The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-16
GOVERNOR FREAR'S CHIEF
ADDRESS AT MUJSKOGEE

transpaeific commerce must eventually
be-China, already in transition from
conglomeration of loosely connected
tyrannized provinces to unified nation
of self-governing progressive people
China, whose territorial integrity and
open door. until she can stand alone,
seems practically assured as one of
the most illustrious feats of Amer
lean diplomacy; thirdly, in the center,
Hawaii, the naval key and commercial
crossroads of the North Pacific, al
ready acquired by the United States
but not yet put in condition to per
form her. full part in the maintenance
of either their naval or their com
mercial supremacy on that ocean. This
is what is least known but most in
need of immediate action, because to-
wards it least has thus far been done.
PACIFIC MONROE DOCTRINE.
If / mistake not. one of the proudest
moments of the Transmississippi Com
merciaI Congress was when at its ses-
sion last year the Monroe doctrine,
then recently declared obsolete by an
American professor to a European au-
dience. was authoritatively reasserted
in all its fulness. Was it ever brought
to your attention that there is also
Monroe doctrine of the Pacific, or
rather that Hawaii has been deemed
so indispensable to American supremacy
on that ocean that she has had Mon
roe doctrine all to herself for at least
sixty-fiye yearss If not, you may be
surprised at the closeness with which
its statement resembles that of the
original Monroe doctrine. Listen to
the words of President Tyler contain
ed in a special message on December
81. 1912:
"Far remote from the dominions of
European powers, its (Hawaii 's)
growth and prosperity as an independ-
ent state may yet be in high degree
useful to all whose trade is extended
to those regions, while its near ap-
prOach to this continent, and the in
tercourse which American vessels have
with it-such vessels constituting five
sixths of all which annually visit it
could not but create dissatisfaction on
the part of the United States at any
attempt by another power, should such
attempt be threatened or feared, to take
possession of the islands. coloniZe them,
or subvert the native government.
That doctrine has been acted upon
ever since as often as occasion has de-
manded, and occasion has not infre-
duently demanded. for other nations,
recognizing the strategic Importance of
Hawaii or casting eovetous eyes on
that aptly soacalled ''Gem, that
stParadise of the Pacific have from
time to time intrigued and even re-
sorted to force for their possession.
Here is an extract from one of its
several statements by the Secretary
of State. Daniel Webster, written July
IA, 1851, with reference to the threat
ened enforcement of certain unjust de-
mands by the French. which he stated
'Ecould only end in rendering the is
lands and their government prey to
the stronger commercial nations OF the
world.fF
"It can not be expected that the
Government of the United States could
look on course of things leading TO
such a result with Indifference. The
Hawaiian Islands are ten times nearer
| to the United States than to any OF
the powers of Europe. Five-sixths of
all their commercial intercourse Is with
the United States. and these considera-
tions, together with others of more
general character. have fixed the course
which the Government of the United
States viii pursue in regard to them
1t can never consent to see
those islands taken possession of by
either of the great commercial powers
of Europe.
COMES of tAis were sent to all the
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