The San Francisco call., 1897-11-15
No Compensating Advantages
for the ACQUISITION Of Land
Beyond the Seas.
USURPERS HAVE NO TITLE
TO THE ISLANDS.
JeH-tll HaWaiians of Th air Own Free
the Scheme Has No Standing.
Special Dlspatch to The GAIL

NEW YORK, Nov. III am against
the Hawaiian annexation treaty." says
Senator Donaldson Caffery of Louisiana
in a letter printed here to-day.
81 question the right of the socalled
republic" the Senator continues, Ito
transfer the islands, their inhabitants and
their government property to the United
States l claim that the acquisition OF
territory beyond the sea Is contrary TO the
spirit of our constitution ana i, a danger
Gus experiment with no compensatng ad-
vantages. l hold that he status of inde-
peudence OF the islands, with the conCes-
sion # Pearl Harbor for a CO ling sta
tion or any other purpose, guarantees the
United States against any disadvantage
from foreign possess on as much as If we
owned them.
Il am satisfied the provisional govern
ment owes its existence TO the landing OF
United States marines from the Boston
and their presence in Honolulu when the
pa er provisional government WAS pro-
claimed The present republic, which in
int o. fact is an oIgarchic despotism, is
lineai descendant OF military usurpa.
ton broulht about by the Intervention of
United States marines, and Is utterly
without title in any just or equita BILE
sense to the property it claims to convey
10 the United States.
The representative of the native Ha-
waiiaus' deposed Qaeen strenuously
contends that the sovereignty OF the
Islands has been wrenched from its law
1 i- sovereign and the people by the mill
! a,y power of a Government which IS now
u b. h h.. F1-
Of me usurped and stolen sovereignty 10
itself. When challenged TO procure the
consent OF Hawaiians to annexation the
reply is that the consent OF Texans,
Louisianans, Calliornians, Floridans and
Alaskans was not asked for the cessIon OF
their territories to the United States
Their cases are not analogous to hat OF
Hawaii The title of Mexico, France
Spain and Russia was never disputed.
The parties most deeply interested in
the annexation project deny the rightful-
ness of title OF the Government proposing
TO annex. They prize their independence
and they love their Queen. The annexa-
tIonists will carefully decline to produce
any witnesses whose testimony on the
pOint OF annexation is worth having.
Until Hawaians Of their own free and vol
untary choice declare they desire annexa-
ton The scheme has no standing.
The Monroe doctrine has been repeat
edly applied to Hawailans by Webster
Marcy and Clayton. 1t is dangerous TO
the United States Tor foreign maritime
power 10 hold and own them. Our policy
is fixed that no such power Will be per-
mitted to hold them"
After declaring that Hawaii would be
nothing but a rotten borough-and the
rottenest OF often boroughs-3000 Ameri-
cans and 20 800 Hawaiians, Japanese,
Chinese and Portuguese, the letter con-
cIudes as follows:
"Americans in Hawaii are sugar plant
ers to a great extent They own the
T 2rgest and most valuable properties.
Tley are tired OF keeping up a govern
ment called by courtesy republic. A
good way out Of the expense and worry OF
paying taxes and keeping down japanese
and Chinese is TO transfer the Job to the
United States. The fortunes of handful
OF sugar planters do not justify US in un-
dertaking the dangerous experiment of
mid-ocean cover -ment over a population
al en-, unassimilable and un-ChrIstian.
No republic has tiourished after CONQUER
ing or acquiring dominion beyond the
seas. The destruction OF Carthage was
but the precursor OF the destruction of
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