Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-22

hat the Psesident's contsntion 'sez1ied |
70 is Logical snd roaii reatore this
confiness 70 the Indians ard surrender TO
the Ensjisb. the Spsinards and the Mexi-
cans, large part Of our territory" Again
the World sass: ..Impossibie - would be
the restoration Of respectable and capable
monarchy by the good oficss Of this
Republic. the settips mp Of the pfepos-
ferrous Hsr allan Qaesn npan her mimic
throne would odd the ahsardify Of opers-
bou6e diplomacy To ; fragrant stuitiacsiion
Of the democratic principal The New
York World 10 known for it, ssauneh De-
mocrsey bot IL hasn't the hsrsihood. even
If IL has the desire. TO ignore palpAsie
facts or 70 pat Itself on record ~ ad.ocas-
iag that which 10 fndefensibie and to
which In the light Of failure events IT must
revert With shame.
Contrast this xvowedIy partisan news
paper with publication shich tip
tess itself into the upper fs1 strata
Of independence ~ bat which has
assumed long since that the man Cleveland
can do 40 wrong. IL has esssyed to place
him above the reach OF human fraiities. has
tsA.died ineessantly Of his gsdiike virtues
and now declares ,has IL he has erred nj all
1T 10 in his confidence Ia the desire
and purpose Of the American people to us-
DO such injury as bad been wrought 10 their
name In this respect
Oh yea. the American people IL so liable
10 err. the great Cleveland cannot err!
II Is only few weeks ago that this same
Boston Herald declared that no one vas
attempting TO restore the Queen; said this
even after Gresham. believing that
Willis had accomplished what he
sss sent 10 do had publicly an
noanced that il was the policy Of the adj
mlaistration to restore the Queen. Why
did the Herald assume that such policy
eonla not be the one President Cleveland
intended. For once its sycophancg was
abashed at the proposition. For once 1t
found itself in sympathy y ith Amer An IDEAS
ia aoniradis,inc,ion to Cleveland IDEAS and
in the unwonted excitement caused thereby
committed itself How it has fastened
to retrieve itself in the eyes Of TIE ''msn of
destiny" It would call attention to bis lofty
"moraI" attitude and the error Of the great
American people in daring to differ with
him. This moral attitude SO admired ty
the Herald up to date consists in having
made aisgraceful ate mpt and failed and
not having the courage to acknowledge
il; in having assumed the absolute
truth Of the testimony OF Blount
now di,credited by overwhelming evil
dence in having attempted to defame
the character of an able and honorable
American minister on evidence shown con-
clusively to be ex-parte and based on the
te st!mony OF the vilest element in Honolulu.
Basking in the light of such morality"
scarcely witnessed since the days of Louls
XIV who declared III am the STATE, the
Herald caiuminates ex-Minister Seyeas
snG the American people.
The Herald knows that the course of
events has disproved Blount's report and
vindicated the course Of Mr.. Stevens. l.
knows that the provisional government,
which it now has the indecency TO assert
| could not have obtained control of Hawaii
without the assistance of the United States
marines, it knows that il comprises not
only the best elen.rA,s but the ruling force
of Hawaii. The very fact that it would not
Yield to Clevt lands unauthorized iuterven-
ton and that the Iustful barbarian Quee dare
not 90 back 10 the throne unless Cleveland
would promise to support her there shows
hat she bas not the support Of the control
ling elements In Hawaii. The un-Amer-
icani.m and positively indecent disregard
II truth eyinced by the Boston Herald in
this course will inevitably discredit it in the
ewes of thinking people. We would commend
To its attention the editorial in that staunch
Democratic paper, the Chicago Times com
menting on dispatch to the effect that the
provisional government had 1000 men un-
! der arms and thst the palace was prepared
| for defense. The Times says; AZ nder
arms for Whist? To fight for the right of
white men to govern themselves sgainst the
threatened reinstatement of a negress call
| ing herself Queen. Defense against whom
Against the United States of America, a
republic. which by the unprecedented and
inexplicsble act of its President has been
put in the position of supporting the So
called Queen against the revolted people, a
vast msjority of whom were born and bred
| zeal faith from the declaration of indepen-
| ,lence read on the Fourth of July