 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 828 pages
...exultant enthusiasm with which, in a letter to the State Department dated February 1, 1893, he declares: The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. protection of the Hawaiian Islands and declared that said action was " taken pending and subject to... | |
 | Edmund Janes Carpenter - Hawaii - 1899 - 306 pages
...he himself adopted it, in his remarks already quoted. "The Hawaiian pear," wrote Minister Stevens, " is now fully ripe ; and this is the golden hour for...pluck it. If annexation does not take place promptly, and all is held in doubt and suspense for six or ten months, there certainly will be a revulsion to... | |
 | Edmund Janes Carpenter - Hawaii - 1899 - 306 pages
...he himself adopted it, in his remarks already quoted. "The Hawaiian pear," wrote Minister Stevens, "is now fully ripe ; and this is the golden hour for...pluck it. If annexation does not take place promptly, and all is held in '95 doubt and suspense for six or ten months, there certainly will be a revulsion... | |
 | American literature - 1900 - 640 pages
...Stevens established a protectorate over the islands, and in his despatch to the State Department said: " the Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Secretary of State Foster in part disavowed his minister's coup d'etat. The incoming Cleveland administration... | |
 | Economics - 1904 - 654 pages
...protectorate, at once notified the officials at Washington of his action, and pertinently added : " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." 41 On the same day that the provisional government was formed, "Reciprocity Treaties and Agreements,... | |
 | James Lawrence Nichols - United States - 1904 - 640 pages
...California. The treaty was an official response to Minister Steven's land-grabbing dispatch that " the Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Mr. Cleveland did not believe either in the establishment of a protectorate or in annexation, and therefore... | |
 | Book collecting - 1905 - 738 pages
...on the day when the American marines were landed in Honolulu, sent a despatch to Washington saying, "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." From all these facts, it is quite obvious that the American Government was fully aware of the impending... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - United States - 1906 - 994 pages
...day when the American marines were landed in Honolulu, had sent a despatch to Washington saying, " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." From all these facts, it is quite obvious that the American Government was fully aware of the impending... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1907 - 644 pages
...existence of an American protectorate over the islands. On the same day he wrote to the State Department, "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Fully as strong an interest in annexation was felt by the Provisional Government as by the United States... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1911 - 848 pages
...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. As a further illustration of the activity of this diplomatic representative, attention is called to... | |
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The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. 
