Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — HAWAIIAN COMMISSION AND AMERICAN MINISTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAWAIIAN COMMISSION AND AMERICAN MINISTER.

ALL SIDES OP THE HAW ARAN ANNEXATION QUESTION.

For Annexation. Hawaii must he ours.—Boston Globe. Let us have them.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Cannot afford to let the opportunity slip,—Elgin News. There is every reason why the islands should be accepted. —Detroit News. Annex them or establish a native government and protectorate.—lndianapolis Journal. Annexation is the proper solutlonof the problem from our own standpoint!—Detroit Tribune. Accept the overtures of the commissioners and at once possess the islands.—Springfield State Journal. It is scarcely more a privilege than a duty to annex the islands sans oeremonie.—New York Advertiser. It is no party question—it is a matter of business. We want naval and coaling stations.—Atlanta Constitution.

Against Annexation, Hawaii would be our one weak point.—Boston Herald. The desirability of annexation is by no means apparent. —Kansas City Star. , It would be little less thfih/ a crime for the United States to annex them.—Buffalo Express. The end of the whole matter, for the present, will probably be an American protectorate. —Cleveland Leader. An expansive system of satrapy or territorial governorship the country had certainly better avoid.—Galveston News. We have no place in our system of government for the Sandwich Islands as part of our actual domain.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. It is not at all certain that the American people or their government are of a mind in favor of annexing that country.—Philadelphia Ledger.

On the Fence. The danger is great, St. Paul Globe. We're not eager to annex Hawaii.—Wheeling Intelligencer. Republican independence is to be 'preferred at present to annexation. Minneapolis Journal. Must either remain independent or be annexed to the United States. Milwaukee Wisconsin. We don't want Hawaii, and yet we don’t want anybody else to get her.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Growls of tne Lion. America must not he permitted to interfere in Hawaii. —London Telegraph. There is the highest authority for the statement that England will not sit idly by and see the American flag raised over Hawaii.—London cablegram.