The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-26

 300 years for the good of both the Spanish and native resident population. for the good of all the oriental world, and for the good of Spain herself, I believe we ought to keep the whole group, If we do so and turn loose the American missionary there, he will at once be followed by the American school master, the American merchant and farmer and mechanic and miner. and machinist, and the manufacturer. The railroad, the telegraph, the print ing press and all the rest will swiftly follow. The Tagals, the Visayas, the Malays and several others of the thir- ty or forty people and languages there are promising races, and it is high time they had better guides and instructors. Providence has called us, very unex- pectedly, to do great work for the progress of the world in civilizing those islands, and we cannot shuffle the demand We must meet it as we have already met ether and equally embar- rassing responsibilities in the spread of our nation across this continent.
 But what if we refuse it? What then? Why we either throw back these islands into the incapable hands of Spain for worse anarchy than before, or we precipitate a European war in the scramble to seize them that will follow. We must therefore hold them for the good of all concerned, and of the world at large. Our holding them means peace. Any other course means more bloodshed.
 hphnl6 wonderful nn- incidence. On the same day, August 12, on which the peace protocol, was signed at Washington, and, allowing for the difference in sun time, almost at the same absolute moment of time, the Stars and Stripes, the identical flag that one Paramount Blount," erst hauled down is hoisted again, and for all time, over that fair group, the Ha- waiian Islands, and they become a part of the United States of America, and a jewelled stepping stone between America and Asia. There should never have been a moments hesita- tion about adopting, and yet pollti- clans wrangled and old women in trou- sars trembled and doctrinaires discus sed, until we well might have lost 
 from America, to us they belonged, by every tie and now to us they have come. That was memorable annexa- ton day, that 18th of August 1898, and will yet be celebrated, as one of the
 brightest days in our patriotic call endar. Peelee, the ancient goddess of the vast crater of Kilauea, and Mrs. Dominis, the bogus queen and bogus
 Kanaka, may stew their spite in the same pot, but Hawaii is now America, and will rapidly fit herself to take a place in our glorious union. The chil- dren and grandchildren of our New England missionaries, who went forth
 weeping but bearing precious seed, have come home again with rejoicing, and brought goodly sheaf with them.
 And Cuba and Porto Rico are here also. Cuba whose long agonies brought on the war, and Porto Rico, l the richest, for it's size, and least op- pressed of all Spain's colonies, and yet | to all appearance the gladdest to es- | cape her clutches and take refuge un- | der our flag. And Cuba will be glad | to come quite as soon as we want her.
 She has a large and wealthy Spanish
 population, as well as the native Cu-
 bans. They will remain there, if they can do so safely, but the only way they can do so is for us to govern the is-
 land. Though they have not oppress- ed the Cubans, their estates and blood
 would be the price of Cuban rule over them. The threatening letters which l according to newspaper reports they 1 are already receiving are indications | of what await them if our armies | leave the island. They will not leave | it. They will be changed as often as health requires, until they become ac- l climated, and when the voice of all the people can be heard it will overwhelm- l ingly call for union with America.
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