The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-16
AN ATTACK ON HAWAII.

The New York Nation" a well ed
tied and well written paper, has some
thing to say upon the Hawaiian ques-
ton, and devotes two editorial para
graphs to the subject. The date is De-
cember II, and copy is in our Homo
shows that the subject is alive, very
much alive, and from the Nations"
point of view needs killing.
The Nation recapitulates the his
toric position. 1t refers to the fact
that President Harrison sent to the
Senate his treaty to accomplish An
nexation, it also shows how President
Cleveland withdrew it, but it does not
show that President Cleveland author
lied the representative of Republic
the greatest Republic the world ever
saw-to destroy sister organization
and put the people of the country
under the dominance of monarchy.
Was ever such an incongruous act
committed? One might almost say the
they were his countrymen-were
striving to their utmost to establish
the form of government that he was
pledged to believe in both by educa-
ton and by birth, and that he proved
recreant to their cause.
The Nation" gives the Hawaiian
Republic credit for the manner in
which the Government has been car
ried on since the fall of the Monarchy.
1t can do no less. The fall of the Mon
archy meant peace and prosperity 20
every one on the islands. 1t meant an
end to the misrule which was the curse
of the place. 1t meant the extinction
of much bribery and corruption in the
Legislature and elsewhere.
One of the statements made in the
Nation" has been thoroughly fore
seen by The Star. 1t is that eX-Queen
Liliuokalani has gone to the United
States for the purpose of advocating
by the Hawaiian Government and that
she is to have a pension of $4,000 a
year if she succeeds.
Never was there anything more
ridiculous, never anything more mis-
leading. The Hawaiian Government
has had nothing to do with the visit of
the ex-Queen to the United States.
The Hawaiian Government felt itself
strong enough to release the eX-Queen
from any form of espionage and she
has gone abroad as any free citizen
might. But that she is in any way
the agent of the present Hawaiian
Government or will be rewarded for
any efforts she may use, by pension
out of the Government Golfers is GER
tainly wild dream, bred in brain
that knew nothing of the subject it
was discussing. 4
The fact is that the Nation" is in
tensely anti-anneXationist 1t does not
to sit comfortably in New York or
some other great city and don't want
to bother with their brothers and sis
tiers who are supporting the glory and
honor of their country in the distant
ends of the earth. The Nation" prac-
tically breaches the selfish policy of
the Corean. and the erstwhile of the
japanese. Isolation is what it desires.
Progress, advancement, national honor
are not in its program. \ nation must
either stagnate or progress. The time
has come for the United States to
reach out. One of the first steps for
the United States to take is the an
neXation of these Islands. They need
them. The great drama of the world
is going to be played out on the var
ious shores of the Pacific, and the pow
er that holds the key of the ocean cen
tire is the power that will dominate
the rest. There is no doubt of the inn
mense force of the United States, but
no power has the influence it should
unless it takes care to obtain outlying
stations which serve as guards for the
main. body.
The Hawaiian Islands are the adj
vance guard of the United States in
the Pacific Ocean!