Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-14
MORE EVIDENCES As 10 HAwAn

MDNE dS 10 III
The interest of the American people
in the Hawaiian question is not to be
allowed to abate. The annexationists in
the islands and their friends in this
country are evidently determined to
keep the issue prominent in public atten-
ton, even il in order to do so ii Is neccs-
sary TO have recourse to buster and
bluff. The advices from Honolulu dur
ing the past forty-cight hours have
brought two new contributions to this
subject, neither OF which possesses any
very great interest nor puts the cause Of
the rcvolutionists in any better light
than 1t was before. One OF these tells
OF the spirit that prevails among the sup
porters of the provisional government,
in evidence OF which there is given some
resolutions passed at a mass meeting
and a speech on hat occasion by the
president of the annexation club. The
resolutions are directed against the sec
rotary of state OF the United States and
misrepresent his position, as also does
the speech of the annexation clubs
president. Secretary Gresham has never
assumed or declared what he is alleged
to have dom in these declarations, so
that having no substantial foundation
they are simply a waste Of words, en-
tirely unworthy of serious considera-
ton. The speech of Hatch, who
is referred to in the dispatch
as a leading lawyer, Is largely
buster and buncombe. He assumes
a state of facts which do not exist
and are not likely to, and upon this
fictitious basis makes a demagogic plea
without pith or point. The other con-
tribution to this question is the open
letter of Charles l.. Carter, who was
one of the commissioners to the United
States on behalf Of the provisional gov
eminent, to Secretary Gresham, re-
plying to the statements made by the
secretary in his letter to the president
and which were based on the report of
Commissioner Blount. This somewhat
elaborate document, which was
probably written with the idea
of gaining q little passing no.
toriety for its author, since it adds
nothing of Importance to the evidence al
ready furnished from that side, goes
over practically the same ground that
was covered by the letter of Mr.. Thurs
ton Immediately following the putlica-
tion of Secretary Gresham's letter. The
few additional facts and incidents it
supplies in connection with the events
leading up to the overthrow of the mon
archy are Of no value, while the state
ments of Mr.. Carter regarding the
character of the revolutionary move
ment and the men engaged in it will be
valued according to the estimate of Car
ter as q candid and dlsinterested wit
ness. So judged it is not likely to have
very great weight.
IL is doubtless true that the adherents
of the provisional government generally
are very much in earnest, and it is
highly probable that they will make q
struggle to maintain their position il
an exigency should arise requiring. Tc
suppose that they have made no prepa-
rations for such a possibility would be tc
underestimate their ~shrewdness and
sagacity. They are playing for a large
stake, to lose which would be most dis
astrous to them. But the talk about
defying American authority and giving
the United States minister his passports
a only be regarded as in the nature o.
a bluff-valuable, it may be, for main
tanning popular interest in the revolu
tionary cause, but probably not seriously
expected by any clear-headed member
of the provisional government to hav,
any effect at Washington.