The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-16
SENSATIONAL coNJEcruRE.

agency and has then travelled
around the globe to the night desks
of the Sydney press, to be edited
there for Australian readers, cannot
be known at sight by its own
father. AS an example of this,
take the colonial dispatch regard
ing the power of attorney given to
Paul Neumanu by the eX-Queen.
The gist of the famous document
was the offer of Liliuokalani to
forego the claims upon the Ila-
waiian throne for private annuity.
As given in the London press, il
was all offer OF abdiCltion, and
when the story came to light i'll
Australia it was in the form that
the Queen had abdicated SO
precise was this circumstantial tale
that Mr.. Davies found it advisable
to deny it i'll letter to the London
Times.
Another type Of the sensational
methods OF the Reuter- agency may
be found in the story sent from
Samoa to Sydney that hostile feel
ing was shown between the Ger
man and American war ships then
at Apia. By the time the item
reached the United States it had
been so metamorphosed by the
Reuter- people that it became a
ee-column account of how the
u. S. S. Trenton had been blown
out Of water by torpedo from the
Olga.
Now with regard to the story,
coming 0ia Australia, that Pres
ident Cleveland will recommend,
in his annual message to Congress,
that the eX-Queen of Hawaii be
restored to the throne AS a mat
ter of course, Reuters man picked
it up in Washington or in New
York and cabled it to London,
whence it was wired to the colonies.
Where did Reuters man get it?
Did he clip it from the variegated
and contradictory kilograms to the
Herald? Had he been imposed
upon by Moreno Did he simply
fill his nightly budget of gossip
with the latest curbstone or
Sugar Trust rumors? Plainly, he
could have got no inkling of the
Executive recommendations from
the White House, because of all
State papers the Presidents mes
sage is most jealousy guarded
UP to the time of its disclosure to
Congress-even the printers that
put it in type being under oath
and penalty of law not to reveal its
contents by word or sign. TO sup
pose, therefore, that important adj
vance sheets of the message could
have been made known to the press
agencies is to say that the Pres
ident had become an incontinent
gossiper of State secrets.
1t will be recalled, in this con-
nection, that the Australian, Euro
pean and American press de
spatches of last February and
March agreed i'll the forecast that
the President would outline his
Hawaiian views in his inaugural
address. AS a matter of fact he
said nothing whatever about these
Islands or their politics, the papers
having got their advance views
from the cave of CON lecture.
For the uses of argument let our
readers assume, if they please, that
the Australian dispatch is so much
the exception to the Reuter- rule as
to be correct record of the facts.
What then? All the President ex-
poets thereby to do is to ask Con-
gress to authorize him to restore
the dethroned Hawaiian sovereign
by force of arms. That is to say,
he asks a declaration of war against
the Provisional Government. The
whole matter is left in the hands of
the representatives of free people,
to whose public sentiment the
American colonists here have never
appealed in vain, Is it supposable
that a body containing such staunch
Democratic friends of Annexation
as Senators Morgan, White, ct al.
and strong corps of Republicans
who would be able to stop the
Legislative wheels by fllibustering,
could be dragooned into an act of
hostility to those American interests