Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-06

will continue it's watchful care over the
rights and property of American citizens
and will abate none of it's efforts to bring
about by peaceful agencies peace which
shall be honorable and enduring. If it shall
hereafter appear to be duty imposed by
| our obligations to ourselves, to civilization
and humanity to intervene with force, 1t
shall be without, fault on our part and only
because the necessity for such action will be
so clear as to command the support and
approval of the civilized world.
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
By special message dated the 10th day
Of June last. laid before the Senate a
| treaty signed that day by the plenipoten-
tisries of the United States and of the Re
public of Hawaii, having for it's purpose
| the incorporation of the Hawaiian Island
as an integral part of the United States
and under it's sovereignty. The Senate hav-
I ing removed the injunction of secrecy, al
| though the treaty is still pending before
that body, the subject may be properly re-
ferred to in this Message because the nee
essary action of the Congress is required
| to determine by legislation many details
| of the eventual union should the fact of an
nexation be accomplished, as believe it
should be.
While consistently disavowing from a
very early period any aggressive pol
| Icy of absorption in regard to the Hawaiian
| group, long series of declarations through
| tbree-quarters of a century has proclaimed
| the vital interest of the United States IN
| the Independent life of the Islands and
| their intimate commercial dependence upon
| this country. At the same time 1t has been
| repeatedly asserted that in no event could
| the entity of Hawaiian statehood cease by
| the passage of the Islands under the DOM
/ ination or influence of another power than
| the United States Under these clrcum-
stances, the logic of events required that
| annexation, heretofore offered but declined,
| should in the ripeness of time come about
| as the natural result of the Strengthening
| ties that bind us to those Islands, and be
realized by the free will of the Hawaiian
State.
| The treaty was unanimously ratified with
| out amendment by the Senate and Presf-
| dent of the Republic of Hawaii on the 10th
| of September last and only awaits the IA
| vorable action of the American Senate TO
| effect the complete absorption of the ISL
| ands into the domain of the United States.
| What the conditions of such union shall
| be- the political relation thereof to the
| lHltSu states. the CndTdCleI VI tHt ipIdi
administration, the quality and degree of
| the elective franchise of the Inhabitants,
the extension of the federal laws to the
| territory or the enactment of special laws
| to fit the peculiar condition thereof, the
| regulation if need be of the labor system
| therein, are all matters which the treaty
| has wisely relegated to the Congress.
If the treaty is confirmed as every con-
| Si1eratjoO nj DIGNITY and honor renIIrpS
the wisdom of Congress will see to it that.
| avoiding abrupt assimilation of elements
perhaps hardly yet fitted to share the high
| est franchises of citizenship. and having
| Que regard to the geographical conditions.
| the most just provisions for self-rule in
| local matters with the largest political lib
critics as an integral part of our Nation
| will he accorded to the Hawaiians. No less
| is due to a people who, after five years of
demonstrated capacity to fulfill the obliga-
tons of Safeguarding statehood, come Of
their free will to merge their destinies in
| our body-politic.
The questions which have arisen between
Japan and Hawaii by reason OF the treat
lrent of japanese laborers emigrating to
the Islands under the Hawaiian japanese
convention of 1855, are III a satisfaC tory
state of settlement by negotiation. This
Government has not been invited TO lncdi-
ate, and Oh the other hand has sought no
intervention in that matter, further tEan
to evince it's kindliest disposition toward
such speedy and direct adjustment by the
| two sovereign states i'll interest as shall
comport with equity and honor 1t is graf
flying to learn that the approximations at
first displayed on the part of Japan lest
the cessation OF Hawairs national life
through annexation might imnair il ar. (.
to which Japan honorary IaII CLAIM, have
given place 10 confidence in the upright
ness of this Government and IN ;he SIN
cerity OF It's purpose to deal with all posi-
bIe Interior quesuons in the broa lest spl,it
OF trIenuilness.
MINISTER ME;HIlY'S CASE
AS to the representation of this Govern
ment to Nicaragua, salvador and Costa
Itita, l nave concluded that Mr. William
l.. Merry, confirmed as Minister of the
United States TO the States of Nlcaragu+
Salvador and Costa Rica, snail proceed to
san Jose, Costa klcst, ana there temporarily
establish the headquarters of the United
States to those three states. L took This
action tor what 1 regarded as the para
mount interests of tins country 1t WAS
developed upon an investigation by the
OF Nicaragua, while not unwilling to receive
Mr.. Merry IN MS diplomatic quality WAS
Unable to do 50 because of the compact
concluded June % lS.,J, whereby that Re-
pubic and nose OF salvador ana Honduras
forming what Is known as the Greater Re-
public Oh Central America, GaI surrendered
10 the representative Diet thereof their
rIght to receive and send diplomatic agents
The Eiet was not willing to ACCEPT him
because he was not accredited to that BODY.
L could not accredil him to that body be-
cause the appropriation law of Congress-
did not permit II. MIR. Baker the present
.h1iilSter at Alalasua, mas been directed to
present his letters of recall
i1r. W. Godfrey Hunter has likewise been
accredited to the Governments Of Gualema-
Ia and Honduras. the same as his predeces-
SCR. Guatemala is not II member of the
Greater Republic of Central America, but
Honduras is. Should this latter Govern
ment decline to receive him, he has been
instructed to report this fact to his Gov
eminent and await its further instruc-
tiCnS.