| Show I Colonel Ideas Ides S V Clonel Colonel Volney Ashford commissioner ex-commissioner t r of of the Hawaiian forces in a was Chicago He was a of the bat the tho United States must either eIter annex the Sandwich Islands or let et them alone A protectorate he declares r would oud be so dist distasteful st lil fl to the tho that r J they tey would probably prefer an independent republic or even a return to tb the government t J of the deposed queen It Is either annexation eiter annexton or nothing he declares It I aI almost os t set let me wild wid- wid he he- said to see ace to i the United States take this Stats thi thing so calmly J If I she ahe does docs not annex annex tho Sandwich Islands r w she will wf never get et them unless they i come me to h her bet r as a the result of war with the theS O S power which may seize them wih t I 1 have seen it i strongly questioned be he continued whether the gentlemen who are i representing the provisional gover government ment at ot W Washington tn represent the people and I most inot emphatically say that they do Even the British residents of the is islands ands realize reaUze that I the commercial prosperity of the tho Sandwich Islands lies In ann annexation les to t the United States t S J Mr fr f. f one of of the th gentlemen no now the nn provisional r government a r s' s I d o. o l o r r i hl ii was opposed to t ann annexation on Ie IJo now that unless the Islands arc are rn rn- rn I. I s t n to t this thi country that their prosperity Is la I 1 gone and he has gone to do what he lie can to t save eave them fr from m the utter ruin which stares a- a them in the face P r The story str that Spreckels was M behind the revolutionary movement was wa ridiculed by Colonel Ashford Ashford Spreckels he ho said held so 5 1 many liens Hens lens on the sugar plantations that an era of depression which T would enable him to t foreclose on the plant planters rl was wa the desire of oi Ills heart If I the planters r could obtain the same ame eme market pries for their their output as before tho the passage of the te McKinley bill bl it meant prosperity for tor them and tho the payment of their mortgages mortgage Therefore be he said Spreckel wanted a monarchal a government |
