STILL fighting annexation in a recent article in the new york world on the subject of natural and unnatural annexations the following among other things in a sinji similar lar rein occurs when the annexation of the hawaiian and islands is p proposed the case is entirely they are aire not necessary to t 0 us the they y are vot not contiguous the nearest group its is 2000 and the other miles from our pacific coast or and miles from our seat of government their population is alien in a sense me that none of our immigration has haa been they do not fit and cannot be made to fit into our system they must be governed for a considerable time by joine some form of despo despotism 11 the conclusion of this excerpt as relates 10 tes to hawaii at least is a palpable non sequitur nothing that precedes preceded it aads up to it and it is furthermore unsupported by existing facts the islands are not now and have hav e not been for some time under a despotism in any form because of being controlled by americans it it ia hardly to be expected that if hawaii were politically cany part 41 of the united states the government govea there would be less leas liberal than it now naw is while all reasonable couch Wons point to its being made more so ao it has been repeatedly shown that the islands must fall into some nemons nort Hons lap in a short time because of thew incapability of maintaining a separate government ern ment the opponents of annexation then say let a protectorate be fetak dished this would mean as great an aln expense as much responsibility and accountability coun count ability ity and tees less of beneficial benelle ful results i than if the islands belonged to us ua in toto besides it always is well to make the most of anything wh whether ether we mke like it or not and those i people might as well make up their minds minds to the fact however unwelcome that hawaii is about to become one of our mw national household