Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-19
THE cHARLEsToN.s MISSION

| either We Must Go Away From HON,
for News or the Correspondent Sending
the Subjoined Dispatch Has Struck !
Mares Nest-The Charleston Said to b,
| Under Orders to siieze the Hawaiian
| Islands Under Certain Contingencies
| Chinese Gossip.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 14.-The specia
correspondent of the United Press who
was sent to China with instructions to
investigate the atters which have
been causing SO much uneasiness in di
plomatic circles thro ughout Europe and
the United States, is now in this city,
and, from a high authority, has been
| placed in possession of most important
| facts.
The United States cruiser Charleston
has left these waters for Honolulu, and
1t is asserted here in quarters likely TO
know the truth or falsity of report OF
this nature, that the COM
mander of the Charleston, Geo. C. Re-
mey, has received instructions from the
United States G Over nment to seize the
! Hawaiian islands sh ould certain event
| ualities occur.
The United Press correspondent has
made careful inquiry in regard to this
| matter, and while not able to state
that it is a fact that the Charleston has
started on the important mission men.
toned, he is able to say that, beyond
| any doubt, it is fully believed in official
| circles here that the United States
| cruiser has been ordered, should GER
tam events occur, to seize the Hawaiian
| islands
In addition, the correspondent has
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been cabled to the British foreign office,
| and there has been, in consequence, an
exchange of dispatches between the
British admiralty and the admiral in
command of the British fleets in Chi
nese waters. Ostensibly, the mission
| of the Charleston is to protect Ameri-
can interests there and to afford ref
uge for American citizens on those
islands should the political upheaval
expected there take the form which
some people anticipate it may take.
The American colony here and others
!, also seem to be in hearty sympathy
with the United States in this matter.
1t is recognized by all except, perhaps,
the representatives of two powers, that
the Hawaiian islands are naturally un-
der the wing, if not under the protec-
ton of the United States, and that the
United States is the country to police,
II not to annex, that somewhat dis
turbed country under certain circum-
Stances
AS the correspondent understands it,
the Charleston's mission is not a bold
and uncalled for swooping down upon
and seizure of the Hawaiian kingdom;
it is simply the taking of firm step in
what are considered by the United
States government. to be the best in
terests of the United States.
China, it seems, will do little or moth
ing to protect or to do common Justice
to foreigners so long as the diplomats
alone take a hand in the game, but
when the foreign ministers are backed
up by powerful war ships, and plenty
Of them, their voices seem to have a
persuasive sweetness which was alto
gether lacking when the war ships
were absent or few in number here
abOuts.
The United Press correspondent,
however, is in a position to state that
though the province of Human may be
at present the stamping ground of
numb Der of Russian agents whose duty
it may be to foster disturbances by all
The means in their power; that the
presence of British agents there is we'll
known to the Chinese government and
that no kind of denial will convince
;he Chinese governme mt that this is not
The case.
Russia has been bl lmed for all the
intriguing which has been going on in
Asia for the past hundred years, yet
nobody seems to thinE of even suspect
ng England of doing the same things. 1t
may be distinctly sail, however, that
England is quite as black, if not
blacker sinner than Russia in this re-
spect, and that a great deal of the
growth of the British Indian en1-
pire, to say nothing of nearly
all the British colo nies is due to
little else than b .itish intrigues
of the same nature. or worse, than
those British statesmen, and British
newspapers are continually, with holy
horror, holding up to sea re the British
pu bic.
Sooner or later the Russian bear ant.
the British lion, to say Ii othing of this
French eagle, will tear la .ge slices out
Of Chinese territory in order to APP
pease. momentariiy. thei. hunger for
Asiatic territory. Then IT, ere may be
developments of sad mai ure for the
foreign residents of China.