...protection of the United States. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe," Stevens reported to Washington, "and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." The administration partially disavowed Stevens's course, but Harrison and John W. Foster, who had succeeded...

...— now let us go and dine." 5. American Minister to Hawaii, JL Stevens to the US State Department, "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the US to pluck it." 6. Theodore Roosevelt once remarked: "// / had followed traditional conservative methods,...

..."The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe," Stevens had written to the State Department, early in 1893, "and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. ' ' Elount also informed the President that the monarchy had been overturned with the active aid of...

...coveted by some American officials and a crisis occurring in January, 1893, furnished the fit occasion. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it," wrote our minister.6 A revolution, assisted by the United States forces, took place ; the corrupt and...

...was king, was the widow of the High Chief Namakaeha, uncle of Queen Emma, consort of Kamehameha IV. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it," was another sentence in an official letter. Independently of the Stevens campaign for annexation under...

...coveted by some American officials and a crisis occurring in January, 1893, furnished the fit occasion. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it," wrote our minister.5 A revolution, assisted by the United States forces, took place ; the corrupt and...

...at Washington had similar views. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe," he wrote to his government, "and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." A Hawaiian commission hastened to Washington to ask for annexation. They found both President Harrison...

...State Department at once and continued to keep them in touch with conditions. On February 1, he wrote, "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...does not take place promptly, or is held in doubt or suspense for six or ten months, there certainly will be here a revolution to despair, and these...

...exultant enthusiasm with which, in a letter to the State Department dated February i, 1893, he declares: 'The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it.' " Having withdrawn the treaty from the Senate, President Cleveland next sent the Honorable James H....

...legation, addressed to Secretary of State Foster, at Washington, the queen underscoring certain words : 18 "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the U\nited States to pluck it." A foreign diplomat in Honolulu, on the occasion of Minister Stevens' arrival, told friends that Stevens...