The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-30
THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.
IIpderhand Methods of the Democratic
 Administration.

TrDdernand Methods of the Democratic
 Administration.
 Mir, Cleveland has not been frank with the United States nor just to Hawaii in this or any step he has taken i, dealing with the Hawaiian over tures. He has seemed to approach the subject from an objectionable point of view. In the foreign policy of every government that respects itself and oroposes to command the respect of others there must be continuity of pur- nose. Brought suddenly to confront tbe Hawaiian question, President liar rison settled it promptly, and on the lines from which American diplomacy had never veered in half century. Hut Mir. Cleveland, though he found it settled and in no condition that called for action on his part, suddenly re- yersed his predecessors time-honored policy and. from no apparent motive of public welfare. Without word of eX- planation he withdrew the carefully negotiated treaty of annexation then before the senate. He dispatched to Hawaii a commissioner, whose extraor- dinary and duncopstitutiona powers had to be learned by the American people from publications in Hawaiian newspa- pers. Then, after hauling down the American flag, and withdrawing our marines from Hawaiian soil, without indicating what these acts portended; after months of delay and evasion; after waiting until congress had ad- iourned, so that there could be no off ciul discussion of his policy, or what ever else it may be called; after wait ing until the elections were over, so that there could be no popular expres- sion upon it, he has his secretary of state write him letter accusing Presi- dent Harrison of stupidity and his min ister at Honolulu of falsehood and mall administration, without giving out one syllable of the evidence claimed to ex- ist to support allegations so grave!
 Mir. Gresham's statement is the Ka- nalla case in its extremest form. What it rests on other than the complaints of a group of immoral, idolatrous and semi-civilized people, and the repre- sentations of sugar speculator, who wishes the government to be sordid and incompetent that he may control it, Mir. Cleveland does not permit us to know. But whatever he knows that we do not, he knew when he received a minister from the provisional govern ment at Honolulu. He knew it when he gave exequaturs to its consuls, and he knew and must have considered it
 ,.t Willie credited to that government Howev- CT it came to be established, established it is; and it exists to day as the only and acknowledged government of Ha- waii-aclInowledged by us and by every other power represented at it's capital. For the United States now to adopt the policy which Mir. Gresham is permitted to propose, and forcibly to put down this government and to set up that of the ignorant and vicious creatures whose preposterous beha- vior caused the revolution, would be to do all that Mir. Gresham charges against Mir. Stevens-all that and much that is worse. It would be to put down good governmant and sat 'in a bad one; to destroy republican insti- tutions administered by intelligent and philosophical men and to set up a monarchy administered by woman to whose character silence is mercy and by a group of knaves and superstitious savageS It would be to blow out the lights of progress and Christian devel- opment in land now moving briskly forward. It would be to surrender all the public rights which every president since John Quincy Adams, and every secretary of state since Webster and Marcy-democrat, whig or republican have prized and guarded as of the highest value to our commercial and political welfare. It will not do. Let the people give to Mir Cleveland the enlightenment he seems to seek with out the candor to call for it American bayonets uplifting and upholding a monarchy, and such monarchy, would be source of universal ridicule. IN. Y. Tribune.