Evening star., 1900-01-13

islands to the United States. having faced
+, revolutionists at home. Japan abroad, and
the American government itself as repre-
sented 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
tience which is required of them should be
recognized, appreciated and reciprocated by
| the government at Washington. Quick ac-
ton should be taken upon the territorial
bill, and meanwhile there should be a con-
siderate and far 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 islands perhaps forbid
But a large. prosperous city. not alone as
the market of steadily increasing domestic
imports and exports, but as the Halfway
House between America and Asia at which
every Pacific-traversing 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 a single Spanish galleon,
sailing annually from Manila to Acapulco.
the author Of Anson's Voyage said in 11i6:
at is indeed most remarkable that by the
concurrent testimony of all the Spanish
Eavgators there is not one port betwixt
the Philippine Islands and the coast of
California; so that from the time the Ma
Mia ship first loses sight of land she never
( lets go her anchor till she arrives on the
coast of California
Now when this commerce has been multi
piled by the thousand and will speedily
be multiplied by the tens and hundreds of
thousand, We have happily changed all that
and an admirable and attractive interme-
diate port is provided.
In 1852 William H. Seward said: Hence
forth European commerce, European poll
tics, European thought and European activ-
ity, although actually gaining force, and
European connections, although actually
becoming more intimate, will nevertheless
relatively sink in Importance; while the Pa
cific ocean. its shores its islands and the
vast region beyond will become the chief
theater of events in the worlds great here
after This bold prediction, visionary at
the date of its delivery. is rapidly being
verified. The Pacific is steadily outstrip-
ping the Atlantic in volume of trade. The
acquisition of the Philippines, in connec-
ton with the new development of Japan,
the remaking of China, the nearby COM
pletion of the Siberian railroad and the
construction Of an isthmian canal will tre-
mendously increase the commerce between
America and Asia, and Honolulu will be an
essential link in the American commercial
chain connecting the two hemispheres. and
will participate in Pacific business activity
and prosperity.
Linking the Hemispheres by Electric
ity.
When Hawaii Is connected by cable with
the United States the usefulness and i'm
portance of Honolulu will, of course, be
multiplied. And such electric connection
as essential feature of the American pol
icy Of Pacific trade expansion is apparently
a certainty of the near future, whether the
cable runs to Hawaii alone or Is part of a
great system connecting the Philippines
with San Francisco by way of Honolulu
Wake Island and Guam. and whether con-
structed by the government or by private
There are thirteen cables with several in
addition now building to facilitate the trade
of the United States with Europe Not one.
but all three of the proposed great Pacific
cables might well on this precedent be built
to develop the trade of the greater ocean;
one from San Francisco to Manila by way
of Honolulu, Wake Island and Guam: an
other from Vancouver to Australia by way
of Tanning Island Tor better HawaiD, Fiji.
Norfolk Island and New Zealand: and the
short line from the northwest corner of the
state of Washington (Cape Flattery) by
way Of Alaska to Japan and the Philip-
pines. THEODORE w. MOVES.