The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-29
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Senator ctilton's Views on the An
nexatiou Of Hawaii
PUSHED BY THE SUGAR PLANTERS.
They Fear a Loss of Their Profitable
Reciprocity Agreement.
usnED BY THE SUGAR PLANTERS.
POLITICAL PROBLEMS Involved
Two Senator'S from Hawaii Might nc
Valuable Reinforcement to Mains
tnin Republican Ascendcney.

Washington. June Especially SEM
ator Chiffon belongs to that class of SEN
ators who take deep interest in our for
eign affairs. He took nm interest In the
arbitration treaty and oarly predicted It's
defeat. He was opposed to that treaty,
and the ground for his opposition was OK
cellent. He is likewise opposed TO the an
nexation of Hawaii AS the proposed an
ncxation OF the Hawaiian Islands Is
National question and one which the coun-
try is more or less Interested In, cs-
pecialiy as it is 81 new departure from our
old established foreign policy, The Post
correspondent thought 1T would be of in
torest to the people in Texas TO know SEN
ator Chitons Views on the subject. Ac-
cordipgly the senator was sought and the
| following interesting Interview obtained
| from him.
| Said Senator Chiffon 'The scheme to
| annex the Hawaiian islands to the United
| States ought TO be frowncd down by those
who love American institutions aud pray
| for their preservation. II is not the out-
grown Of any popular demand, nor oven
| the development of any supposed manifest
destiny; 1t IL simply spyculatng scheme
| pushed by Claus Sproclles and his as
I sociato millionaires who own lnrge plaitn-
| tons Ia hawaii, which thcy work with
| the mearcst aud cheapest labor II will
he remembered by those who have fol-
lowed the subjects that this project for
annexing Hawaii always comes 20 the front
| about the time tariD changers are IN cons
temptation. There Is now IN force and has
b1cn since January 10, 1876. n reciprocity
| treaty with Hawaii witch gave to sugar
! produced In those Islands great adyaut-
! ages in comparison with sugar brought
| iui ha cd n
| tries. The sugar kings who now rule the
So called Republic Of Hawaii have long
| feared that their profitable deal with the
unitod States might be intcrfered with.
| while the McKinley bill WAS IN force their
mouths watcrcd TO share In the bounty
| which was paid to our domestic sugar pro-
duoera, and in Tho hope of getting ON the
| inside they shnped w the annexation prof.
Get which President Harrison pressed in
the latter part Of HIS administration.
THE ThurstonR and Iiatches and other
well known politicians of Hawaii arc
thrifty gentlemen of New England descent.
who havn done IN those islands exactly
tho thing which the New Englandors arc
continually abusing the South for DOING
tina, Is, they have set mp a government
OF Intelligence rather than government
Of Ignorant blacks and mere numbers, not
withstanding the horror with which Maine.
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, have
affected to regard the constitutions or
States lilto Mississippi and South Carolina
which guard the development Of those
commonwealth against untaught negro
suffrage, they seoin greatly delighted with
| Hawaiian institutions under which NJ
corrupt negro queen has been driven off
the islands and a degraded population OF
black natives and moanor coolies have been
reduced 10 complete suhordination and
barred out of all participation in the actual
government | have no complaint 10 make
VI this AS long us they handle The problem
for themselves. | have no doubt gov
eminent by Americans like Dole and
Thursion s far better than a government
Iby Queen I.iliuokalani and her couriiers.
but we Of the United States have already
enough problems OF that sort upon our
hands without going out Into the Pacino
TO hunt new cnianglomen's
THE gentlemen who fell so much IN
love with American institutions, including
the sugar bounty in the Harrison admin
listration that they wanted to come under
, our nag are the same whose scent for
Y liberty is now so keen they want to cry
all hail to President Mckinley Instead or
President Dole
FORTUNATELY. Mr. Cleveland succeeded
IL tho presidency white the first scheme
Of annexation was pending In the senate.
. He withdrew the treaty and left Hawaii
TO her destiny where she has since re-
NAMED The repeal Of the Mckinley sugar
, bounty law left the Hawaiian specula-
y tors without any special motives or desire
. to come within our borders and so the
n scheme has slept until this time. But
!, since tho present tariff bill has been un-
der formation a strong tendency has de-
vcloped here to repeal the so-called recip-
rocity arrangement with Hawaii. II this
!, was done the sugar raisers OF those Is
a lands would stand on an equality WIN
4 Cuban and other competing sugar planters.
This will not suit them. They want dis
A crimlnation in their favor
80 to guard against such chances ana
while the question OF abrogatlpg the treaty
is still debated they worked up Hank
movement by Negotiating with Secretary
Sherman the present treaty. u they can
s ra.orvo their preferential position on the