| Show HOW THE HAWAIIANS PEEL FEEL senator frank J cannon did an eminently proper practical and sensible thing when he made an arrangement with prof benjamin duff cluff jr president of the brigham young academy at provo to lo go to the hawaiian islands and make a thorough personal investigation among the natives with a view to ascertaining their sentiments in regard to the annexation of their country to the united states prof duff cluff was ang was a resident ident of the islands was personally acquainted n with many of the n natives ves toad acquired a knowledge of their traits customs and history speaks choir language fluently sad and was ad mireL bly qualified to perform the mission which he undertook at senator cannons In instance stancer f brof claws duffs veracity and integrity will hardly be impeached certainly not among the many citizens of utah who know him and JA t follows that his testimony upon the subject of his mission to hawaii to Is of the highest value As the result of a thorough in Watt gatlon among the I 1 natives of th three fee or OC the most populous of the islands he reports that fully one halt half of the intelligent Hawaii hawaiians Ha ans desire annexation to this country in preference to any other government that could be given them the other half express a first preference for a restoration of the native monarchy but their second choice to Is annexation to the united states both halves of the intelligent native population prefer union funion with this country to a perpetuation of their present government or absorption by any other nation such is the substance of prof bluffs duffs report as telegraphed from san and the news is disposed to ito regard the information ob obtained tIned and furnished by him upon the subject of annexing the Ha hawaiian wallan islands as equal in reliability and comprehensiveness to any that has been laid before congress and far superior in these respects to the data or alleged data which commonly appears in the newspapers the result of prof bluffs duffs trip to the mid ocean republic Is to destroy the opposition of americans to 16 annexation based on the alleged opposition of the hawaiians Hawaii ans to that measure |
