Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-18
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Be impeached.


AffN ltih 'hT N'i"~AFf
The intens. and still rising Indignation of
thv people against Mr.. Cleveland's Hawaiian
policy does mol have it- root IN Republican
partF feeling Thu administration news
papers are making great mistake IN sup
Pc iag that it has
IL IL nos because the Hawaiian snnexa-
tion treaty was negotiated under Presid' mt
liarrisons direction. and through Repubii-
can officials that Mr.. Cleveland's eonrs in
r putiistinz il 10 zre' ted with such universal
r prohat on frunl one end Of the Union to
the Other. II Is becanse of the niann' and
tbs M thod and the .xtett Cf is repudia-
fian II 'h-- HARRISON treaty.
IL the Presidett lad consented himself
a in SIMPLY recommending the rejection OF
the treaty and stopped there, while there
Aoald have been party criticism and cen
sufr of bis policy. there would not have
been the ve.l-nigh unanimous national re-
sentiment which il nov felt toward it.
But he has gone long step too tar IN
committing this country, as he appears TO
have done, to the restoration of Queen
and such Queen to A justly forfei'ed
throne By the use of United States forces
IL is not party prejudice that is excited
by this spectacle Of the Stars and Stripes
unfarled to overawe Republican form of
government, established By rising of in
telligent white men, and to re-estabhsh
over them the misrule of a black monarchy.
American sentiment, regardless of party
boundaries, revolts at this. IL is felt TO be
shameful. The fundamental s1ioms of
American foreign pohy are outraged BY
tits programme of the President in Hawail.
l. is AS though President Grant had thrown
tie armed force Of the Cnitfd States into
the scale for the Emperor Macmillan in
Mexico, on the ground that bis government
WAS the awfully established government Of
that country.
But no one can imagine Grant taking up
any such attitude. The distance between
Grant AMI Cleveland Is, as to time, only the
distance between 1876 and 1893. But the
distance between them in the spirit of their
f.,reign policy is-well, it is simply I'M
measurable.
If President Cleveland has, indeed,
ken the steps attributed tn him-to all by
armed force the crushing of the provisional
government IN Honolulu and to re-estab-
li,h the abolished monarchy in its pace
he has acted reasonably to the spirit, if
not the letter. of the Constitution.
II matters not even If all that is alleged
concerning the IRE regularity of the inter
ference of Minister Stevens at the time of
the Queens deposition be true; it was not
consistent with American principles and in
terests. nor reconcilable for Il moment with
the unwrtten law of the Constitution. nor
nth the Munroe doctrine, for Precedent
Cleveland TO nterpose to undo mn accom-
l,lished fact, which promoted Republican
iioerty in the new world. and 10 put back
the hands on the clock of progress favor
of tlethroned and discre,lited Queen.
Ii. in pursuance of Mr.. tleveaud's or
,'rrs. blood is shed on Hawaiian soil and the
United States forces are used to levy var
(siiiout consent of Congress upon the
Iiawsiian people in support of their sable
ex-suyereign, the most infamous chapter IN
the annals of American foreign policy viii
have teen thereby written
The PRECEDENT responsible for such per-
vsrtel use of the armed power of this re-
public will he eterually txecrated.
lie will deserve to be dismissed from bis
hi gh Office for dsoyalty to the Constitution,
and for treaehery to every American idea
nul principle or which that Constitution is
ba.ed The incensed nation will demand
his Impeachment.