It would also vastly improve the condition of the islands themselves.
In case annexation is rejected by our Government, President Dole says
the Hawaiian Government will continue much as it is at present.
Whatever happens, there is slight prospect that Liliuokalani will be
restored to her throne.
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At last accounts, Havana was in a state of peace. But it was feared that
this peace would not last, and an outbreak against the Americans was
expected.
Only the other day Representative Amos Cummings, of New York, made a
fierce speech attacking the Spanish authorities and urging our
Government to go to war with Spain and help to free Cuba. He compared
the condition of Cuba to-day with the condition of the American colonies
at the time of the Revolution.
Then, too, a great meeting was recently held in Boston to uphold Cuba's
cause, and the feeling in favor of the Cubans has been strongly shown
throughout the United States.
But the Cuban insurgents are suspicious of Americans, because our
Government has done nothing to help them.
If the Government did do anything to assist the Cuban cause, we should
probably have a war on our hands in a very short time.
In preparation for further trouble in Havana, General Blanco is said to
have gathered a large body of troops in order to crush it at once.
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