Show THAT CHKOCITY TREATs Han proof was necessar to show the complete power of the San Francisco sugar king Sprecklcs over the Hawaiian Islands it Is found In the list ol names announced to day as forming the new Cabinet of the King and in the mine of the Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States As was explained in these columns some time since the wealthy jwoplo of San Francisco saw an opportnnlt to gain immense wealth from the cultivation of sugar on the Islands if a reciprocity treaty could bo made be In ceil the Islands and the United States and steps nero taken toward that measure meas-ure which resulted In its success AH tlio interests involved were entirel local with Sin Francisco the matter did not challenge public attention until called to it In the unllatlcral condition of things hi favor of a few capitalists who to all intents and purposes own the commerce of the Islands To prove their power they hive now saddled an ex polite court atlorncv of San 1 ranciseo on the King for Atlorno General an ex editor of the Saul Francisco I lot for Minister of Foreign For-eign Afliilrn ind oeloptod an exAttorncv Gcnenl of California In the person of 1aul NLninm an eminent Sm Francisco liw v PI for Minister to Washington With three such men under their thumbsII is evident lo tuty nnproju heed mind that the Cahfoinli svndieilo cm order governmental meisiiriH to suit their own convenience and laugh it all competitors m the sugai trade ot the Unite 1 States no lung as the present tin JIIM tLlIty is In force Petitions have hu n fonvanlcd f from Sin 1 raneisco lo the National onurcss siya I bv l the lelllin nieichintx minufietmoin and hull < trH IIC Oahfoinii mil huy the shipbuilders ship-builders ship owners lumbermen of the Pieillc Coist t setting forth the great ulv Ullages of the treaty as it stands and imploring Comross not to lop off this fairest limb of our commerce nlulc I counter petitions hive rolled In from thc sxme clans of men on the Eastern sea hoard pra nig for relief from the ruinous competition forced on them by thus excess ex-cess of cost of their own raw material which in unmanufactured state must compete with the Islands product It is for Congress to judge between these pco pie and decide whether it is a wise polic to foster a local bon mz at tho expense of a great factor of trade throughout the countr > The Hawaiian Islands should bo the property of the United States and of course it is to thus interest of the San Francisco people to make them so but until thuey are tho treaty should be abrogated ab-rogated and all men given an eijua chance to obtain a footing there in order that when the Islands become u pllrt of thus territory of the Nation thev will not bo owned and controlcd by a clique of poni rful nabobs who nonld bo in a posi lion to menace thus trade of the Nation in advani tiu their personal interests Tho control of the Islands should bo held by this Government for n ual purposes if for nothing else and the ease Is strongly put m tho following piragra h from a cores pondent of tho New York Sim who lias long been a resident there The fact in that though every ndimnistm lion from tlmt of President Pierce whoso Secretory Stats Win Ii Maroy framed the first Hawaiian reciprocity treaty to the present han been fully alivo to the Import unco of this convention the American pub Ho is but just aronsing to a consciousness of tho vital necessity of controlling this grout not only iu behalf of their commerce but nn a measure of national safety Lying as they do the nearest land to our const and our only stopping place Iu a stretch of JO 000 IJ WeI to Asiatic ports flanked bv strong stations sta-tions of Lnjlimd Germany and Trance and J in the direct line of travel from the Dominion Domin-ion of Cunada to Australia and from 1ana ma to Asia a position oauld scarcely he con calved more invaluable to us if under our control or more fatal to us if a hostili lln 1 tetor enor bt l h d power Introuohad in the fortresses of tbeii land locked harbors should hold our enlii Iaclfio const nt its mercy |