The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-14
WHAT WILL COME.

And now comes Russia with adj
vice upon annexation. Russia is
troubled upon annexation by the
peculiar method of a treaty." Of
course this does look a peculiar
method to the Russian who is &C
customed to do his annexation by
means of few sotnias of Cossacks,
and who does not wait for anyone
to ask him to annex, but who
calmly marches along and takes
what he wants. What Russia is
really afraid of is back of what she
says. She does not like to see the
Stars and Stripes advanced into
the mid Pacific where, few years
hence, she will be playing princi
pal part herself.
The Novoye Vremya, in which
these remarks occur, is semi
official organ, so that its words
upon question of this kind have
distinct weight. The Vremya APP
preciates that the annexation Of
Hawaii does not threaten English
colonial interests, and that, there
fore, England washes her hands of
the matter, and will not interfere
in the slightest degree. 1t also
agrees that the talk about its affect
ing German and French colonial
possessions is nonsense. In fact,
say what it can, it cannot find
standing ground for a complaint,
and yet, through column or more,
it makes a complaint. The true
inwardness of the Russian COM
plant is that it does not like to see
the expansion of the United States
expansion into commercial realms
which Russia hopes to make en-
tirely her own.
With the Hawaiian Islands and
the Nicaragua, or even the Panama
Canal, the American Republic can
dominate the North Pacific entirely.
The Eastern seaboard will have a
clear waterway to China and Japan,
and port in mid-ocean for refitting
and for re-provisioning whenever
necessity demanded. Owning the
Hawaiian Islands is practically ad-
vancing the sea coast of the United
States 2Ioo miles westward.
1t is not the intention of the
United States to allow either Russia
or Japan to become the dominant
sea- power in the Pacific. 1t is the
intention OF the United States to
become that sea-power itself. A
nation that counts among its sea-
men Wilkes, Perry, Farragut
and Mahan. is not nation which
is going to let that nautical spirit
die out. Upon the pillows of the
Pacific is to be Graded another race
of seamen-true Anglo-Saxons-
who. by their trading skill, shall
pour wealth into every sea port on
the Atlantic and the Pacific coast,
and who will broaden and extend
the power of the United States.
To carry out legitimate plans of
influence like these, the United
States takes possession of these is
lands. This possession is the step
pingstone to the platform of solidity
in the Pacific; the platform which
the United States must occupy, and
which she can take possession of
now with ease, but which will en-
tail trouble and, perhaps, great
bloodshed in the future. In this
year 1897 there is feeble protest
from Japan; in 1902, there is likely
to be heavy growl from the Bear.
No, these islands must and will
become part of the United States,
and Whitelaw Reid's aspiration, to
which he gave utterance at the
Cordwainers' Banquet in London,
will come true. His words were
eve hope that soon, by and with
the consent of the Senate, when
the Australian comes sailing east
ward home he may feel that he is, at
least, beginning to reach the estates
of the family when, in mid Pacific,
the Stars and Stripes wave their
welcome to him in Honolulu. -
There is no jingoism in such words
they are the result of calm
thought upon the subject-the out
come of reflection upon the neces-
sary growth of the republic. The
advice and the warnings of inter
ested parties will be disregarded,
the fears of the mugwump will be
cast aside, and the United States,
proving true to herself, will plant
her foot and her flag firmly on the
Hawaiian Islands. - .s.1e
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