The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-09


Besides these there are 1871 Portu-
gucse who are from the lowest stratum of
the population of Europe There are S,202
OF other ountries-English German,
American, etc The American element
numbers about 5000, or, say, enough to
form a voting precinct in Kentucky.
All these people are to be- taken into the
body of the population of the United
States under constitution which pre-
vents discrimination on account of race or
color. 1t is, of course, claimed that these
Mongolians, Polynesians and the lepers
that are found among them will not be-
come American citizens, but how it is to
be prevented is another question. Without
them the Hawaiian Islands have no popu
lation worth naming, yet they must have
a local government of some sort.
The annexation of Hawaii is the annex
alton of Claus Spreckels. 1t enables him TO
get his sugar produced by Mongolian labor
into the American market without the
payment of any duty. The reciprocity
treaty has done this heretofore, but public
opinion is becoming somewhat averse to
sacrificing $4,000, 900 or $4,000, 600 of
revenue per year for the sake of a few ON
ployers of Monaghan labor. There is "a
threat TO rescind the treaty, so the sugar
patriots of Hawaii hurry up the march of
the lepers into the United States.
There is another set of patriots that have
figured out how they could make mill
lions by getting the United States to lay
cable to Hawaii There would not be any
thing in it for the United States of course.
There never is anything left for the gov
eminent when it has side partner in
business enterprise. Nothing? WELL moth
ing but the losses. The government ac-
cepts them as its own and the side part
ners pocket the profits. The latter are
paid out of the governments losses. This
Is the history of the governments ventures
into the domain of private business. Pri-
vate capital builds all the railroads and
lays all the cables that promise to yield
profit The Others are reserved for the
government, which sustains the losses,
while its partners so manipulate matters
as to come out as rich as Cr9sus was ever
reported to be. The Pacific railroads are
still there as object lessons.
Flushed with prospects of this kind,
equipped with the millions of revenue that
they have already been permitted to col
lect from citizens of the United States,
the annexationists are prepared to swear
and to suborn others to swear that the
people OF inc OnlUeu otdUeS are lying
awake at night yearning for the annexa-
ton of Claus Spreckels, the Maine cable
projectors and the lcpers of Hawaii. If
they are to be believed, the American peo-
pie are ashamed to look a foreigner in the
face because they have not added to their
number the 100000 Kanakas, the 25,0 900
laps, the $4,000 Chinese and the $4,000
Portuguese that drag out their lives on
starvation wages in the isles of the sea SO
remote that the swiftest steamers cannot
reach them until after many days.
They wish us to believe that the Pacific
ocean Is not deep enough for ships to pass
over 1t unless they pass within marine
league of the Hawaiian Islands, and that
consequently unless we acquire them we
are shut out of the Pacific ocean altogeth-
err The truth Is the Hawaiian Islands are
to the Pacific ocean as grain OF sand to
all the sand banks on all our coasts. 1t is
not Hawaii that Is wanted. 1t Is the treas
ury of the United States that Is to be raid.
ed in the future as In the past, only the
gait Is to be accelerated. Men who expect
to get millions out of the treasury have
lively imaginations. -Louisville Courier.
Journal.