If something be not done, there
will be before long another Revolution, and Japan will get
control. Some little time ago the Hawaiian Government observed
that when the immigrants from a large steamer went ashore
they marched with a military step, indicating that they were
a body of trained soldiers. Thereupon Hawaii prohibited the
further coming in of Japanese. Japan claimed that was in
violation of their treaty, and sent a ship of war to Hawaii.
I was obliged to notify Japan that no compulsory measures
upon Hawaii, in behalf of the Japan Government, would be tolerated
by this country. So she desisted. But the matters are still
in a very dangerous position, and Japan is doubtless awaiting
her opportunity."
I told President McKinley that I favored then, as I always
had, the acquisition of Hawaii. But I did not like the spirit
with which it was being advocated both in the Senate and
out of it. I instanced several very distinguished gentlemen
indeed, one a man of very high authority in the Senate in
matters relating to foreign affairs, who were urging publicly
and privately the Hawaiian Treaty on the ground that we must
have Hawaii in order to help us get our share of China.
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