Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-13

I, i, with a deep sense of shame that
The Press presents this morning the Prop
0.ition OF an American secretary OF STATE,
holding the office once honored by Seward,
Fish and Blaiae, to restore the monsrchical
government Ia Hasai For the first time
In American history 1t is proposed to use
the power of the nited States TO re-estab-
iish a throne and TO impose upon free
people the degradation of inonarchieai raie,
from uhich, BY an uprising wisely planned
and bloodlessIy accomplished, they had
b.en self-liberated. The pretense for thl'
GROWING infamy Of the Cleveland admin
istration il thst the United States gave 5, NJ
pathy and influence, through the American
minister in Ha~ all and The naval force.
stationed there. TO the cause of the revoiu-
ton.
We are proud to be able to say that, ur
to the time that Grover Cleveland, witt
Walter q Gresham as his cbirf ADVISER,
tnok control of the national Admini-tratil".
he sympathy aud influence OF the Amerl
{ IN republic has always been given To th'
cause of free government IN other nation
siities Americans aided the coloni-ts OF
South America in their struggle for liberia
ton from the Spanish yoke, bat no Auneri-
can Secretary of State the efnrt proposed
that American pnwrr should he used to re-
store the dominion Of Spain over revoi &c
Venezuela and Peru. Americans aid d
Texas in The heroic and successful fort OF
that people to cast off the domini N OF
Me xico. Indeed. the case Of Texas il, IL
some respects, similar TO that of III iwsiI,
for it was aliens, chi fly of American birth,
As Gresham would have called them, VITO
fell ut the AlamJ AMI who won the memor-
able battle of San J tcinto. But fol
American 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 it
lone star to the American GALAXY.
Yet who, even among The most earnest
opponents of Texas annexation ever
dreamed of suggesting that Texas should
be given back to her tyrants because she
ov ed her Liberation from those tyrants tc
aliens Of American birth? Had such al
infamous suggestion been made to Andrew
Jackson, how he would have crushed tht
craven proposal with patriotic fury
But for Americans AID American inilu-
ence Mexico itself would have r,mai0ed
under the heel of the tyrant Macmillan,
who was driven, chiefly through the pa
trictic policy of secretary OF state faI
different from Gresham, from the throne
which he had usurped, and who met al
the hands of Mexicans the fate which he
richly merited. Bot why pile Pelion upon
Ossa in r, citing the well known proofs
that Americans and American influence,
direct and indirect have from the founda-
lion of our government aided in the over
throw of thrones and the estahlishme nj of
reaublicsS But for the dread of Americ IN
power half the American continent would
be under the rule of kings today upheld or
their thrones by the influence of monarchis
Europe.
The Administrations outrageous cour.f
wilt be overs lmingly condemned by lh
american people. Grover Cleveland an
his police, already empiat.caliy coni tmuet
bj TIE v,diDg min ons last Tues lay, VIII We
donhly inflated when the infamy b.
ONES known. The nation, whose loyal
soma bled on battetlelds from Gettysba'g
to the Rio Gran1e, that q government
OF the peop'e, for the people and by
The people should not perish from the earth
will never sanction the restoration of
Justly deposed and degraded monarchy over
the sons of Americans in Hawaii.
Secretary Greshsm's report, making this
di.graceful proposal, is dated Oct. Is, and
was obviously withheld by the administrn-
ton until after the election. If it had rot
been, the Republican Majority at the polls
would have been vastly greater than it was
nearer 1000 than $4,000 in Msssachu-
sets. nener POO 900 than 100 900 in Ohio,
snd nearer 300, 900 than l35. 900 in Penn
sylvania.