Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-14
TO RESTORE QUEEN
PrOteCtOrate May Then Be
Established.
ANNEXATIONISTS ARE FIRM
Minister Willis Credentials Presented
to the Provisional Government.

OF papers ANA documents alb ut Hawaiian
affairs was taken out TO Woodley, he
presidents county home, yes erdsy after.
noon, aud he and Secretary Gresham are
going over them, with view TO their pub
lication, In part, at an early date. The re-
port made by Commissioner Blount fills
1900 pages OF typewriter matter, and an
abstract Of this will doubtless be given out.
w. p. Hastings, secretary Of the Ha.
waiaE legation, was shown the dispatch
from San francisco containing the news
that Minister Willis had arrived In Homo
lulu and was about tn present his creden-
iials to President Dole. This news was
obvr asly great relief to the mind OF the
members " the legation. They declined
TO talk about the matter, AS usual, but the
satisfaction EXPIRE -sed at the preseu tation
by Minister Willis of his credentials to
Pres deut Dole suggested that they mi ght
have feared that the minister would b.
found to have been accredited to the queen.
They Won't Back Down.
The plan OF the Hawaiian represen Ia
tives evidently is to stand rigidly up for
the rights they have secured by the cog
milton of their government. Minister
Thurston touched the marrow Of their
hopes when he sal that any attempt to
overturn the present government by a
foreign power would be an act OF war. An
act Of war requires the consent or declara.
tion OF congress.
Congress will undoubtedly take up the
subject of Hawaii in sume way imme-
dately upon assembling In December. The
fight, it is said, will be made on the ad-
minisi ration policy on this line-that it
A.n xutt ha of
congress. aid has therein done an unlaw-
full act. What effect It would have on
this proposed policy II the present govern
ment should peaceaby yield to the per-
suasions of the Americans Is also dis
cussed. The question involved is whether
SO peaceable resistance could he regarded
as an act of war; Ii Is argued It would be
an act of aggression on a sovereign power
none the less because the power peacefully
yielded TO the threats of SO overwhelm-
ingly superior force.
What Nsxtf
1t still remains an unsnswerable prob.
lem to those of diplomatic experience how
the American minister accredited to the
Hawaiian government can, immedi.
ately upon presenting his creden-
tials, set about to destroy that govern.
ment This gives r'se TO many surmises
such as that the real policy to be pursued
by the state del tment has not hitherto
been announced ~ all, but that Secretary
Gre>han's report - the president was
simply designed 10 give opportunity to
read the public sentiment on the subject.
It is not at all probable that it is true,
but 1t shows that the policy Of Gresham is
considered 81 en- irely extraordinary that
incredulity and speculations cluster about
II. There is surmiss that the restora-
tion Of the queen to the throne may not be
followed by the entire withdrawal vf the
influence of the United STATES, but that,
with the work Of the last administration
once undone, a protectorate may be estab-
lished over the monarchy.
One clear aud certain result Of the pres
ent incident would seem to be that anne xa-
ton will never he preferred to he United
STATES by the Hawaiians again. II there
Is ever to be- annexation the movement
will originate in this country.
Thurston Is Reticent.
L. A. Thurston. the minister of the
present government OF Hawaii to the
United States. returned to this city last
night. He left this city some weeks ago
to take charge of the Hawaiian exhibit at
the Worlds fair.
Mr.. Thur ton WAS asked what course he
proposed to pursue in view Of the situa-
ton his government is placed In by the
decl alton Of the administrat ion 20 icy. He
replied that he bad not perfected his plans
as yet He though he would be in Wash.
ington for several d,ys at least. hut inti
mated that his duties might call him away
at any time.
Mr.. Thurston has been a prominent
leader In what is known as the reform
movement which has been in progress In
the Hawaiian Islands for q number of
years past. He is one Of the most infiuen-
tisl Of those who secured the reformed
constitution from King Kalakua in 1887.
He Is q natural orator, and the recent
revolution in the islands was due in no
small part to his efforts.
His father and mother were born in the
islands aud were children of the early
missionaries who went out In sailing
vessels from New England around Cape
Horn. He, also, was b 'rn In the islands,
and after being educated In the United
States studied law and commenced prac.
tics In h nplulu.