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28

Senator Morgan finds satisfaction in the
fact that there are no snakes in Hawaii.
Nevertheless. the wriggling and Shiny an
nexatlon job Is a snake that ought to be
scotched. Philadelphia Record.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.
SENATOR MORGAN ON ANNExArI> \.

Senator Morgan of Alabama, who has
just returned to W ashington from his tour
of observation in Hawaii, gave out yester-
day for the first lime a deliberate state.
ment OF his views on annexation. His
Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-04

PROPOSALS FOR FRESH BEEF AND mutton office Chief Commissary. Depart men; Of the Colorado, Denver Colo, March |. ls97--Sealed proposals. in triplicatc. subject to usual conditions will be received here, or at offices of commlssaries at following posts until II q. rn.. standard mountain time. March 3l
 1897. and then opened for furnishing and de- nveiing in Hulk the fresh beef and mutton from the block that may be required at these posts b, the s;u .-istence Department, U. s. army. during fiscal year commencing July l. ls9i: Fo.ts Apache. Cant. Huachuca and Whipple Barracks, A siz: Bayard and Wingate. N. M.; Logan, Col,,., Douglas and DuChesne, Utah: also for sub-post of San Carlos. Ariz. Fresh beef snail be good in quality and condition, it fJr immediate use, and from fore and hind quarter meats, proportionalIy, including all best cuts theseof Fresh mutton shall be of good. fat and marketable quality, from wethcrs ever ono and under three years old
 Beef and mutton to be dressed and trimmed and delivered as prescibed in circular of in structions Proposals will be also received stating price at which bidder will deliver fresh beef or mutton Of character above stated and to be delivered of temperature not greater than 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Prefer ence given to articles of domestic production cost and qpality being equal Government re- serves right to reject any or all bids or parts thereof aad to waive any informalities therein. Instructions furnished on application to commisSasies of above named posts or to W. II Bell. Col. A. c. c. S.. Chief comy.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-04
THE INAUGURATION.

The picnic which at this moment Washington City is enjoying is breezy affair. Swearing ih the president IS the side show. Later Mounts with Il retinue of followers will he there. Ter pischore will tiptoe upou the scene, displaying much of leg or more of ueck, when twirliug to a waltziug tune.
 Contrast the inauguration of Ruther- ford B. Hayes with that oi William Mckinley. Hayes was one of party which had been invited to dine at the executive mansion. and while the guests were assembling Le, with two or three friends, stepped into the red par lnr with President Grant, where Hay es took the oath of office by which he be- came tue chief magistrate of the United States. The proceedings were kept secret, even from the other guests at the dinner. On Monday. March 5, President Hayes delivered his inau- gursl address from the platform erected over the eastern entrance to the rotunda of the capitol and after the oath of office had been formally ad- miuisterrd to nm by Chief Justice Waite. the new president returned quietly to the White House.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-04

We offer the suggestion to the conn., oil that the poor farm bill be in definitely postponed, as the institution provided for by this bill would be wholly inadequate to the requirements. As result of the lavish appropr'stions by the Nineteenth legislature the tax payers of the territory will all be clamorons for admission to the poor farm within two years, aud substitute for the bill should be offered, memorial iZiDg congress to make Arizona one vast poor farm, and providing that the unfortunate tax ridden citizens be made pensioners on the bounty of the federal government.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-04
A REASONABLE REQUEST.

In Arizona, statesmen of certain ilk labor under the impression that the territory Is goose and that political friends of legislators are entitled to pluck feather, and when that very respectable body adjourns the aquatic bird will be denuded of its plumage even to tail feathers and flights.
 The people of Globe realizing that fact have forwarded to Phoenix a strong petition praying the assembly to enact a law naming 1907 ss the date of the next meeting of the legislature, and pi oviding that decade of years intervene between succeeding terms Tue object of the request Js that some members of the present session who lean upon the third bouse, bench and bar, for instruction, may have time for reflection and repentance for the evil they are doing and which will live after them to plag ue posterity, and should they again be called to legislate for the dear people, contrition may urge them to undo the wrong they are gnilty of, and should the devil claim any of the combination of the Nineteenth legisla- ture during the next ten years, tax payers will bear their loss with resigna- tion.