The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-02-04
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III. il'hIN lN Hidu VI NhltdSO, anu are
answered at considerable length in [
The Advance. The article is intense
ly interesting and the argument able.
DIR. Lyman has the advantage of an
intimate knowledge of the subject,
while Carl Schurz's knowledge is thco-
retical rather than practical
Carl Schurz's objections come under
five heads: /. Annexation will neccs-
state cannon and navy. ?. That
there will be "the adoption of a colo
NAL policy" against the traditionary
principle of the Republic. 3. Hawaii
will constitute Vulnerable point"
4. Gauls and Teutons have never been
successful colonists, and therefore Ha-
wall should not be annexed. 5. Hawai-
iians will be disappointed by the "pe-
culiar political morality" with which
the United States will govern them.
Stripped of their verbiage these
propositions which Mr.. Schurz has
been laundering away against annex
alton, do not look very formidable.
With the exception of the fourth ev-
cry one has been dealt with in these
columns already.
The first objection DR.. Lyman re-
plies to saying that if ships and
cannon are required for Hawaii, there
will be less required on the Coast.
This Captain Mahan has also answer
ed by stating that smaller fleet sta
toned at Hawaii would give more eff
fectual protection than large one
scattered along the Pacific Coast.
The adoption of colonial policy is
not meant by anneNing the Islands,
they will merely come into the Unit
ed States according to the traditional
principle" which was and has been
continual ABSORPTION, and he cites the
greater part of New France, Florida,
Louisiana, Texas, California, Oregon,
and Alaska, and adds that these were
taken in without waiting to have them
AmeTlcanlLeu as llle lSldhbS hdNc peSh'
1t might have been added that when
these additions were made they were
really infinitely further from WASH
ington than the Hawaiian Islands are
today, and cable will bring them
into absolute touch.
AS to being vulnerable point all
fortified stations are vulnerable points
and it is better to have one vulnerable
point than half a dozen such poilts
scattered along the West Coast. In
point of fact this contention is hypo-
thetical and not real.
The United States themselves are
an instance of the success of "coloni-
cation" Schurz cites, however, British
rule in India as an instance of the fail
ure of colonizing power. But what
may be said of the morality by which
that rule has been obtained there is
no doubt that it has given peace AID
Justice to three hundred millions of
people, who previous to this rule were
harried year in and year out by civil
strife and savagery. And it is pointed
out that it is far better for the Unit
ed States by the occupation of Hawai-
to ''keep back the line of Chinese and
Japanese supremacy within the limits,
rather than by sordid inaction to IN
vite the creation of a perfect hornets
nest at the gateway of California;
That with the advent of American
methods the millennium will set in even
if Mr. Schurz were himself sent as
governor is very unlikely. 1t may In
deed be choice of evils. But 1T is
very much better for the Islands, al
ready Americanized, to pass into -Ame-
rican hands than to fall into Asiatic
bondage. AS the doctor put its bet
ter Mr.. Schurz than a Mandarin from
Pekin," or viceroy from Japan either.
The concluding words of the article
are quoted in full for they ably de-
pict the position of Mr.. Schurz and
men who think as he does. DR.. Ly-
man says:
'The real reason for the opposition
of men like Mr.. Schurz to the annex
alton of Hawaii lies in theig fear that
by such action the United States shan
take part in the business of the world.
Feeble old men whose generous in
stincts have persisted in the defeat of
their only aspirations see no good in
anything but quiet and repose. rhcy
long for a Chinese wall tn shut out all
contact with the outsid, world. They
would do nothing to promote peace.
for fear of foreign complications.