Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-12-28
Throw. - ths spongs.

by Diplomatic Isianderinx.
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Throws Up the Sponge
The Cleveland Gresham Throne
Restoration Compound didn't do what |
Its ads said IL woul1 The a1minis- |
traticri's Hawaiian policy has proved q |
miserable failure. All the correspDn.
dence and otief documents bearif n "a /
the Hawa;iai. middle have been sub.
mitted to Cyngrcss, together With 9
lengthy me sage In which MT. tleve-
land make his address 70 public cpin-
ion. But he does this only when he |
has come til Tho end OF his te.ter:
when all his plans have experienced
dofeat; whea ho Is CON- ellsd to ac-
knowledge that hisschemas have mis-
carried aud lat 'ls IL no lauger master
Oh, hv his-s III IL from fuvshcr negos
tiations with what Is now the only eys !
isting government in Hawaii, and hav-
ing found that his whe'e theory of the
case was ba ed Oil such misin
Formation that it cannot longer
be maintained, he Las thrown
the burden of the blunder On
Congress. That he has blundered Is
the inevitable conclusion t. be drawn
from his own argument, on his own
presentation of it. His Instructions to
Minister Willis were to the effect that
the Queen should be offered his assist
ance in Eecuring O restoration t. her
throne on condition that she would
grant a general amnesty to the revolu~
tionists and assume the obligations
created by the provisional Government
in due course of admin 5tration. He
admits that he expected in this way to
reimpose monarchical rule upon Hawaii
without consulting or asking the CO.
operation CT Congress. and that the
scheme failed because the Queen would
not accept the conditions. which prob
ably means that he would not agree to
furnish troops for her defense, and that
she was afraid to take the risk Of re-
suming her functions in the abscnce Of
such protection.
ltsuits Mr.. Cleveland, says the Globe
Democrat, to still contend that our
Government is in justice and honor
bound to put the Queen back on her
throne: but he is much mistaken if be
supposes that public sentiment can be
brought to favor a pr ceeding 80 OBJ
noxious to the spirit of our institutions
and So inconsistent with the lessons
and preccdents of our history. He has
committed blunder that strang aly
damages his reputation for level-head-
edGess, and it will take him a long
time to rec over from it. There can be
no doubt as to the fact that he in
tended to bring about the rest ,ration
of the mona"cy by what he calls "eX-
ecutive m diation, with arrogant in
dii erence to the authority of Congress,
and without letting the country know
what he was doing until his object wa
accomplished. The undertaking has
turne out to be miserable failure, for
reasons which he did not anticipate.
but the measure OF his offense is
none the less on that account If he
could have had his way, Queen Liliuo-
kalani would to day be ruling over Ha-
waii: aud whHn he says he is ready to
co-operate with, Congress- in the solu-
tion OF the problem, he means only that
he will aid in plan for subvelting the
existing republ' G, and reviving the
monarchy "as if It, continuity had n
been Interrupted. 1t is safe t. pre-
dict that Congress will not solicit his
cooperation in any movement of that
kind. His refusal to send the Harrison
treaty back to the Senate puts annex
att n cut of the question during his
term; but that is as far as his oppor-
tunity Of mischief extends in the mat
ter. He has made a bold play in diplo-
macy, and he has lost. That is the
simple, practical, mortifying Truth.
He is not the sort of man who
acknowledges mistake. but the mis-
take stands against him all the same,
AMI his Hawaiian policy is destined 10
.ii,o 4ba nocllf, u,fla ,ra,+h s,o =,
daiized"
Trick of Wilson's COMMITTEES.
Like the Secretary of State in the
ca OF the Blount report, the special
Cleveland newspapers were furnished
by the Ways and Means Committee
with the rates of duty of the Mckinley
law, compared with the proposed duties
Of the Wilson law. 1t is a very imper-
feet and very misleading perform
ance. 1t is misleading because it puts
the decrease Of duty from the Mckin-
ley law to the Wilson bill as percent
age. BY its figuring for instance, The
ad valorem duty on barley under the
| Mckinley law is 5o.25 per cent, while
the duty proposed in the Wilson bin is
% per cent.the difference heing
called 1926 per cent. This is decep-
tive, because to the causual reader IL
will appear that the duty has been re-
| duced less than one-half. when in fact
| the per cent. Of reduction is over 6t
rer cent. So on potatoes the ad va
loren duty under the Mckinley law
is figured at 26:@ per cent. and
under the Wilson bill as 1886, and the
| difference as 1888 per cent. Both
duties are specific, being 25 cents undo;
the Mckinley law and 10 cents under
the Wilson bill per bushel That is
the real duty under the present law il
two and one half times as much as it il
under the Wilson bill. Nevertheless
| the Democrats, when they go on the
stump, will claim that the Wilson bill
cut down the duty on potatoes but Is. 8;
| per cent, when as matter of fact i,
has been reduced 60 per cent. The
duty on hay under the Mckinley Law
is "A per ton, while in the Wilson bill
it is 81. Mr.. Wilson's committee fig
ures the reduction to be q. IS per cent.
| when everybody knows that reduc
| tion from "a to 81 is q reduction of 81
| per cent. Attention is called to thi
! juggle now because it will be used t,
| deceive people, as were the storie,
about the increased price of the din
ner pail OF the laborer and the pear
buttons on the laboring mans shirt il
1880 and dlS92.-Indianapolis Journal.
| Who IL Benefited.
1t costs just about cent a pount
| to refine sugar. For that reason th,
tariff rate on imported refined suga
was placed at that figure. The Wilson
bill reduces the rate one-half. Tn,
| pre- ent cost OF raw sugar Is 3 cents
and the German refiners are now abb.
to land refined sugar in this country q
cents . pound, paying the presen
duty. With the duty reduced to I Of
cent q pound the refiners would be abb,
to market sugar In this country at 1856
As the raw sugar would cost domesti,
refners 3 cents this would leave then
90 to pay for refining, meet all trad,
discounts, and other incidental expend
itures; in other words, on this basi
there will be no margin Of profit. Th,
alternatives is reduction Of wages ii
order to maintain the American re