The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-15

serve II. But II seems strange. when
nlhlllsm shakes the foundations of the
rule of the RomanoffS. when agrarian
ireland sets at defiance the power of
the British law. and socialism colors
the legislation of the German Empire.
that this burlesQue exhibition, with a
King in the center, a native bones at
one end of the Cabinet and Mormon
adVenturer at the other, can endure
1t cannot endure. for it is even now.
with all its seeming prosperity but
bubble dancing in the wind
The future of these Islands belongs
TO the intelligent Americans and Eu-
ropeans. Between the Americans and
Europeans, those who have gone there.
identified their interests with the ISL
ands, made their homes, and taken
their future with them, there should be
community of feeling. Between the
Englishman and the American there
should be sentiment of common
brotherhood. Whatever the English
Hawaiian may think of the American
Hawaiian citizen, the fact is that they
are both of the same family, the same
religion, the same language, the same
traditions, and the same everything
that will in time make their children,
as native Hawaiians, one in sympathy
and one in interest. Out of these Eu-
ropeans there should in time come to
the Hawaiian Islands a Hawaiian ma
tionality as distinctive as the Ameri-
cans to America. From all parts of Eu-
rope, and all it's people, we in America
have produced a new race. 1t is not
Saxon. Celt. or Teuton: it is Ameri-
can. Because the Americans originally
occupied the Sandwich Islands, and
through their missionaries took DOS
session of them; and because of their
physical geography their nearness to
our coast. and the indispensable ne
cessity that our Government should
have political control over them, all
European residents of the Islands:
it only asks that il may do them ia
vors: that it NAV encourage there the
establishment of a civilized govern
ment of Christian, white and progress
sive people. If these Islands stood in
the same relation, commercially. polit-
ically and locally to England, France.
Germany, or indeed to any of the
strong Governments of Europe. we
would be in favor of either of those
Governments extending to them a DO
litical protectorate. That is all our
Government desires. But it will not
submit to English. French. or German
control 1t will not submit If all the
Hawaiians Kings and all the Hawaiian
dead should come from their graves
and all the Hawaiians living-Kings,
mobiles and taro-patch proprietors-
| should favor it, The United States
| Government will not permit any other
Government on earth to put it's paws
upon this island realm. Our own Gov
eminent is it's heir-at-law and it's re-
| siduary' legatee, and will contest any
will or testament made by one of the
| Kamehameha dynasty to divert it from
| it's rightful heir-at-law. Our Govern
ment will plead undue influence in the
making of any devise that will ever
put Queen, Kaiser, or French Presi-
dent in the attitude of guardian ad
Item to the Hawaiian people; and be-
| fore we will submit to any humbug in
| this direction we will settle it in the
probate of war. Let the Hawaiian
Englishmen, Frenchmen. Germans, and
Portuguese pat this in their pipes and
smoke it. Whenever the Government
of the Hawaiian Islands passes out
from under the control of those who
live upon them they will come under
the control of the Congress of the
United States of America. Whether it
be by annexation, military protector
ate, with our guns in the Punchbow1
and our ships of war in the harbor of
Honolulu, by becoming colony, or in
friendly relation by treaty, they will
be American when they cease to be
Hawaiian. They ought to become a re-
public, and every native-born white
man on the Islands, and every intelli-
gent white foreigner, ought to unite
in making them a republic. with a
republic, with property and intelli-
gent voting qualification. And dur
ing the preliminary steps to this ma
tional reorganization an American
man-of-war should be invited to fling
it's banner to the breeze in the harbor
of Honolulu It is land of great
promise, fertile of soil, and genial in
climate It produces sugar and fruits.
It is one of the world sanitariums and
pleasure resorts. This is the age of
! steam travel. It is on one of the