Huntsville gazette., 1893-12-09
THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION.
Cnderhand Methods of the Democratic
Administration.

Cnderhand Methods of the Democratic
Administration.
Mr.. Cleveland has not been frank
with the United States nor just to
Hawaii in this or any step ne has taken
In dealing with the Hawaiian over
lures He has seemed to approach the
subject from an Objectionable point OF
view. In the foreign policy OF every
government that respects itself and
proposes to command the respect of
Others there must be continuity of pur-
pose. Brought suddenly to confront
the Hawaiian question, President Har-
rison settled it promptly, and on the
lines from which American diplomacy
had never veered in half century.
But Mr.. Cleveland, though he found 1T
settled and in no condition that called
for action on his part, suddenly re-
versed 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 commissioner, whose extraor-
binary and dunconstitutional 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 adj
journed, so that there could be no offi-
cial discussion of his policy, or what
ever else it may be called: after watt
ing until the elections We're over, so
that there could be no popular express
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 NAL
administration, without giving out one
SYLLABLE Of the evidence claimed TO cx-
ist to support allegations SO grave!
Mr. Greshams statement is the Ka-
naka case in its EXTREMIST 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 tAe government to be sordld
and incompetent that he may control
it, Mr.. 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
when he sent out Minister Willis ac-
credited to that ernment. Howev-
er it came to be established, established
it is; and it exists to day as the only
and acknowledged government of Ha-
waii-acknowledged by us and by every
other power represented at its capital.
For the United States now to
adopt the policy which Or. 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 Mr. Gresham charges
against Mr.. Stevens-all that and much
that is worse. 1t would be to put
down good government and set up
a bad one; to destroy republican insti-
tutions administered by intelligent and
public-spirited 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. 1t would be to blow out the
lights of progress and Christian devel-
opment in a land now moving briskly
forward. 1t 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 priced and guarded as OF the
highest value to our commercial and
political welfare. 1t will not do, Let
the people give to Mr.. Cleveland the
enlightenment he seems to seek with
out the candor to call for it. American
bayonets uplifting and upholding a
monarchy, and such a monarchy, would
be source of universal ridicule.-N.
V Tribune