Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-08-31
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
On ANNEXATION
,con,lnusi from pars A.

Hf the lIui'r cannot limit nuf hiuN'H
Wfa.s, uur commerce ffUp Huf In.
yslupmsui Ir makl us rr.f'ant t1 uuf
manifest destiny
The Kansas Ciy platform by De-.
nuunring expansion under The name 81
Imperialism returned Nv The old tr11i-
iIuns " The sixties. when the country
was urged 90 lot the South go, 10 Ut
the imperial Republic be- divided, o.
let slavery continue. 10 create q line "
custom houses and block houses al
along the Mason and Dixon line. which
would have called for standing army
in the north and another In the south,
and would have turned back the clock
uf progress and tolicd the death knoll
Of human liberty everywhere. But r1,
liberty and union triumphed. The sew.
cred country united. II commenced to
grow. Railways were pushed 20 IN
sunset. Alaska became ours. Guam
Joined the procession: the Philippines,
lust awake 90 the fact that one Amori-
can promise Il worth sixteen Spanish
bonds. sees the star Of hope rising and
looks for peace. prosperity and rggcn.
Grafton under the benign Influence u
American schools, American commerce,
American laws and American Justice,
II this be the Imperialism let the Demo-
Gratis make the most Of 1t.
II comes with poor grace from MOI
ern so-callod Democrats to oppose en-
pansion even island expansion
when that has been the traditional no.
Icy of the party from the days OF
jefferson to the days Of Buchanan.
In 1916 President Polk offered to pur.
chase Cuba from Spain for the sum OF
800. 600 600. though he had no author.
ity from Congress TO make the proposal
and he certainly could not have oh.
tanned the money without such author.
ity. had Spain accepted. But the Offer
was refused.
Again In 1854. under the adminlstra.
ton Of President Pierce. our then Min.
listers to England, France and Spain
who were James Buchanan, James y
Mason and Pierre Soule met at Ostend
and issued the famous Ostend manifcs-
TO- which was in effect that II Spain
should refuse to sell Cuba to the Unit
ed States for 1920, 1000, 900. I'VE should
be justified by every law, human and
divine. in wrestling II from Spain If We
possess the power"
This came TO nothing, but in the next
administration President Buchanan in
three of his annual messages 10 Con-
gress urged that Cuba ought to be IGadC
by purchase part of the United States
A bill for the purchase Of Cuba was in
troduced during Buchanan's term by
Senator Slidell, but failed OF adoption.
In both the Democratic platforms oI
1SG0-the Breckenridge and the Doug
las-there were planks favOring the on
neXatlon of Cuba.
But not only did Democratic Presi'
dents favor the annexation OF Cuba
but an effort was made by President
Pierce to annex Hawaii, and a treaty
OF annexation was made by our Minis
ter TO the Hawaiian Islands, David l.
Gregg. The President did not approve
OF some of the articles of the treaty be
cause they provided for the immediate
incorporation of the islands as an indie
pendent State in the Union. He wishe,
to receive them as a Territory, leaving
the question Of Statehood to future Ge'
termination. The negotiations suhse
quently failed, owing to the death q
the King of the Islands. Forty-foul
years later President Mckinney she
cessfully established the policy initial
ed by President Pierce.
The southern people are now and al
ways have been In favor of expansion
1t was through the influence OF IN,
South and of southern statesmen tina
Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Californ''
and Oregon were acquired. Imperial
ism is the traditional policy OF tn
South, II expansion means imperialism
No part of the Union was more cage
TO free Cuba from the spanish oppres
sion than the South. II was the sou,h
ern Democrats In Congress who unite,
with the Republicans og the Northwcs
and far West to bring on re war.
Certainly there weia NJ more Salla2
soldiers In the war thah Genera
Wheeler, General Fitzhugh Lee an
others whose nmase are know,
. throughout the country. With such
record in bringing on the war an
fighting It TO successful issue VIII
the South should oppose President Nc
Kinley for attempting 10 secure the re
suits OF the war is more THAI can cas-
ly be understood. On the issue of in
perialAm the South stands with NJ,
Kinley. Why should It no: supper
him?