The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-01
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March %, 1873, the following occurs:
'tThe position of the Sandwich
Islands as an outpost fronting and
commanding the whole of our posses
sions on the Pacific ocean. gives to the
future of those islands peculiar inter-
est to the government and people of
the United States. 1T Is VERY
CLEAR THAT THIS GOVERNMENT
CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO AS
SENT TO THEIR TRANSFER FROM
THEIR PRESENT CONTROL TO
THAT OF ANY POWERFUL MARI
TIME OR COMMERCIAL NATION.
SUCH TRANSFER TO A MARI
TIME POWER WOULD THREATEN
A MILITARY SURVEILLANCE IN
THE PACIFIC SIMILAR TO THAT
WHICH BERMUDA HAS AFFORDED
IN THE ATLANTIC-THE LATTER
HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO FROM
NECESSITY. INASMUCH AS TT WAS
CONGENITAL WITH OUR GOVERN
NTENT-BUT WE DESIRE NO ADD
TIONAL SIMILAR OUTPOSTS IN
THE HANDS OBJ THOSE WHO MAY
AT SOME FUTURE TIME USE THEM
TO OUR DISADVANTAGE.
The condition of the government of
Hawaii and it's evident tendency to de-
earnest consideration of it's future
possibly it's near future
There seems to be a strong desire on
the part of many persons in the islands
representing large interests and
great wealth-to become annexed to
the United States. And while there
are, as have already said, many and
influential persons in this country who
question the policy of any in.sular ac-
QUESTIONS, perhaps even of airy extern
sion of territorial limits, there are also
those of influence and of wise fore
sight who see q future that must ex-
tend the jurisdiction and the limits of
this nation, and that will require a
resting spot in mid-ocean, between the
Pacific coast and the vast domains of
Asia, which are now opening to COM
merce and Christian civilization"
(Vol 2, Rep. Sen. Com. on For Rel,
concerning Hawaiian Islands, p. S27)
SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES G.
BLAINE
In 1881, the British government hav-
ing made certain demands upon the
Hawaiian government, arising out of
the reciprocity treaty with the United
States, negotiated in 1876, Mr.. Blaine,
in dispatch dated December /, 1881,
to q. S. Minister Comfy at Honolulu,
used the following language:
This government firmly believes
that the position of the Hawaiian
Islands as the key to the dominion of
the American Pacific demands their
benevolent neutrality, to which end it
will earnestly cooperate with the ma
tive government; and If, through any
cause, the maintenance of sucn po-
sition of benevolent neutrality should
be found by Hawaii to be Impractical
Bile, this government would then I'M
hesitatingIy meet the altered situation
by seeking an avowedly American So
luton for the grave issues presented"
(Vo1. 2, Rep. Sen. Com. on For. Rel, |
Hawaiian Islands, p. 831)
In a further dispatch he said:
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE |
UNITED STATES HAS AL |
WAYS AVOWED, AND NOW RE- |
THAT UNDER NO CIRCUM-
STANCES WILL IT PERMIT THE
OF THE TERRITORY
DR. SOVEREIGNTY OF THESE ISL
ANDS TO ANY OF THE GREAT
POWERS IT is
TO RESTATE THE REA-
SONS UPON WHICH THAT DETER
RESTS. IT IS TOO OBJ
VIOUS FOR ARGUMENT THAT THE
OF THESE ISLANDS
By A GREAT MARITIME POWER
WOULD NOT ONLY BE A DANGER
OUS DIMINUTION OF THE JUST |
AND NECESSARY INFLUENCE OF
THE UNITED STATES IN THE WA |
TIERS OF THE PACIFIC. BUT IN |
THE CASE OF INTERNATIONAL |
1T WOULD BE A
POSITIVE THREAT TO INTERESTS