The times., 1898-01-14
Senator Allen on Ha wall.

Contemplation of the wrong going of
a good man is always full of pain. even
when divergence from the straight and
narrow path involves nothing beyond
the fall of one poor individual sinner.
But when a public interest or right
eous cause is made to suffer it is a
greater and a sadder matter.
These remarks are justified by the
fall from grace Of Senator Allen, Of
Nebraska who, during the extraordi-
nary session of Congress. was q sound
friend TO and advocate of Hawaiian an
neXation; but who now is almost lead
ing the fight against it There must be
important reasons for such a change,
and perhaps they are not far to seek.
In the first place, we may dismiss in
advance any idea that the Senator's
convictions on the question have al
tered i'm the slightest respect He is
too large a man intellectually not To
know that national safety as well as
advantage require Us TO acquire con
troll Of Hawaii. and just as soon as
possible. He saw and admitted all this
last summer He cannot be ignorant
that. if the project was che of ncces-
sity then. it has b. come doubly So now,
since the recent international develop
ments in ,'hira. An aDneXationist al
heart and in mind, why does Senator
Allen speak and hight against anneXa.
tion?
Nebraska is sugar-bee district.
During the recess the Sugar Trust has
To
Scare The farmers with the argument
that the annexation of Hawaii will eX-
ert a depressing effect upon the Aneri-
can beet-sugar industry. The scheme
has succeeded sufficiently to coerce
Senator Allen into antagoniZing ma
tional measure, which at the bottom he
heartily approves and, to put it plain
ls. doing the work OF the Sugar Trust
on the floor of the Senate
This is particularly sad when we
think Of the club it will put into the
hands Of his enemies. In the future,
whenever he shall launch the thunder
bolts of his eloquence against trusts,
denouncing them as enemies of the peo-
pie, he viii not escape the comment
that. in working against the Hawaiian
treaty. he was consciously aiding and
abettins The anti-American. if not le-
gally treas0nable, designs and purposes
of the worst one of them all
Ii seems TO us that it would have
been handsomer and more consistent
in Mr.. Allen to have addressed his con-
stituents. exposing to them the utter
emptiness and idiocy of the Sugar
Trusts American beet story. That OBJ
noxious organization only opposes an
neXation because il no longer controls
Hawaiian sugar production. The plant
ers rebelled against it successfully five
years ago. If the Havemeyers could
control the crop, they would be for an
nexation today. fhe Grass foolishness
of the assumption that the free entry
of Hawaiian sugar viii injuriously af-
feet the market for American beet su,
gar is apparent on the face of the facts
This country annually consumes p
900. 600 tons OF sugar. To supply the de-
mand Of our home market we are COM
tons every year. In this vast quantity
the crop of Hawaii only figures 10 the
extent of about 22o esa tons; leaving
more than a million and quarter tons
of foreign sugar stiI subject 10 dis
placement by American growers.
What pity it is that the farmers Of
America are so susceptible to the wiles
Of tEeir satanically shrewd plunderers
and oppresscrs that they hop after