St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-01
position he will be of great benefit in
plotting the city through the financial
storms that are now menacing it.
HAWAII AGAIN.

III "A w n +AUhIN.
The report OF the Republican mem
berS of the house committee or foreign
affairs, constituting the minority of that
committee, on the resolutions CRITICS.
ing the course of the president relative
to Hawaii, has been given to the pablo.
1t starts out with deliberate, unblush-
ing and m0nstrous lie, and is through
out marked by such manifest partisan
ship and unfairness that it can scarcely
claim respectful consideration. 1t
says that 'when President Cleveland
was inaugurated, March 4, 1898, the
Hawaiians were under the saver
egn control of republican govern
ment" duly recognized. Every read
er OF the daily newspapers is aware
of the fact that the provisional govern
ment of Hawaii is not republican gov
eminent i'll any sense of the word. 1t
was not chosen by the people; it was
self created-an usurpation i'll as COM
plete sense as was the usurpation of
any despot who has Won place in the
worlds history by his acts of lawless
conquest The provisional government
assumed to represent only the foreign
residents of Hawaii-men who were
not citizens of the country and had per-
siStently refused TO obey its laws as to
citizenship. They were temporary So
journers at Honolulu, attracted thither
by promises of profit from trade. Their
interests were selfish and fleeting; they
were as likely to he in China or Japan
within month as they were TO remain
at the Hawaiian capital. All owed
allegiance TO and claimed the pro-
lection of foreign gOvernmentS-th
United States, Great Britain or Ger
many. Not one was a native or natural
lied citizen of the islands; all were
aliens in race and in sympathies.
When this cabal of aliens set up q
government for the islands they did not
ask the consent OF thGSe who were to be
governed. No poll of citizens or resi-
dents was had. Meetings called to pro-
test against their Iawless proceeding
were suppressed by menace OF force.
They submitted TO constitution to the
approval of the people: they did not
even adopt a code of laws for their own
government; their only law was their
own caprice; their only purpose was to
subserve personal interests. They de-
clared that the natives were unfit for
self-government. and refused to permit
them to have voice in the management
of affairs, arrogating to themselves all
the intelligence and morality IN the
community. Ii such government. so
instituted and maintained, is ''repub-
lican government" as the minority of
the foreign affairs committee assume,
may heaven deliver other countries
fir I'D republicanism.
In its every part the entire report
bristles with special pleading and petit
Jogging. 1t denounces the appointment
OF Mr. Blount as paramount commls-
sicner and the personal representative
OF the president. as illegal and without
precedent III our diplomatic history, for
getful of The fact that President Grant
gave to Rev. DR.. Newman now Bishop
Newman) the appointment as inspector
of United States conSulates, an office
unknown 20 the law; and that in that
capacity DR.. Newman made tour of
the world at the public expense. and
whenever he saw fit suspended our
consuls pending the appointment Of
successors who would be more accept
able to him, all without warrant of law
or precedent.
There have been in congress and i'll
the courts of the United States many
exhibitions of special pleading. many
efforts to apologize for and defend that
which was indefenSible; but the GLOBE
cannot recall an instance in which the
endeayor to make the worse appear the
better cause was as glaringly displayed.
There is adroitneSs, it is true, i'll the
pronunciamento, but it is the adroitness
of the demagogue who appeals to the
prejudiceS Of his hearers and endeayOrs
to make up by the vehemence of his
denunciation for the lack of merit in his
cause. The report is an appeal to the
lingoism of the cOuntry-an attempt to
inflame the public mind by directing at
-tention to the advantages that might
have accrued from annexation. Its
SneerS at the presidents avowed pur-
pose to do justice to wronged sover-
eign and her defenSeleSS people make
that purpose all the more admirable.
and stamp their authors as lacking in
that quality.
We greatly mistake the temper of the
American people if they shall agree
with these advocates of governmental
infamy, and coRdone the illegal and
arbitrary usurpation of the Harrison adj
ministration by disappearing of the eff
fort of the existing administration TO
right geat wrong.