The Portland daily press., 1894-09-05

toned by American Christian civiliza-
ton. God fearing men they were who
carried first the banner of this civiliza-
ton. They fought idolatry, disease, war
and RIGHTEOUSNESS, they stood between
the Hawaiians and the mercenary adven-
turers who came to prey upon them.
TLey and their children loved the Ha-
waiian people, and were loyal to their
rulers, while these remained loyal to the
constitution that protected all, but when
these failed in this nothing could avail.
And in the inevitable day of disrup-
ton that was foreseen, what would be
the destiny of the islands none doubted,
nor did any wish for another than to
share the glories of our own.
The
MAD ACT OF THE QUEEN
only precipitated what she and her peo-
pie had foreseen must some day come;
foreseen with cheerful resignation. 1t
| presented for solution an American
| problem and the Americans of Hawaii
gave to that American problem an Amer
lean solution.
| AS the Revolutionary fathers had done
| they formed committee of safety as the
| first step towards the establishment of
Republican principles. And if when the
forces were landed from our ships, as it
would have been a crime on the part of
our officials not to have landed them, this
authority got the benefit of any moral
| advantage, which from every such ac-
ton goes out to the authority most
| friendly to American interests, and best
fIlac IF lox nd ,~lnr
| II thank God for it.
| The Democratic party has been
| placed in many anomalous positions of
| late; but in none more out of line with
its history than in the rejection by Pres
ident Cleveland of the gift of the sover-
eighty of Hawaii, the free and tilial Of
| fering of our countrymen there.
A party whose boast it has been that
| it gave our country all the territory it
has acquired from the purchase of Louis
lana to that of Alaska, rejects the gift of
| territory, the annexation Of which had
been the aim of the great Marcy, and to
effect which treaty had been sent to
the Senate by the Democratic President!
The party that through all the days OF
reconstruction in the South commended
| against the establishment of irrespons-
| BILE government is enlisted in behalf of
| munity as the most corrupt carpet bag
| government that was ever known! The
/ party that came into existence as a pro-
tesl against monarchical tendencies and
ideas was to be used to force back upon
| the people of Hawaii repudiated mon
archy!
How was this to be accomplished?
How was this great conservative party
| to be made faithleSs to it's traditions?
How was it that SO large number of
-FOUR fellow citizens, honest men, and
| Americans, were to be led to support ac-
ton thus violative of the American
| spirit?
! My friends,
THE "POLICY OF INFAMY''
| was born of conspiracy to deceive, a
conspiracy to deceive the American peo-
pie into the belief that honesty and JUS
tice demanded the defeat of annexation,
that jobbery and corruption were be-
hind it, instead of as we now know ar
rayed violently against it.
Let the authors of that policy be
nameless. We know the beneficiary OF
the conspiracy that gave it births We
know the chief conspirators and alas we
know the victims. The beneficiary, the
sole beneficiary, was that great corpora
ton with which recent legislation has
made the public unpleasantly familiar,
whose operations would be threatened
by the establishment of refineries in
Honolulu. The conspirators were those
high in authority over us, though be il
said that the President was at first al
least rather a victim than conspirator.
So was the honest but guileless secre-
tary of the treasury. The secretary OF
state we assume was particeps Grim.
inis from the first, eagerly Selling the
opportunity for the personal resentment
he has SO carefully cherished, SO was
Blount, SO was Willis with words OF
greeting on his lips and the
| TREACHERY OF THE ASSASSIN
in his mis- heart, SO was Spreckles fol
obvious reasons, SO was Nordoff for rea.
sons equally we'll known in California.
The first step in the conspiracy was
the mission of Blount. Why was hi
sent, was it 70 get information of til,
islands, their resources, etc. The arch
ives of the state department alread,
groaned under statistics of these unread
and uncared for. Was it to get informa.
ton regarding the revolution and Mr.
Stevens's actiony There was present il
Washington the commissioner Of Liliuo
kalani, with her power of attorney, he
trusted counsellor, the able, the brillian
and versatile Paul Neumann. There wa
present MacF arland, her former cabine
officer, there was present her nephew
Prince David, all of whom were at Hon
olulu ut the time of this action. Ant
representing the Provisional Govern
ment's entire commission of five mem
bers waiting for a hearing. In spite o
this. Biount was dispatched. / say no
for information, but to make out a cas-
by impugning the motives of his coun
trymen there and by OBTAINING our diplo
matte representative.
And all this was to be done by i'm
pugning the motives of our countrymeI
and discrediting our governments repre-
sentative there.
IT WAS A TASK REPCGNANT
to onorable instincts, the task of tht
intriguant rather than of the investigat
or; the task of spy upon his peers
| %oe,y of do,1b1e.deaIino and dpceif ps