The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-08
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
New Organization Just
Started in New York.
Policy Will Be Paclfic-Annexatio
of Hawaii One of Its
Objects.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The Patriotic
League of America, which has just
been organized in this city, has issued
the following address to the people of
the United States:
The closing years of the nineteenth
century are being marked by many
hopeful indications of a revival of
genuine American feeling. The organ
ization activity of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolutions, the Sons of Colonial
Wars, and similar societies have given
most worthy and efficient service in
admonishing the dominating tendency
OF the commercial spirit and reminding
the sentiment of patriotism, not only
among the people of this Republic, but
OF the entire American continent.
But the membership of these or
CARNATIONS being restricted to people
of particular classes, must of necessity
be limited. The exigencies of the pres
ent demand the strenuous and I'M
selfish exertions of a society as broad
as the continent, and with it's doors
wide open to all patriotic Americans
without respect to race, nationality or
religion. \ brief reference to recent
events and present conditions give en-
phatic Endorsement to this demand.
-Of recent events mention need not
be made of the incident of the New
Orleans massacre, with the tax on
American diplomacy to avoid a conflict
with Italy; the outrage committed by
England on Nicaragua, in the CorintO
affair. which aroused the Indignation
and called forth the protests of the
American people; and the war clouds
which less than a year ago rose so
threateningly over the Venezuelan
question and were cleared away only
by the persistent maintenance OF the
Monroe doctrine.
The dictates of humanity, and our
vast interests in Cuba, demand that
this Government shall extend to that
oppressed and ill-governed island the
protection OF the eagle and the shield,
and command that this inhuman war of
butchery, spoilation and destruction
shall stop, and Cuba be left free TO cul
IlNdlt the dl Is VI DtdCt anu dCfNiOp
her resources. under a Government of
her own choice and creation.
"Of present conditions the Cuban
question is daily assuming more threat
ening aspects. The cause of her pat
riotic citizens, struggling through car
mage and confIagration in the unalter
able determination TO break their yoke
of bondage or perish to the last man
battling heroicaIly to earn for them !
selves and their posterity the liberty !
our example taught them TO covet. ap- |
peaIs most powerfully and emphatical- |
Iy to the American sense of justice and /
fair play. and cannot much longer ap- |
peal in vain.
The attitude of the British Govern |
ment furnishes another of the present /
conditions which Americans cannot !
contemplate with Indifference. She has /
established six powerful naval stations
in threatening proximity TO our East
earn coast. She has built others at
Voncouver. Quebec. St. Johns, Kings
ton. and the Niagara River. These
Notifications could not have been de
signed for defense against any Euro
pean power. They are a standing
menace to this Republic, and no agree
ment for the establishment of a per-
manent court of arbitration should ev-
er be ratified except on the condition
that all her maritime Notifications
south of Halifax and those along the
southern border of Canada shall first
be dismantIed and destroyed.
Another condition that appeals with
Irresistible force TO American patriot
ism is the fact that American citizens
in foreign lands have been compelled
TO suffer the humiliation of appealing
TO British and other alien consuls for
protection against threatened violence.