Evening star., 1897-10-27
OF SECURITY
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Hawaii Not Apprenticeship of Violent
Action by Japan.
RELYING on TEE i HgNRED STATES
Another Meeting # TIE Anti-An-
nexatioAsts.
INTERESTS NATIVES

INTERESTS OF NATIVES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
49,. HONOLULU, October l2, 1897.
Some furry and speculation were excited
on the Sd by the arrival of the United
States gunboat Wheeling with dispatches
for Admiral Miller. Here we had been
apprised of nothing Immediately menacing
to safety, and therefore inferred that some
thing new had come to light at Washing
ton which called for special attention
here. Was it from Spain or. from Japan
or from both together? Some even fan
| cfed possibility that the United States
flag might be raised here at once. 1t was
given out the next day that the Wheeling
had been sent as temporary relief to the
! Philadelphia, until the Baltimore could ar
| rive. The former cruiser sailed for Mare
| Island few days later.-. ~The reason as
signed hardly accounted for the sudden
ness with which the Wheeling had been
| olspatched. 1t now appears that some
| alarm had been created at Washington by
| supposedly suspicious Japanese movements
reported from Honolulu. No such alarm,
II felt here, had transpired to the public
| as anything serious. We have not been ap-
appreher sive of immediate hostile action
Oh any klnd from the Japanese, either from
those resident here or from their naval
forces.
It is probably the fact that among the
10000 Japanese laborers brought here dur
| ing Ine past three years there are consid-
cradle numbers who have had some mill
tary training. 1t is quite possible that
some such persons may have been sent
mere by their government with sinister
purpose. In the case Of rising of the
Japanese here, perhaps to restore the
queen under Japanese control such trained
men might become a formidable element if
supplied with arms There seems no rea-
any definite hint of such scheme IT
also seems quite unlikely that the unoues-
tonable design of Japan to control Ha
wan includes any plan of Japanese insur-
rection here until her navy is prepared
to cooperate, or until such time as the
| numerical preponderance of those fmm:-
grants should give them decisive advan-
t ,ase' such intended preponderance has
peen TOT the present arrested by cur very
provoking action in refusing admission to
large numbers of immigrants.
FOR taking such action to prevent being
swamped and smothered by Japanese i'm
| migration. our little government is living
under the severe displeasure of our i'm
periai neighbor who Ioftily refuses to ad-
mt mat we have any rights in the con-
treversy. The general feeling here is
however, that the present protective atti.
tude OF the United States liz maintaining
good naval force at Honolulu renders
49, ii.p, optpie any 1orctPle action by
Japan either to constran us or to occupy
the group, until such time asfshe feels We'll
| prepared for hostilities with the Tinted
states. Such hostilities She will probably
iong postpone entering upon, At the same
time 1t is impossible to say how deenlv Janan
may nave become impressed with the i'm
pCftance to herself of Hawaii as the key
For 70 napl.'me thn m eontrol in this hemisphere.
the Far East" 1.-THE ocean Is the field Of
activity. To be a factor In the deveIon-
ment of the Pacific and the eastern Az.
seems TO be the destiny of our nation"
Japan may think 1t wiseato secure to her
sell this key of the ocean while the Ameri
can naval force remains inferior to her
oWn.fa Your administrations;nis probably
WISE enough to take nothing for granted
as 10 the moderation Of Japanese tntep-
ti0ns Ati'eA
Meeting Cf fAntf-Annexntfonist
Our anti-annexationists, not satisfied will,
the rather ignominious failure of their -+-
tempted demonstration over month Aeo
called another mass meeting last Friday
with better success There was a Ara
moon, and some 1000 people gathered, not
mere than half of them natives AS in the
previous meeting, the native speakers were
men of no special influence or prominence
Even among their own people, although
lhey managed to fmpart considerable ami
nation to the affair. The principal sneak
er was Joseph o. Carter the same gentle
man who at the last moment prevailed on
Llnuokaianl to accede to Minister Willis
terms or amnesty, instead of insisting :on
oeheadlng Messrs. Dole & Co. Although
capable business man, and one of high in
teSrlty, Mr. Carter is not practiced ora
tor or advocate He scarcely made as
plausible show for his bad cause as
more adroit advocate might have done
Mr.. Carter represented that, while inde-
pendent. Hawaii would pursue her course
peaGeluliy ana securely. whereas If ap-
Sfafa ,I,N
liable, In the event of war, to be the the
alter of active and detrimental conflict He
wholly ignored the existing formidable at
@ .l.uue Oh Japan. as well as the peculiar
ceh.ral and strategical position of Ha-
wan, which exposes it to be the object of
future struggle between the powers. While
not imputing to the speaker dishonest in
tention, such man can hardly be too
strongly reprehended for telling the Ha-
waiians that they can possibly continue
secure while independent. Nothing can be
palmer than the contrary fact, or. than
their present imminent peril of being
smothered by an overwhelming japanese
immigration. 1t is cruel for an intelligent
leader thus to mislead them. Mr. Carter's
next position was that the past advaa-
tages OF reciprocity would not be insured to
us by annexation, as claimed because thu,
United States tended to enter upon recip-
rocal arrangements with other countries,
as a.. was oone 10 our detriment under the
Mckinley tariff. He forgot to note .hat
Hawan would share in whatever protec-
ton or bounty would be enjoyed by sugar
or other interests in America.
ne si'eaAer 1nrtner deprecated the GER
tain revolutionizing OF the whole labor sys-
tenn OF the islands as consequence of an
nexation. BY the competition of Ameri-
cans the wages of skilled labor and of
clerks would be lowered to San Francisco
rates He failed to notice how much such Ia
Dor now suffers from the very active compe-
tltion of Asiatics. whom annexation would
keep from being reinforced Field labor.
he alleged, would rise in price. owing to
the exclusion of imposted contract labor
ers; but the truth is that, ,feasing to be
compulsory. the free labor ,Kill be of bet
sugar will enable better. iwages to he naid