Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-04
ANNEXATION.
No. 3.
(By ANNE NJ. PREscoTT.)

1
there is safety"
In speaking of the strength, the
true greatness of country or of
a city, we speak first of its repre-
sentative class; the educated, the
cultivated, the class that keeps the
hand on the lever, the lever that
moves for righteousness for power,
for help, for all true progress in
that nation or town, big or little.
And then, likely, we sift that class
to see who in it by Gods grace
tower above the others as the
spires and domes ontreach the
roofs below them. We look for
the individual who has made for
himself a name and praise as
engineer, or architect, or artisan
of any trade; we look for the great
bankers, the giants on our ex-
change - for money is a blessed
gift when nobly spent. We look
for the marked men of letters and
literature and solid learning, in
Church and Senate and House and
University and Home. Wedo not,
| say, look first at a certain amount
of coin held by any man or num-
Der of men, mass of base metal;
nor do we look first for noble
structures, or streets, or bridges,
or parks, public or private, neither
for theaters and opera houses.
But we look, il we are wise, for
who is behind all that goes to
make that city or shire or land
great, good and respected at home
and abroad. We look for the in
telligence, the soul, the heart that
has worked and given and thought
and brought and built and sold
and taught and legislated and
wrought, by night and day, for his
country's good.
And now we come to this little
Hawaii; and in one thing she can
be quite sure, that every school
hoy and girl knows how, the world
over, to spell her name and that it
begins with capital Il, and her
capital too the same a capital II
and a most capital capital it is,
that only Honolulu.
Even to the Indifferent it is
understood that Annexation will
as surely come as that snow will
fall in Canada by next Christmas.
1t will not come in haste to repent
at leisure, but it will be SO we'll
digested even by it's enemies. a
small minority, that there will be
no blunders to correct, no holes to
darn, no patches to stitch on.
There will be no planning off
neither faying on - the work will
be artistic, finished and complete
in every detail-a grand chef d.
euvre. We shall be a Territory
if not State, and it will not hurt
the country to do little climbing.
The State will come.
| We watch the signs of the
times; we profess to be a close
reader of foreign and domestic
intelligence, and a fairly good
thinker-over of what we find
worth our attention. A woman
must speak; it seems to be her
province, yea, her vocation not to
be silent-in fact not to he silenc-
led. You tell her she must keep
quiet and the next outcome is u
whole book of words; and what
are you going to do with it, or
about it? Speech was intended
as a sort of safety valve, and the
Great Republic believes in it as
much as it believes in Fourth of
July. You know the old, home
ly saw: "Can't tell what's in the
pot when the covers on. Apro-
pos:-I'm always afraid OF that
kind of human pot.
Ii the wisdom and the "salt" of
the United States, if among the
best and strongest journals, the
best literature current of the day,
all are for annexation, it can but
co,Io. They declare Hawaii is
needed for defense and to defend,
needs it for one more recreation
ground, for plsy-time hour, needs
it in the cause of Christian pro-
gress and true enlightenment
and annexation must come
We shall be part and parcel
of the United States. And the
sooner we stop looking back, the
faster we shall go forward. Be-
cause tho United States has never
cared for outside territory, that il