The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-23
MITCHELL MAKES
A VERY BAD BREAK.
a Comparison That Does Not at
All Compare.
THE QUEEN is RESTORED.
Administration Officers Are Confident
On That Head.
Senator Cullom Ruff1es His Feathers and
Cows che Countrv VIII Not Stand
THE QUEEN is RESTORED.
Senator Cullom Rufies His Feathers and
Says the Country Will Not stand
Such K:ngly Airs-Ste-
vens' Lecture.

West Somerville, Mass, Nov. 22.-
Hon. J. l.. Stevens, ex-minister to Ha-
wall, lectured on Hawaii and Hawaiian
affairs here tonight. The lecturer re-
Trained from making any direct allu-
sion to the present developments in
regard to the Hawaiian question. Be
fore beginning the address he remark
ed that during thirteen years service
as United States minister under five
presidents, he had invariably refused
to recognize the political parties in
his own country. That on all ques-
tions involving his action he had
known the United States as a unit
Believing that in our foreign relations
our policy should be national and con-
tfnuous always, with a united front
to foreign rivals. he firmly refused to
consider the Hawaiian question as
partisan question in any sense.
Continuing he said: Our interest
in Hawaii appertains to the question
of American future commercial power
in the Pacific and involves the issue
of responsible government under the
American flag in harmony with pledg-
ed American faith, the best American
antecedents and the plain logic of
American history and American OPP
pOrtunities. At the date of her down
fall, the misguided and unworthy Lii
iuokalani was without the sympathy
and aid of the best native Hawaiians,
and all the respectable and response
BILE white residents of the island. Not
a hand was lifted in defense of the
semi barbarian throne when it fell,
conclusively disproving the assertion
of the agent Of the fallen queen that
she had sent to Washington to secure
as large a sum of money as possible
ont
her right and title to the Hawaiian
throne, and to the crown lands, to
which she never had any other claim
than an income as long as she reigned.
This agent thought he might help his
case by the utterly base statement
that the United States minister and
naval commander deprived IllluOka-
Iani of her throne and Claus Sprech-
els, who wants weak Hawaiian mon
archy for his tool, sees fit to repeat
the story. In representing themselves
for admission into the American Union,
the islands come under more American
aspects than any of our previously an
nexed states or territories. Why should
they not be permitted to come under
the flag deeply loved in the islands?
! hear a whisper in the air: Let the
islands vote on the question:?
Immediately after the organization
in January last, the British minister at
Honolulu urged a plan on the provis-
ional government. The scheme was
subsequently brought forward by the
queens attorney. The lottery and opium
rings favored the plan, and While the
ultra-Tory English and Canadian Pa
cific railroad had purposes in view
other than those of the fallen queen
and the lottery and the opium rings,
they were agreed as to the method
of defeating annexation. Claus Spree
kels makes a. part of the alliance to
kill annexation by plebiscitum. This
is an alliance as powerful as it is dis
reputable. 1t was not admissible by
honest Americans for the following
reasons. 1t would surely result in
raising an enormous corruption fund
by the allied parties. The Canadian
Pacific railroad in the past has used
vast brides to accomplish its designs.
and wants to have a, foot and hand
firmly in Hawaii. Claus Spreckels
holds money to be the chief power in
politics and would pay out enormously
to keep the sugar planters of the is
lands under his grinding monopoly and
carry out his scheme to make islands
of the outside field mainly for cheap
Asiatic labor and raw sugar produc-
ton. He would carry out his threat
and load his steamers and outvote the
provisional government by extensive
colonization The powerful Pacific
opium ring wish to make a sure depot
in Hawaii, which they could not do
with United States authority estab-
lished in the islands. By this combined
power operations would be surely car
ried on in the name of popular suf-
frage, which might overcome seven
Fights Of the property holders and per
manent residents, and all of the really
responsible men in the islands
Therefore. it is obvious the pie
bisciIum scheme was devised as the
most sure result of striking down
American civilization and American
interests in the islands. and flooding
them with an Asiatic population.
America cannot get rid of her future
responsibilities if she would. and all
attempts to do so viii be at the cost
of future generations. cherish the
faith that the American people, states
men and government, thoughtful of
Americas great future and great res
possibilities will settle the Hawaiian
question wisely and well-will take
care that the flag Of the United States
floats unmolested over the Hawaiian
islands and thenceforth it shall be
moral and political treason to remove
it or strike it down.