Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-30
soss4 AND euwcomee.


e0ss4 AND euNcoMeE.
=. o. =. Dravei On tho Haw>iian
Matter.
Nations Shame" Is the title of the
Mew York Press leader ON the
hawaiian affair; ''Our National Shame"
the way the Philadelphia Press put
- sno 90 1t goes all along the line of
talck-and-thin brigade of the
r bazooa "Every American
mo believes in the immortal princi.
peo OF the declaration of independ-
~. blows the New York bazooter,
American who holds that the
.ony ola monarch is treason against
.@iAenable sovereignty of the peo-
~ efy American by whom the star
e svmool OF the republic Is held in
and honor. and to whom the
ol&nasy and authority of the repu bile
secred, will regard the outrageous
OF the Cleveland administra-
- 20 restore the Hawaiian monarchy
I'm Intense indignation and profound
e. Grover Cleveland and the re-
Peot.ean renegade whom he has re-
.!oed Tor party treachery with q seat
IA his cabinet have zone about their
Axamous taslk"-and so on and so on to
extent OF q column of Mysteries, ex-
Asaon points and language of such
= enar1cter that It would have been
more In accordance with common usage
neo been represented by IS in
stead of spelled out in the full exposure
uf typo
NJ course, none Ut this sort Of fustian
mas anything to do with the case. There
no Question of the Americans prefer
snoe Tor republicanism to monarchy
.en q bold. bad vilyuns as the press
.'osos Messr& Cleveland and Gresham to
ewouid not be stupid enough to make
eoa an issue as that before the Ameri-
IN people. The simple and only ques-
oo0 which confronted the administra-
ssoa In this Hawaiian matter was, not
o.e - to the form of government which
ne United States would prefer to see
m the islands, but whether the pro-
aooal government had been estab-
asned with or without the illegitimate
1c0oo OF our own officials and forces.
The evidence which the administra-
taoo has taken the pains to gather
ma weigh for the last seven or eight
months shows clearly, according to
secretary Gresham's report, that the
daWalian government was overthrow
nd the provisional government set up
t3rough the completely Of the United
Ssases minister at Honolulu and his I'M
3ossihable use of our naval forces at that
station That being the case, we violated
Cur national policy and did the Hawai-
Tan government a wrong which can only
be righted by restoring the status
which existed before our interference.
The fact that the government which
We pulled down. and which we are,
therefore, In duty bound to set up
again. was a monarchy. and a very
shabby and disreputable specimen of
one ut that. has no bearing whatever
upon the ethics of the case We can
not cut our ideas of justice by our own
special fashion-plate of government
We cannot claim to keep our flag I'M
sullied by dealing honorably and just
~. and in practice deal honorably and
Justly only with republics We had
nothing to do with the original selec-
ton of Hawaii's form of government,
and. unless we annex Hawaii and be-
come responsible for its government,
We certainly have no right to change
that government Least of all have we
the right to change that government,
through an intrigue with a few aliens.
In order that we may annex the coun-
Try irrespectively of the wishes of the
great body of its citizens That is just
what our former minister did, and that
- what we must undo il we are to con-
tinue 70 boast OF our national integrity,
,And to keep ''the starry symbol of the
seveihlic" worthy of reverence and
d l.S Ssvss been our policy to go
zbout tho world overthrowing mon
arehies because we think a republic is
the only true form of government On
secondary, It has been our announced
and observed purpose to maintain our
own sovereignty. to interfere with no
body and to prevent foreign interior
ence In the Americas When we pro-
claim cur intention to abandon that
Dolicy. which has been the source Of SO
nuch Of our national power and pride,
II will be time enough to forsake our
own affairs and enter upon the mill
&.nt work of republicanizing the ma
eions of the earth. whether they wish
30 be republicanized OF not
A4Or national shame" would be, not
In recsifying the wrong we have done a
-av power. a the administration pro-
noses to rectify II, but in condoning 1t,
nerssstanR in il. and even profiting by
n. n the republican bazooters demand
a6as we should d0.-Louisville Courier
Journal