Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-07-06
SHOULD BE- IN THE UNION
T1E SOLUTION OF
MANY QUESTIONS.
"Hawaii for the United States.''
tho San FrsneiscO Examiner
Excisims with Earne.tness.

>hNci WIG hthuihS, Hawaii loI
the United States," the San
Francisco Examiner of June II
has the following editorial:
President Mckinley has chosen
an opportune time to send to the
Senate a treaty providing for the
annexation of Hawaii. There is
at present no controversy over the
islands. Their people are prac-
tically unanimous in favor OF
union with the United States,
and their existing government is
not threatened with overthrow.
Whatever may be the doubts in
regard to the necessity or justice
of its establishment, there are
none whatever that it has justified
the confidence of the people who
supported it. 1t has so far won
its place that there is no longer a
hint of royaliss intrigues for its
overthrow.
The most powerful objection
advanced against the treaty of
1893 has thus been removed. 1t
can no longer be urged that tho
Government making the treaty
does not represent the people
whose allegiance it signs away.
The claims of the Hawaiians
and the sympathy of their ancient
monarchy that were urged against
the treaty of 1898 have likewise
ceased to be an obstacle to annex
alton. The Hawaiian has ceased
to be the most important part of
the population of the islands,
either in numbers or wealth or in.
telligence. In the number of
adult males the Hawaiian falls be.
low the Chinese, the Japanese and
the mixed white races. If the
Government established by Amer
leans that now rules the little re-
public were to step out, and the
United States were to let the other
races fight it out among them
selves, it would not be the Hawai-
ian who came to control the isl
ands.
The balance of military and
commercial advantage is strongly
on the side of annexation. The
power that holds Hawaii has tho
key to the control of the Pacific.
The islands furnish the only base
of operations that can cut or hold
all lines OF commerce between
America and Asia, and between
North America and Australasia.
They have good harbors, easily for.
tilted, and if made a naval depot
they will make the North Pacific an
American sea. Commercially the
islands are of considerable ina por-
tance-at least to California, and
to San Francisco. The
reciprocity treaty has given us to
a large extent the commercial con-
ditions that would result from an
nexation. Under this treaty we
have built up commerce with the
islands that forms one-third to
one-fourth of the foreign COM
merce that passes in and out of
the Golden Gate. And az annex
alton will secure to us these ad-
vantages beyond chance of loss
through Vaccinations of the Sugar
Trust of envy of commercial
rivals, San Francisco will find
interest in giving its influence to
the ratification of the treaty.
1t is, therefore, to be hoped that
the treaty will speedily be ratified.
With Hawaii made American soil
there will be no further threats
from Japan, or fears of a coup
from England, or anxieties lest
the peace and order of the islands
be interfered with by conspirators
or rebellious laborers. The United
States is in effect pledged to the
protection of Hawaii. The best
way to make that pledge effective
is, fly the American flag from the