Nuhou, Volume II, Number 12, 22 ʻAukake 1873 — HOW TO DENATIONALIZE US. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO DENATIONALIZE US.

The Powers of Europe are intefested fn preserving the statu quo of thesē Islands, and America is interested in prevēntmg those Powers from interfering with this statu, quo. She wou!d not mterfere w 7 ithout provocation: but we dare say she would not objeet to a provocation. Some of her people say that the Islands are the West īndies "of the Pacific 1 coāst, and naturally belong to the Continent. Others say, that the Islands naturally belong to the Pacific Oeean, and ought to remain indēpendent, and probably will do so : if King Luna.lilo ean get a fresh supply of peoplē for His Kingdom, The right way for America to get the lslands is to them; for Great Britain is to Australianize them, and so for any other country that wants us, tlie uaj is to over-run us with their people, their money, and their goods, and take all of oiir produce free, America had a ehanee, with Reci* procity, to make us her own : but 'she shut the door in the face of the Archipelago: prevented a greater purcfiase of American goods, a lārger employnleiU of Ainertcan shipping, and an increase of Atnerican people and eaphni in the country, England through recent communication with her Australian Colonies has done a trifle towards Britonianizing us, and buys our sugar and molasses. and paek? our'stores'with British godds that have crossed three oeean?, and sends some colonists to buy up ranches and, plantations. We trust the Islands will have a ehanee to improve through the competitioii Ot foreign States, as we are u land poor v at present; many of us having a big show of acres with rathēr a poor show of dollars. We have considērable of an fsland, but haps it would be more profitab!e to us to be boss of a good junk store.

t)f our fōur million acres, perhaps three millions do not and will' not produce anything fof some time ; and of the million in use, there is probiibly not more than 12,000 «crēs in actual cultivation, of whieh about SOOO is in sugar eane. T.hus ohljr al'Out oue four hundredth pavt of the acre of tiie Archipelago is really worked by the hand of man: but if we eoukl get more men, we might cultivate 1,000,000 of acres in all iorts of products, and export a value of, we vill say, fifty milliou of dollars. Of cour.se this- i- .1 strong statement, atvd will make sneer and say, " bosh." or pcrhaps " enthusiasm," for that is a good word \vitli whieh to put down any hopeful talk. Becau.se rospcotablc cautious eapiial woukl not underiake to cultivate more than 50,000 acres of the soil of these tslands; tio consideration is taken of those who would cheerfully lay ho|d of lands that the respcotable capital wou!d pass by. Thoro are plcnty of hard uorkers in the world uiu> would lx glad to have thc brown

sides of evon Punehhowi in fee simple } with j a vifew to make a home and a ]iv}ng there; 1 j but tliere are hiuulreclrs of thousands of acres j jof tjolerably fertile hill sides, not exactlyj j suited to the planter } but sulted to the $mall j j cultivator, who will eome when vve get a j j free "market, and perhaps before if we try. • | The free market woukl no doubt bring the j I people, and a market and innnigration . are interblended. America should grant us J this free market. It will be a better, as it j I will' be a rnore generous policy, to try to | j x4mericanize us by enriching us, rather thaa j Ito Americanize us by freezing us out. YW] j don t think the latter policy will work. We 1 | will find markets in Australia, Japan and | | Europe, and ean u nigger on M for j jßut,vvith a free market in San Fran<sisco,| |we certainiy vvould take a big jump. and it j i woukl be a jump America-wards. !

Now we are not anxious to be Ameneanized, or Australianized. or- Prussianized 3 but. content to remain Ha\\\aiianized: and this, wiil suit everybod\ T . Does America, ov Eng- j land, or any other Power want a stronghold | here merely to buliy the eommerce of thej Paeiiie ? We cannot think so. Some of us ; would like to have a garrison and a naval j depot, and an annual expenditure of a! million or so of dollars; but we would rather j have prosperity another way, We would| like to get full price for sugar, wool, &c M inj San Franeisco. and then you woukl seej liveiy times with American goods and| American ships. In that case we would be j Americanized in spite of ourselves, and Lu-j nalilo would be King of a quasi Amel'iean j community. We don't suppose that Hisi Majesty would objeet to that, or \vouldobject to explusive American goods, or any amount oi Ameiiean dollars. His Majesty, in His eleeiion, fully represents the spirit of Ameriean politics, and Gen. Grant is not any raore.than.King. Lunalilo —the ehoiee of a Free People —and therefore Ameriea should be interested in reciprocating \vith us in a free and generous \vay.