Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 25, 17 June 1893 — MINISTER STEVENS ON HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

MINISTER STEVENS ON HAWAII.

Tlie World is enabled to publish iu full this inorning. in advance of i ihe arrival of Minister Stevens in ; this country, t ie elaborate address i ; i whieh he has prepared in defense I ; of his course, and in support of the schemeof the annexationists whose willing instrument he has been. It should not be forgotten in reading this address that Mimster Stevens in the Kenehee (Me.) Journal, of whieh he is the editor, ; gave notice on the 24th of last November that the government and the peoj»le of the United States would soon be called upon to eon- ; sider the question of annexation. ; He appears to have had a pre- 1 i science respecting what was about to happen, that would be remarkable upon any other theory than | that he had inside information of the plans of the conspiracy whieh was subsequently developed. In this fresh manifesto Mr. ; Stevens sets forth as main causes of the revolt certain matters whieh | had not before been alleged. What 1 now appears to trouble his right- 1 eous soul chiefiy, is the alleged immorality of the late Queen. He attacks her character whithout pretense of pro*>f and without eemhlanee of diplomatic reserve. The argument appear to be that j the Queen, being an imraoral woman, was pr»»moting a condition ; of “barbanc and Oriental sensuality.” This justified tbe revoit of the respectable and wealthy classes and creates a kind of pious j obligation, that the United States shail annex the country. The , reasoning will not seem so eonvincing to everyb>»dy as apparently it does to Mr. Stevens. It is noticeable that Mr. Stevens gives little information regarding the condition of the j»opulation, ! their moral arnl industrial status ' or their fitness for citizenship of ' thi? Kepuhlie. Perhaps he has left that to be reported upon by Mr. Blount. Mr. Stevens appears 1 to be chiefly concerned about the affairs aud the future of a small ; | minority ot the inhabitants, chiefly foreigners, who, as he tbinks, are entitled to have their own way whether the Hawaiiana like it or j not. A considerab!e part, and Ihe moet eloquent part, of this addrese is a labored attempt to make it appear that the annexation of the : Sandwich lslands, whieh are about as far from San Fraocisco as lreland ia from Boeton. is analogous to the annexations of various parts of this oontinent «hieh have fimm time to time heen effected. He aeeme to thiah that tbe United Statea are konnd to cro«d tbe «tar of empoe «est«ard «ithout limit of dietanoe. Thie eort of reaeoning to ann«x all Poljneaia and Aaia, poen'hi/ tbe whole babn Hemi■pheM. UlUmaml/ «e may aeqnm Neva Seotta. Hayti and Caba I bjr appmanMm tbem from tbe I I Tt#pae*Wo£the United 8tatea f — 1 ’ nnn» w arl mIT V

and England have done in the way of eolonial deveiopment. lt is the geaeral conviction that we bave no uee for e doniaI dependeneiee. and that the_v would work raore harm than good to the institut ons of libertv whieh we find it ' hard enough to protect in tneir integnty under existing conditions, with a large supply of ab>r!gmal . and imported races not trained to īust appreciation of them already on our hands. Ihe Umted States do not want annex Hawaii. It is not and never could be fitted for Statehixxl. \Vhat our commerciai interests re- , quire there ean be secured in other ways more m keeping with our traditions and raore mindful of the rights of the Hawaiian people. - - -