Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-16

assumed to voice the sentiment of the
people of Hawaii. BY the census of
1890 the population of the Hawaiian
Islands numbered $1,000; of whom 34,-
436 were set down as natives, 1891 as
Chinese, 6,1S6 as half.castes, 1880 as
japanese and q, 119 as whites. These
21,119 whites were classified as follows:
Portuguese, $500; native children of
foreign parents, 7,495; Americans, 1923;
English, 1874; Germans, 1904; Nor
wegians, 227; French, 20; other nation
alities, 410. Do we want to annex, by
fraud or otherwise, such population,
or are we ready to sanction any claim
on the part of the American residents to
speak for the whole of this composite
population?
Some mysterious parsonage endorsed
by the United Press agent at Washing
ton as entitled to speak ex cathedra for
the administration on the Hawaiian
situation" is reported as saying shat
when all the facts in connection with
the policy outlined In Secretary Ores
hams letter were made public there
would be revulsion of the present
popular criticism of the Administrations
course, and that many of those who are
now engaged in making bitter COM
ments ON the Presidents intention
would be obliged to admit that the
restoration of Queen Liliuokalani is
necessary to satisfy the demands of
right and justice"
We trust, for the credit of our coun-
try, that the substance of Washington
special to Mondays New York Epen-
ing Post will not figure among these
:" facts yet to be made authoritatively
known. The EUening Posts correspon-
dent says that the conspiracy for de-
throning the Queen and setting up the
provisional government in Hawaii was
Matched in Washington and that there
is good ground for asserting that lead
ing members of the House committee
on foreign affairs "were approached by
the agents Of the conspirators before the
first blow was struck" The correspon-
dent continues:
Washington was then the scene of plot
ting as deep and as clever as any that was
ever done on these shores against the peace
of Cuba or of Ireland. What is worse,
there is reason to believe that, whereas the
Cuban and Irish tilibusters have at least
never succeeded in drawing President OF
the United States into their net, the
Hawaiian conspirators did receive the
sanction Of the Harrison administration.
| Whnthnr aQfnallV taA q,
tive expression of approval or only to such
encouragement as comes from tacit per-
mission is not definitely known, but that
the plot was Understood at the White
House to be under way, and that no word
or sign OF dissent was given, can be stated
without fear OF successful contradiction,
SO obvious was the favorable sentiment of
the Harrison administration towards the
plot that the local agents of the conspiracy
went to work at Congress without waiting
Tor the news OF the revolution to reach
! this country. They realized that they
which had not been fixed" would be in
stalled before the preparations were fully
ripe.
| AS we say, we sincerely trust that il
, may turn out that the Eoening Post cor.
respondent has been misinformed, and
that it may be shown that the White
/ House has not been disgraced by con.
} nivance at, much less co-partnership in
r such conspiracy against a weak little
) island kingdom out in the Pacific; but
{ unfortunately for ex-President Harrison
and his advisers, his unseemly haste in
forwarding that annexation treaty to
Congress, coupled with his display Of
, jingoism in the Chilian business, are
1 sufficient to lend suspicion of yerisimili
t tude to this damaging story. And We
9 note that Congressman Mcguire of Cali
Q fornia, is reported as saying in an inter
G view printed in San Francisco paper
/ The documentary evidence submitted
6 by Mr.. Blount, in connection with til,
testimony OF Commodore Skerrett, show.
1 very conclusively that the revolution il
= the Hawaiian Kingdom, which resulted in
. the dethronement of the Queen and tn,
establishment of the provisional govern
4 ment, was aided and abetted, from tn,
q beginning, with strong probability tina
" was inslgated, by authorized representa-
! tives OF this government. But
S however we may view the wretched par
a which our government took in that revo
luton, the fact appears to be that Mr.
e Stevens, while the accredited minister o
n government of the Independent kingdom
OF Hawaii, power at peace with thi
country, deliberately engaged in a revolu
uonary intrigue with alien residents o
that kingdom for the overthrow of tina
i government, and brought to the aid of tn
k revolutionists, Immediately upon the dis
a coyery of their plans, the menace of tn
superior military and naval power of thi
n country.
e 1t is very evident that, had not Ameri
70 can war vessels been in the harbor o
o Honolulu last winter, there would hay
Il been no revolution" There was N
o popular uprising; the whole affair wa
], engineered by mere handful of foreig
1t residents, and it does not appear that tn
10 wishes of the people of Hawaii hav
n ever been taken into consideration. Nor
d than thas, it does not appear that tn
d men who are running the new govern
It ment are yet ready to risk an appeal b
D. the people. They are represented, in
deed, as ridiculing such a suggestion
It and claiming that, since the few Ameri
g cans there own about six-sevenths q
d the assessed valuation of the plantation
% they should not submit the arbitration
of the form of government TO votin
a population of $4,000, of whom abou
y l0,00oare Ignorant and semi barbarous
!. and might be expected to favor th
| restoration" of the monarchy. Thi
! may be democracy in Hawaii, but it |
i not in this country. These Kanakas ar