The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-18
VIGOROUS ENGLISH
The San Francisco Examiner Uses
Strong Language Regarding
Hawaiian Affairs.
Placing of the Queen ON the Throne
an Indictment to All Law
less Elements.
Nothing Short of Reckless Folly, It
Says, to Expose Foreigners to Ter
rors of Anarchy.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. lS.-The Elk
aminer Democratic) prints the follow
ing: Honolulu residents in this city say
it is not true that Blount took state
ments of most of the prominent people
there who We're opposed to the mon
archy. Full statements, made up by
monarchists, We're sent to Blount, pre-
pared with care, often by the aid of
skillful royalist lawyers, who so adapted
or kept back facts as to make the most
plausible showing of their claims. On
the other hand, the provisional govern
ment adherents waited until they were
called for before II asing statements and
in most instances they were not called
for. Those who appeared before Blount
included the unaggressive, scholarly
Alexander, the muscular Sareno Bishop,
besides Chief Justice Judd, Cabinet
Officers Damon and w. o. Smith, and a
few others whose statements to Blount
were largely in answer to such ques-
tons as he thought fit to ask.
These Were Not Called.
Not was called of the cabinet COM
posed of P. c. Jones, Mark Robinson,
Cecil Brown and George N. Wilcox,
whom the ex-queen had dismissed in de-
fiance of public opinion and by the aid
of a bribed vote in the Legislature. Such
men as DR.. j. 8. McGraw, James L.
Dowsett, John Ena, F. NJ. Hatch, Al
fred s. Hartwell, Judges Bickerton,
Frear, Cooper and. Whiting, j. B. Ath-
erton of Castle & Cook, G. M. Cooke of
Levers & Cooke, w. w. Hall, w. r.
Cattle of E. o. Hall & Son, William c..
Wilder, William K. Allen and numer-
Gus other prominent men were not asked
for statements. Blount was requested
to send for several of them and hear
what they had to say, and answered that
when he wanted them he would let
them know. Our Honolulu informants
further say that when all the facts about
the deposition of the queen and the es-
adjustment of the provisional govern
ment shall be fully known, a
Torrent of Indignation
will set overwhelmingly against Cleve-
lands attempt to destroy the existing
government of Hawaii, and to restore
the queen, who was deposed because the
intelligence and property of the country
could nc longer trust themselves to her
misguided, reckless government. 1t is
not enough, they say, if Cleveland has
not instructed Willis to order the United
States marines to fire ON Americans, his
public disavowal of the official action of
Stevens and Wiltse, and of the Harrison
administration, and his request or de-
mand, it matters not which, for one
practically includes the other. that the
ex-queen be put back into power is in
element to all evil elements in Hawaii
to acts of violence against its govern
ment, and
Against Law and Order.
If such acts shall follow. and if innocent
women and children shall suffer, God
and the American people will hold
President Cleveland and his administra-
ton responsible. Hundreds of homes all
over the country have been filled with
CONSERVATION and with anxiety for the
fate of their relatives and friends in
Honolulu since the publication of the
Gresham letter. If harm should come
to n American in Honolulu from the
conduct or threats of President Cleve-
land, the sensation that was caused by
the gun fred ON Fort Sumter will be
duplicated and this time not in the North
alone. President Cleveland and his
cabinet have plainly failed to grasp
either the legal position or critical
nature of the Hawaiian situation. The
estimated population of the Hawaiian
islands, Oct. /, 1891, was 95, 305. The
actual census, taken Dec. 3. 1890,
showed 80, 800, including, or composed
of, about 40, 900 Hawaiians, $4,000 Chi
nese, $4,000 (since increased to 90, 0OO)
japanese, 1898 Americans, 5000
Portuguese, 7,495 Hawaiians, born
of foreign parents, mostly Ameri-
can; .1,3A Britons, 1,035 Germans
and a few hundred foreigners
of other nationalities. With the popu-
lation SO made up, it is nothing short of
reckless, insane, wicked folly to take the
course exposing the small foreign popu-
lation to the terrors of anarchy. What
can a few hundred marines do to stop
incendiarism and secret assassination?
Ii Cleveland's orders do not go now to
undo as far as may be the dire effects of
the wicked suggestions in the Gresham
letter, he may find that the curses, both
loud and deep, of the American people
viii soon be upon him.
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