St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-22
THE MESSAGE AND HAWAII

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the American republic.-New York
! Press.
! President Cleveland's Hawaiian mes
sage is plain recital of the facts in the
case and forcible plea for morality in
International affairs.-St. Louis Post
| Dispatch.
| Congress and the people will have
| something to say later concerning the
suppressed dispatches. for they intend
10 nave the whole truth, and not merely
part of lt.-Baltimore American.
Ex-Minister Stevens complains that
| Mr.. Biount's report was one-sided. The
same might be said Of Mr.. Stevens cor
| respondence with Secretary Blaine re-
specting the hypothetical revolution
Philadelphia Record.
The execution of the ''policy of rep
| aration" has been one of the most hu-
initiating, preposterous and ridiculous
EXHIBITS OF pretense and collapse which
the eye Of the world has ever beheld -
Boston Traveller.
The only point of interest in the en-
tire message is the revelation to the
world of the presidents own particular
polley-a policy which has been repudi-
ated by the great body of American
cltlzens.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
There did not seem to be anything
| SioS iOi tnO pICSluSul " OU DuG
| ana ne has done that in an ungraceful
and churlish way. His Hawaiian policy
| Will forever mar the history Of his ad-
miuistration.-Clevela Leader.
To read it is to realize, beyond any
| possibility of error, that the t'policy''
has been everything we had feared:
that it was to the full as sinister, as in
defensible.and as perilous as rumor had
it in the first place. Washington Post.
So Stevens did not support the Ha-
wallan revolution. OF course not.
Pretty soon we shall be told that he did
not raise the American flag in Honolu-
la. and that Secretary of State Foster
did not dlsavoW that act.-1ndianapolis
News.
The president has wisely left the
matter III the hands of congress without
| recommendations. The chronic fault
finders of that body have got what they
seemed to be so anxious for. Now, let
us see what they will do with it.-Buf-
falo Times.
In this perplexing affair the president
has performed his own duty in a
straightforward and upright fashion,
which will discomfit his enemies acd
win still further the confidence and sup
port Of the American peOple.-New
York Times.
The whole history Of the affair shows
| that he Intended TO coerce the proyis-
| lonal government by threats If not by
acts, and that he receded from that in
tention only when his threats were sue
cesSfully defied and his scheme de-
| feated.-Detroit News.
| We do not want any colonies. We do
not want any states separated from the
| Union by 1900 miles of ocean. And
least OF all can we afford to justify the
making Of war upon feeble and
friendly power, or to play the bully in
foreign politics.-Indianapo News.
President Cleveland's statement of
the case is profoundly interesting, and,
no doubt, it will convince every candid
reader with the honesty of his inten-
tons and his desire to right what he
conceived to be a grievous wrong to
sdefenseless people.-Baltlmore Herald.
Mr.. Cleveland has never sent to Con-
| gress stronger message than that In
| which he depicts the Hawaiian revolu-
ton as an annexation conspiracy which
1 for fragrant abuse of the authority of
the United States has no parallel In
| our diplomatic annals.-New York
| Herald.
President Cleveland's message relat-
ing to the Hawaiian trouble, submitted
| to congress, gives clear and connected
| oSSOQht VI kHC ClTculuSlduCSS III
| YolVed In transaction included among
| several other decidedly unfortunate
/ legacies left by the Harrison admlnis-
| tration.-Toledo Bee.
The abstract propositions of interna-
| tlonal law behind which Mr.. Cleveland
considers himself fortified, and by the
| guidance of which his conscience is
soothed. may be indisputable and i'm
| pregnable, but international law must
be elastic to conform to the spirit of the
age.-St. Louis Chronicle.
The limoges" have given their whole
case away with this new doctrine of
theirs, but they have made no advance
| toward the annexation of Hawaii A
! doctrine of acquisition too advanced for
the late Mr.. Blaine is not likely to find
| acceptance with the thinking people of
the country.-Detroit Free Press.
The presidents Hawaiian message
carries is own explanation of the pro-
tracted delay in honoriug the
requests of congress. 1t is a labored
| message that smells of the Tampa
heavy bit of special pleading that re-
veals stress. worry and anxiety In max
Ing out case.-NeW York Tribune.
The message is entirely one-sided.
From a legal standpoint 1t may be
| classed as labored effort to sum up
the case for the deposed monarchy. 1t
Is not an explanation; one side of the
case is entirely ignored. 1t is merely
Mr. Cleveland'S defense of President
Cleveland's course.-Philadelphi Item.
President Cleveland recognizes the
| point at issue, and he turns the whole
matter over as a confession of failure.
He sees he can no longer run all
America and all the Pacific islands to
| suit himself: he finds that he is answer
oil IN nf md hn
acknowledge it, he obeys.-Columbu
Dispatch.
These things are not so. Every indi-
cation points to the opposite conclusion.
The president is sound on financial
| questions. reasonably conservative in
respect to tariff legislation, in touch
with the people la respect to civil
service reform, but he is thoroughly
and persstently wrong on the Ha-
waiian question, and the people know
it.-Washington Star.
In ordering the reversal Of the presi-
dents policy, congress is under no obli-
CATION to consider the presidents
wishes. He ignored it so far as the Ha-
waiian matter went, during the extra
session; he has continued to ignore it
| up TO the last moment, and he now
| shows his contempt for it by refusing
Its request for complete information
| Albany Journal.
| President Harrison was led by mis-
| representations to believe that the pro-
visional government was a government
de facto when Minister Stevens recog-
nized it. The fact was, however. that
the public buildings, the barracks, the
| police offices and all the machinery of
| government were at that time still in
the hands of the monarchists. 1t was
not until Stevens had recognized the
| provisional government that the queens
government was overthrown.-St. Louis
| Westliche Post,
The president submits the whole
| question to 1.-THE broader authority and
| discretion of congress-" But it Is not
clear that congress has ANYTHING to do
| in the premises. The presidents own
| position Is absolutely unassailable. So
| in hTS he bo, ar,