Show A KINGDOM FOR SALE Bat the United States will Object Ob-ject New Yorir HTho Times editorially editori-ally says It isan open Fecret that Kala kaua King of the Sandwich Islands is on a voyage around the world for the purpose of selling his kingdom We have a right to regard with some uneasiness uneasi-ness that trading expedition of King Kalak ua Virtually the United States has a mortgage upon the Sandwich Is lards That we have a monopoly of the trade of the Islands both as regards imports im-ports snd exports is well known The government is independent of all other nations it is true and it is true that the government is nominally native but it is alo undeniable that the worthy gentleman gentle-man who is king of the Hawaiian Islands Is-lands by virtue of his descent from the held chief who seized the government once upon a time is merely a figurehead and that he is less of a ruler than constitutional kings usually are The fiercest annexationists in the island are naturally American planters and traders They fear to have their property interests transferred to the i dominion of a European Dower They long for the time when they will not be obliged to submit to the payment of an I import duty on their own products imported im-ported into their own country They argue that nearly everything that the tta waiun Islands exports goes to the United States and nearly everything imported into the islands comes from the same republic re-public If annexation ever arrives it must take the islands to the United States That this step would be denounced by foreign residents who are not Americans I is also true but in any eventalthough our + government cannot afford to promote any I policy of annexation other governments of the world should be notified that any attempt on their part to acquire the Sandwich Sand-wich Islands by purchase or otherwise would be regarded by the United States as an unfriendly act If we are to foster and maintain the great commerce between be-tween the Pacific Coast and the east that commerce will need protection which can be given it from a naval and military st9tion on the Hawaiian Islands weave we-ave already been offered a station on I the island but tho policy of our government govern-ment baa been adverse to any such bartering bar-tering of reciprocal commercial treaties for political advantages as this proposition proposi-tion contemplated If King Kalakaua really wants to cede his kindom the United States or place it under American Ameri-can protection the shortest way to reach his object would be to offer to sell out to some European power |