Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-04

oaIy b. Idle gossip ard mA!isi,ss
falsehoods Of parcel Of knasish
.dvensuyers every scamp Of whom vas II
the pay Of the eorfups Rigs that we're
broker by The fsIi Of the Queen. THIS
paramount commissioner. packed With hss
partisan venom, his egotism and his resoiE-
ton 70 undo . great wYoog, vent ous
there, gut himself in the hands Of people
whose hatred Of the United States vas no.
sofious, British infrigaers, opium ring
sgenta, lottery agents and sugar specula-
tors, loaded himself down With their silly
twAsiile and lies avoided the company OF BIS
ovn counsrymea and of all the decent peo-
pie Of Honolulu. refused TO take their tesri-
mony and actually suppressed il V hen II uss
thsuss upon him, and it IS on his report thus
procured that the administration has the a.
daeIsy 20 accuse an American minister, ex-
perienced in the diplomatic service, ana an
American naval officer Of high rank OF
fAlsehSod and unworthy Political intrigue
There 10 bastard quality about thus bush
ness that ought to stir every honest mas
wrath In motive and In effect il Is alike
shameful.
And hat has come out Of liz Has II
shown US the way TO meet the situation
which HArxiis social and political problem
and it, position of our western coast impose
upon US, In one Of three ways that sifua-
alton must be net--by annexation, by the
establishment of protectorate, or By aoso-
late non-interfsrence. IL re choose
the lsss course, we give Hawaii 70
whichever Of the great powers she ehoos-
- TO ally herself with. For how can We
refuse 10 aid and protect her and at the
same time refuse to let any other power do
So? And what !. the difference IN expense
and responsibility between standing over
her ~ith shield and staining over her
. it'll eiab, We must accept the ooliga-
ton and discharge il, or We must abandon
our treaty rights and move cot and let who
will move in This is the problem, and
now wha, light is thrown on it by all this
report Of Blount's and this rnalevolsnt par
tisanship Of Gresham and the President, this
abuse Of an honorable minister, this insult to
the memory Of a distinguished naval nicer
The only issue Of all that 10 a proposition
TO do something which We haven't the
smallest right to DO. which would be both
iiio,ic and immoral il We had the right
md which would rot advance US one IN ih
,psara the solution Of the HaFanan prob
lem when il was done The incapacity OF
Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary Gresham
stands out in appalling proportions in this
scheme 20 restore the Hssaiisn Que n
IL IS scheme to restore the lottery, tn
OPIUM RAG and the grip of Spreckrls, 10
force all that is decent, civilized and PRO
gfessivr into submission TO political corrun-
ton ami personal immortality of the IA K
eat desert ption; 10 suppress lawful AID
excellent government on the lines Of orr
own and 10 resurr+rt vicious snt ilc"m-
pptent monarchy and in doinR II 10 assume
all the authority which Clevsland an
Gresham say W. hsv' MT got and all the
responsibility they say We ought to avoit
And this is all that has come from The nn-
initiation TO which their repudi ation of an
historic poll y, their subvers:on of settled
question and their false an partisan abuse
"f preceding government and its officers
have subjected US