The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-19
AN AMAZING BLUNDER.

1t was maxim of the ancients that
whom the gods would destroy they first
made mad. This lethal lunacy appar-
emily has fallen on the Democratic Ad-
ministration. Scarcely have the echoes
Of the tremendous storm of popular
condemnation of its imbecile silver and
tariff policies died away before the tele.
graph brings the amazing news that the
United States Government proposes to
restore the rotten and fallen monarchy
of Hawaii.
Secretary Gresham's announcement
will be everywhere received with aston
ishment and indignation. 1t is true
that there have been intimations that
the President and his advisers were
meditating such course, but intelligent
citizens have refused to believe that
they would perpetrate this act of I'M
considerable folly. The reasoning with
which the Administration seeks to de-
fend its attitude is of the flimsiest
description. In order to secure the
slightest pretext for its desertion of the
Provisional Government the Cleveland
Cabinet does not hesitate to accuse a
United States Minister of downright
mendacity. But even if the revolu-
ton had the cordial sympathy of Min
lister Stevens and the quasi support
of the Boston's marines, it does not
necessarily follow that it is our duty
to hand the Hawaiian people over again
to the rule of avarice, vice and barbar-
ism. There might have been certain
Irregularities in the creation of the Ha-
waiian Provisional Government, just as
there were in the creation of our first
Continental Congress, but this Govern
ment undeniably represents, at any rate,
the most intelligent and responsible
elements in the Islands. Its leaders
without an exception are Americans, or
Hawaiian-born sons of American parents
the successors of the noble men who
rescued the kingdom from heathendom
and gave it to commerce and Christi
anity. On the Royalist side are the
most ignorant and degraded classes of
the native population, European adven-
turers and schemers who hate and fear
the dominant influence of the United
States and a lot of nondescript satellites
of a corrupt monarchy. These are the
elements which an infatuated Demo-
cratic administration intends to intrust
with the control of the destinies of Ha-
wall.
1t is the first time in Ameri-
Sdh biotoiy tiide bhC p'WCl VI tuc re-
public has ever used TO force mon
archial yoke upon people who
had once won their indepen-
dence. 1t is an act of national self
qualification. The new Minister to Ha-
waii and the new Admiral sailed with
these extraordinary instructions, the
nature of which has just been impaired
to the American people. Already the
guns of the American fleet and the cut
lasses and bayonets of its seamen may
have been used to set up again puppet
Queen ON the throne which she has dis.
graced, and to overawe and crush re-
publican Government which drew its in
spiration, as its members drew their ex-
istence, from free America. These
men, it is to be- feared, would not yield
without a determined and desperate
struggle. They know the barbaric
forces with which they have to deal
much better than the laundering poll
ticians in Washington. They know
that neither American life nor Ameri-
can property will be safe in the islands
if the heather dynasty regains suprem-
acy. The responsibility for every drop
of blood which may be shed in civil
conflict will rest upon the head of our
Democratic Administration. = Boston
Journal.