Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-11-27
An INFAMY AVERTED.

The country has waited with in
tense anxiety for the news to be re-
ceived from Hawaii by the steamer
arriving Nov. 18. Tt has come, and it
has brought great relief. Apparently
the policy Of Secretary Gresham has
been blocked. Minister Willis had
been nearly ten days in the Islands,
and had not taken the first step to
overthrow the republic and restore
the monarchy. He had not even al
lowed the Hawaiian people to know
that such were his instructions. II he
had communicated them to the Pro-
visional Government, they had told
him that they should resist even with
force; and they, too kept the secret.
1t is evident that he found that Mr..
Blount had utterly misrepresented the
condition of things. He supposed
for Mr. Blount said SO to Mr.. Gres-
ham, and Mr.. Gresham said SO to the
President and to Minister Willis
that all he had to do was to Withdraw
the moral support of the United States
from the Provisional Government,
to say that United States bayo
nets would not be used to pro-
tect it against the overwhelming pub
lie sentiment which supported the
Queen, and the new Government
would fall like a house Of cards. He
has found that such is not the case.
He learns that Mr.. Blount deceived
himself and reported what was not
true. He has learned that the Ha-
waiian people will have no more of
the Queen; that the Provisional Gov
ernment has the support of the peo-
pie, and has had it from the first, and
that he cannot restore the Queen with
out an act of war from which he
shrinks. We are even told that it
may be that his instructions do not
contemplate intervention by force of
the United States Marines to remove
the present Government and replace
the Queen without further report and
direction We hope that is so; but it
is inconsistent with the official publ
cation by Secretary Gresham of what
has been done and must be done. Il
that is so il demonstrates the intoler
able hlunder made by Secretary Gres-
ham. He and the President and Cabi
net have been greatly disappointed
that the steamer has not brought
news OF the restoration Of the Queen.
If there were no orders to restore her
by force, then they expected that as
soon as Minister Willis said the word
the people would carry her back to
her palace on their shoulders. Sec
retary Gresham was utterly, wofully
deceived in this whole matter. He be-
lieved that what was the act Of the
people, of both its power and its in
telligence, was the act of a little cabal
which could have done nothing if ex-
Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltse
of the 'Boston" had not conspired
with them, and landed United States
troops to overawe the people. That |
silly story, laborously propagated by
Mr.. Nordhoff till ignorance accepted
it, is now blown to the winds. Hawaii
has the strongest government known
in it's history. 1t has the favor of the |
people. They will not allow it to be |
overthrown except by overwhelming
force. In order to restore the Mon
archy the Republic of the United Stat
es of America must make war against |
the republic of Hawaii That Minis
ter Willis, much to his credit, has hes
itated to do.
But how intolerable it is that our
Secretary of State and our President |
should even for a moment have con-
sidered such project. Every one ad-
mits that the Queens Government
was abominably corrupt, the servant
of the opium den and the lottery. It
had just attempted to disfranchise it's
white citizens who own ne-tenths
of the property and pay nine tenths
of the taxes. No king or queen reigns
except by leave of the people. No
revolution was ever more justified,
and it is nothing against Minister
Stevens or Captain Wiltse that they
the revolution and sympa
Ghized with its purpose, SO long as
they did nothing to help one side or
the other. The new Government was
it was recognized by the
United States, by England, by France,
Germany, Russia, Japan-by the !