The Samoan Question.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 7, 10 November 1888, Page 3

The Samoan Question.

{From the Daily Examiner.) There is further oesurune<* from Washington that ihe Administration is moving in the Saiuouu question. It should not bo left an open issue Tim United States has rights iu Suino.t which would bo jeopardised, if not wholly extinguishf>d, by the recognition of a German protectorate. When France was permitted to usurp the sovereignty of Tahiti, s serious blunder w.:s committed aid it should not be repeated iu the case, of Samoa. If the Society islands, ot which Tahiti is the chief, had beeu organized on the lines followed in tho case of Hawaii our trade with them today would bo quite as extensive as with Honolulu. That opportunity was missed, and it is to be In.j.i'd the losing oxperioui-o will not be repeated in the cn«o of Samoa. There is a great future bofore the Samoan islands. The soil is far more productive than that of the Hawaiian group, aud there are several fine harbors, at one of which, Pugo Pago, the United Statos possesses a coaling station by treaty with Mali toa. Our rights should lie asserted, and Germany should be required to withdraw \U forces from Samoa precisely as France was compelled to withdraw from the New Hebrides through tho action of Australia. Tho independence of Samoa should be guaranteed.