The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-04
MCKINLEY.

Today William Mckinley has been
inaugurated President of the United
States for term of four years. He is
u thoroughly representative American
and his success a thoroughly represen-
tative outcome of American institu
tions 1t is well to look at what he
sprang from.
William Mckinley has sprung from
a set of sturdy workers for the state
to which they paid taxes. He is Of an
entirely Kettle origin, wanting in him
self both the Scotch and the Irish
Kelts. Long before the Revolution the
ancestors of the present President of
the United States were settled in the
then English colonies. The main work
of President McKinley's ancestors has
been in iron. Following the mans
career it seems as if the work in iron
has made part of his life. For he has
shown an iron will. He has been sue
cessful in war command. He has been
successful as a lawyer. He has finally
gained the highest success in his ma
ton as a politician.
Called to so high position as Pres
ident Mckinley has been, with his
training, with his experience, it is very
evident that his course of policy will
be one for the advantage of his coun-
try. Descended, as ne is, from two
lines of ancestry with whom the love
of country is passion, and in spite
of the cold calculation of mere ma
chine and diplomatic politics, there
must be that in inward feeling in Pres
ident Mckinley that will urge him to
champion the cause of Anglo Saxon
civilization as against the possibility
of a return to pinchbeck Monarchy.
No President of the United States can
consistently restore Monarchy to a
country whose laws are well admin
istrated, whose policy is clear, and
which shows itself in earnest in the
advance of civil and moral institutions
as the Government of the Republic of
Hawaii does. The position is clear. Do
away with the Republican form of
Government in Hawaii and small
portion of the history of the Pacific
ocean goes back fully fifty years.
If the influence of Hawaii, small as
1T is, goes back fifty years, so assuredly
will the influence of the United States
go back upon the Great Ocean. There
are other powers beside the United
States that have to be taken into con-
sderation when regarding influence in
the Pacific. Great Britain, France,
Japan, China, and in minor degree,
at present, Germany, Spain and the
pseudo Spanish states of South Amer
lea.
The opportunity is now at hand,
with the present Inauguration of the
President of the United States, to
make a bold policy with regard to the
future of the Pacific. In point of fact
it lies thus.
Here is a great untried field. Every
historical analogy shows us that it is
going to be the plane" of the future
upon which the great questions of the
world are going to be automatically
drawn. America has the opportunity of
acquiring such position upon the
'plane" that no one will be able to
draw figures TO suit himself. 1t can
suit itself if it is quick enough
about it. This is no idle scribbling, it
is a fact. There may be other more
pressing questions at the present mo-
ment in the United States, but the able
statesman forsees, and that is what
The Star has every confidence that
President Mckinley will forsee. His
training, his birth, his education and
forsee it.