Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 8, 10 January 1894 — Anti-Annexation Feeling in Hawaii. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Annexation Feeling in Hawaii.

I -2 8tr«ng oorroborative evidence | that the Admim?tration has acted | wisely in tbe declining to annex Hawaii is auppHed by Prof. VV il-1 liam Libbay, of Pnneelon, who haa ; just now returned from a two | monlha' visit the isla:Ms. During his stay he carefully ’ i gounded the opinions of the Hawa- j iians themselves on the annexation • question, and. like Minister Blount, i reached the conclusion that they ■ I were strongly opposed to polilieal , uniou with America. Tbe eoolie. : system of labor, upon whieh the pfantations depeud, is wholly | repugnant to tbe spirit ofour in(5t"tutions; yet its abolishment would seriou»Iy. if not f»tally. afI fect the largest interesta in the islands. The Americans, lviig'ish j and Germans who «ontrol the | I H&waiian sug*r industry are | therefore bitterly opi>osed to an- . nexation, while the native island- : ers are pttrioticaIly devoted to the j monarchicaI eystem rf g.»vernment whieh they have inherited from a remote historic past. I * .1 The annexation spirit prevails ! only araong certain restless elaeeea of foreign residents whose prospects ( | will be favorably aflected by the • proposed union, and who advocate ; H fur purely selfish reas>>ns. In } view of these facis there ean be no I doubt that the Administration has acted properly iu declining Ihe proj'Osilions of the revolutionists who had arbitrarily seized control of the islands. —Baltimore AVtcs.