The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-01

an engineering point of view, might
render it desirable that the cable should
run from Vancouver to Hawaii, as this
stretch is materially shorter than to
Tanning Island. In that case, it would
be desirable, if possible, that the ex-
elusive use of one of the Hawaiian ISL
ands could be- obtained, in order that
the cable might be, as far as possible,
free from foreign control.
A delegate at that conference is quot
ed as follows:
Had the old and far-seeing statesmen
of England paused to count the cost, I
we might never have procured Colonial
possessions, and We are here today be-
cause they did not count the cost, and
because, without looking for immediate |
returns, they pegged out claims for
/ futurIty." The mere question of the
Vancouver cable paying to start with
should not for moment prevent us
from advocating it's construction.
Evidently pointing at the United
States. Mr.. Mckenzie Bowel, Canadian
/ Minister of Trade and Commerce, is re-
corded in the following words:
| Foreign nations whose interests are
inimical to British interests recognize
the necessity of a Pacific cable. France
on the one hand, and the United States
on the other, have already moved in
unless prompt action be taken to estab-
fish British cable across the Pacific,
the connection may be formed under
foreign commerce, to the detriment of
all British interests, and especially
would this be the case in the event of
international difficulties arising
Imagine Uncle Sam under the neces-
sity of cabling to the admiral in COM
mand of the naval station at Pearl
Harbor, through cable controlled by
, Great Britain.
On the 3rd of December, 1886, Presi-
dent Cleveland cites the reasons for
close and quick connection with the
Hawaiian Islands, all of which are a
hundred-fold stronger today than at
that date. The old Treaty of 1875 was
, drawing near the end of it's term, and
wishing 1t renewed, he said:
} l express my unhesitating conviction
that the intimacy of our relation with
Hawaii should be emphasized. AS a re-
suit of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875,
those Islands on the highway of Orien-
tai and Australian traffic are virtual
ly an outpost for American commerce,
and stepping stone to the growing
trade of the Pacific. Our Treaty is now
terminable on one years notice, but
propositions to abrogate it would be,
in my opinion, most ill-advised. The
paramount influence We have there ac-
quired, once relinquished, could only
Will ultllcully De TeSdlneO, ana a Valu-
able ground of vantage for ourselves
might be converted into a stronghold
for our commercial competitor. The
importance of telegraphic communica-
ton between those Islands and the
United States should not be overlooked
Since that date, Great Britain ha:
taken possession of the twelve Gilber
Islands, three of the Ellice group, fiv,
of the Enderbury group, and six 9th
ers, including Tanning Island, the yer,
island that is now designated as a sta
ton. In 1891, they took possession o
Johnston Island, and in 1892 the Gard
ner group. Two of these, Palmyra an
Johnston Islands, are claimed by tn
Hawaiian government today, while we
with this warning of the President be
fore us, are slack in facilitating com
- munication with Hawaii. Mr.. Cleve
=. land, again, on December Sd, 1885,
- places himself on record as follows
f Proclamation was duly made on tn
~, 9Th of November, 1887, of conventions
NC extension of the Treaty of June 3rt
=. 1875, with Hawaii, under which rela
IF tions of such special and beneficent in
". tercouse have been created. In the vas
"a field of Oriental commerce, now unfold
he ed along our Pacific borders, no fea
g ture presents stronger recommends
ns tions for congressional action than tn
- establishment of communication b
-, submarine telegraph with Honolulu,
=, waiian group, in relation to our Pacif
90 States, creates national interdeper
10 dency and mutually of interest whic
;t our present Treaties We're intended
,;s foster and which make close commit
Ais nication logical and commercial ne
:, cessity.
-, The Committee on Foreign Affairs {
- the Fifty-first Congress sent a unar
" imous report to the House, from whic
VI I quote:
En- Your Committee regard the establish
~ ment of the submarine cable Telegram
ga between San Francisco and Hawaii 6
a measure of high national concer
- which will be an efficient factor NJ
IS only in securing Hawaiian autonom
49,, so long as the interests of the Unite
" States require, and firm and perms
- nent American influence in the HI
M waiian Islands, but in securing for oil
.su country the commerce of the Pacif
-, Ocean and the Australian Continen
~ We also think that unless such actic
&c tas as is proposed be taken the danger
an great that large proportion of tn,
100 trade and commerce will be diverted
POO, Canada and England.
ms In January, 1895, United States Sc
co., rotary of the Navy Tracy, said:
26. | regard a submarine cable connec
m ing the United States and the Hawa
the ian Islands as matter of national IL
,ips portance, and that it's advantage woul
cci- AN oiiicer OF our own navy, Spea
red ing from his technical knowledge, e
Inc planned at length the immense value
ere a vessel at the end of a cable, wher
ere in he says:
1899 1t may do the work, not merely
no one, put Oh now many vessels II is II
at possible to say.
1rts The cable to Hawaii takes us to t
the stepping stone, or, in the words of
and President Ito the half way house,
and the centrai point 10 the raulatlng
am GUS Oh the great racine ocean, I
the theater of the mighty events of t
the future
+ is William III. Seward, from his place
the the senate OF 1897, MADE TINS remaI
can apie prophecy, touchlng the foreign
fact lations of the United States
ted. The Pacific Ocean, its shores, it's
,rty ands. and the vast region beyond, "
SITS. become the chief theater of the ever
9TH of the worlds great hereafter.
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