The Globe-republican., 1893-11-24

lsst Was struck - much In the interest Of tho
United States ~ It was for Hawaii Hawaii
is the only country the world where the dom.
inant race, the one which Is dominant By its
virtue. intelligence, property. industry and III
civilization. has submitted to be governed By
an uninformed The course Of the Cleveland
administration simply means that It Is putting
itself aRains. the forces Of civilization It
amounts to rank treachery to american inter.
ests 1t is strange business for an American
to be IT, that Of bOlStering up monarchy tnat
ID too weak 70 stand on its own legs II tina!
came from the car OF Russia We might UNDER
stand it but coming from an American 1t II
past all understanding. The course Of Secre-
tary Gresham and President Cleveland seems
to have been dictated BY weak and watery
sentimentaiity and bolstered up with tfidfng
legal technicality that Is not even unsound. 1t
is the popularity Of sentiments OF tlat kind
that is enlisted in favor OF the feeble ana
vicious and against the strong and deserving
"As I said before, Gresham's statement is
Just true enough to make the whole all the big.
ger lie. He makes 1t appear that the American
minister, with small knot Q{ Americans, over
threw the queen and established this govern
ment Nothing could be wider from the MARI
The seeds Of the revolution were laid years
back Naval and commercial forces have been
drawing Hawaii to America for fifty years.
This was tact that has been recognized b. the
state department at Washington since the days
OF Daniel Webster. 1t is not in the nature OF
things that the Ang;o-Saxon race should be
permanently controlled by Poynesian tribe.
The only difference between the course of
events in Eawaii and elsewhere Is that in
Hawaii the transfer OF dominion from the in
ferior TO the superior has been slow. orderly
and peaceful and accompanied by q considera-
tion for the inferior without q parallel in the
history of race or country. 1t was only when
all the higher interests, both moral and indus
trial. were threatened with destruction by Poly
neSian ignorance ana barbariSm that resort
was had to force to rescue them
Force has been used twice-once in 1871,
when the indignant people demanded o new
constitution OF kalakaua, and again in 1893
when twenty years OF bitter experience had
taught the lesson that Con. promise was useless
and the only remedy was to do away with the
monarchy altogether The result was one
which ihougniful men had long known 10 he in.
evitabie. kaakaua and LlliOukalan had aban
doned every healthy and saving tradition OF
the monarchy and were giving themselves over
to hea athenish practices which would have soon
left in Hawaii nothing worth saving.
If the revolution had not come in 1893 ii
would have come in 1894. The logic of events
made it irresistible Even those good loyal
lists. Cleveland and Gresham, cannot put life
into q dead and rotten monarchy.
Mr.. Gresham says the revolution was the
result Of conspiracy between Mr.. Stevens
and q few American citizens. When did the
conspiracy take place? Mr. Stevens and Capt
WiItse were away on another island when the
revolution took place. They found the town in
q state of revolution wh.n they came back. II
Mr.. Stevens was in a conspiracy 1t must have
been with the queen. for it was the queens
mad attempt TO proclaim o new constitution
and nothing else which put an end to the mon
archy."