Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-03


a cable, under the auspices OF no
matter which OF them. Those two
great Powers will not allow any
other nation-certainly no Asiatic
nation-to take Hawaii. That
Great Britain had no Interior de-
signs on Hawaii was proved by
the events of 1895. During all
those troubles there was no
British man-of-war here, the
British Government being salts
: fed to leave its subjects here to
the protection of the United
States. Applause. The in
cident in the Chinese rebel
lion, when the crews of the Amer
lean fleet helped the British out Of
a hole, was cited with the phrase
then made historic, BLOOD is
thicker than water" That Eng
lish bugaboo was about the only
one worth mentioning against an
nexation, but it had been killed
/ by that arbitration treaty. Mr..
1 Creighton did not feel like detain.
ing the audience long, saying he
was fatigued with the effort to
bamboozle a jury that afternoon
against the Attorney General,
whom he saw present, and he had
succeeded. Laughter) Should
the opposition to annexation sue
coed, and in consequence our
friends in the United States cut
us off from reciprocal commercial
relations, the prosperity of this
country would become abso.
lutely nothing. They had
the Sugar Trust, and the Beet
Sugar Trust for he under
stood one had been formed -
to oppose them in the United
States. He commended Mr.. Gas.
ties advice to them about using
all their influence with their
friends over there, even to curry
ing the favor of any of them in
that regard. Leave talk of gov.
errors for the present. First let
us have annexation. After that
let us have governor, a dictator,
or anything else. J. understand
that when the annexation commits
sioners went to Washington, Sc
cretary Foster told them that the
more conditions they put in that
treaty the less chance they would
have of getting it.
CLOSING REMARKS.
Mr.. DILLINGHAM;, in a few
closing remarks, said he believed
the natives were really hungry for
annexation whether they realized
it themselves or not. What would
be their condition if they had to
come under the rule of Asiatics in
an Asiatic country? The United
States, with $50,000,000 deficit,
could not make bad bargain in
taking over this country with a
surplus revenue. They might
ask, then, what on earth did we
want. 1t was simply the security
of the United States flag. He
told of his part as vol
unteer militiaman in standing
off Chinese riot in Honolulu
many years ago. He was not
missionary but he said that it was
the missionaries who stood by the
monarchy through the years when
otherwise it would have tottered
and fallen. The speaker de-
plored the rejection of the Blaine.
Carter treaty of 1889, saying it
would have given Hawaii all the
benefit of protection to sugar in
the United States, of both duty
and bounty, and, if the Hawaiian
monarch had not taken the bad
advice against it, the probability
was that the monarchy would still
be in existence. The only one
thing to work for was annexation.
If we failed to obtain it by our
own fault, we should have made a
mistake as bad as the rejection OF
that treaty. He invited any who
had not signed the roll and wished
to do so to come forward after
adjournment.
After the meeting severed sig
natures were added to the roll.