The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-28

The China brings four days
later advices than were received
by the Monowai, our latest date
being Tuesday, November Dist.
Great interest had been taken
throughout the United States in
the news carried over ON the Aus
tralia, which arrived at San Fran
cisco on Saturday, the 18th. The
letter from the Honolulu CORE
spondent of the Associated Press
was Immediately telegraphed on
its arrival to the President and to
every principal newspaper in the
Union, and relieved the public
tension, as it was thought that
civil war in Hawaii would be the
first news received. Not even the
silver question has attracted more
general interest than the Hawaiian
question has, and will continue to
receive until settled.
The publication of Blount's ex
parte report on our difficulties has
been variously commented on. The
following from the San Francisco
Chronicle reflects, the views of the
larger part of the newspaper COM
ments on it:
1t cannot be said that the publica-
ton of the report of Mr.. Cleveland's
commissioner extraordinary to the
: Hawaiian Islands has thrown any
new light upon the situation. Mr..
Gresham summarized it pretty fairly
and fully In his letter to the Presi-
dent and the country was already
familiar with Mr.. Blount's opinion.
All that has been accomplished by
giving the document to the public
has been to present the evidence on
which the views of the Administra-
ton are supposed to be based. But,
as has been pointed out by the friends
and adherents of President Dole's
Government, the investigation of MIR:
Blount was essentially eX parte ana
prejudiced. He went down there TO
prove that the queen was overthrown
by the aid of the American Minister
and naval commander, and he pro-
ceeded, lawyer like, to take evidence
to support that theory.
The most striking consideration IN
connection with this phase OF the Ha-
waiian affair is the extraordinary fact
that our Government should still In
sist that the Hawaiians are an indie
pendent nation. If they are so, I'VE
would like to know upon what
possible theory or pretext OF inter
national law the President OF the
limited States could send a commits
sioner into that country with power
70 summon its sovereign and her SUBJ
;aots before him to take testimony.
The whole business is so utterly ao-
surd that it is almost impossible to
treat it seriously. One is constantly
reminded, as the situation changes
from day to day, of some opera-bouffe.
But of course the Americans who
are living on the islands, who nave
their fortunes and their families there,
who own nearly all the commercial and
productive property, cannot but con-
template the possibility of the restora-
ton of the native queen by the United
STATES with shame and chagrin. They
Know. as all the world knows or
should know, that the Hawaiian ISL
ands, so far as they are worth con-
sidering in the eyes of civilization, are
already Americanized, already an
uexed to the United States in every
thing except by formal diplomatic
declaration. And the presence of Mr.:
BIount there, his assumption of
paramount authority" and the
other absurd things that have oc-
Cured all go to show that this Gov
eminent has been unable to look upon
the islands in any other light than as
an appendage to the United States.