Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-10-07
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Talks About French Vaccinations on
the Cable.
Gives a Shot al French and CoDsratulales
HawaIlans Americans and British Over :,
Annexation Was Necessary for All.

The ostensible reasons for Ha-
waiian annexation may not have
been the only ones, il certsin rev.
Citations made by the correspond
ent of San Francisco newspaper,
have any foundation 10 fact. Ac
cording to him it perhaps may be
deemed in the highest degree pro-
bable that upon more than one oc.
casion during the annexation cam
paign, firm but delicate pressure
was brought to bear upon the
United Stated with threats of look
ing elsewhere for political ALI
ances. The attitude of the Hawai-
ian Government in this regard was
prompted by the secret machina-
tons of the French Government,
and the promoters of French
trans Pacific cable connecting with
Tahiti and Honolulu. who strenu-
ously opposed before the Execu-
tive Council, the granting OF any
exclusive franchise to any Hawai-
ian, American or foreign company.
When this statement was origin.
ally published, an equivocal con-
tradiction was received from per.
sons interested in suppressing the
information behalf of rival schemes
then practically pending before
the Governments of Hawaii and
America, but "in the throes of
the dissolution of the Hawaiian
Republic and the personal un-
plessantness thereby engendered,
the true secret has reluctantly
oozed out in spite of the secretive
manner in which it has been
handled by the moribund Cabi-
net" The correspondent goes on
to say that the French warship
Duguay Trouin at the same time
that it brought the proposition for
making Honolulu a port of call
for the steamers of the Message
ries Imperisles Line brought a
request to the Hawaiian Govern
ment that no special or exclusive
franchise be granted to any trans
Pacific cable company until pro.
position for French cable con-
nection with Tahiti had been fully
considered by the Hawaiian pub
lie, even although the United
States Government had to be first
considered in any negotiation for
landing a foreign cable on Ha
waiian shores. 1t was this oppo-
sition that induced a section of
the Cabinet and its supporters to
make SO strenuous fight in the
Legislature against the exclusive
franchise of the Pacific (Scrym-
ser) cable bill, which subsequently,
won it's fight in 80 extraordinary
and mysterious a manner as to
compel admiration of the ability
which engineered it and comment
on the sudden docility with which
votes focked to it. 1t is even now
intimated ION the dead quiet" that
France stood ready to tender dip
lomatic assistance in aid of the
preservation of Hawaiian indie
pendence had the slightest ap-
proach to an entente cordisle been
made.
If these statements be true, then
Englis hmen as we'll as Americans
have every reason to feel thankful
that the French proposals were
rejected, for it would be impossi
BILE for US to view with equanimity
the acquisition by that country OF
such increased prestige in the
Pacific Ocean as an arrangement
of that kind would involve. That
the granting of these concessions
would have implied deeper politi
cal consequences can scarcely be
doubted, and French interference
in aid of the preservation of Ha-
waiian independence from VIII at
we know of French methods of
diplomatic procedure could only
!, have resulted in confusion worse
COMPOUNDED. To our mind things
, are better as they are, for short of
the restoration of the monarchy,
! which candidly speaking seemed
impossible in view of all the cir
: cumstances of the case, nothing
could have pleased us better than
the obliteration of this farcical
Hawaiian Republic. 1t is
easy to sympathize with the aspi-
rations of a vanishing people,
who even now on the
contamination of annexation,
cherish lingering hope of de-
liverance from Europe, but for
, the sake of wider interests it is
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