The Portland daily press., 1893-11-14

th1u uulS COulUiy ulS pCISODdi COuClu-
sion, regardless of consequences in in
fanny or blood. Stripped of every special
plea and specious pretext surrounding
the essential fact, what is the purpose
which Mr.. Cleveland now declares,
through the so-called report of his too
subservient Secretary of State? To crush
the life out of young republic, already
recognized by us as an independent and
responsible governments; to employ the
armed power as well as the moral in
fuence of the United States to thrust
back upon a civilized people, American
in their instincts and habits and aspira-
lions, barbarous monarchy in the per-
son of vile and ridiculous person. whom
they have driven from the throne; to I'M
do the work of revolution which made
Hawaii republic by means of coun-
ter revolution by coup d'etat planned in
the White House at Washington and
secretly but deliberately ordered by a
President of the United States!
That is the Cleveland policy. The
American policy was settled long ago.
defined than by James Buchanan, a Demo-
cratic Secretary of State, when he sped
to the newborn republic of 1S4S in
France this assurance of Americas sym
pathy for every people struggling out of
the forms and traditions of monarchy
" 1t was with one universal burst of en-
thusiasm that the American people hailed
the late glorious revolution in France
faunr1nf Jihnrf md HI
eminent. In this feeling the President
Strongly sympathizes. Warm aspirations
for the success of the new repulic are
breathed from every heart. Liberty and
order willslnake France happy and pros
porous. Her destinies, under Providence,
are now in the hands of the French peo-
pie. Let them by their wisdom, frmness
and moderation refute he.slanders of
their enemies, and convince the world
that they are capable of self-govern-
ment." That is the American policy.
The date of the revolution overthrow
ing monarchy in France in 1S4S was Feb
"a, and news came slowly then across the
Atlantic. The date of Buchanan's spirit
ed message to the new republic was
March 81. Polk and Buchanan did not
wait to ascertain whether the new repub-
lie represented q numerical majority of
all OF the people then inhabiting France
They didn't inquire whether a numerical
majority would have preferred the con-
tinuation of monarchy. They did not
ask whether American citizens residing
in France had borne part in the revolu-
tlonary movement, or even whether the
official representatives of the United
States government had manifested SYM
pathy with the Frenchmen who over
threw Louis Philippe. President Polk
and his Secretary of State sent out no
commissioner with authority paramount
and instructions to investigate Minister
Rush's attitude toward the revolution
lists, and to make a case, if possible, to
warrant American intervention in behalf
OF the friendly king who had just been
dethroned. They sent to the young re-
public the Godspeed as above printed,
and knew that behind them in that mes
sage of sympathy and joy was every true
American heart. just as every true
American heart would have been behind
Grover Cleveland and his administration
If similar message had gone from Wash
lngton to Honolulu in March of this year
1898.
Never before now has an American Ex-
ecutive undertaken to stamp out repu bill
canism and to set up monarchy in any
part of the world. Never before, we be-
lleve, has an American President issued
orders for the assassination of free and
successful government. Never before has
any officer of this government undertake
en-, upon his sole response bility and with
out consulting Congress or the people, to
decide the destiny of foreign country in
diplomatic relations with ourselves
Never before has President invited or
commanded his Cabinet advisers to assist
him in the odious business of setting.up
again rotten and broken throne
Was there no American spirit in the
Cabinet when this policy of infamy was
decreed? Walter @. Gresham would
have done we'll to tear his commission
into pieces in the face of his master,
rather than to sign his name to the docu-
ment which carried to the nation yester-
day the announcement of the nations
shame.
So cunning1y and SO secretly has the
way been prepared at Washington for
the restoration OF the wretched Liliuok-
alani at Honolulu, if possible, before
public sentiment could assert itself in
the United States, and SO adroitly have
the promoters of the coup d 'etat timed
the publication of their instructions in
order to cover Minister Willis's move
ments under his secret instructions, that
the astounded people of the United
States do not yet know what has hap
pened in Hawaii. Have the hopes Of the
woman who called herself Queen, of her
interested British friends, of the mer-
cenary Spreckles, of the dull and preju-
diced Blount who went out to NAL e a
lawyers case against the Hawaiian gov
eminent. been crowned already by the
success of the counter revolution ordered
by the President of the United States?
Has Liliuokalani been marched back to
her throne under escort of American
bayonets, and to the music of Hail,
Columbia?" Or are the intelligent, re-
spectacle and patriotic citizens of Hawaii
fighting today against American troops
and dying in the streets in struggle to
tablished, and the blessings of liberty
and order which they thought they had
obtained for themselves and their chill
dren IN. Y. Sun.
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