Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-05
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character of .honored officials of our GOV
eminent and imperilled the lives of our
countrymen in Hawaii
"In this state of things il the Queen"
'could have dealt with the insurgents alone"
cher course would have been plain and the,
"result unmistakable. But the Unitedn
Estates had allied itself with her enemies. y
"By an act of war committed with the par-p
"ticipation of diplomatic representative Of"
'the United States and without authority"
"of Congress, the government of feeble"
% u, friendly and confiding peop'e has been"
oyeIthrown. A substantial wrong has"
''thus been done which due regard for
"our national character as we'll as the rights"
'of the injured people requires we should"
"endeavor to repair
"a man of true honor protects the un-"
"written word which binds his conscience"
"more scrupulously, if possible, than he'
''does the bond, breach of which subjects"
chin to legal liabilities; aud the United"
States in aiming to maintain itself as one"
"of the most enlightened of nations, would"
"do its citizens gross injustice if it applied"
"to its International relations any other"
than high standard of honor and moral"
'ity."
''If feeble but friendly state is in dan"
''ger Of being robbed of its independence
land its sovereignty by misuse of the
name and power of the United States"
''the United States cannot fail to vindicate'
''its honor and its sense of justice by an
earnest effort to make all possible re-"
'paration."
| said Mr.. Cleveland did not raise fin
ger for the restoration of Malietoa, but by
the grace of God and by the efforts of
President Harrison and James G. Blaine, at
the Berlin conference, this man was brought
back to Samoa though only a wreck of his
former SELF to the birthright of which the
interference of Mr.. Cleveland and Mr..
Bayard had robbed him. He is there now,
slowly recovering from the ravages of the
disease and suffering of his cruel exile.
But hardly is Mr.. Cleveland again in
power when again come to us stories of war
and bloodshed and of foreign intrigue.
And the government for which we more
than any other power are responsible, es-
tablished in the cause of justice and the
vindication of our own honor, not only is
left without our moral support, but Mr..
SltStlhIu ledub III ueuulCldtlOH VI ~, WDllc
our rivals there exult at the prospect of our
withdrawal from the Islands.
He denounces the only civilized govern
ment Samoa has ever had, the only barrier
against anarchy, and having attacked its
prestige and weakened its power he points
to the consequent confusion as an illustra-
ton of its inefcency. Again he seeks to
abandon Malietoa to his enemies, who are
our own, again he allies himself with the
insurgents, but this time he, and not Prince
Bismarck, is their instgator.
Let it be known here and now that there
was not shot fired against the government
in Samoa until Mr.. Cleveland, by his ut
terances inspired it and that for all the sor
row and bloodshed that may come upon
those interesting and worthy people,
he, through his attacks on the existing gov
eminent is responsible. Such his honesty,
such his humanity towards the Samoans
Let us turn to the Islands of the North.
Here is the same strategic importance, har-
Dor rights and "moral suzerainty," as in
Samoa. All that Samoa is to us, Hawaii is
also and more, UNNECESSARILY more, more
by the number of our countrym men establish
ed there, the wealth of their commerce and
the developments of American enterprise
sanctifed by American Christian civiliza-
ton. God fearing men they were who
carried first the banner of this civilization.
They fought idoatry, disease, war and
RIGHTEOUSNESS, they stood between the
Hawaians and the mercenary adventures
who came to prey upon them. They, and
their children loved the Hawaiian people,
and were loyal to their rulers, while these
remained loyal to the Constitution that pro-
tected all but when these failed in this
nothing could avail.
And in the inevitable day of disruption
that was foreseen, what would be the des-
tiny of the Islands none doubted, nor did
any wish for another than to share the
glories of our own.
Tie mad act of the Queen only precipi-
tated what she and her people had foreseen
must some day come; foreseen with cheer
full resignation. 1t presented for solution
an American problem and the Americans OF
Hawaii gave to that American problem an
American solution.
As their Revolutionary fathers had done
they formed committee of safety as the
first step towards the establishment OF ne
publican principles. And if when the
forces were landed from our ships, as II
would have been a crime on the part OF our
officials not to have landed them, this au-
ln0r1ty got tne UtDeHt VI any "oi"' -"
vantage, which from every such action goes
out to the authority most friendly to Ameri-
can interests, and best representing the
cause Of law and order.-I 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 President Cleveland OF
the gift of the sovereignty of Hswan, the
free and flial offering of our countrymer
there. ;.
A party whose boast it has been that II
gave our country all the territory it has &C
Quired from the purchase of Louisiana &c
tnst of Alaska, rejects the gift OF territory
the annexation of which had been the am
of the great Marcy, and to effect when
treaty had been sent to the Senate by ,ht
Democratic President! The party thai
through all the days of reconstruction II
the South contended against the establish
ment Of irresponsible government is enlisted
on behalf of one as unbearable to cisliize'
community as the most corrupt carpet pay
government that was ever known! Inc