Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 186, 5 May 1891 — PEARL HARBOR. No Treaty, No Cession. [ARTICLE]

PEARL HARBOR.

No Treaty, No Cession.

Th« Lko hne iiael the honor of «n aiiaek from the Ban■. Franeiseo. ('hnniii'h', <«i newspaper that formirly stood first 011 the Paeific Coast. but who no.w-a-<lays, is read l'V no '"de.ee.n-t- people, fftir-minded readers being loath of its wellknown tendency to distort facts :md pervert the truth v?henever t his suits its purposcs or helps to Fatisfy its passions. The Chronlcle is especialJy deemed of no aec@unt on these Islands. in consequc lee of the hoßtility it hae always dis-! played ngainst every thi«g eonnected with ths v/elfare of this eoun lrv. Therefore praises from the Ckronide would be more damning to us than its trumped-up attacks, and we feel quite prond of haviug been taking to task for the jtrtiele written in these eolumns about ''Peai'l Harbor and the Reciprocity Treaty," for it proves that we did hit the nail on the head and attended to onr duty to our country. j In order to get the apDearence of scoring a point against the Leo; the Chronicle d«es not get '*slight]y mixed".. . .oh dear no! not at all ! . but it boldly assumes that the appropriation of $700.000 for Pearl Harbor, has l< failed to commend itself to Congress". . Now then, if the Chronir,lc did not purposelv resort to its old tactic of distorting the truth, such an assertion would only evidence the most dis reputable and inexcusable ignoranee of the affairs of its ewn eount]y, at any rate, the I7ed will onl v beg cf its great and ' 4 infallib]e"! Califorma conteniporary, to kindly j refresh its memory by tbe perusal | of the last nav} r estimates of expenditures, voted bv Congress. whieh will surely be found to eonlain a certain sum of $700.000, 4 'Tor the work of depeening the bar of Pearl llarfcor". . . ,Thus far, the Leo is right, whatever the Chrēniele ma.y choose to say; on the otner point, that of the kind threat by whieh the San Francisco Matamore closes its tirade, it is ridiculous enough to make a. dead man laugh, and it only shows how mad S3me oūlifornia i»eople are ef the mere i)ossibility of the Hawaiian Islands bettering their condition by some treaty outside of the U. B.! S>»v>e fevv Americans, and the Chronicle at their head, like to eonsider us as in a state of' "quaßi" vasßelage and dependency; they cherish the opinion that this archipelago could not exist without the American patronage. Now, none more xha.n the party represe»ted by the Leo acknowledge and gratetuily remeniber all the benefits wt-. havc received here from the United Siates, but we conāider that it ought not to be X .also that it is Hawaii, ' lfiat furnishes the b'ulk ot the foreign commerce of San Francisco, and any interrupuoit cf re!ations helwe; n the two C. untned, 'Wōuld ? equally de-}-'or;ib:« for both.

I?ut whati'v.T jirjay be ihe sentij n;ontal uoi .vccn llr.\vaii and AmVrica, at pi'csent luaWi'ial f!icts starc at us in the face, whieh cannot be ignorcd and preclu<lc ali sentimentalisiri.v Tliese facts are the foilwing : 1. That thc Unitod Riatcs, ae a ! political body, )>v the ])assage of I the McKinlcy Tariff bill, have injured heyond redemption the stVjple industry of these islands, and have thus ineidcnta!ly broken faith vvith us. by rendering : useless tlie Reciprocity Tre.ity whieh had beej3 made for the so!e purpose of protecting tliat said industry, and in exchange for whieh alone vve had cotisented to cede the possession of Pearl Harbor. 2. That in presence of this ,infraction by the U. S., to the proniises of the Treaty of 1887, the Fearl llarbor ciause grows void and null, and our Foreign Office ought to not.ify as inueh to the TT. S. Govcrnment. Of :o\nsi'.\ vve do not objoct to the United »States spendiiig .$700,000 or more, if thev chose, —to cut an cntrance jnto Pearl Harbor, but it mu k st be weil understood that it will be at their risk and poril, and that no expenditure of money on their part wili now be cohsidered by us givmg them any titlc or right to a pertnanent occupation of th'at portio« of our tt:rritory. It must i also be well understood that, even if the present treaty does not eome to an end through mutual understanding before its legal termina- . ■tion, (as it seems most probable), | vet most assured]y it will never again be renewcd with the Pearl! Harbor clause, unless the Umted States have some advantages to offer us, nnore tangible than what we have received from tbem as yet; and here, let it be said that the occupation of Pearl Harbor would be of no bencfit to tbese islands, further than the personal interest of the fe\v wealthy land-ovvners around its shores, who, have a!ready d:sc@unted by fi#utious valuations the possible boom t» their properties. 3. That, since oixr sugar ean no longcr fmd a profitable and privxleged market in the States, we niust lo«k out for sorae b.etter markets and it is the duty of our Foreigu Oliiee to now see whether such markets cannot be obtained and open by proper negutiations with the nearest sugar consuming countries, whieh are Canada, Xew Zcaiand ard Australia. ! The Leo intends to fulh" study these three points, under ali their bearingF, and to e]ucidate what ought to be the actlve policy 6f our Government at this juncture.