Nuhou, Volume II, Number 18, 26 September 1873 — INDEPENDENCE [ARTICLE]

INDEPENDENCE

ls tito true poUcy of this Archipe!ago m\d will he clesired by all who truly seek its we!farc. We cloivt mean independence on the poi and malo " basis, but the independenee that foreign enterpvise eomhineel with native industry ean produce. Such a po!icy has not yet been pursued witli united earn■estness, and the hope of a foreign polilieal change has continually cramped the action of many influential oflicia!s who ought to have been upholders of Hawai ia u indep.endenee. But iet this be the earnest, the avowed and manifest purpose of the Government, and new sources of prosperity would open up as the manifest result of an honest stra]ghtfor\vard policyAll the Powers of the earth as they turn their attention to the Paeiāe must desire the maintenance of the independence of these īslanc!s. America cannot desire the charge and responsibility of this group, so long as uo other Power is thinking of āffecting our stratooric relation to the continent. No Ēuropean Po\ver has any dceasion to indulge In any clream of political intervention here: thereforc\ witii our harmless indepeudence \Ve ean alford all tliat our great Neighbor ueeds in the.way of store-house and repalr, anil of course the neutrality of t(iis ]>osition will be pleasing to all the mavitime States of the worid. This neut.rality o[ Archipelagian independence being avowied and maintained as oiir steacliast [>urpose under all changes, j we woulel fmd sympathy aiiel co-o])ention in. many quavters, and H woulel bē soon appai - j ent that we were r;ot dependent upon one | market. A new liie wouki be infused into the country with sucli an assertion. and not only u native prejudice " woulel be satisfiedi but foreign interejts in the lvighest degree woukl be advanced by a xletermined policyj ,of commercial and territorial independence. |