Show HAWAII AS A CALIFORNIA I COUNTY I The San Francisco Examiner is of the opinion that if the Hawaiian islands I are annexed to this country they can never be important enough to Justify making them a state with two senators I sena-tors in the upper house of congress and that territories under all the traditions tradi-tions of American politics are but communities in training for state I hood It also very truthfully says that the Kovemment of the United States I is net well adapted to the permanent government of a dependency And this is one objection to the annexation lot the islands But the Examiner has I a plan for overcoming this objection Here It is The proposition to make the islands a county of California more in the line of practical statesmanship There is but a single drawback to this plan from the position of this country that is to sayand that Is in the distance A countv 2000 miles away from the seat of government is to say the least something new There is however no great practical difficulty in this part of It The islands would attend to their own local affairs as now elect perhaps per-haps a representative in congress and several members of the California legislature leg-islature and administer the California and federal laws instead of those now in force The change would not be great But we might have to wait to the next steamer to knpw how California Cali-fornia had gone in every election Possibly Pos-sibly however the suggestion of being a county of California will take the edge off the Hawaiian appetite for annexation an-nexation It would leave some statesmen states-men out of a job or at any rate reduce re-duce them from the highsounding title of cabinet officers to the more humble place of supervisor or county clerk While the islands are somewhat distant dis-tant from California yet there is this advantage about that that distance lends enchantment to the view How would it do to make several counties out of the islands and divide them among the coast states |