Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-11-30
HOT SHOT FROM DANA.

Among the able DemOcraIlc news
papers now making it sultry for Cleve-
land and his secretary is the New York
sun. In a recent editorial on the Ha-
vain policy. Mr.. Dana uses the fol-
lowing forceful language:
The announcement of the Cleveland
policy respecting Hawaii has come.
1t is not an American policy. 1t is not
the policy of the United States govern
ment or the policy of this republic. 1t
is not yet, thank God, the policy of the
Democratic party. 1t is neither more
nor less than the personal determine
ton of the executive officer charged
with tempory power, to use that power
to enforce personal conclusions, re-
CARELESS of the consequences.
Stripped of every special plea and
specious pretext surrounding the es.
%sential act, what is the purpose which
| Mr.. Cleveland now declares through
| the so-called report of his toe subserv'
lent secretary of state? To crush the
life out of u young republic, already
recognized by us as an Independent
| and responsible government; to EN-.
| ploy the armed power as well as the
moral influence of the United States to
| thrust back upon a civilized people
American in their instincts and habit:
| and aspirations, a barbarous monarchy
in the person of a vile and ridiculou:
person whom they have driven from
the throne; to undo the work of the
revolution which made Hawaii a re.
public by means of a counter revolu'
ton by a coup d'etat planned in the
1 ..I.ta hAuraA Of NAn1htnt1 aud En
cretly but deliberately ordered by the
president of the United States?
That is the Cleveland policy. The
American policy was settled long ago
Ii has never varied. Never before ha:
any American executive undertaken
to stamp out republicanism and set VI
II monarchy i'll any part of the world
Never before, we believe, has an Amer
lean president issued orders for th'
assassination of a free and successful
government. Never before has any
officer of this government undertaken
upon his W responsibility and with
out consulting congress or the people
to decide the destiny Of "A foreign coun
try in diplomatic relations with our
selves. Never before has IL presiden'
invited or commanded his cabinet ad
visers to assist him in the odious bust
ness of setting up again q rotten anc
broken throne.
Was there no American spirit in tn,
cabinet when this policy of infamy wa:
decreed? Walter Q. Gresham would
have done we'll to teal his commission
into pieces, and fling the pieces into
the face of his master rather than Il
sign his name to the document which
carried to the nation the announce
ment of the nations shame.
So cunningly and SO secretly has the
way been prepared at Washington fol
the restoration of the wretched Liliuo
kalani at Honolulu, if possible, before
public sentiment could assert itself il
the United States, and so adroitly have
the promoters Of the coup d'etat timed
the publication of their instructions, il
order to cover Minister Willis move
ments under his secret instructions
that the astounded people ofthe United
States do not yet know what has hap
pened in Hawaii.
Have the hopes of the woman who
called herself queen; of her interested
British friends; of the mercenary
| Spreckles; of the dull and prejudicec
Blount, who went out to make a law
yer's ease against the Hawaiian gov
eminent, been crowned already by the
success of the counter revolution or
dered by the president of the United
States?
Has Llliuokalani been marched bach
to her throne under the escortof Amer
lean bayonets and to the music o
"Hail Columbia" or are the intelligent
respectable and patriotic citizens o
Hawaii fighting today against Ameri
can troops and dying in the streets IL
a struggle to preserve the government
they have established and the blessings
of liberty and order which they thought
they had obtained for themselves anC
their children?