New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-12
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Grcsham's Hawaiian programme was received
in political circles here with blank astonishment
is to put the mildest possible face on diplos
matte blundcr which Is already universally rec
6gnized as the most cgrcgioUs yet perpetrated
under Mr. Ceveand's VIGOROUSLY lUckless man.
agement of the State Department. The policy
of a monarchical restoration In Hawaii must. i1-
deed be admitted to exceed in political ioly
anything attempted during Mr. Bayards reac-
tionary and retrogressiye direction or this
country's foreign relations. Public sentiment
here is almost unanimous IN condemnlns
as an extraordinary breach Of all American
diplomatic plccedents, and a gross violation OK
State Department usages, Mr.. Greshams un-
warranted and offensive afort to discredit
both the purposes and the character or tho
men who negotiated the annexation treaty
in February last Equally culpable in the
view OF all broad-spirted public men
at the Capital. is the violent reversal Of
| accepted American policy in the Hawaiian
Islands, and the unexplained transfer Of all
this Governments goodwill in Honolulu from
the side Of an existing conservative and en-
ghtened Provisional Government friendly to
! American interests 10 that Of corrupt. dis
| credited half-barbarous native sovereignty in.
capable of rule and wholly subservient to Eng
| sh and other foreign nfueEces
THE ACTION UNIVERSALLY CONDEMNED.
So far no public man OF consequence In
either branch Of Congress has been found who
approves this extraordinary abandonment by
the Administration OF the principles which
have guided American diplomacy in the Sand
wich Islands for the last thirty years. Nor
could any be found who would give assent to
the departure from all sound American tradition
involved in the projected overthrow OF recog-
f,., al orphi teal
for the avowed purpose Of resuscitating a mon
archy overwhelmingly repudated by the most
advanced. progressive and prosperous of its for
mer subjects.
Secretary Greshan's royalist programme is. in
| fact repugnant to Republicans and Democrats
alike, and only the blindest partisan zeal will
excuse the almost objectionable brnder made
by the Secretary, both In yielding to monarchical
and English cIamor in Hawaii and in endeav-
| oring to excuse his nagrant abandonment OF
| the genuine American position by charging bad
| faith upon his predecessors in office. and upon
| an American Minister whose vcracty has yet
| to be successfully impeached. To make pausi-
| bic his own attitude of complacency toward the
| Hawaiian Monarchy and its English support
ers. he has assailed the record made by the
! state Departments own agents as misleading
and unjustifable, and the policy enunciated by
reckless and immoral. Whatever allowance 10
made by the public for Mr.. Gresham's per-
sonal feeling toward the chiefs of the retiring
administration. his methods Of dealing with the
work left uncompleted by them cannot and do
not escape the severest criticism.
| TIE CABINET NOT UNANIMOUS.
It is perhaps Only just to say that all the
members of Mr.. Cleveand's Cabinet do not ap-
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Policy constructed by Mr.. Gresham Secretary
Herbert shares the feeling of naval officers,
without exception, that the restoration OF Liluo.
kalani would be destructive both to American
interests in the islands and TO the best interests
Of the Islands themselves. All the Anne erfcan of
fcers Of high rank sent to Honolulu have taken
strong ground in their reports in support OF
| the Provisional Government, and only recently
| Admiral Skerrett was detached from the Ha.
waiiar station against Mr. Herbert's wishes
because of his inability to see things in the
light in which they appeared TO Mr. Cleveland's
newly naturalized English Consul-General at
Honolulu and others Of Mr.. Gresham's dplo-
matte agents. Mr.. Herbert. it is said. has all
along protested against the restoration pro-
sramme as repugnant in every sense. but his
voice has been overruled by that Of Secretary
Gresham. Secretary Morton is also strongly
opposed 10 setting up English influence the
controlling power IN Hawaii, and is said to have
criticised it bad diplomacy and bad poll.
ties Attorney-General Olney Is credited like
wise with having some scruples about Secretary
Grcsham's propo sal to overrun ofhand
friendly Government. with which the United
States was supposed 20 be on the same relations
as with any other American or European Power.
ALL THE CORRESPONDENTS WANTED
In spite Of all this opposition. however, the
restoration programme was made public and
1t is understood now to be indorscd officially
by President Cleveland himself 1t is plain
that Secretary Gresham Will have to make pub
lie at once the whole of the Hawaiian diplomatic
correspondence. or expose himself TO the charge
OF seeking to avoid comparison between his
own statements and those OF Minister Stevens
and President Harrison. Secretary Gresham's
statement Is TO the effect that the revolution
was aided and abetted by Minister Stevens and
presence on shore at Honolulu of the Boston'a
marines Secretary Gresham says:
MT Stevens's well-kpown hostility and the
presence OF the force landed from the Boston
We're all that could have then excited serious
apprehension In the minds of the Queen her
officers and loyal supporters. The troops were
landed, not TO protect American life and prop.
erty but to aid in overthrowing the existing
Government Mr.. Stevens promised the an.
possession Of the Government buildings bs
would at once recognize them as a de facto
governmental and support them by landing a
iorce from our warshp then in the harbor and
he kept that promise This assurance was ths
inspiration OF the movement. and without n
me annexationists would not have exposed
themselves to the consequences Of failure The
Provisional Government was established by the
action OF the American Minister and the pres.
cnce or the troops landed from the Boston ana
its continued existence Is due TO the belief
OF the Hawaiians that II they made an EFFORT
to overthrow 1t they would encounter the armed
forces OF the United States"
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's STATEMENT.
Against this conclusion on the part OF the
Secretary are the words Of President Harrison
in transmitting to the Senate on February IS
the treaty OF annexation concluded between
Secretary Foster and the commissioners repre-
sen.ing the provisional Government OF Hawaii.
Din me overthrow Of the monarchy" says tho