The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-20

pfraldeni. eith his minister ~ fuf
/ riFn Affairs" and rlntuit ln Tho ports
~ the world There n room Tor oblt
lnp President within the borders ul
/ The United States Tho local severn.
ment viii be relieved VI supervision by
| 3 special agent" uf the state Depart
ment ID D. surprising that ,hia eatfa.
ordinary system NJ mananinF HaNni.
iaa Affairs. with al itH innnlte poHsibil
tiles ~ personal feic,lon. hae worked
with 80 few open AID serious bitches.
The local government has been con-
tiuued. NJ II trusted. and supervised.
ms N dlstrusted. told 10 go ahead with
the enforcement Of local lave and then
abruptly held up when the application
o. some particular law has not seemed
TO the national government to work
we'll: encouraged by the State Depart
ment to move In one direction. and
barred from that course by the decision
OF the Attorney General.
There is not. and of course should
not be any disposition to make a
mountain OF the molehlll OF this lack
OF uniformity in handling Hawaiian
affairs during the transition period.
The men who have accomplished the
task OF educating and civilizing the
natives. who have since 1893 main
tained an American white government
in control of the Islands, In spite of
enemies. open and concealed. royal
lists. representatives of the opium ring
and OF the Louisiana lottery, and the
threatening thrush Of the Japanese,
and who have finally turned over the
Islands to the United States, having
faced revolutionists at home. Japan
abroad, and the American Government
itself as represented by Cleveland and
Blount, with their policy of infamy,"
are not the men to be discouraged by
small difficulties or to lose heart
through hope deferred. But the pa
thence which is required of them should
be recognized, appreciated and recipro-
Gated by the Government at Washing
ton. Quick action should be taken
upon the Territorial Bill, and mean
while there should be a considerable
and as far as possible uniform policy
of dealing with Hawaiian questions.
The Halfway House of the Pacific.
Probably the London or New York
of the future Pacific will not spring up
in Hawaii. The comparatively small
size and limited resources of the ISL
ands perhaps forbid. But a large,
prosperous city, not alone as the mar
ket of steadily increasing domestic i'm
ports and exports, but as the Half
Asia at which every Pacific-t raversing
ship will naturally call is reasonably
certain to be developed and to prosper
in exact accordance with the expansion
of Pacific trade.
When the commerce of this ocean
was represented by single Spanish
galleon, sailing annually from Manila
to Acapulco, the author of Anson's
Voyage said in 1746:
1T is indeed most remarkable that
by the concurrent testimony of all
the Spanish navigators there is not
one port betwixt the Philippine Islands
and the coast of California; so that
from the time the Manila ship first
loses sight of land she never let's go
her anchor till she arrives on the
coast of California"
Now when this commerce has been
multiplied by the thousand, and will
speedily be multiplied by the tens and
hundreds of thousand, We have hap
plly CuduSeu ali ludl anu an
and attractive intermediate port is
provided.
In 1852 William H. Seward said:
Henceforth European commerce, Eu-
ropean politics, European thought and
European activity, although actually
gaining force. and European connec-
lions, although actually becoming more
intimate, will nevertheless relatively
Gil II in, nrfo uyb IL he 40
ocean, it's shores, its islands and the
vast region beyond will become the
chief theater of events in the worlds
great hereafter" This bold prediction,
visionary at the date of it's delivery, is
rapidly being verified. The Pacific is
steadily outstripping the Atlantic in
volume of trade. The acquisition of
the Philippine, in connection with the
new development of Japan, the re-
making of China, the nearby COM
pletion of the Siberian railroad and the
of an isthmian canal will
increase the commerce
between America and Asia, and Homo
lulu will be an essential link in the
American commercial chain connect
ing the two hemispheres, and will par
ticipate in Pacific business activity and
the Hemisps eres by Elec-
tricity.
When Hawaii Is connected by cable |
with the United States the usefulness |
and Importance of Honolulu, will of
course, be multiplied. And such cleo
ric connection as an essential feature
If the American policy Of Pacific trade
is apparently certainty of
he near future, whether the cable runs
o Hawaii alone or Is part OF a great
ystem connecting the Philippines with
San Francisco by way of Honolulu,
Wake Island and Guam, and whether
by the Government or by
,rivate enterprise under Government
There are thirteen cables
With several in addition now building
O facilitate the trade of the United
,tates with Europe. Not one, but all
hree OF the proposed great Pacific ca
lies might well on this precedent be
,uilt to develop the trade of the great
" ocean; one from San Francisco to
= -