The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-01-27
Continued from Ist page.)

few slices OF China, to attain entire
control of Samoa, and in the nature
OF things, to lay a valuable marine
cable for Hugh Craig and his asso-
cates. These will be merely first
steps in the movement away from
that grand traditional policy which
James Bryce has defined in the De-
cember Forum in these words:
The United States has already
great and splendid mission in build
ing up between the oceans free,
happy and prosperous nation OF two
hundred millions Of people. And
one OF the noblest parts OF her mis-
sion in the world has been to show
to the older peoples and States an
example OF abstention from the
quarrels and wars and conquests
that make up so large and so la
mentable a part Of the annals OF
Europe, Her remote position and
her immense power have delivered
her from that burden OF military
aud naval ornaments which presses
with crushing weight upon the peo-
pies OF Europe. 1t would be for her
descent from what may be called
the pedestal of wise and pacific de-
tachment on which she now stauds,
we're she to yield to that earth hun
ger which has been raging among
the European States, and to initiate
the aggressive methods which some
of them have pursued. The policy
OF creating great ornaments and OF
annexing territories beyond the sea
would be, il stranger may venture
to say so, an un-American policy,
and complete departure from the
maxims-approved by long expert
ence---of the illustrious founders of
the Republic"
And it is to be borne in mind, in
this connection, that it is not pro-
posed to add the Hawaiian Islands
to American territory in the ordinary
way as Louisiana was added to 1t, as
Florida was added to it, as Texas was
added to it or as California was add
ed to it. That would mean that
while the islands would lose their
independent sovereignty of an Am
erican state or an organized Amer
lean territory and their people
would once more be given control
OF their own affairs. But the two
per cent who now have the Hawai-
ian people by the political throat do
not propose to let go so easily as
that. The islands are not to be ad-
mitted as either an American state
or as an organized American terri
tory. They are simply to be held
as a conquered territory whose PEG
pie are to have no political rights
whatever. That is what President
Mckinley sought to say in this dis,
guised paragraph Of his recent
message:
"What the conditions OF such 6
union shall be, the political relation
thereof to the United States, the
character OF the local administration
the quality aud degree Of the cleo
tive franchise OF the inhabitants
the extention of the Federal laws to
the territory or the enactment o.
special laws to fit the peculiar con
ditions thereof, the regulation Of
needs of labor therein and all rela
tive matters the treaty has wisely
relegated to the Congress. Ii the
treaty is confirmed, as every con
sideration OF dignity and honor re
quires, the wisdom OF Congress viii
see to it that, avoiding abrup
assimilation of elements perhaps
hardly yet fitted to share the high
est franchises of citizenship anC
having due regard to the geographi
cal conditions, the most just pro
visions for self-rule in local matters
with the largest political liberties a
an intergal part of our nation will
be accorded to the Hawaiians."
The Emperor of Germany coulC