The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-13

a good many years AS far back as 1888
a treaty was drafted. in which IL was
agreed by the governments OF France
and England that the independence of
Hawaii should be supported The Gov
eminent of the United States was asked
TO become a party to il, but declined. l
firmly believe for the reason that annex
aston of the Islands considered
among the remote possibilities. In 1876
theFe was "a reciprocity treaty negotiated
oy the monarchY with the United States,
which gave the sugar producers here the
same advantages as those of Louisiana
| cannot but think that When this was
done it was a step in the educational
line toward what we are striving for
Instrumentation. The Minister of Foreign
Affairs has told us tonight of his trip
abroad and the impressions gained thro'
contact with men at the national capital,
and l cannot help thinking I'm rejecting
everyone present to read between the
lines. We know that in the platform OF
the Republican party proclaimed at the
St Louis convention last summer there
was broad plank of Hawaiian timber.
and since then we have received infor-
nation that that particular plank was
hewn by a friend of this country an adj
vOcate of the annexation measure.
have no doubt that this was inserted with
view to the early contamination OF the
wish of the people here. and that the
object to pledge the Republican party
to cause which when effected will bring
only good TO the people of these Islands.
a protectorate has been suggested by
some, but in the plan proposed the United
States is to have control of all appoint
ments here for three years. L would pre-
fer no halfway remedy, and would sug-
geSt a full marriage ceremony between
! the two nations. The opponents of annex
alton here tell us we will be sorry If our
plans go through, but L have yet to hear
! of any instance of people being sorry at
receiving good things. had a converse
ton the other day with a gentleman who
has lived here for many years. and is 20
be numbered among the wealthy men.
Annexation was the subject and he re-
marked that during the twenty-four years
prior to the negotiation of the reciprocity
treaty his accommodations amounted TO
less than $1,000, but since that time the
money had rolled in on him so rapidly
that he had grown rich without knowing
where the money came from. Those of
you who were here twenty odd years
ago remember the objections there
to the reciprocity treaty. The men who
opposed that are the opponents of annex
alton today. Ever since the passage of
the treaty the sugar producers of the Ha-
waiian Islands have lived in fear of
changes in the tariff laws of the United
States which would affect their inter-
estS; on the arrival of every steamer
from the coast during the past few years
the first question asked has been, What
is the American Congress doing about
sugar?" Still they have gone on making
sugar-and money. But there are other
industries the Islands to be developed,
and which will receive announcement
and new growth through annexation. The
pineapple product is one of them Thro
an oversight ii was not included in the
treaty that fruits timed should be admit
ted free into the United States and this
fact had kept back an industry which
would be of untold benefit to the holders
of small tracts of land capable Of pro-
ducing the fruit With annexation fruit
canning will become an industry of i'm
portance the Islands, and instead of
one factory, we have today, there will
be many. Still another is that much
made-fun-of industry, the manufacture
of guava jelly. People have laughed at
it because it seemed such small affair,
and considered alone it would be, but II
is one of the many which go to make up
the whole. Small shipments of the jelly
going forward by almost every stea-
mer from Hawaii, and If 1t were not for
tariff restrictions the small shipments
would be large ones, for there are seventy
millions of people in the United States
who like good things to eat, and this is
one of them. Sugar men oppose annexa-
ton account of contract labor. i
wish to say as member of the Hawaiian
Senate, gentlemen that in the next ses-
sion of that body the contract law will
be repealed, and from that time we will
have free labor on the plan of American
institutions and American industries.
tremendous appIause) When this has
been accomplished i do not see how any
sugar man can oppose annexation. The
question has been asked, What Will an
nexation do for the Hawaiian" This
much: The Hawaiians have never been
taught what Americans term self-respect,
but what is called by the modern school
waiians are treated as children today,
precisely as they were three-quarter5 OF
a century ago. We meet them and If the
man strikes our fancy and asks for 1t we
will give him a quarter, and he goes OH
and buys a meal No man who has learn
ed what self-respect is will receive money
unless he has earned it, or gives an
equivalent. The Hawaiian is not TO be
blamed for this he has never yet been
taught differently, but with the infusion
of new blood which will follow annex
alton the rising generation will learn II
by contact.
Reference has been made tonight to the
terms on which annexation should be
had. / do not think it would be advisable
to dictate any terms. Texas tried IL once
on that plan and failed. / am in favor
of anything we can get, so it is annex
alton.
Captain Mcdonald, the old war horse,
who visits here once each year IN the
a short address, recounung the obJecuons
of the "Kickers" to the admission OF
Oregon He had learned in Chicago last
summer that there were kicEerS there
against annexation, but he beileVed a ma
ioritv of people in the United States
wanted to take the Islands under the
folds of the American flag. He cited the
case of Texas, and how a little band or
soldiers had left the States and gone 70
Mexico and taught those people a lesson
the cause of annexation, for he believed
il was the salvation of the country.
Mr. Thurston called gentleman IN
the audience. whose opinions are Welghty
and whose expressions at this time VIII
he of interest. 2. g. Jones arose ana
said he was what an evening paper had
STYLED an ''anneXationist first, last anu
ali the time" He would not be in taVof
of haggIing for terms, as he beHeVed the