St. Paul daily globe., 1893-12-18
royalists show that many of them have
DIATE RESTORATION.

viewed by the United States congress.
Others are of the opinion that the eX-
queen will be restored within forty
eight hours after the arrival of the
steamer Alameda, on the 21st inst. In
speaking OH this point, members of the
cabinet said they did not think any ac-
tion would be taken upon the arrival of
the Alameda, although, should Cleye-
land determine to urge matters, they
would be Immediately notified by Min
lister Willis as soon as he received such
orders. This much he had promised
the government verbally.
Members of the advisory council en-
phasize the fact that the policy of re-
slstance now being followed by this
government was determined upon twen-
ty-four hours before the news of Presi-
dent Cleveland's attitude reached Hon
olulu. The ranks of the American
League are growing daily. At the pres
ent it is estimated that the government
can command $500 armed men in case
OF need
THE PRESS OF HONOLULU,
or that portion of it which supports the
present government there, indulges in
severe editorial comment upon the re-
port of Commissioner Blount, the de-
tails of which had been received in
Honolulu previous to the sailing of the
Australia. The Hawaiian Star says:
1T is an interesting and important
question which the United States con-
gress ought to undertake to solve
What became of the mass of reliable
testimony that Blount took from the au-
neXatiOnists in Hawaii, and why did he
reject or decline to receive much more of
the same which was proffered to him.
while accepting all the stories which the
royalists cared to put in evidence? In
spite OF BlOunt'S habit of snubbing the
anneXationlsts, men like Messrs. Bolte,
Bishop, Jones, Alexander and Lyons,
all of them of the highest
and purest character, told Mr.
Blount the truth about the
January revolution and the causes
leading to it. Yet the commissioners
report appears TO be packed full of lies.
In none of its published chapters does
the color of the best available evidence
hue of monarchist falsehood and per-
jury or the variegated tint Of half
truths, which are said to be worse than
lies, put in by the loyal men whom MIR.
Blount refused to hear whenever they
began to explain what they had meant
by their admissions"
The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser
published series Of editorials upon
this subject, but perhaps its most serious
declarations are contained in the follow
ing extracts:
1.-The Hawaiian islands are the iso-
lated habitable center Of an otherwise
unoccupied waste of ocean. They form
the natural center of the future vast
commerce of the North Pacific. They
are the nearest land to North America
on the west. Mainly in consequence of
that proximity they are occupied and
ruled by a strong and cultured Ameri-
can colony, which has given laws, man.
ners and institutions to the group, and
which Is the only colony that the United
States has outside of Its own jurisdic-
ton. We find President Cleveland
ignoring the existence of this American
colony and of these civilized American
institutions. He evidently sees in Ha-
wall nothing more than
ANOTHER SAMOA,
whose rights and interests are mainly
those vested in its aboriginal people.
This strong, cultivated, dominant
American colony, owning three-fourths
of the business wealth Of the group, he
regards merely as group Of filibuster-
Ing aliens A protest against them
dnnnan6 al ui oil ho ri
cides off-hand in her favor upon the
representations of her emissaries with
out hearing being granted to the
other side. And then, to complete the
job, he commissions Col. James Blount,
OF Georgia, to go out to Hawaii and
make inquiries and collect facts nee
eSSary to subStantiate the conclusion
already adopted and justify the ac-
ton already determined on in the
presidents own mind, and pri-
vately communicated to the fallen
queen and to the English guardian of
her heir. Mr.. Blount carefully con-
cealed his real object of inquiry in the
dishOnorable ard treacherouS espionage.
Besides this his method of collecting
and collating evidence upon which to
base his report was the opposite of
methods of judicial inquiry and Impair
tial search for truth. Mr.. Blount's
methods were simply those of shyster
attorney, who aims to make out case
and to obscure the truth. 1t is upon the
report collected by methods of low
criminal practitioners that Secretary
Gresham has founded his exposition of
the state policy respecting Hawaii. The
testimony relied on is of piece with
the policy advocated OF restoring de-
based and treacherouS queen, and crush
inn III
The Honolulu Bulletin, which sup
ports the cause of the fallen monarchy,
in recent editorial says that when
Blount arrived in Honolulu the annex
ationist press set about to deny that the
American forces had anything to do
with the revolution last January. The
Bulletin further says:
''IT WAS UNFORTUNATE
| for their cause that the special COM
missioner found the American flag and
| the American forces protecting gov
ernment that had been declared to be
| the spontaneous creation of the people
of Hawaii. The charge that the com
| missioner has made one-sided report,
supported mainly by the testimony of
royalists, is not borne out even
by 1.-THE meager extracts OF the
reports which have as yet been pub
| llShed. The testimony mainly relied
upon for the conclusions found in Sec
retary Gresham's letter to the president
is furnished in the official correspond
ence between Minister Stevens and the
leaders of the revolution. together with
the evidence given by member of the
| provisional government to Commits.
sioner BlOunt. The facts thus estab.
lished make the question now raised
against the presidents policy of restora.
tion apply first of all to the acts OF war
committed against the constitutional
government of Hawaii by the executive
power of the United States under
President Harrison's administration"