Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-11-23
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Cowardlce and Treason.

| sense Oh Shame Iudt the L TeSS presents
this morning thu proposition of an
American secretary of state, holding
the Office once honored by Seward,
Fish and Blaine, to restore the mon
archial government in Hawaii. For
the first time in American history it
is proposed to use the power of the
| United States to re-establish a throne,
and to impose upon free people the
degradation of monarchial rule, from
which by an uprising wisely planned
and bloodlessly accomplished, they
had been self liberated. The pretense
for the crowning infamy of the Cleve-
land administration is that the
United States gave sympathy and in
fiuence, through the American minis
ter in Hawaii and naval forces sta
toned there, to the cause of the revo-
luton. -
| We are proud to be able to say that,
up to the time that Grover Cleveland,
with Walter Q. Gresham as his chief
adviser, took control OF the national
administration, the sympathy and
influence of the American Republic
has always been given to the cause of
free government In other nationalities.
Americans aided the colonists of
South America in their struggle for
liberation from the Spanish yoke, but
no American secretary of state there
fore proposed that American power
should be used to restore the domin-
ion of Spain over revolted Venezeula
and Peru. Americans aided Texas in
the heroic and successful effort of that
people to cast off the dominion oi
Mexico. Indeed, the case of Texas is,
in some respects, similar to that oi
Hawaii, for it was aliens, chiefly OF
: American berth, as Gresham would
have called them, who fell at the Ala
mo and who won the memorable bat
tie of San Jacinto. But for "Ameri-
can aliens" the Texas war for indie
pendence would not have resulted in
glorious triumph, and the great state
OF the southwest would never have
added its Lone Star to the American
galaxy.
Yet who, even among the most earn
, est opponents of Texas annexation
a ever dreamed of suggesting that Texas
should be given back to her tyrants
because she owed her liberation from
those tyrants to aliens of American
birth? Had such an Infamous sug
! gestion been made to Andrew jackson
how he would have crushed the craver
proposal with patriotic fury!
/, But for Americans and American in
. huence Mexico itself would have re
{ mained under the heel of the tyrant
.. Maximilian, VINO was driven, chiefly
through the policy of a secretary o
i st ate far different from Gresham, from
the throne which he had usurped. anC
who met at the hands of Mexicans
the fate which he richly merited. Blu
why pile Pelion upon Ossa in recitin
u the we'll known proofs that American
and American influence, direct and in
direct, have from the foundation O
our government aided in the over
throw of thrones and the establish
}, nent of republics? But for the drea,
q of American power half the American
% continent would be under the rule c
kings today; upheld on their throne
J. by heinhuence of monarchial Europe
W And the administration outrageou
d course will be Overwhelmingly cor
10 demned by the American people
= Grover Cleveland and his policy, a
~ ready emphatically repudiated by tn
:, voting millions last Tuesday, will b
'e doubly repudiated when this infam
n. becomes known. The nation who's
= loyal sons bled on battle6elds froI
Gettysburg to the Rio Grande that
'r government of the people, for the PEE
E. Pile and by the people should not pc
te Ish from the earth will never sanctio
m the restora ion OF a justly depose
ne and degraded monarchy over the sol
s. of Americans in Hawaii.
Secretary Gresham's 3 report, makir
this disgrcaeful proposal, is date
October 1S, and was obviously he
by the administration until after I'll
h. election. If it had not been, the r
no publican majority at the polls wou
. have been vastly greater than it was
,n nearer 75, 900 than $4,000 in Mass
lie chusetts. nearer 200, 900 than Loo
", 600 in Ohio and nearer SOC, 900 ths
of 135, 900 in Pennsylvania.