The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-08-16
Land Grabbing As An Issue.

Ex-Consul General Sewall, at the
Samoan Islands, recently reminded
j. H. Manley, of Maine, of the emf
nent services to civilization rendered
by ex-Minister Stevens at the Ha-
waiian Islands, and suggested pub
lie reception to the latter on his ar
rival home.
Thus one Republican encourages
another in the assumption that the
conduct of Stevens in Honolulu is
Endorsed by the American people,
and that in deliberately violating
the Constitution of the United
States, which says that treaties with
other nations shall be the supreme
law of the land" and in selling a
country with which we were at peace
and revolutionizing its Government,
he was rendering eminent services
to civilization"
This was exactly what Macmillan
undertook to do in Mexico, and he,
poor devil! was shot dead for it..
The trickster, Napoleon Ill, who
put him up to it, would have been
similarly treated if Mexico could
have laid hands on him. Everybody
was sorry for Macmillan, though
chiefly on account Of his loving wife
Carlotta; yet everybody felt that
the sentence was just one and the
general verdict was cit served him
right"
But Stevens crime was of the same
character rs his, though on smalle,
scale. The only excuse that can be
made for him is that he was acting
as the tool of Republican Admin.
istration which had conceived the
mistaken notion that the people
we're, like Alexander, crying fol
"more worlds to conquer" and that
an aggressive policy toward all weak
or nations would commend it for re-
election as the great advocate ant
defender of "the rights of American
citizens abroad"
With this idea in mind it bulliec
and threatened to extinguish littl'
Chill, after having persistently pro
voked it by aiding and abetting tn,
political scoundrel who was tryins
to steal away what liberty its peopl,
possessed. And with this idea il
mind it clustered in front of Grea
Britain for time just as if it wer
prepared to go to war over the CLAIM
it subsequently abandoned tina
Behring Sea was mare ciaus,tna ant
,, not part of the North Pacif
Ocean. 1t was working in the inter
est OF the sealing monopoly in tina
case and in the interests of anothe
called the Sugar Trust in the Ha
, waiian case.
To please monopolies is the chic
principle of Republican policy, be
cause the monopolies sustain tn
party and never grumble when the
are "struck" around election times
but Republicans are making anothe
i, great mistake in supposing that the
can fool any large number of Amer
lean citizens with their peculiar "fol
eign policy" as evinced in the dc
clarations concerning the robbery c
Hawaii. In the first place, the cour
try has nothing to gain by the ar
nexation of the islands, but much
lose; in the second, it has no desir
to depart from its peace policy by
forcible seizure Of any territory nc
it's own, however desirable it migt
be.
1t was at peace and on terms {
amity with Hawaii and ITS rightfr
Government, when the usurpatio
/, by the Provisional Government too
place, and there was not a shadow {
an excuse for the seizure by force {
arms which was made. If there wei
any complaint or reason for con
plant against the Queen, or thu
our treaty rights were being viola
cd, they should have been made
the regular way. But mean an
foul advantage was taken of IL
Queens weakness to carry out tt
+ base scheme of the Sugar Trust, an
an attempt was made to justify it /
: mock appeal to the patriotism
of the people. And now we see
: the threat of the Provisional Go
eminent that if we do not avail on
selves of the wrong it has alreaC
done and seize the islands, it will sc
out to some other nation, just VIII
the measure of it's patriotism is. TT
Republicans must be sadly in wal
of an issue, indeed, if they want
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