St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-19
THE LIGHT TURNED ON.

W hich congress alone possesses to use
armed forces. 1t is, of course, utterly
impossible that any such authority
should he given him.
The Inter Ocean (Rep.): President
Cleveland has at last made public the
instructions of Secretary Gresham TO
Minister Willis, accompanying this
much-desired information with a long
rigmarole in defense of his
Hawaiian policy. The project
of reinstatement by waving the
wand of diplomacy was absurdly chimer
ical. If Walter Q. Gresham and Grover
Cleveland had had any conception of
the real facts in the case they would
never have made themselves interna-
tional butts of ridicule by going into a
scheme so preposterous.
LIKE A LAWYERS BRIEF.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. Is. - The
Chronicle (Rep.) says: The message is
much more like a lawyers brief than
state paper. 1t is an eX-parte argument
in which the evidence of the other side
is entirely ignored. 1t proceeds upon the
assumption that there would have been
no revolution; that the queen would not
have been overthroWn b for the lanud-
ing of the marines. And yet this view
is positively and, we think, conclusiYelyF
controverted by The statements of MI.
Stevens and Mr.. Thurston and others
equally as reliable as any of those who
were examined by Mr.. Bl cunt.
A GOOD HISTORY.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 1S.-Editorially
the Bee (Rsp.) says: The president
gives plain. straightforward, lucid
history of the events connected with
the overthrow OF the Hawaiian mon
archy, related with such candor, sim
cerity of conviction and earnest desire
to deal justly, with reference to main
tanning the honor and integrity of the
United States, that it cannot fail to
make most favorable impression upon
all fairminded men.
COMPLETE MEDICATION.
The World-Herald (Dem y says: Pres
ident Clevelaud's message to congress
Oh the Hawaiian matter is Just what his
IriendS-and his enemies, too, for that
matter-eXpecUed 1t would be, COM
plete vindlcation of the course he has
pursued i'll dealing with the affair.
THOROUGHLY PARTISAN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1S.-The Elk.
aminer Dem.) says: President CleYe-
lands Hawaiian message is couched in
a tone of studied hostility to the existing
government of Hawaii, now recognized
not only by the United States, but by
the other nations of the world, 1t is as
thoroughly partisan as Mr.. Blount's
reports on Mr.. Harrlson's Chilian mes
sage. Its anlmus is so undlsguised as
to defeat is own objects. =
GRATIFYING TO HIS PARTY. -
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 1S.-The Repub-
lie (Dem.): If the presidents message
on the Hawaiian situation contained
nothing else, it would be gratifying to
his party from its trenchant dealing
with officious eX-Minister Stevens.
Congress now takes the helm. If the
Republicans are for Stevens and annex
alton, let them say so. If they dare to
defend the immortality of the unpro-
voked attack upon a friendly govern
ment, let US hear how they get at the
law of their position.
The Globe-Democrat (Rep.): The
special message of President Cleveland
on the Hawaiian matter may be des-
cribed as an elaborate and uncandid at
tempt to diseredit republic and vindi-
cate the monarchy which it superseded.
AN ENGLISH VIEW.
LONDON, Dec. 19.-The Daily News,
commenting on President Cleveland's
Hawaiian message, says: 1--WE admire
the American government and people
for refusing to be drawn into the yor-
tex of annexation. Mr.. Cleveland will
n OF have Hawaii, though the fruit was
not merely ready to drop from the
tree, but was actually in his lap. Mr..
Harrison easily deposed the queen, and
MIR. Cleveland has set her up again.
The queen, before refusing to consent to
amnesty, should read the story of the
American civil war, which would show
her that the shortest way with a re-
bellion is to treat its participants with
mercy as soon as it is put down. The
queen probably thinks that victim or
two is essential to her dignity, but she
will get over that"