The times., 1897-06-18
Circulation Statement.
WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10,
The Hawaiian Crisis.

The motives OF the Administration IN
sending the Hawaiian annexation treaty
to the Senate, with a recommendation
that it be ratified, may be open 20 ques-
tion. 1t is painful 10 be compelled to
admit that every action of this Hanna
and trust-ridden Administration is subject
to suspicion. Nevertheless, the anne xa-
tiou treaty on its face is a broad gauged
American measure; is one that the people
of this country have been demanding
for years; is in the line Of national mans;
fest destiny, and, finally is the best pos
sible declaration the United States could
make against a recent tendency on the
the spread of American influence in the
Pacific. and in connection with the pro-
posed construction of the Nicaragua Canal
Il is claimed, with degree of ef-
frontery that must excite surprise, that
the treaty is il the interest OF the Sugar
Trust Even if it were so, any advantage
that might temporarily accrue to that
monster octopus would be more than COM
pensated Ivy the great good that would
flow to the American nation through the
possession of this stronghold, the key to
naval and commercial supremacy in the
East In 1900 we shall have u Demo
cratic binetallic Government, and the
Sugar Trust and all other obnoxious
n monopoIies viii he crushed like egg
shells Then we shall have foreign and
commercial policies not dictated from
the British foreign office and the Span
fish legation, and we shall have trade,
ships, and an era of national as
sertion and manhood, during which our
arbitration tribunals viii be constituted
of scrried ranks OF freemen, defending
liberty. humanity, and our country's right
tits significant thai the chief enemies of
the Hawaiian annexation treaty, with one
exception are the individuals who con
stitute the residaum of the Cleveland toy
brigade in the United States Senate -Sena-
tors Gray, Caffcry, and Lindsay! Who
would expect them, or any of them. to
respond to any national aspiration that
did net iibe with the views and policy of
the syndicatcd foreign interests, which
would throttle our expansion, destroy the
Monroe doctrine, and deprive us of future
domination over the trade of the world,
by placing the Nicaragua Canal under he
ccntroi of Great Britain?
And what of Senator White, the fourth
member of the quartet? Elevated 10 Dem
ocratjc prominence by being made chair
man Of the Chicago convention, as far as
inr!ng the present extra session, signaliZed
the honor paid him by his party by doing
everything possible to further the Re
publican Administ ton program in all
material respects. That he should now
come out against a measure which the
MASSES of the country, irrespective Of
party, heartily indorse, is TO be regretted,
while it is rot ground for wonder.
To sum up: 1t is claimed that the
Sugar Trust is behind the treaty That
false allegation has been disposed of. 1t
is urged thar we do not want a new
sovereign state, far away in the Pacific
Very good; keep Hawaii as the Common
property of all the States, or attach it
to California, Oregon, Washington or
Alaska, for that matterl Secretly, it is
Conflict with Great Britain, whose diplo |
macy and money already are in evidence |
In this National Capital; or with Japan, |
or Germany. An right; the sooner the |
better. Under the corrupt and coward |
rule OF Cleveland and o1ney we have |
lost the reputation of ability to fight for |
our rights. But the American men who |
fought under Grant and Lee, under Sher- |
man and Johnston, and under Sheridan /
aud Stoaewall Jackson, are not all dead:
and those of them W no 8 re, have left sons
loaded 10 the brim with the spirit and
fire of I776, of 1872, of 1s47. and of |
1861
The American people insist upon the an
nc eXation OF Hawaii II for no other
reason, 10 show the bullying nations OF
the world that policy which has been
notified to them for years win not be |
while Uncle Sam has ship,
q gun eT 8 man.