The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05
MORGAN AND HAW All.

the question annexation We did consult the natives
of Alaska when acquired that country and annexed it
the United States 1t has been policy consult the
wishes of the natives when we found desirable
terrtory.'
These authoritative expressions entitled to respectful
consideration coming from the recent chairman of the Senate
Committee Foreign Affairs The Senator adds that I'VE
can give the Hawaans good government which stands for
the declaration of national POLICY of the right of annexation
of any other country ours based solely assumption
that give the annexed people good government"
gardless of their opinion of it.
The Senator decides that to govern the natives of
Hawaii without consulting them. Yet began expert
equa that they endowed by their Creator with certain
naenabe rights that among these life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness That to these rights governments
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
of the governed But Senator Morgan says it
policy consult the governed, their
when we think it desirable to territory.
distinction may be drawn between the 'natives' of
COUNTRIES but the Senator does draw it. The native Of
Alaska, sitting under his family totem and alternately
crouchng in fear before the gods of the tempest and cngng
in gratitude to the dees who make his hunt successful and
his bubber plenty not consuted therefore, why should
natives anywhere be under the shelter decIara
ton that derive their just powers from the
sent Of the governed2
1t is true that our dealing with our own native Indians is
also true that volume of treaties entered into full of
solemn conventions with the Indian tribes the pu
chase of their country before Government extended
the right of eminent domain, which is final evidence OF
National sovereignty.
1t is peculiarly the that in dealings with Hawaii
have recognized the natives Kamehameha by conquest
abolished the individual tribes of the islands of the group
established nation He into treaties with foreign
Governments, did Lihoho and his successors In all
which derived its just powers from the of the
governed That government by the natives founded Schools
established Institutions, adopted system of jurisprudence
established by law and by judicial process and protected the
rights of person and property With that government by the
natives negotiated the annexation treaty of 1884 which
sought in that busero convuson that upon the
less spirits among the pero from the close of the Mex
can War to the outbreak of our Civil War.
In 1912 President Tyler's message to Congress said
The condition of those islands Hawai has excited
good deal of interest," which is increasing by every successive
proof that their inhabitants making progress in civilization
and becoming and competent maintain regular
and orderly civil government Just emerging from state of
babasm, the government is yet feeble disposi-
tons appear to be just and pacific and anxious i'm
the condition of its people by the introduction of know
edge, of religious and moral Institutions of education
and the arts of civilized le.'
The process of civilization had begun only twenty
before Yet in IS4z teracy among the natives was
less than in the State of Alabama to-day for the correspond
with Mr. Webster admitted that hardly native could
be found who unable to read and write.
The latest report that district however remote is
without school, and the only people who cannot read and
write foreigners The country churches almost en-.
ey mntered to by native Hawaiian pastors and all these
Institutions CIVIL religious, educational founded and fos
tered by the natives under the form of which had
their consent prior to its overthrow by the ware presence
the United States at the hands of few hundred Americans
who occupy technically The position of agents of the
United States the conquest of government against which
we had not declared and with which were peace
1t must be then that historically and morally there is
judcable difference between the natives of Hawaii meaning
thereby the native race and the barbarous tribes of Alaska
The Hawaiians the only primitive people in this age
who have emerged by their will from barbarsm have
taken Christian civilization and established and abide in the
institutions which are its fruit.
Of these and their there are in the islands
3oo4 souls of Americans there 1885, The natives are
60 cent of the population, the Americans per cent
The natives the largest element population composed
of themselves and American, British German French Nor
wegan Portuguese Japanese Chinese and Sou Sea Island
immigrants their country in barbarism and its edemp-
ton by their will and not by that of Others Under the
institutions and government which they voluntarily founded
Americans found the rights of person and properly pro-
teced to make life in the islands pleasant and profitable and
now for the first time in the worlds history proposed to
annex such country without consulting its natives.
Conques right of discovery dynasic ambitions balance
of have all been pleaded by the nations, from Babylon
to Britain for extension territory and each
has its apology emb1md in history But up date are
the first nation which began by usfyng its existence
the declaration that derive their just powers
the consent of the governed and ends by extending
ment people whose refuse ask whose
wishes decline consult The historical apoogist this
policy will excite the envy of the who have found
for in disregard the consent of the