Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-19

7 ted States, under Constitution whlch
nrevepts discrimination on account or
race or color. II is, of course. claimed
that these Mongolians, Polynesians and
the lepers that are found among them
will not become American citizens, but
how it is to be prevented is another
question. Without them the Hawaiian
| Islands have no population worth nam
ing vet they must have local govern
ment of some sort.
As a contemporary which strongly
supported Mckinley in the last cam
paign puts it, the annexation OF Ha-
wall is the annexation of Claus
Spreckels. 1t enables him TO get MS
sugar produced by Monaghan labor into
the American market without the pay
ment of any duty. The reciprocity
treaty has done this heretofore, but
public opinion is becoming somewhat
averse TO sacrificing eight or ten MILL
ions of revenue per year for the sake
OF few employers of Monaghan labor.
There is a threat to rescind the treaty
so the sugar patriots of Hawaii hurry
I'D the march of the lepers into the
United States.
There is another set of patriots that
have figured out how they could make
millions by getting the United States
70 Law a cable to Hawaii. There would
not be anything in it for the United
States. of course; there never is any
thing left for the government when 1t
has a side-partner in a business enter
Prise. Nothing? Well, nothing but
the losses; the government accepts
them as its own and the side-partners
pocket the profits. The latter are paid
aur of the governments losses. This
is the history of the government
ventures into the doTain Of private
business. Private capital builds all
the railroads. and lays all the cables
that promise to yield profit. The 9TH
ers are reserved for the government,
which sustains the losses, while It's
partners so manipulate matters as TO
come out as rich as Croesus was ever
reported to be. The Pacific railroads
are still here as object lessons.
Flushed with prospects of this kind,
equipped with the millions of revenue
that they have already been permitted
TO collect from citizens of the United
States. the annexationists are prepared
to swear. and to suborn voters TO swear,
that the people of the United States
are living awake at night yearning for
the annexation of Claus Speckels, the
Maine cable projectors and the lepers
of Hawaii. If they are to be believed
the American people are ashamed TO
look a foreigner in the face because
they have not added to their number
the 10000 Kanakas, the $4,000 Japs,
the %. 900 Chinese and the $4,000 Portu-
guese that drag out their lives on star
walton wages in the isles Of the sea so
remote that the sw:ttest steamers can
not reach them until after many days.
They wish us TO believe that the Pa
cific ocean is not deep enough for ships
to pass over it uness they pass within
d marine league Of the Hawaiian ISL
ands and that, consequently, unless we
acquire them we are shut out of the Pa
cihc ocean altogether. The truth is the
Hawaiian islands are to the Pacific
ocean as a grain of sand to all the
sandbanks on all our coasts. 1t is not
Hawaii that is wanted, 1t is the treas
ury of the United States that is to be
raided in the future, as in the past, only
the gait is to be accelerated. Men who
expect to get millions out of the treas
ury have lively imaginations.