New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-30
THE "UEiULIGHT" ~ HilTL

One more island heard from. Returns from
the foreign policy ~ President Clcv"lands Ad-
ministration come in slowly AMI ar" not par
,iculnrly encouraging. but there Is great salts
faction in HE thought that President Clovc-
lond's SENSE Of Justice" il too stern and I'M
lending to permit his entertaining the thought
Of Withdrawing il until all The islands of the
sea acknowledge his Sccprc and all the weak
republics Of the world recognize his right 10
rule The news from IIayt is not inspiring.
There are Indications thai the President Of hat
Rcpnbllc Is aS little able to appreciate The gen
cro,Is offer Of Prcsidcn, Clcycand'S AdmniStri-
! ton To right the wrongs, correct III" abuses
and pun>h the crimes Of his Government rs
was President Dole. of Hawaii. when ia" saline
! benevolent purpose was announced io him III
connection with the Hawaiian Islands. The
! stolid ingratitudc 81 these island republics j"
utterly unaccountabc and ndcfcnSbc. With
any other man than Mr.. Cleveland ~ ia" head
/ of our Government these things would act n
/ discoura gcmrntS: ana even he. If many other
/ islands of the sea make similar returns To his
magnanmouS advances. will be almost forced
10 admit that Oh the whole. island republics
/ are hardly worth saving II Is great pity IN
! decd is il not great shame. that the most
original foreign policy ever invented should be-
met al the very threshold by two islands rs far
APART rs the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with
! such inScnSatc opposition:
Smvthc was the Editor Of 1.-THE Graham
Headlight" of TaZcwrI County. Va. Though
not Il matter of record. ii will probably appear,
when The history of thu case Is permitted 10
leak out siIrrcpiliously in some loyal Admins
tlation newspaper, that when Mr. Cleveland
was making search for statesman to take
charge of the domestic affairs of tn" Ilaytian
Republic the Virginia delegation rose up rs one
man. saying: "Tazcwcll County can furnish
lust the man. Tazcwcll County raises more
diploma,is,s Of the KIM You want than any sec
ton Of tn" same area IN the whole country.
TRY TaZcwcll County" And in answering the
| call for Il diplomatst 10 carry out II foreign
/ policy which iS destined 10 shine down The
| Track of coming ages and illuminate the worlds
way 10 The millennium Of justice and right, how
could Tazcwcll County do better than offer the
! Editor Of its own Headlight -: SO came
Smythc of THE Headlight 10 Washington
in answer 10 his country'S call; "an unusually
lean lank man. II raw sort of man. as h. is
described by Washington correspondents who
had the Joy of bcholding him. but "a ncryy
sort of fellow AMI ~ bowling advocate Of
the nomination of Cleveland in 1S!'2." Obvious
" the man for the occasion and the place
! And we do not see that the circumstance that
he smokes "a big clay pipe with long reed
stem" is any disparagcmcnt OF his qualiica-
lions as Il diplomatist.
Mr. Cleveland and Secretary Gresham looked
him over and pronounced him good. Then they
sent him 10 Hayti with instructions, as he says.
10 set things right on the island This the
"nradlight proceeded to do in somewhat the
same largc-mindcl. generous way in which the
gifted Kentucky diplomaist Minister Willis.
started i'm To regulate matters In Hawaii In
the most delicate and diplomatic manncr-thc
manner In fact in which our intercourse with
foreign nations is coming 10 he conducted rs Il
rule under the present Administrations mythc
Informed President IIippolytc that his style Of
putting down revolutions was unsatisfactory
and rcprclcusiblc: that his financial policy was
extremely unwisc: that he was dcvotng the
revenues 10 his own personal uses instead III
making public improvements. and that If lie did
not promptly stop it and reform the abuses
pointed out he must not expect 10 retain the
sympathy Of the United States Government.
That was all. Who, we beg to inquire could
have done 1t better? The man who e broke Il