The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-07-03
GOVERNMENT AND
POLITICS IN 1000

United States Is ten years old this
| summer. Not until after the Spanish
American War did Europe look upon
the American nation as fully entitled
to a seat at the council table of the
powers Until that time the Americans
themselves had been proud OF their
Western isolation, and contented them
| selves with casting a protecting wing
over the other American republics. In
| those ten years the United States has
been prominent in world diplomacy. It
has participated in international con-
fabs where many Americans thought
1t had no business. 1t has prevented
the partition of China by the Euro
peans and the Japanese. II ended the
war between Russia and Japan. 1t
cut a Gordian knot of Latin-American
politics to facilitate cutting ditch
across the canal. 1t is now making
naval demonstration in force so that
its International political views will
receive the respectful attention usually
accorded to him who speaks softly and
carries big stick.
Whether II was manifest destiny"
or deliberate breaking away from
the advice of Washington and the
other immortals, is now chly an
academic controversy. The fact is,
| the United States is in world politics,
is In TO stay in, and is rapidly gaining
a predominant position. SO much for
ten years. Another ninety, and the
American people will have been in
world politics for a century. Long
before that time the United States will
have become the supreme power in
the world because of its great wealth,
its great population and its great re-
sources. 1t will maintain that posi-
ton by virtue of its captaincy of the
Pan-American Union-tl.e confedera-
4 ton of republics which is already
welding an enormous influence and
which must grow in strength and
power with the development of the
great Latin countries to the South.
Political union of the Americas is
improbable on account of the bar of
diverse tongues. Political and COM
mercial cooperation is already prom
Used. Railroads direct from Argentina
and Chile to New York and Puget
Sound, merchant marine and the Pa
mama Canal will cement the nations of
the Western world into one potential
whole. The palace being built in
Washington for the Pan-Amercan Blu
reau may have more of the promise of
American glory in its future than An
drew Carnegie, who gave most of the
million to build it, and John Barrett,
who is bossing the job, have dream
ed of.
In the Pacific Ocean the United
States will hold Hawaii, it's detached
islands and the Philippines. 1t will
have the major portion of the. enor-
nous Chinese and Siberian trade. 1t
will be in that day what England so
long has been, and Columbia will rule
the waYes@vice Britannia, resigned.
/ What the future will bring forth in
domestic party politics no man may
dare predict. But the certain influ-
ences of growth and development will
, materially affect the present political
and governmental organizations. The
forty-six stars on the flag will have
been multiplied by the addition of new
States and the division of old ones.
Arizona, New Mexico. Southern Alaska
and Hawaii will have gained statehood
long before the year 1000. Porto Rico,
perhaps in union with other West In
dian islands, may also add star to
the constellation Of the flag.
Texas is entitled. by the terms of the
Act of Admission, to divide Its great
empire into five sovereign States. The
rapid growth of the Lone Star State
will make its local administration more
and more difficult as the years go by,
and 1t will split up. The Texan pa
triotism will keep alive the old memo
ries of the Lone Star, and the States
of Texas. Houston, Austin, Crockett
and Alamo will form great group as
compact in spirit as that of New Eng
land, formed by the six States of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vepmont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut.
New York City will have grown
enormously and will have become the
greatest city on earth. The lack of
sympathy between the city and up
state" will so increase that separa-
ton will be deemed necessary, and the
new state of Manhattan will include
the great urban population of the
southern end of New York state. Long
Island and the northern part of New
Jersey, Already the people of the In
land Empire in the northwest are
clamoring for division of territory by
three states which will enable them to
auu 10 Ine roster Oh tHe stuteS tHc
name of Lincoln.
Southern California and Northern
California are divided by natural boun-
diaries and the communities are grow
Ing more and more conscious of the
diversity of interests. Southern Cali
fornia already talks of division and
Independent statehood. The seeds be-
ing sown now viii bring forth fruit
long before the United States is full
grown. The proposition to create
new state of the mountain portions of
Kentucky. Tennessee. Virginia and
North Carolina has been heard FREE
quently in the past few years That
idea is born of partisan politics, but
IL is an idea which will grow and
which eventually may be acted upon.
Chicago and Philadelphia may also
succeed in divorcing themselves from
their rural fellow citizens of Illinois
and Pennsylvania. Kansas City, a
metropolis in two states, may be the
center of a new state carved from Mis-
souri, and Kansas territory. These