The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-06

and with the ideas he would have
used to a Sunday school class of
little children or possibly to be-
nighted heather from the depths
of barbarism.
We do not criticise Mr.. Wilson
nor the man who wrote the long
statement signed by him, for the
commentary thus made upon an
address which is in all respects
courteous, digni6ed and just. 1t
is not worth while. But it is
proper to ask why man like
Blount, who acted here in a Judi
cial capacity, or a Government like
that of the United States, which is
supposed to be at least fair and
gentlemanly to those who are at
any time entrusted with its foreign
missions, should publish such
coarse and untruthful conclusions
to the world as the issue of an i'm
partial investigation and as the
basis for important policies. On
its face the Wilson statement bears
the marks of falsehood, dem
agogism, malice and humbug, yet
the President of the United
States sends it to Congress to hell
eXtenuate his own policy there ant
to be used as one of the incentive.
for so grave an act as declaration
of war.
If Mr.. Stevens had been 9TH,
, elderly editor Of an obscure countr,
, journal who had been accidental,
pitchforked into the position of
r national representative, it was il
, the worst of taste for Mr.. Bloun
T and Mr.. Cleveland to herald such
, fact to the world in a State paper
. Was it the late Minister'S fault tina
g he had grown gray in service? |
:, the editorial relation djshonorable
q if obscure? And if Mr.. Steven
# was pitchforked into Office, VIII
e held the implement but the yer
q Government which Blount repre-
n scented and of which Cleveland
now President? This is bad enough
n but when it is considered that Nj
R Stevens was a diplomat of lon
n experience, and that he had bee
4 regularly and properly nominate
for Minister to Hawaii and cor
!, firned as such by the Senate, tn
, charges of "obscurity" and of bein
pitchforked into place react nc
only upon the poor creatures who's
G malice formulated them but upo
: the American statesmen VIII
: thought fit to publish them unde
the authority of the United State
: Government.
8 But there is more We fin
o the late Queen described in tn
S Blount report as having bee
( born and educated to tn
!, purple Was there ever a create
e travesty When Liliuokalai
was born the Kamehamehas wer
= on the throne and 10 one coul
e have dreamed that the hoyde
V granddaughter of the first ma
is who was hanged for murder OH tn
e Hawaiian Islands would one da
,e be Queen-and that her biograpf
l. ers would say that she has bee
r brought up amid the splendors {
Le royalty. There are hundreds {
}. young native women about on
lie streets, chaffed by hackmen an
J. police, who are counterparts {
what the future Mrs. Dominis an
>, the later sovereign was but four dc
e cades and less ago. 1t was With
or Mr.. Blount's knowledge that TIL
y is true; and yet we find him accep
~ ing a visible untruth about it a
=. that he might make THEATRES
% contrast between Queenly birth an
h state and the simple origin an
a, career ola typical American citize
a. to the disadvantage Of the latte
1t is such things as these whic
h make Americans ashamed Of the
90 country.
" THAT interchangeable letter write
- NJ. 1 .