The Portland daily press., 1893-11-17
LET THE WRONG BE FULLY R1GHrEp.

Gus Washington correspondents somewhat
modify the programme that our Benevo-
lent Despot commissioned MinisterWillis
to carry out in Hawaii. 1t is said now
that he was instructed not to
use the forces of the Uni
ted States to restore the Queen
until he had communicated with this gov
eminent. He was to call upon the
Queen and to inform her that the Great
Father at Washington was very sorry
that she had lost her throne and was
anxious that it should be restored to her.
The. Great Father had concluded how
ever before entering upon the work of
restoration to exact some pledges.
She was to promise that she wouldn't
put to death any of the conspirators"
who had dethroned her, nor prosecute
them in any way, After she had given
these pledges the Minister was to call
upon President Dole and inform him that
the revolution against the sale of the
island to the Louisiana lottery had ex-
cited President Cleveland's severe dis
pleasure and that it was Mr.. ,Cleveland's
command that he and the rest of the
provisional government should not stand
upon the order of their going but go at
once. Mr.. Willis was to intimate that
while the President did not want to have
any trouble with Mr.. Dole and his assis-
tants, yet his sense of justice had been so
outraged that he was liable to lose control
of himself if Mr.. Dole did not Immediate
ly surrender. 1t the Queen promised and
Mr.. Dole showed sufficiently obliging
disposition Of course the incident was
ended and outraged justice was vindicat-
ed.
But if the Queen manifested a desire
to have some of the white conspirators
served up for dinner according to the
ancient custom of the Kanakas, and
persisted in the said desire after Mr..
Willis had assured her that the Great
Father thought that sort of thing was
wrong or not in good taste, or if Mr..
Dole disputed the right of the United
States to call down a'government which
had been recognized by the United States
and all other foreign countries and
exhibited signs of resistance to such a
performance, then Mr.. willis was to i'm.
mediately take his .pen in hand and in
form the Washington despot of the per-
versity of the Queen or Mr.. Dole or both,
as the case might be.
The trouble with this programme is
that it doesn't do full justice to- the
Queen, doesn't fully fright the wrong"
to use the expression of Secretary Gresh-
am. To exact pledge from the Queen
that she will not punish the conspirators
against her is to abridge her rights
Every sovereign under the sun has the
| right to punish b rebels when they are
| caught, and the punishment is generally
death. This part of the programme
may have been adopted at the instigation
of Mr.. Blount, who would naturally feel
for rebels, having been one himself.
Nevertheless it is wrong, and is liable to
give trouble in the future The next
administration of our,government looking
back over the conduct of this one, may
discover that the rights of the Queen
were abridged by direct interference of
our minister, and paramount
commissioner sent out to inyes-
tigata the matter may be able to
show that some dozen Americans would
have been put to death and perhaps eat
| en- by Liliuokalani had it not been for
the interference Of Mr.. Willis. There
| will be then another wrong to right, and
| who knows but our moral sense will be
so quickened by that time that our gov
eminent will have to send troops to
| help capture. the rebels SO as to put the
Queen back in just the position she
would have been in but for our inter-
| ference. The proper way to restore
the Queen is to restore her without any
conditions. At any rate we ought not
to impose any conditions unless we are
sure that they are agreeable to MAORI
| ty of the people of the island Wedo not
know but there is strong majority on
the islands in favor of putting Mr.. Dole
| and the rest of the provisional govern
ment to death, or of Furnishing them in
some way. What right then have we to
undertake to say that nothing of the
kind shall be done without at least as
certaining the wishes of the Kanakas and
the Japanese coolies on the sub
jeet. They are the majority. OF
course we may sssay that humanity de-
mands such condition but humanity
also demands that the people shall not be
ruled over by queen who is ready
I to sell them out to the
Louisiana lottery and opium
importers. The claims of humanity are 6
secondary consideration in this matter.
4 The Queen must be restored to all the
| rights she enjoyed before she was de
posed. Nothing less will satisfy justice,
nothing less will satisfy the moral sense
of the people, nothing else will satisfy
the demands of Mr.. Gresham's argument
Liliuokalani must be restored with al
her rights unabridged. If she wants tx
make her dinner off of President Dole il
is not for the United States to interfere
The logical outcome of Mr.. Gresham's
argument is the restoration of the Queer
without anyscondition whatever. Moth
ing short of this will right thu
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