The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-25
HAWAII a HooDoo.
Honor, Business and Traditional
American Policy Are All Alike
Committed Against Annexation.
. the editor of the Globe

To the Editor of the Globe.
The proposed annexation of Hawaii owes
all its chance of success to popular ignorance
of the subject. Hawaii is a little group OF
islands having only 10000 Inhabitants of
whom 10000 are POynesians, an educated, in
telligent class, all bitterly opposed to an
neXation, with more than 10000 Chinese and
japanese, 1900 Europeans, 1000 native whites
half breeds, and only 0G6 Americans, II
owes over So 100000, on which it is paying .
per cent; and the revenue does not cover eN-
penses, if we include interest. 1t may become
richer and more pOpulous than it is, but it
will never be worth as much as Milwaukee
or Cincinnati, besides being mOrsel charged
with every social microbe. For this hoodoo.
the annexation ring with President Mckinley
at its head, proposes no less than that
should sacrifice our hegemOny over North
and South America.
Washington in his farewell message pointed
out to our people the immense advantages
they possessed in isolation, and advised them
to keep out of European complications. The
famous doctrine of Monroe is but cOrOllary
from this; for European ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In
America would destroy our isolation. Olney
drew the further COTOllary that, as the only
considerable Independent power on this con-
tnent, we must protect it's smaller republics.
Every step in this reasoning our consistency
has brought unwilling Europe to admit.
But all, back to Washington's first principles.
Stultifed II We annex Hawaii. Hawaii Is
the eastern outpost of Oceanica, which is
just a partially submerged continent for
mery connected with Asia. It's nearest Fort
is 2USJ miles from our nearest llS POSSES
sion would put us in such stragetic relations
to Japan (Which has said she will not have it,.
to France, through Papua; to Germany;
through Samoa; to Spain, through the Philip
pines; to Holland, through the Spice Islands.
that war with some of these jealous, untriaud-
ly neghbors could not long be avoided. IL
would be madness to take this step without
creating on the Pacific, naval power SUCH
as we have never had, even on the Atlantic.
And meanwhile must utterly abandon
Cuba as Mr.. Mckinley is now understood
that we have always protected Hawaii and
that we civilized it. are utterly false. Ha-
wall was discovered By an Englishman, James
Cook in 177S. In 1892 another Englishmau,
Vancouver furnished the grea Kane
hameha those arms and vessels with viii IN
he united the islands In the reign of this
king GS19 Hawaii accepted the protection of
England, His successor, Kamehameha H.,
abolished taper and idolatry and thus intro
duced modern civilization before he admitted
an American missionary. His people were
not baptized i'm any considerable number
for forty years later. Their language was
made literary by the English missionary.
Ellis In 1870, Kamehameha III. gave his
country a constitution initiated from the En-
glish In 1914 disputes between Catholic and
Protestant missionaries caused Hawaiian in
France, and now first, the United States In
1873 our government renewed that pledge our
president now wants to violate. Thus it Will
be a crime as well as a folly If we accept
Hawaii from the usuTper. Dole, who has
never dared to submit any of his acts to the
people. The whole Importance of Hawaii
consists in its strategic position. and that
they do Belgium C. L. James.
Fan Claire Wis.