Nuhou, Volume I, Number 9, 25 Malaki 1873 — A FREE MARKET. [ARTICLE]

A FREE MARKET.

To bave an oppōrtūnity to oxchange freely our feurplim for tlie surpluB of a \villing neighbor is a natural right ; and it is a wrong to withhold it. But eertain groups of men, or nationalities liave their protective sysleina for the c!isposal of this surplus, advantageous only to those within tlieirpolitieal eirele, America has such a proteetive policy, and we dp not share its advantageSj and yet she asserts that we belong to her political system: tliat is our position is importaiit to America to enable her tQ acquire and maintain the mastery in the Pacific. America has oftentimes asserted tlirough her puhlie men, that she could never perm.it these islands to take any steps to endanger American interests in theseseas. Jfitwere possible for us to negotiate a treaty of reciprocity with Australia, thatwould evidently cause this Archipelago to be filled with Britons, and wouldcompletely Australianize us, we have no doubt, but that America would object, and endeavor to prevent such a consummation. Now she couid Americanize us by permitting h perfectly free interchange of products, but she ha-s declined to do so thus far, because w r e are foreign, and yet it is said we belong to lier political system. .

What does she want us to do? We are her's anyhow, and eannol get away. She wants, so some who sneak for her say, our kanakas, whose fathers were tattooed savages, to ackhowledge and deelare that t.hey dei|ght-1-n the benefits of Amenean institutions, and that they have purged their memories of all attaehments to the traditions of the Kamehaniehas and the Lunalilos. This is hardly eonsistent with the eommon sense and generosity. of America. The subjeet has not yet been put before her in a proper light. Bhe has had a so-called Beciprocity Treaty submitted for her eonsideration, whieh we advoeated with an empty poeket anda beeause it was little better than a snare and designed for especial interests, But Ameriea has not yet had a fair, open, unspeeulative proposition made to her, setting forth that Hawaiians desired a ful! and free interehange of all their products with those of America, aecompanied with the liope and the assurance that suoh an interchange hiust lead fo an enlarged intercourse and to the e'omplete dominaneeof Ameriean influences in these islands. .

If we ean only āpproacb Ameiiea vrith aonie espeeial bonus In our hancis which j King uud people are wlHing to grant ? then! )et tis undel'ttike the bargain and trade we best ean, But we believe, with our{ knowletlge of Ameriea and our assoeiātion with her puhlie men even during a year's diseu?sion of a mis-called Reeiproelty Treaty, that she will listen to a ftiir appeal of these island% tliat must, lt ift sald, all belong to her without any espeeial bonusat this time, She is purgihg her skirts of the spirit of bi»lbery f and we need no lobby i\md in hand, The spirit of reetitude is gaining sway in her couneils, wliieh will eonsider a measure on its merits alone, She hm no longer sueh an overweeningdesireto reguhi(e revenue solely with a view to the extinetion of a puhlie debt, a portion of whioh she i* to lenve to her jK>ster-

it-y, and |t-herefore a po^>ibh j of a fe\v dollars ln a generous and po!itic with HaSva'ii is not going to InAuenee her ! action« She will. acknow!edge thatHawaii \ be!ongs to her politica! hopes s —-is indeed a ] child baptized into her po!itica! faitli 5 and * must shtire her po!itical birtli-ng!its, Send ; a man to Washingtonj who bas 110 specula- ' tion in his soul, who is an ardentllawaiian 1 American statcBman, wlio ean speak at all 1 times aiid in all places with the wise and ' just men who influence Ameriea in her \ counci!s and her journa]s, and you may hope to get for this archipe!ago a free 1 markot in America« <