Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — WILL LET HER COME IN. [ARTICLE]

WILL LET HER COME IN.

The Feeling in Favor of Annexing Hawaii Growing in Congress.

Concerning the Hawaiian annexation, a Washington correspondent says that at both ends of the Capitol the sentiment is growing that annexation is the only step to take. The commissioners have said unofficially over and over again that they do not want a protectorate, and Senators and Representatives who at first thought that was an easy way out of the embarrassment of an unprecedented situation are drifting to the idea that this presents about as many difficulties as direct annexation. But no steps are going to be taken immediately. The provisional government is in a position to take care of the country for the present, with the help of United States marines. England seems disposed, according to London dispatches, to keep her hands off if we want to take the islands, and Senators and Representatives want to maintain the status quo until they have acquired fuller information about the resources of the islands and the different kinds of population who would have to be taken care of. The strongest advocate and the strongest opponent of annexation are Southern Democratic Senators. Senator Morgan is for annexation, as he has .been all along, and an advocate of a broad und foreign policy extending far beyond our own boundaries and our own property. In the discussions on Samoa and the Congo Free State, particularly in the case of the latter, he has taken a leading part in pushing claims of the Uniled States to a wider sphere of iDlluence, if not of power, and his advocacy of Ihe Nicaragua canal as a part of the same policy is well known. The Southern men generally are in favor of Hawaiian annexation, but Louisiana opposes. The sugardnterests of Louisiana and Hawaii conflict. The Louisiana planters are hoping for the repeal of the bounty and the imposition of a duty, and they don’t want the islands to stand on the same footing that they do. Reciprocity with Hawaii has not been in the interest of Louisiana, and the Pelican planters believe that annexation would do a great deal to encourage the investment of American capital in the islands, and that the sugar culture would be greatly extended there and the islands made more dangerous competitors than they have ever been in the sugar market.