Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-06

II the limitations that are finding their
way TO the public ear through the medium
Of administration organs are approximately
accurate 1t can reasonably be concluded that
the President disapproves of good govern
naent In the only section OF the earth out
side OF the United States where his disap-
prevail Is Of much moment. For many months
thu people Of the Hawaiian Islands and
other people whose material interests are
dependent to a considerable extent upon
political conditions In the one-tima Pacific
kingdom. have waited for an opinion from
the executive branch OF the forces that rule
the United States. but up to the present
time no word has been vouchsafed and as
natural consequence conditions in Hawaii
are far from tranquil. But. even as gas es-
capes through impercepdble oriices, the
r1rnor comes from what seems to be an
authoritative source that President Cleve-
land will urge non-action on the part of
this country until the Inhabitants Of Hawaii
white. brown and yellow, learned and un-
learned, clean and filthy. civilized and BAR
barian, bond and free-express their prefer
ences at the polls. This decision Ia probably
in accord with that reached by Minister
Paramount Blount and recorded In the re-
port which Mr.. Blount and Mr.. Charles
Nordhoff Of the New York Herald went to
Hawaii for the purpose OF making. Spe-
ctously presented to unthinking people, the
general election scheme seems reasonable.
but under the circumstances Ii Is nothing
more nor less than the only way in which
the United States government can place the
matchmaking Liliuokalani on the throne;
and that Is what the administration seems
bent upon doing. It Is estimated that there
are about 5000 native voters on the islands;
the foreign vote Is more than 5000. Only
1900 voters are of American descent but
this minority. interested in a modern form
OF government. owns much more than sixty
per cent of the property and does over
eighty per cent OF the business. They would
els on his sugar pientations-beings who are
but one remove from savagery and whose
condition is 50 closely akin to slavery that
the difference Is not always apparent to the
average beholder.
The immediate consequences Of a return
TO power OF Queen Liiuokalani would be
most demoralizing. For many years some
of the most devoted religious workers the
world has ever known have labored for the
salvation of the Hawaiian people. and their
efforts have resulted In an elevation of the
moral tone as pleasing to decent people as
IL has been disgusting to the leprous-minded
horde that has ever surrounded the so-called
royalty which once reigned at Honolulu. A
relapse into the condition OF barbarian mon
archy could not fail to bring with 1t such a
lowering OF the moral tone as would prove
to be much more of a burden than Presi-
dent Cleveland could well bear. Honolulu
would become the headquarters Of the great
lottery company that 50 nearly succeeded
in getting possession through the aid Of the
late queen. The opium smugglers. the gam
blers and thousands Of other equally unde-
sirable persons. who have steadily tried TO
break down the missionary influence would
come into control Wholesale degradation
of the natives would surely follow and. to
sum up the almost certain possibilities In a
sentence the civinzing Influences o. genera
tons Of missionary effort would be wiped
out Instantly. Surely 1t Is not President
Cleveland's purpose to aid those unprincipled
wretches who would delight in the ruin of
thousands because the Generalization and
destruction would bring to the destroyers
great financial profit.