Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 160, 11 Iulai 1894 — SOUND DOCTRINE AS TO HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

SOUND DOCTRINE AS TO HAWAII.

The resolution reported Thursday by the senate committee on foreign atfairs and immediately adopted by unanimons vote in the Senate embodies the absolute- !}• sound doctrine regarding the relation o£ our government to Hawaii, says the Xew York Time*. The country is to be congratulated on tbe unnnimity with whieh the Senate has declared that “of right it belongs wholly i to the people of Hawaii to estab- : lish and maintain tbeir own form of government and domestic policy,” aud that the United States “ought not in any way to inter-fere therewith.“ Some of i the senators raay not be willing to admit it, but this is a distinct ; condemnation of the intervention ; of Minister Stevens, sustained by | tbe last administration. and a complete viudication of the policy of the present admiuistration. It brings the goveruraent back to the sound doctrine, so long maintaiued, of uon-interference in the atfairs of foreign nations, strong or weak, and of a recognition of tbe right of every independent people to deterraine their form of government and tbeir domestic policy for tbemselves. The declaration that any inter- ' ference in the political affairs of those islands by any cther gov- ; ermuent “will be regarded as an I act unfrieudly to the United States” is eqnally in accordance | with our time-honored policy, and will meet the approval of the conntry, regardless of party. To : have any other power, with whieh we might have complications hereafter, possessing a foothold off onr western coast would be a manifest menaee, and while we leave Hawaii to the Hawaiians, , we have a right to demand that no other uatiou shall interfere with it. It is fortnuate that the differences of view tbat bave been at times so botly asserted in Congress shon)d bave melted into » barmonions acceptance of a perfectly sound statement of policy.