The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-05
ANNEXATION THOUGHTS,

our admired if not venerated con
temporary, the Independent, begins It's
Fourth of July reflections as follows:
we want to enjoy the great day to-
morrow, and we have never been known
to say I'VE told you sol" but we would
like an honest opinion from the kama
ainas who annexed us, against the viii
and wish of the Hawaiians and their
friends, whether they do not feel rather
cheap and wish that they hadn't under
taken the job. We are simply trying to
get information, and If Anterior, Bald
win, Irwin and the other roaring annex
atIcnists of 1893 will step forward and
say that they are pleased, we shall put
our pencil inside our left cheek and wink
at them and say Bah"
Every situation has its drawbacks and
it is undeniable that the annexation we
all worksd for in 1898 and afterwards,
deprived the Islands, when it came, of
certain good things they had enjoyed
and would have been better off to keep;
but it must not be forgotten that the
gains from annexation are greater
than the losses and that the latter.
barring a judiciary lowered in brains
and character and dragged in the mire
of politics, We're foreseen and prepared
The principal difficulty has been the
disturbance of the labor needed to raise
sugar. but it was an issue between an
nexation with these troubles and sep
arate autonomy with the free sugar
market of the United States cut OFF
During S97 the sugar trust boasted.
with good cause, that 1t had killed the
scheme 70 annex Hawaii to the Union;
and our friend the Independent hailed
ti,e boast as one we'll taken. So sure
was the trust OF its success that it be-
gan to move against the reciprocity
treaty ana the san Francisco CAN. the
Coast advocate of that monopoly. CON
tanned leader after leader denOuncing
the free importation OF Hawaiian sugar
on the ground that II was a menace to
the beet sugar farming Of the Main
land This argument was repeated by
the beet sugar men of the United states
and was paraphrased by the cane sugar
men Of Louisiana, and II undoubtedly
biased many Senators and Representa-
tivos against as. We believe that, but
for the war ~ 1895 which made Hawaii
a naval necessity 10 the United states
the present year would have seen us
not only outside of the Union blt dis
uucuy and ruinously outside the
American sugar market What would
a. have pr1dted us 90 have cheap labor
n we had been forced Co pay high
duty Ou oar sugars exported 10 the
Mainland duty which the SUGAR in-
trrests of the United States would have
mair euu hirhcr II necessary o. secure
efficient protection l0 the came growers
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