The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-12-16
ON
ANNEXATION
Declares Our Government Should Not
Let Hawaii Slip.
ISLANDS WOULD 60 TO ENGLAND.
The Ex-seoretary Thinks That if Congress
Rejects Annexation the Americans
Now in Control There viii Turn
to Great Britain.

to Great Britain.
Washington, Dec. 16.-Ex-Secretary
Of State John W. Foster, who, while
a member of the Harrison cabinet ne
gotiated the first treaty annexing Ha-
waii to the United States and who has
since visited the islands and taken
much interest in their acquisition, when
asked today as to the status of the
annexation question said:
THE opponents in congress Of Ha-
waiian annexation will not have dis
posed Of the question by voting against
and defeating this measure. They
must decide what shall be the policy
and conduct of the United States to-
wards the islands for the future.
Having refused the application of the
island government for Incorporation
into our Union, such an act necessarily
carries with it the right of the former
to determine its own. political destiny,
uninfluenced by considerations affect
ing the United States.
But such a course would present
embarrassments to congress of no
small moment. During the last admin
istratiOn of President Cleveland the
house of representatives resolved that
foreign intervention in the political
affairs of the islands will not be re-
garded with indifference by the gov
ernn,ar+ of Tho Tr,,t+,I ST., I,,,7.i,,.-
the same session the senate, by a
unanimous vote, went a step further
and declared that any Intervention of
the political affairs Of these islands by
any government will be regarded as an
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'Jt is pIain that the isIards cannot
long maintain their a,Itora,,,- ~
most threatening nresant dono,or ts
from japan. That country man, he na,-
fectly sincere i'm its declaration nat
it does not seek tbe annavatior, of 49,,
islands. but the current of e,,ents if
not checked win lead ineyitabIy a. tI,a+
result. The operation of tba aristino
immigration treaty as internretad by,
japan. viii soon hiring about tba
of the Iapanesa i'm the isI
ands. The authorities of the rar,,l,Ii,
and the empire are now at issue as 70
this treaty IT REQUIRES no nronbet -
foresee which construction of n viii
prevail if the islands are NOT anneved
to the United States or some mover
does not intervene.
but 1 do not tbinl, tbe isIards win
the people Of American orlgin nj in inr, nor, ~
control of the government are rsiao+,5