Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-06-16
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION,

| NeAb III ILL puTlbuCe TO Inc RESTORATION
I of our internal prosperity which we be-
lieve will be greatly facilitated by the
speedy passage of the protective tariff
now pending in congress, is the adoption
of a vigorous and distinctly American
foreign policy such as was outlined by
the great Secretary Blaine. While we as
people are opposed to any doctrine OF
conquest we ought to have foresight
enough to carefully guard our coasts and
commerce against aggression from any
quarter whatever. And apropos of this
We were glad to see by our yesterday 3
dispatches that treaty for the annexation
of the Hawaiian islands will be sent by
the president to the senate tomorrow, or
at any rate very soon. We are also glad
to see that the nonsensical idea of paying
the ex queen $4,000 per annum for life
and the Princess Kanilani lump sum of
$l50,000 has been abandoned. We can
not call to mind any recent case wherein
an expelled monarch has been pensioned
by his insurgent people, and why we
should charge ourselves with the support
of Lilioukilana SURPRISES our com pre-
hension. Another wise provision is the
prohibition of the importation of Coolie
and Chinese labor into the islands. A
glance at any map of the United States
and its surroundings will show the vast
Importance of these islands to u.s. Sena-
tor Lodge in recent speech in the SEN
ate explained how England had estab-
lished Gordon of powerful fortresses ex-
tending along our entire coast line from
Halifax to the Caribbean sea, the most
southern of these being within easy strik-
ing distance of the Nicaragua canal.
Passing over to the Pacific we find Eng.
land entrenched again. One of the strong
eat fortresses of the world has been qui-
city erected within tho past few years
just across the northern boundary of
Oregon on Vancouver island. Away to
the south near Samoa we find another
British fort at the Til islands and an
other at the Falklands. Commenting on
these last Mr.. Lodge says: In that great
triangle marked by these three points
Great Britain does not hold naval sta
ton. There in the center of that triangle
in the heart of the Pacific, lie the Sand
wich islands. They are the key of the
Pacific. If we are ever to build the Mica
raguan canal it would be folly to enter
upon it if we we're not prepared to take
possession of those islands. 1t is on 40
count of the military and strategetic i'm
portance of the Sandwich islands that |
so greatly desire their control by the
United States. They are particularly
important, as | have said, if we once
open, as I hope we shall open, the Mica
ragua canal. All the great routes from
San Francisco and from Vancouver, all
the great routes to the east, to and from
the Nicaraguan canal pass those islands.
These opulent islands lie in the direct
route of ships from the western deboucn.
ment of the Nicaragua canal to China.
As coaling station, as naval depot, and
repairing or even building station they
are simply invaluable. 1t is out of the
question that we shall permit England or
any other nation to appropriate them for
, moment, just az it is not within the do
main of discussion that we can entertain
,he idea of allowing any power on earth
10 occupy Cuba after Spain takes her de-
parture from the Antilles. The present
government of Hawaii is American, and
that government comes and freely offers
his rich boon to US. Surely we will not
be such blind moles as to refuse it. After