The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-02
LEADING NEWSPAPERS OF AMER
ICA COMMENT.
Majority Are Strongly in Favor of An
neXation, While the Inland Press Is
Opposed to 1t.

| abe comments come from tne news
papers printed in the inland country,
which are more or less cut off from
the outside world.
The people of this country will
| give a hearty welcome to the Terri
tory of Hawaii, soon, we hope, to be
a State of the Union.-Chicago Times
Herald.
That poor little kitten, Hawaii,
which the naughty terrier Jap, was
worrying. has taken refuge in the
nest of the American eagle.-Detroit
Tribune.
We are about to plant our flag
where it will be cordially welcomed,
nor are we assuming obligations which
will be especially difficult of fulfill
ment.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Hawaiian annexation is looking up.
Hawaii's two 'i's" are both turned
toward this country, and your Uncle
Sam is devoting at least one eye to the
prospect.-Troy Times.
BY the terms of the Hawaiian treaty
this country is to pay the $4,OOO.00O
Indebtedness of the islands. BY dint
of tall hustling Hawaii was able to
furnish the pen for the signing of the
treaty.-Detroit Free Press.
The value of the islands is manifold
AS strategic point, either military
or commercial, they afford this coun-
try station in the middle of the Pa
cific and on the way to the chief sea
ports of the Buffalo Times.
There'lI be one advantage at least
gained by the annexation of Hawaii
it will put few vessels, small though
they may be, under the American flag
Even this addition to our merchant
marine will be gratifying increase.
ST. Louis Star.
Either Hawaii must come under the
control of the United States or else
Japan or England will take possess
sion. The Government of the island
prefers union with the United States,
and the administration comedies in
that view.-Toledo Blade.
Hawaii should be annexed because
we need it. It's Government is now
American, but it cannot hold out
against foreign aggression without
our help. The way to help it is to
hoist Old Glory as the sovereign flag
of the islands, Tribune.
With respect to annexation, consti-
tuting, as it does, a departure from
our national policy, invincible reasons
should be assigned before we decide
to erect new territory, and eventu-
ally new State, in a group of islands
1000 miles away.-Philadelph Led
ger.
But if the alternative is once placed
before this country, either to annex
the Hawaiian Islands or see them COB
bled up by Japan or some other coun-
try, there is little doubt that if the
question were put to a popular vote
in the United States annexation would
receive the majority vote.-Albany
Express.
On business grounds alone the pro-
posed annexation comends itself to
every clear-headed American. 1t would
place the United States in permanent
possession of almost unlimited trade
development and with which the
whole future of the American COM
merce in the Pacific is vitality associ-
ed.-AIinneapolis Times.
The annexation of Hawaii won't af-
feet the Monroe doctrine in any way.
1t won't even broaden the field over
which it prevails, for Hawaii is al
ready within it. Even the Cleveland
administration didn't dare to permit
any transatlantic or trans-Pacific
power to lay it's hands on Hawaii
When Hawaii is annexed, however, the
truth of her actual relations to the
United States will be recognized by
every country on the globe and all I'M
certainty about it will be gone.-New
York Sun.
UNFAVORABLE.
IT is great mistake for the present
administration to take up the blum
der of the Harrison administration.
Chicago Chronicle.
Speaking of Hawaiian annexation, it
, is pertinent to remark that if Uncle
Sam would attend to his own business
he would have more business to at
tend to.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
1t is folly to look at the annexation
of Hawaii from the standpoint of SEN
timentalism. Mere size is not great