St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
LII AND HER THRONE.

After Mr.. Cleveland gets through
with Lilly. he would better send an ell
voy to restore his other great and fat
friend Lobengula.-St. Louis Chron-
fcle.
BY the time that Stevens and Thurs
ton have finished hopping up the land
scape with Blount he will look like the
end rush of the Yale team on a rainy
day. Philadelphia Press.
If the Democratic administration is
not engaged in conspiracy against the
government Of Hawaii, why does it
THROW so much mystery about its move
tnents ?-Philadelphia Enquirer.
Secretary Gresham will not send Min.
lister Ihurston his passports. He will
permit him To remain i'll Washington
and extract whatever comfort he can
from his impuaencp.-Boston Herald.
The transparent fabrications of
Mfssrs. Stevens and Thurston are not
credited even by the scurvy politicians
who are endeavoring TO make capital
out of them.-St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Mr.. Blount performed his mission in
Hawaii with the zeal and earnestness of
a faithful errand boy. He was sent to
do certain thing and he did it to the
best of his ability.-New York Tribune.
The policy of stealing and grabbing is
a very poor one for the greatest repuo-
lie. If We do not improve on European
methods we might as we'll. be governed
as Europeans are.-SI. Louis PoSt-DiS-
patch.
Enough newspaper columns have
been printed in the American newSpa-
pers about Hawaii To 20 around the ISL
anuS twice. and leave enough for nice.
big fashionable bow knot besides. Dos
ton Globe.
Queen Lii, like a good many other
OfficeseekerS, is probably beginning to
realize that there is considerable Of a
distance between administration PROM
iSss and administration pie.-W aShlng-
ton News.
EX- Minister Stevens lecture on Ha-
wall is very interesting and full Of curl
Gus Information. but he does not show
that it is the duty of Uncle Sam TO take
part i'll the kanaka SQuabble.-St. Louis
PoSt-DiSpatch.
1t is to their discredit that most of the
jingo business in this country eInanateS
from off GERS of our new navy" They
want 10 take in all the islands of the
sea. and are strong for the next war
Pittsburg Post.
If Cleveland was determined to re-
store queen to the~threne, he might
at least nave chosen one with name
easier for the average Democrat to pro-
nouuce than Liliuokalan.-St. Louis
Glebe-Democrat.
paramount" Bount seems to have
been pretty badly distigured by Minis
ter TburSton. EX-MinjSter Stevens
promises to take him up in day or two
and there will be little left of him then.
cleveland Herald.
The queen of Hawaii is said to be get.
ting Il handsome court dress ready to
wear On the occasion of her restoration
to the throne. This may be taken as lit
orally Significant train OF events
Baltimore American.
The attitude of President Cleveland
and of Secretary Gresham will have the
approval OF disintertsted. sOber-mlnded
people who place our duties to other ma
lions above the plane of partisan poll
tics.-Buffalo Times.
We suppose that Mr.. Thurston had a
right to answer back. But all the same.
Minister Sackviile West was sent home
for less grievous offense than that of
which Minister ThurSton has been
guilty indianapolis News.
We'll, this Hawaiian difficulty will
stimulate an interest in geography. any
way. There are millions of people who
can tell where Hawaii is who year
{ ago could not tell OH which side of our
planet it was situated. boston Globe.
This Hawaiian business will continue
a thorn in the ADMINISTRATORS side
until patriotism and civilization have
been accepted in place of the ignorance
Of Mr.. Blount and the malice of Secre-
tary Gresham. -Philadelphia Inquirer.
The president and Mr.. Gresham have
got themselves into tangle of contra
dictions and, absurdities which even the
copLer-Celored queen, whose fate they
are 50 much distressed about, would
have had the perception TO avOld.-New
York Tribune.
The true American policy is one of
non-interferencp, and the people have as
yet heard no seif-justification from Mr..
Stevens on the main question OF his
using United States troops 10 support
revolutionary goyeFnment.-Lea ven-
worth Standard.
Minister Thnrston's statement"
would have been perfectly proper if he
had resigned before he issued it. AS
the case stands now he is an impudent
fellow whom it would be dignifying too
much to kick out of the country.-Chl-
cago Evening Post.
Now it seems that Secretary Gresh-
ANS action in the Hawaiian matter is
prompted not by his hatred OF Ha-
Waiians, but by his hatred OF mission
aries. May it not be that his hatred of
land-grabbing has something to do with
t?-Indianapolis News.
Mr.. Thurston is not to be given his
passports at present. That is right.
MIR. Thurston has been talking good
hn raj m "a rad
he got here in time to look in on several
DAYS of the late extraordinary senate
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The annexationists expect the United
States to govern the Islands by so
abridging the suffrage as to place them
in control of the whites. But would not
the suffrage amendments 10 the federal
constitution apply to the Islands II we
took them in?-Pittsburg Post.
Will the jingoes explain why we do
not regulate the deplorable morals of the
Austrian court. and why we do not no.
tify Albert Edward that he must mend
his bacearat ways before he can be al
lowed to reign over country in which
hundreds of Americans reside? - st.
Louis Republic.
Minister Thurston. of Hawaii, has
given out a statement in reply to Mr..
Blount. He begins it by showing con-
clusively why he cannot. with any sort
of proprietY, issue any statement at all
in the case, but ne goes on to make it,
nevertheless, with much detail and
some temper.-New York World.
By the way, the very man who slipped
into the government building at Homo
lulu and read the proclamation setting
up the provisional government, which
was so precipitately recognized by Min
lister Stevens, was foreigner and nom
voter, having been III Hawaii but eight
months-Louisviile Courier-Journal.
There is absolutely nothing left of
their case, and the administration de-
serves the gratitude of the people of
this country for saving the nation from
the consequences of the most disgrace
full episode in the history of its diplo-
matte service. The people cannot fail
to sustain the course taken by the presi-
dent, the secretary of state, and Com
missioner Blount.-New York Times.
S The late Mr.. Monroe's justly cele
I, cd doctrine which wa read ahOut