New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-30
AS TO hawaii.

News from Hawaii is nj once gratifying and
humiliating. The Government and people OF
the islands are preparing 10 give our ships and
troops a most hospitable welcome. They VIII
make them feel. and in practical benefactions
will make them realize. that the western from
tier Of the United States has been pushed for
ward two thousand miles. On their long voy-
age TO the Philippines our men will find them
selves In mdPacfc still at home
Nothing could. on the face Of II. he more sat
isfactory than that. But On what terms are
We going to enjoy such advantages? We are
going to permit tina little island republlc-yes
and even ask ito violate In our behalf the IN
ternational laws Of neutrality. We nre going
to have 1t, for our sake, incur responsibility for
serious damages to Spain. We are going 10
make It do the very things which we so bitterly
complained Of Great Britain for doing n gen
Grafton ago This great, powerful Nation is go
ing to ask little Hawaii to help It, to come 10
its rescue 1t is going TO ask Hawaii to enter
an alliance in which all the danger will be
on Hawal's side and all the benefits on ours
We have scorned Russia, now and then, because
she was saved from disaster in her last Turkish
war only by getting help from the once-despised
Rumanians. Are We now TO admit that we
Yet either we must suffer that humiliation
or we must make our expeditions to the Philip
pines and our holding and administration OF
those islands twice as difficult and perilous rs
they should be. Either use Hawaii as a cats
paw or handicap ourselves. Or else? Yes,
there is one other plan That is. TO do the
plain, honest, sensible, straightforward thing
which the people Of both Hawaii and the United
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both urgently demands and which all states
manlike and patriotic provision mperatvely
dictates That Is, annex Hawaii and annex It
now.
Oh, but It would be a shocking thing, men
say, TO do so as a war measure, and to add nm
annexation resolution to the War Revenue bill
Would II, SO? But 1t was all right TO throttle
the Government and imperil our triumph In the
war by refusing to vote the war revenue I'M
less the measure desired and needed by the
Nation was burked. That was all right, was
1t? Fine logic, truly. Let us rid our minds
OF cant" BY no rule OF God or man Is 1t less
| proper to insist upon the passage Of one bill as
condition TO the passing OF another than TO
insist upon the rejection Of one as a condition
to the passing Of another. There has been al
| ready FAR too much shilly -shally over Hawaii
| Some estimabe men honestly opposed to
| annexation. They are thus on record. But they
have no right TO stand in the way and thwart
the will Of the overwhelming majority Of their
countrymen. For FIVE years the question has
been before the Nation. 1t has been considered
from every possible point OF view. 1t has been
discussed In every possible way. There is alb
solutely nothing new to be said on the merits
| Of the case. And the Nation, with full knowl-
edge and utmost deliberaton, has long ago made
up its mind and indicated it's desire There re-
mains nothing to be done but to fulfil its man.
date by annexing Hawaii, and annexing 1t at