The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-03
IT is FRIENDLY
The Administration is So
Regarded.
Chief Justice Judd Says Striking
Out of Reciprocity Not
Final Action.

Chief Justice Judd has talked 10 the
Philadelphia Press on the subject o.
Hawaii and annexation. The Press
gives the interview as follows:
The administration at Washington
is favorably disposed toward Hawaii:
Of that 1 am convinced, and when
say 'favorably disposed 1 mean not
only that it is much more so than was
the Cleveland administration, but that
1 am assured that Mr.. Mckinley and
his advisers are in favor Of the annex
alton of the Islands,
So spoke Chief Justice 4. F. Judd, OF
Hawaii, who is in this country just
now for the first time in II years, and
who came on to Philadelphia from
Washington yesterday. Judge Judd is
not in the United States upon a po-
liticaI mission. He is here merely in
a private capacity, but during fort
nights visit at the capital he had long
talks with President Mckinley and
many other prominent people, and his
opinion of the administration atti-
tude toward Hawaii is based upon the
observations OF an experienced man of
affairs.
Asked in regard to the effect the alb
rogation of the Reciprocity Treaty
would have on the relations existing
between Hawaii and the United States,
Judge Judd said: 81 am not yet salts
fed that your Congress Will abrogate
that agreement. 1t surely is not the
proper way for the suspension of an
international understanding, and I do
not like to believe that the Govern
ment of the United States will take a
step that would be so purely eX-parte
and in which the other interested coun-
try can have no voice.
81 am we'll aware" continued the
distinguished Hawaiian, that a pow
erful pressure is being brought to bear
in Washington for the failure of the
reciprocity clause as embodied in the
original draft of the Tariff Bill, and
the effort in that direction may prove
but I shall not believe it
until ! see it. / know that the Sugar
Trust is strongly represented here. and
I know also that they will do their ut
most to keep out Hawaiian sugar.
GREATEST INDUSTRY.
"The production of sugar is, of
course. the greatest of our industries.
Under the system of reciprocity we
have been able to develop that indus
try in a manner that has done not
little to inspire confidence in our little
country. If we have to pay the duties
prescribed by your pending Tariff Bill
4 Oh oh - oc.f Il fn
us as nation that there is likely to
grow up a spirit of discomfort that may
seriously imperil our peace"
Judge Judd said furthermore that he
was led to believe, through cOnversa-
tons with leading statesmen in Wash
ington. that the striking out of the
reciprocity clause by the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate was by no means
necessarily a final action. On the con-
trarv. he has been assured that there
is more than a probability that the
matter will be somehow adjusted in
the Committee of Conference. so that
this sad blow shall not he dealt to the
only sustaining industry that the Ha-
waiian Islands can boast.
IF worse comes to worst. however"
continued the Chief Justice, in answer
to further questions, 'the whole mat
ter can be safely and most satisfac-
torilv arranged by annexation"
But will not the Sugar Trust Op-
pose annexation just as bitterly as
they oppose reciprocity, since both
would tend to the same result?" he
was asked.
"'The Sugar Trust are attending to
one thing at a time" said he, 'and [
am not at all sure that they would
have as much influence in opposition
TO annexation Indeed. I am given to
that some of the Senators
have declared themselves as in favor
of the striking out of the reciprocity
clause as a measure Of finance, but
they would favor annexation IS a diff
ferent matter entirely"
els the sentiment in Honolulu still
as strong for annexation as eveT?"
was next asked.
THE ONLY AMEND
"Quite so" was the answer. "and it
is growing all the time. The very eX-
istence of a doubt as to the fate Of reci-
prOcity has developed into an argu-
ment in favor of annexation. Just as
soon as the matter came up, the Ha-
waiian Government sent special COM
missioners to Washington, and they
are there now as assistants to Minis
ter Hatch, watching Hawaii's interests
in connection with the Tariff Bill. and
ready. no doubt. to urge annexation as
the only logical amend that can be Of
fered if the reciprocity clause is strick-
en- out
In regard to the sometimes moOted
question as to whether the anxiety of
Hawaiians for annexation may not be
regarded as an admission of their ina
bility to stand alone, Judge Judd said:
1--WE have a population of 100000.
We have no men-of-war, no great guns,
nothing but small arms. What could
we do against any nation that should
rise up against us? Were it not for
the protection of the United States our
position could be made a very difficult
one by Great Britain, or even by Japan,
and we prefer to make sure of that
protection by annexation. The United
States is the protector to whom we
turn in the nature of the situation,