Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-13

The Peiicy Of lsiany.
fses York San Dem
The announcement of the Cleveland
policy respecting Hawsii has come. Il IL
70. the American policy IL is not the pol
icy of THE Unisei Sta;es government, or OF
tie people Of tbis rspubli:- IL is not yet.
thaEk God. the policy OF the Democratic
party. Ii is neither more nor less than the
perssusi determination Of an executive o.
fcer, charged With temporary poEer, To
use that power 70 enforce a personal coz
cIusion. and 10 commit this country 70 bis
per.oasi eosciasion, regardless of eonse-
qaenees in infsmy or blood.
Stripped OF every special plea and ape
ci2ns prete It surrounding the essential fact.
" hat is the parpose which Mr.. Cleveland
nov declares, through the so-cslied report
Of his too subseryisnt secretary of state.
To crush the life out of young repub-
lie, already recog sized BY Us rs an indepen-
den. and responsible government; TO en-
ploy the armed pos er rs Well ss the moral
inaarnee of TIE United States 10 thrust
back upon a civilized people, American IN
their Instincts and habits ard aspirations, a
hsrb4roas monarchy. in the person OF a
vile AMI riiicnlous person wi hom they have
driven from the throne TO u6uo tue WOE
of revolution which made Hawaii repub-
lie, ty msans of eonute- revolution by
c,,sp fretat planned in the White House at
Ws.hingron and secretly bat deliberately
ordered by q president OF tie Unted
States
That i. the Cleveland policy The
AM ricau policy was settled long ago. IL
ha. meyer varied Twas rever bett-r de-
N
cratic Secretary of State, when he sped TO
the new. horn repnblie of 1913 ia France
,ti, a.su.anea Of Americas sympathy for
every p4ople struggling out of the forms
and traditions of monarchy II tras ,nith
noe ,,airsy.cI b,,,3 ,,f enthusiasm that the
t,,e.i,,,,, ,.s,,,ie hoIrf tbe Fts ,,ori,,ns re
roinJi,p il, Fronre IL 1aror of Iiberfy end
rem ,IJic,,y 0oreraD,euf. In his feeling the |
pres;d.ut ,tron,J,y .gn,Jstthizes. Waraa |
oso,,,,tjoss far me sueress Of the Rptr 70
,,,,tJjc arr Iro1tke,l from ererg heart. Lib
erty ami order ,rW gla&e Frame hatJ,q and |
.,,,,'s,,pya,,s mr. dextiejes. unlgr Prori- |
,,,,,q,. o,e ,,o,e in he hunts NJ he French |
,e,oip Trt them In their ,risloia, fra |
aess. ami D,o,isr1ti..n refi.fe the sfaAeierx ofl
fkejr cnesjes. md conriacr Mr ,eord tAat |
tb,u arr r,t,.otile Of self-Jorsrnlneat." That
is the American uolicy.
ire dare of the revolution oyerthrowing
nonarchv in France in ls4s was Feb. -
ana naws came .Iowly then across the |
Atlantic. The date of Buchanan's spirited
,nas,sga Tn the new republic was March 81. /
polk and Buchanan did not wait to ascertain
whetber the new republic represented a
nume,icsl majority of all the peopl, then
inhefitiug France. They did moi inquire
=. ha+hsr a ,ume,;eai majority would have
n-af.,red tho contiuuance of Monarchy.
Tbav did NOT ask whether American citi-
ms residing in France had borne a part in
tho revolutionary movement, or even
wLa,hsr the official representatives of the
I-,i,ed States Government had mani
fe,,ea svmnethv with tho Frenchmen who
ora,,I,,s, opi. ph;linne President Polk
and hi, Secretary of State sent out no com
missioner with authority paramount ant
+, Investigate Minister Rust's
attitude toward the revolutionists, and to
maLa case IL no.sibIe. TO warrant Amer
ca, intervention in behalf of the friendly
king vi ho had inst bsen dethroned. They
.s,,T m the yonnu republic the G,dspeed as
above p,inted. and knew that b. hind them
in that message of sympathv and 10y was
arerv true American heart; lust MS every
,rna American heart would have been be-
Inn, Crov.r Cleveland and his adninistrs-
,jon If a similar message hsd gone from
va sh;nc,o, to Honolulu in March of thi.
veor Ise3
Never before now has an American ex-
acu,iva una.r.akan tn stamp cut repubi-
c,uisrn and to set up monarchy in snv part
cf the vo,ld Never before, we believe.
tss an Am.rican President issued Orders
snr ,,'4 a..,ssinstion of free and success
al ,nve-p,oaat Never before has any
oHcor ~ mi. Government undertaken, upon
I,s ,ola rssnon.tbi1ity and withlu. consult
i,,, Cnngre., or the people, TO decide tn
dsst;,v os a foreign conntry in diplomatic
,.I,ri,rs rsri.b ourselves. Never before A.
p,es;de NJ invited or commando his cahi
mot advisors 90 as.ist i'm in the odious busi-
nas,nf s,,,,ny M, zva1n A rotten aud broken
.hrore
W. the,s ro American spjrit in the cshi-
no, :, hon this noiicy of jpfamy was decreed2
" .l,sr q Gresham woulI have done vel /
f., ts.r his commi..ton into pieces and fling
81, ,,ac,s IN the face of his master. rather
tr,, =, .,,.r hi. .pap,.. tn the document v hi, h
',r,;a1 ~ rho nation ye,t-ri.y the an
r,,,roe,,.,,, ~ the rotion = shame.