The Portland daily press., 1893-11-13
TRADITION AND IMPULSE
Both Violated When This Republic Sets
Up a Discredited Monarchy.

Both Violated When This Republic Sets
Up Discredited Monarchy.
Washington, November 1.-THE opin-
ions expressed by men here today on the
Hawaiian question were at great vari-
ance. By far the most important utter
ance was that made by Representative
Hit of Illinois, an admitted authority
on diplomatic affairs, and chairman of
the House committee on foreign affairs
in the last Republican Congress-
Mr.. Hit was assistant secretary of
state under Blaine at time when
Hawaiian affairs were once before occu-
pying public attention, and is believed
to possess close acquaintance, not only
with general matters bearing upon
Hawaii, but also with the policy of this
government toward Hawaii in the past.
Mr.. Hit said:
Il believe that the policy Of interfer-
ence by our government in behalf of a
monarchy, and a discredited one at that,
one that went down in a violent effort of
the Queen to overthrow the Hawaiian
constitution, is contrary to every tradi-
ton and impulse of the American peo-
pie.
Gas to the question of veracity be-
tween this administration on one side,
and Minister Stevens. Captain Wiltse-
now dead-and the five commissioners
on the other side, all Of whom were eye
witnesses, we ought to have very full tes-
timony before holding them guilty OF
false statements and conspiracy to be
carried out by force and fraud.
GAS yet, we have no testimony what
ever against them. Mr.. Stevens bore
high character as a discreet and able
representative of this government. AS
a fact he was on another island, and did
not reach Honolulu until about noon of
Saturday
"The meeting on Monday, January 16,
of alarmed citizens is said to have been
the most important in number and
character ever held in the island, repre-
senting property and business of all
kinds, and the diplomatic correspondence
states that there were many applications
from Americans to the minister to have
marines landed to protect American in
terests and preserve order.
"This does not look like secretly con-
trived conspiracy by the American min
lister and American commander to
overthrow a friendly government by sud
denly landing armed forces. The repor ts
of that meeting in the Honolulu news
papers indicate that the Queens govern
ment fell because of the almost universal
detestation and dread in which it is held.
"The American people would have but
one opinion if the learn by the next
steamer landing at San Francisco that
this cast-off monarchy has been set up
again by our armed forces, perhaps amid
bIoodshed, and that the provisional gov
ernment, whose chief offense seems to
be that it is friendly to the United States
and American interests, destroyed.
"For forty years the instructions from
our state department., by Webster,
Marcy, Evarts, Bline, Frelinghusen and
Bayard, have held one tone. Our min
listers have been instructed to encourage
rather than discourage sentiments favor
able to the United States and it's in
terests, and to bear in mind and to i'm
press upon that government the over
whelming superiority of the interests Of
the people of the United States in the
islands as compared with the interests Of
other nations, aud the manifest ailasuiti-
mate dealings of that government, Wfth