The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-28
THE HERALD AND HAWAII

The New York Herald has the fol-
lowing double loaded editorial on the
report of Commissioner Blount, which
it declares substantiates fully the
statements made by its special cor
respondent, Charles Nordhoff:
Mr.. Blount reports to the govern
ment as the Herald reported to the
world, that the revolution of last jan
uary was a monstrous outrage and
the annexation scheme a gigantic
fraud
The Queen was not deposed nor the
provisional government established py
the people of Hawaii, but by hand
full of scheming revolutionists, backed
by Minister Stevens and supported by
the naval force of the United States.
Without that backing and support the
provisional government could not have
stood a week, nor would even have
been proclaimed.
The whole business was simply a
shameful conspiracy against the gov
eminent and people of Hawaii, who
did not favor the revolution nor want
annexation. In that light it was then
revealed by the Herald and is now
officially reported by Mr.. Blount.
That is the point on which the
whole Hawaiian controversy turns.
so far as it interests the government
of the United States. A revolution on
the part of the people to overthrow a
form of government which they reject,
and for the establishment of another
form which they desire, would GER
tainly not meet with any check from
the United States.
The reason why many people have
been influenced to criticise the course
of the administration in this case is,
that they have been deceived into be-
Ilieving that the people of Hawaii want
their Queen deposed and the provi-
sional government supported. while
there is not particle of evidence to
establish any such thing.
AS the facts come further and
clearer to light the structures of the
New York Herald appear to be more
and more justified. A friendly gov
eminent was overturned by the act
of few people not native to the
islands, by the connivance and armed
assistance of the representative of the
United States. The Queen yielded to
the latter power under protest until
her case should be heard by the
United States government. The tenn
porary government which assumed
control was recognized pending nego-
tiations for annexation to this coun-
try. That is the extent of the official
recognition.
Those efforts failed. The queen de.
mands her rights. All that this gov
eminent, SO far as appears, intends to
do is to repair as far as possible the
wrong committed by its representative
at Hawaii. To say that an attempt
has been made to cast down a repub-
lie and set up monarchy, is to en-
tirely misstate the facts and the situa-
ton.
The President in this public act is
open to criticism of course. Every
American citizen has the right to his
views of it and to express them freely.
But in doing this no person or paper
ought to mistake the facts in the
case, nor will such misrepresentation
have the desired effect, because time
will bring the truth uppermost and
justice is sure to be done
We have no fault to find with those
who sympathize with the Americans
and others at Honolulu who wish to
have republican government in
Hawaii The American sentiment
naturally runs in that direction. But
it must not be forgotten that the great
body of the people on those Islands
are not Chinese and Japanese coolies, )"
as stated by a contemporary but
native Hawaiians who have rights just
as much as have any white people
who have settled in their country.
A government set up by few Of