Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-19
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION
Vigorous Comment of the San Francisco Press
on the Aspects of the Question.
Public Meeting to Sustain the Ad-
ministratiOn UrEed-ObjectiOns
Answered Seriatim.
,ecial Dispatch to The E.cnins Star.

Special Dispatch to The E"cnins Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-THE San
Francisco newspapers made vigorous conf
nent on various aspects of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty question
I he Examiner (democratic) in an edito-
rial urges public meeting to sustain the
administration. 1t says Queen Liliuokala-
mis- protest ought to have been signed by
Claus Spreckeis, Havemeyer and the su-
gar trust.
The Bulletin republcan) says: 1.-The
whole trouble with Messrs. White, Perkins
aid the Hawaiian treaty seems to be that
these distinguished gentlemen mistake
themselves for senators from Japan. 1t is
remarkable that these Californians are op-
posing the interests of California"
Objections Answered..
The Chronicle Tepublicam says:
The gist of the old CIeveland-Gresham
argument against the annexation Of the
Hawaiian Islands to the United States is
expressed by the opposing senators in the
following series of objections:
The policy of the United States has al
ways been opposed to colonial ton
But this is not such an idea. 1t is an
nexation, and that means in the case of
Hawaii what it did in that of Alaska, ex-
cept that Hawaii is the richer, more acces-
slble and more useful of the two.
1t is urdesira BILE to annex lands at
great distance from the seat of govern
ment.'
That hac not proved t,ue in the case of
Alaska The same argument resisted the
annexation of California. which locally
judged by the tin.e consumed in getting
here from the east was much further from
the seat of government in 1916 than Hawaii
now is hut California has proved a good
investment despite the croakers
nlv rot m Of
thing; that of a distant island quite an
other
But We must have naval stations in mid
ocean, II we are to have commerce there
ana navy to protect it, 1t is better to
own such stations than to hire them where
lease is possible for them. We can put
permanent forts on tfem for use in time
Of war, when the stations will be most
needed. What sci sible American does not
wish that we had taken the Bermudas
when we had a chance? Annex the Ber-
mudas, why not Hawaii?
"A country iilled as Hawaii is. with Jap
anese, Chinese, Portuguese and Kanakas
would deteriorate our citizenship
How? The Chinese and Japanese are not
citizens of Hawaii, and annexation would
not make then: citizens here Most of them
being contract laborers, they would soon
be sent back to the places whence they
came, while the inflow of Chinese would
be stopped by United States law. and that
o. Japanese could be checked by the United
treaty EOW IN 1Orce- Inc POrtu-
gLese make good citizens. AS for Kanakas
who are aborigines, we dealt with abo-
rigines before and could do again with
out Geteriorating our citizenship.
The Right to Cede the Country.
The minority party in control in Hawaii
has no right to cede the country
Who has a better right? 1t owns five
eighths of the property, has established
a government, which powers have formal
ly recognized, and which was invested by
sweeping terms of Queen Liliuokalani's alb
dcation with all rights claimed by mon
archy.
The annexation of Hawaii will ultimate
ly help the sugar trust
Why, then, is the sugar trust opposing
annexation tooth and nail? The trust gen
orally knows what is good for it and what
isn't. There is no reason to think its fore
sight is at fault in this case.
In point of fact all the leading argu-
ments now used against the admission of
Hawaii were marshaled against the
nexation of Louisiana. Texas, California
and Alaska. The answer which time has
given them in these cases may be safely
predicted of the annexation of Hawaii,
which is country now endowed with
American Institutions, and in the room 1t
has for million more people offers the
white easy chance to acquire pre-
ponderance of numbers to match its pres
ent monopoly of wealth. influence and po-
litical and commercial power.