The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-14

countrvmen there for no other crime |
than that they rebclled against a Gov
eminent which none OF you would sub |
nit to for moment, and sought to
share with us the blessings OF our Tag /
the intrigues, the deceit that went on in
your name and mine, and inspired the
dethroned sovereign to demand the
blood OF the peers OF any in our land,
To whose satisfaction was this; Not
to the Hawaiians, as they themselves
will testify: not to our countrymen,
/ treated as outlaws, their homes and
families terrorized by Cleveland's
threats British pretensions can no
more defeat the annexation of Hawaii
than can Democratic diplomacy; the
suggestion would be absurd. But 1T is
| Great Britain, and Great Britain alone,
that rejoices today at the delay in an
nexation, and at the tardy and ungraci-
Gus recognition we have given the new
republic of the West.
There is left Samoa, which, with Ha-
wall remains the last island group in
the Pacific unabsorbed by any European
| Power.
The Republican platform in this State
declares against any surrender there,
and the morning after the convention
the Herald said it did not know that we
had anything to surrender there. Well,
my friends, its ignorance may be eX-
cusable since Mr.. Cleveland began his
policy of surrender in the Pacific poison
ed by the personal pique of his Score
, tary of State. But if he has respected
the rights of the Senate, if he has heed
ed the warnings of the country, we have
everything to surrender in Samoa.
We have first, and above all, oul
national self-respect to surrender, if We
prove false to our obligations there w,
have all that twenty years of Republi
can diplomacy has won for us there
We have the formal acknowledgment
Of the neutrality of the Islands, and TIN
right to insist that this neutrality shall
not be violated, and a Government
instituted whose existence is securit.
against this violation. We have tn
right to the most magnificent harbor il
the Pacific Ocean, unsurpassed in tn
world. We have the right to have on
( citizens there not abandoned to tn
discriminating laws of our commerce.
rivals. We have all these to surrende
sanctiiied by the loss of the lives of GU
gallant officers and men who wen
5 out in death upon the reefs of Api
as heroically as any ever offered up /
battle.
General Grant first took us to Samoa
and Benjamin Harrison and James [
= Blaine secured from Germany an
Great Britain an acknowledgment
our right to be there when thes
u Powers sought to drive us out. And
Il justice ought to say that no man eve
II made better presentation of the;
n rights on paper than did MIR. Bayar
himself. And yet this man of NATURAL
high and honest purposes, whose socl
II graces SO endear him to those WI
oi know him in private life, must be hel
i responsible for discreditable and III
a parallel chapter in the history of OF
foreign relations.
'ii When Blount hauled down our flag
OF Honolulu it was not the first time it hf
been lowered to inaugurate policy
wv infamy in the Pacific. Mr.. Cleveland
I'd first Administration was not year o
its when our flag was ordered down
nd Apia, where it had be raised TO avert Il
ief seizure of the islands by Germi
,at squadron, and it came down with tn
ed celebrity characteristic of Clevelai
,p- Administration in the execution of SUI
IN an order. And Mr.. Cleveland called
,h- conference at Washington, which III
SUI on the agreed basis of the maintenan
he of Samoan independence.