Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-18

| Secretary Herberts loyalty to the Presi
dent has been most gratifying to him. Sur.
rounded by scores Of ambitious naval eff
GERS who have waited eagerly for the an
nexation of the islands, and who have taker
an almos, personal pride in the action OF
| Capt. WIltse in landing the marines from
the Boston he has stood stea6fastly by hi.
chief in the policy that carries with it q
stern rebuke to the navy and lesson tc
Iover-enterprising officers for all time te
come. The fact that Capt. Wiltse is dest
has added almost fanaticism to the enthu
sisstic admiration by the young men Of the
service of what they are pleased to call
"Wiltse's patriotism. w ashipgton Cor
n. Y. World, Nov. -.
No phase of the shameful attitude of the
| Cleveland administration in the Hawaiian
matter can be more amazing and humiliat
| log than that which is actually bos sted in
the foregoing report of a Democratic CORE
sponde mt. vi
| Having sent an ex-Confederate "com
missioner" from Georgia to usurp the func
TONS of the United States minister and t.
| haul down the Stars and Stripes at thu
| Sandwich islands, and having followed thi,
up by sending Another Southern Democrat
this time from Kentucky, to insult the rec.
ognized government to which he was &C
credited, by confirmation of the United
States Senate, and to demand tbs
r. storation of corrupt ard dis
| reputable pretenee of monarchy, we are
now Informed through the columns of d
I prominent journal of our chief commercia
city, that the most glorious traditions OF
/ our navy are to be outraged. and the pa
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! humbled and .'rebuked" by a secretary o.
the navy who for four years led Confed
! erste regiment in the effort 10 tear dGwr
the flag and the government of the United
States
| Surely President Cleveland has been
strangely consistent in the instruments liz
has chosen for inhictinR disgrace upon oul
diplomacy and humiliation upon the gallan
officers who uphold the dignity of our coun
try on foreign seas.
No suggestion of .'loyalty'' to American
interests or traditions; 10 civilization or pro
gress; to the men ard women of our owr
blood and country who have established
American Intelligence, virtue. industry ant
supremacy in that commanding outpDrt II
the Pacific, No thought of 'loyalty" &c
the priceless traditions of the naval service
abroad on which are enshrined the proves
of Decatur and 1ngraham and Perry and
oil the other illustrious commanders v he
have been alert in every cline and on every
sea to advance the honor and interests of
their country
Instead of this we now have only 10y
alty to the President" even to the extent OF
administering stern rebuke" to the spien-
did corps of officers who are denounced as
''uver-enterprising" in their devotion to the
prestige of the Great Republic.
What an astonishing spectacle : While
no word of complaint or criticism has
come from any other government or peo-
pie, the administration of the United
States heaps censure and contumeiy upon
an American minister for such service
to his counsry's interests as would have
brought the accolaae of knighthood
from any monarchicsl government in
tie world. and has only "stern rebuke" to
ter over the grave of the gallant comman-
der of our naval force at Honolulu Tor
hoisting the Stars and Stripes in protection
If American interests at the request of the
American minister and the appeal of the
recognized government of those Pacific
islands, Of which s. cretary of State William
L. Marcy. VT te to United States Minister
Mason as long ago AS 1888
do not think the present law allan gov.
eminent can long remain in the hands of
tie present rulers or under th' control os
the native inhabitants of these islands an |
both England ami France are spprised Of
our determi nsiiou not to allow them to be
Owned, or to fall under the protection of
sho-e powers or Of any other European ma
ton +%
II seems 10 he ineritabie that they must
come under the control Of this government,
ard it would h. but reasonable and fair
that these powers should aequiesce in such
disposition of them, provided the trans
ference was effected by fair means.
There have been times when the COM
msnder of United Ststes naval forces.
would have broken hi- sword across his
knee and sent the fragments home with his
r, resignation before he would consent to be
ins;rumen tsl in snch an un-American out
rage AZ the restoration of 4 rotton monarchy
that had heea deposed by an uprising of the
intelligence sni busine IS interests Of COM
n.unitv in which American civiiiz atom had
substituted its, Il IN place of Al Gent bar
bari.m.
No wonder that the officers of the navy
stand aghast at the cowsrdly and shameful
prostitution of their service, now proposed
as the policy of the Cleveland administra-
ton.