The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-18
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.

1t is not Hawaii that is wanted. 1t is the
treasury Of the United States that Is to be
raided 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.-Lou Courier
Journal Dem.)
IT is great mistake for the present adj
ministration to take up and complete the
blunder of the Harrison administration.
And it is disappointing in view of what the
President said against the passion for terri
torial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in his inaugural adj
dress.-Chicago Chronicle (Dem.)
The proposition to annex Cuba would be
a hundred times more sane and defensible
than this Hawaii job. Yet no sensible. dis
interested American advises that step.
Neither does any sensible and wholly disin-
terested American look with favor on the
taking of Hawaii.-New York Times (Dem)
Unlike the acquisitions Of territory which
are made by European nations, the consent
of the people Immediately concerned is OBJ
tanned in this case. In it's property inter-
ests and trade relations Hawaii has vir-
tualy been a dependency of the United
States all along.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
(Rep.)
Whenever the Stars and Stripes is raised
above Hawaii it will not mean that our
policy of peace is altered, but that we have
set an outpost there, in order that our de-
velopment shall not be hedged about or
cramped, but that it may continue along
the lines it has always followed.-Cincinnau
Commercial Tribune (Rep)
The desire for annexation has been
pressed by the Hawaiians themselves. If
any good Democrat in the future should
stop at one of these islands on his way
to the far East it ought not TO worry him
if it should be a stopping place belonging
to Uncle Sam instead Of to some other
country. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
(Rep)
Perhaps annexation is the best way to
protect the republican spirit in Hawaii. The
islands will come into the Union, if the
treaty is ratified, in a territorial condition.
with delegate In the House of Represent
atIves Wn4 may SPEAK spec ms nil ft put cannot
ton, and a very serious one.-Cincinnati
Enquirer Oem)
The joining of these islands to the United
States is an event to which two generations
of slear-sighted Americans have looked for
ward with keen longing. They are ours by
right of trade relations and conSanguinity
Their industries have been sustained by
American capital The best blood of the
islands, the ruling blood, is American
Chicago TimeS-Herald (Rep)
Give Hawaii autonomy, establish a sphere
of influence which will enable the United
States to keep hands off the island and
force every one else 70 do so, and all the
requirements of the situation would be an
swered. Before the Senate gets through
with the Hawaiian question the weight of
these facts is likely to be impressed upon
it with considerable force.-Chicago Record
Qnd)
1t is impossible to see in the annexation
scheme anything but step in the path
of colonial acquisition and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
in opposition to the spirit of our institu-
lions and the counsels We have hitherto
venerated The end of the path and the
cost to the people not merely in money, but
in national dignity and political progress
cannot be foreseen.-St. Louis Republic
(Dem.)
Hawaii should be annexed because we
need it, It's government is now American
but it cannot hold out against foreign ag-
gression without our help. The way to
help it is to hoist Old Glory as the SOW
ereign flag of the islands. They are rich
and fertile islands, and their productivity
has been developed by American enterprise
New England alone has nearly $50, go
invested there.-ChicagoH Tribune (Rep)
The protest of the japanese minister
shows that, at the least, we have alienated
a nation whose trade might be made worth
more to us than the value of all Hawaii;
while if we should come to open conflict
with SPAIN the possibility that we have
driven into her arms nation of military
proWess, flushed with recent naval victory
might be taken as the exponent of the most
fatuous statecraft on record-Pittsburg Dis
patch (Rep)