Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-20
COL. PAT DOMAINS YlEWS OF AAWAII.

The following is hreezy interview
with that picturesque citizen, Col Fat
Donan, on tim subject OF Hawaiian
annexation. II first appeared 10 the
Philadelphia Times early in 1898, and
was reprinted last week, for the reason,
doubtless, that it IL still practical and
pertinent, III Mr. Louis n. Mesargee's
very interesting Seen and Heard in
Many PlEcash column:
"What do ] think of the proposed
annexation Of liRwaiiG II should
toll you it would burn hols 10 your
paper, and melt your type anu presses.
think it the browning would-hc crime
Of this Hproad-eagle administration.
Stevens, the ankoe1oodedidlle mis-
representative, who has been the chief
instigator and engineer OF il, ehnult
be hanged at tho yardarm, as pirate
and filibuster, and every man impli-
Gated in it. from Ben Harrison and
Jim Blaine down Or up, should be
damned TO three-for nickel inn
mortality Of pigmy infany, We have
misgoverned people enough and to
spare now Our republic has, for a
third of a century, been tho dump.
ground for all the human oifal Of
creation, We have 1000, 900 ignorant
and Hemi-barhsrnus negroes, with tho
SAVIOR Of voodooiam anu davil. Worship
fresh upon them IN tho South. anu at
least z, 600, 600 more imported paurers,
criminals, anarchists ami outcasts
generally in the North. After three
centuries of the pillags raDine, mas
Hscre and infinite outrage and horror
that We call Christian civilization, a
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race on earth roam our sunset plains IN
all the picturesque Clestitutinn and
wretchedness OF naked, painted, ghost-
dancing savagery, without hope IN
this world or the next.
with our Arkansas and Texas har.
barians burning blinded prisoners al
the stake; with the Kansas, Wyoin n!
and Dakota Legislatures 10 perpetual
and shameful eruption; with a Nationa
Congress combining wholesale cor
poration Lobbying, and the most beastlJ
features Of the cockpit and tho prize
ring; with our daily labor strikes ant
riots, our l2,000 annual lynchings ant
$4,000 annual hcmicides, HlN 600, Coo
a.year pension list--three- fourths Of i
theft and fraud--a bankrupt Treasury
a 81, 200, 600. coo aggregation of national
State and municipal debts, and bril-
limit prospect of Asiatic cholera, anC
miscellaneous ami assorted heniephcrI'
hell in nil its branchDs, what in M
name of God do we want with the Can
nibal Isl6ndsY Why should we wish It
annex Claus Spreclieis, a hall dozeI
volcanoes and 10, 900 chocolate. culpret
lepers? Away with the whole business
If thu United States government goe
into it hope England, Russia, Cor
many France, Spain, Italy, China AM
Japan, will combine their navies ant
thrash your filibusterous Unsle Samuo
out OF his everlasting greed! boots, AM
sink his last rotten armeI pot meta
tub ton thousand fathoms deep! Tha
ia the sort of patriot | AN
Let us make Americans of the vas
Heterogeneous hordes We already hav
degrading and delilirg citiZenshi
under the starry banner of the free
before we annex nearly 1000 ex
cannibala with the scraps of Capt
Cook and hundred cold ronst mis-
sionaries still sticking between thei
iangs. Let US civilize the Niger
,, roasters of Mississippi, Arkansas an
Texas, the mad dog Anarchist of Chi
cage, the semi-savage alien miners q
Pennsylvania aud West Virginia, lib
Legislative outlaws and franchise huck
sters of Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska
the White Caps of Indiana and th
blackguards and rulfians of Congress
before We spread the wings Of CUlun
: bias more or less proud fowl o.
:. freedom-which sometimes bears wot
: full resemblance to n buzzard--over til
! tens of thousands Of epers and heather
in the middle OF the Pacific Ocean
! Ihoss arc my sentiments in plai
! Western chin.music ~