The herald., 1898-02-05
United States Should Not
Annex Hawaii
WHITES THREE DAYS SPEECH
STATES ARGUMENTS AGAINST
THE MEASURE
Annexation Would Violate the Policy
and Endanger the Prosperity
of the Nation
Associated Press Special Wire

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Senator
White concluded his three days speech
in opposition to the annexation of Ha-'
wall in the executive session of the sem
ate today. At the beginning of today's
speech he made some additional points
against the availability of Hawaii for de-
fensive purposes, saying that 1t Is 5oo
miles from the outside Islands or the
group to the other islands. This fact,
he said, demonstrated that numerous
points must be guarded from hostile as
sault and that a powerful navy would
be required to do this; that the i'm
mense expeditures will be without bene-
fit to, our defense of the continent. he
declares that If Hawaii would be ac-
quired 1t would be contended that our
domains should be extended to other
islands. and we would finally embark
upon the foreign acquisition business,
involving an outlay of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
He then took up the question of labor,
contending that the Chinese and Japan
ese are receiving $15 per month, without
board. He ridlculed the pretension that
the Anglo Saxon race could labor In
Hawaiian sugar fields. and demanded to
know why, if they could. there was so
little white labor on the islands now. He
read from a recent consular report to
show that the coffee business was at
best problematical, and that even In this
work laborers received only SIS per
month, without board. He denounced
the master and servant regulations now
in force on the islands as species or
slavery said that coffee must be pro-
duced in competition with the lowest
grade of peon toiers. and that the time
would never come when farm hand on q
coffee plantation would receive the white
mans wages. He also asserted that the
Japanese have the same right to come
into the United States enjoyed by other
foreigners, and, while contract laborers
of all kinds are excluded, still there is
no obstacle to the entry of the ordinary
Japanese laborer who complies with our
general immigration laws, and said that
If annexation were brought about, ori-
entail labor would still dominate the situ-
alton in Hawaii.
- He denounced as absurd the asser-
tion that trade would be diverted from
the United States if annexation were
defeated, and said that, even with the
present treaty out of the way, Hawaiians
would do business with the United
States: that when the Mckinley bill was
in force they still traded with the United
States. He compared the growing trade
of japan to that of Hawaii. showing that
cotton, flour and manufactures OF iron
and steel were fast occupying the Jap
anese markets. He denied that there
were any valuable agricultural possi-
bilities to justify annexation.
Mr.. White then took up the Dole gov
ernment, insisting that 1t was irregu-
lar and a fraud. He said in this con-
nection that it was universally conceded
that the Hawaiian natives were we'll ed
,cated and would be citizens of this
country in case of annexation, and con-
tended that they should be consulted.
He read from the proceedings with rela-
tion to the admission of Texas to show
that the constitution providing for an
nexation and the specific question of an
nexation had been submitted to pop
Mar vote; that, whatever might be the
rule as to barbarous tribes or portions
of territories held by monarchies, 1T was
clear that here where the validity of the
government is challenged and when the
people have never had opportunity to
vote upon the question of admission, no
affirmative action could be taken.
This government, based upon the will
of the people, could not, he said, afford
TO incorporate a large number of per-
sons. who would be eligible to citizen
shin. against their will. He read from
Judge Cooley and several other writers
in support of his views, and declared
again that the entire power behind the
throne was the sugar combination of
Hawaii, whose personal interests had,
he said, always been consulted, regard
less of the effect upon the public. He
criticised the action of President Dole
in coming to Washington at such time,
and asked what would have been thought
of the taste of the prince of Wales had
he come here at the time the treaty of
arbitration was under consideration
for the purpose of influencing our ac-
ton. He reviewed at length the general
policies and theories of our government,
declared that the question was above all
politics, and that it was a step which, If
taken, could not add to our glory or in
crease our wealth. OF De regarded as an
evidence of our honesty.
Senator White quoted at length from
a speech made in the senate in 1894 by
Senator Turpie of Indiana, in which the
Indiana senator said that, however de-
sirable the acquisition of the islands
might be, the United States could not
afford to take them "by stealth, by any
process of furtive legerdemain, or gilded
larceny sprung from the bandit max
i'm miscalled the policy Of success"
.-. JAPANESE RIGHTS
WASHINGTON Feb. Am explana-
tion OF the position assumed by our
state department in the negotiations
with the Japanese government relative
to the status of Japanese citizens in
Hawaii in case Of the annexation of the
islands by the United States, it may be
stated on the authority of the officials
charged with the conduct of the negotia-
tions that. in their view, if new legisla-
:. ton is not had, the natives of Japan
resident in any part of the territory of
the United States. unless expressly ex-
cepted by law or treaty will have the
right of citizenship of the most favored
nation after July. 1s99 upon the taking
effect Of the treaty with Japan negoti-
ated by the last administration and pro-
mulgated March Il, 1896. The depart