New-York tribune., 1904-08-06
AN AyTIIuPERI4LIsrs BooMERANG.

Governor Carter Of Hawaii furnishes The
New-York Evening Post" a text for n charac-
teristic diatTibe against its country. 1t rejoices
10 think that American citizenship may be
curse instead OF a blessing. Governor Carter, in
an interview at Sacramento, said: The annex
"ation Of the islands to the United States has
mot been a commercial success, so far as the
Islands are concerned" This was because the
laws were not suited 10 conditions IN the ISL
ands. The United States land laws were in
force there and crops could not be prohtably
grown under the short term leases permitted by
them. Consequently the revenues from the gov
ernment lands We're small. He also declared:
Annexation has cut off all our internal rev.
enue. on the other hand, from Uncle Sans
point Of view, slnexation has been decided
success. Over $6,2Jo,O0O has been paid into the
United States Treasury from the islands. The
whole cost of annexation was only $4,000
ThIE brings much Joy 10 The Post" which
doesn't seem able TO remember its own immu-
table principles and in great glee over the
troubles OF the Hawaiians it shouts:
his shows what q clever business head Uncle
Sam has. AS a federal official il Is Governor
CarteTs business 10 consider his employers in
terests first, Furthermore. If he goes on talking
that way he will encourage the Home Rule
party, which IS foolishly enough demanding
Statehood and all the privileges Of a State. Just
as II we could give TO them what we are denying
to Porto Rico and other Territories Really that
great and warmly admired friend Of the Cover
who sits IN the White House ought to take
George Carter in hand. What, admit in a
Presidential campaign that our first plunge into
expansion is dead failure from the point OF
view of those upon whom has been conferred
the highest honor ever bestowed upon man, the
grandest blessing the civilized world offer"
American citizenship
Indeed It shows what n foolish head "The
Evening Post" has American citizenship for
islanders was fits Pet hobby. The Hawaiian
trouble is due TO the policy which it and the
rest Of the antI-imperialists have been demand
ing-the inclusion Of our outlying possessions
within our domestic system. 1t howled like
mad that we must make the islanders American
citizens, extend to them our tariff laws and put
them on the same basis as our continental Terri
tories. In the name of liberty and the Declara-
ton OF Independence and Plymouth Rock and
Faneui Hail. it tore passions to tatterS over the
proposition 10 govern Porto Rico as a separate
| estate, with its own revenue laws. and pre-
| dicted the crumbling Of the whole structure of
constitutional government If the Supreme Court
| allowed such an Outrage" And now the silly
old scold is caczlng with glee over the bad re-
/ suits OF the very policy which il wanted 20
! drive Emperor Mckinley and the Republican
"despots' into outer darkness for not applying
in Porto Rico and the Philippines. What Gov
ernor Carter says has happened in Hawaii IS
| lust what Republicans said would happen in
| Porto Rico and the Philippines II the senti-
mental notions Of the anti-imperialists were fol
lowed The laws in force here are not adapted
] 70 the lsiands' and the attempt to govern them