Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-26
DIR NEW STATEs.

Under the caption "A Menace to the
Union" the New York Press deals with
the Hawaiian Commissioners and the
form Of government they have decided
10 recommend for Hawaii in a manner
that is most interesting reading. After
stating that a territorial form of govern
mcnt is utterly unadaptcd for commu-
nifty whose ruling class will ever be,
until supplanted by harder Oriental or
Oceanican races the KanaEa, the Press
adds:
"They 0he commissioner) have set
Hawaii on the way of becoming state
and have thereby SCI Luzon, Mindanao
Mindoro. Panay. and the rest of the
larger Philippines, a. we'll as all those
West Indian islands. which Will, ere long.
be clamOring for admission, i'm the way
Of becoming States. For once the princi-
pie is established of the participation Of
The inferior races of alien dependencies
in national deliberations. the practice can
have no limit, but the interests of such
peoples and the eXigencies OF our par
ties"
As far as is concerned the broad prin-
ciple" OF the participation Of inferior
races in national deliberations, it is due
10 the commissioners TO say that they
have a precedent II we eliminate the
words "of alien dependencies" the re
sourceful personages," as the Press terms
the commissioners. have but followed in
the footsteps of the resourceful Republic
can statesmen who after the war made
the negro a full-hedged citizen. But that
aside. For the rest of its paragraph cur
contemporary states the case exactly. Nor
IS IL out Of the way in making this state
ment:
'In the coming of this delegate Of the
SURFACES of Sandwich Islanders TO the
Capitol at Washington is the first con-
ression that this may be other than an
American Union. And in the present
Btage of development OF our national life
this makes clear view forward into The
future of a polytechnic. polyglot. omnium-
gathcrum Union. whose discordant parts
would not stand the strain OF the hfSt
outward assault or inward dissension.'
But in concluding its article, the Press
argues that the Hawalians would suffer
nothing should Congress strike out Of the
programme of the commissioners the del-
cgate item. and continuing, says:
"They dhe Hawaiiansl may rely upon
the justice of the republic, enforced by
Tree speech, a free press, free access at
all times 10 the ear of the American
President and people. But the American
Union, which. taken all in all, is the most
benign political creation OF the ages, may
suffer its undoing If this principle Of the
admission of an eXtra-AmCrican and uH-
American factor TO its membership is
once accepted"
And we notice that in the same connec-
ton the New York Tribune has the fol-
lowing:
"The fact IS conspicuously emphasized
however. that II IS as a Territory and not
as a State that Hawaii is TO be organized
TAat IS to be clearly understood. and IT
IS 90 be assumed that It is TO be re-
garded as a permanent principle 1t is on
that ground that the propriety of having
an Hawaiian delegate in Congress may be
questioned"
All this however, Is academic. II is
fundamental doctrine OF our system.
fortified by acts and sustained by judicial
decision. that we cannot acquire new ter
ritory, except for the purpose of making
"a state or States OF H. Full-hcdged terri
torial government IS the regular school
OF preparation" for statehood Even
should Congress not give Hawaii fun ter
rtorial privileges now. It would have TO
do SO in the very near future. Unless We
are going 10 reverse the current Of his
tory and precedent. IT is as certain as
anything can be that before long both
Hawaii and Porto Rico VIII be admitted
into the Union 40 states, and have Sena-
tors and representatives in Congress.
ANA unless the Senate draws the line on
these Two acquisitions. IL will not be
many years before the inferior races OF