The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-07
TWO MEN.

tomorrow to do all in his power to
help the annexation cause. j. o. Car
ter left yesterday to do all that he can
TO defeat it. The one goes to try and
obtain stability and prosperity for
this country, the other has gone to
assist in destroying the prosperity and
would give us, he knows not what, in
place of the hoped for stability.
What the anneNationists seek to OBJ
tain is very clear. An entrance into
the Union and the advantages to be
obtained from becoming an integral
part of the United States. An advant-
age to our commerce and a safeguard
for our homes and loved ones. which
will be assured under the Stars and
Stripes. Annexation will give us sta
bility and will give us peace.
On the other hand we offer to the
United States commanding position
in the Pacific Ocean. The eyes of the
world are more and more being direct
ed to this Ocean. and its commercial
possibilities are being realized by the
commercial countries of the earth
Russia has been working for years to
obtain expansion i'm this direction
The energies of the Empire have been
practically devoted 10 getting into Il
position where Il southern seaboard
can be obtained, and one where the
icy hand of winter will not yearly
impair the usefulness of her navy dur
ing several glacial months Ger
many, England and France are all
drawing around the Ocean, and on its
western shores are beginning to Ii
vide up the Chinese Empire. If the
United States is to hold her own COM
mercially, if her goods are to go to
the markets of the teeming East. now
is the time for her to be up and doing.
A central position in the Ocean, a
coaling station for her steamers. Il
magnificent harbor for her men of
war, all this is offered to her now as
a free gift. This is what the anneNa-
tionists, both here and in the States.
thy object, an object which like For-
tia's, lis twice blest. 1t blesseth him
that gives, and him that takes"
But the objects of the anti-annexu-
tionists are by no means clear. They
do not want to enter the Union. They
do not want to assist the United
States. They are by no means clear
as to what form of government they
want, and they do not know how it
is going to be supported. They haze
a vague belief or hope that if anneXa-
ton does not take place, the reciproc-
logic of events ought to show thenr
that the reciprocity treaty will not be
continued. Its continuance at this
time is only due to the fact that Pres
ident Mckinley sent the annexation
treaty to the Senate, and that the ma
jOrity which was against reciprocity
became a majority for annexation and
left reciprocity to remain until annex
alton could be accomplished. Thus, if
the anti-anneXationists are successful,
they may feel assured that the ruin of
our principal industry will be one of
ha Re Of
And then if left to ourselves who is
going TO assure us independence? Ko-
rea is a country with large popula-
ton, many times larger than any pop
nlation we can ever have here, and is
Korea Independent? Her independ-
ence exists in but imagination. She
is a morsal soon to be swallowed by
the Russian bear. Is China independ-
ent with her teeming millions? it
does not look like it when three or
four European powers decide to cut it
up among them. How can we hope to
remain Independent, if such countries
cannot? We can, at this time, give
ourselves independently away, If the
anti-anneXationists succeed, we shall
some day find we have no voice in the
matter. We shall be taken. At pres
ent the matter is within our own Volt
ton. In the future we shall have no
yolition whatever. We can now Join
the highest and best form of Anglo
Saxon civilization. If the anti-annexa-
tionists succeed who can tell how soon
we may be under direct Asiatic infu-
ence or the semi-Asiatic influence of
Russia.
These are the sides and these are
the issues severally represented by
Sanford b. Dole and j. o. Carter. 1t
is well that one should think of them