The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-02
EI-Mlnislsr Jopn l. Stevens Spoke
= = at PaVtucket Last Night.
WAS GUEST OF GARFIELD CLUB.
He Gave an Exhaustive Review Of the
Conditions Existing 1t Hawaii and
Showed Hostility OF tlcveland Admin
istration to Provisional Government.

PAwTUCKEr, II. l., Jan. 2.-The Garfield
last evening. Covers were laid at the
Alcazar for 200. Mayor Tiepke presided,
and besides the special guests of the even
ing, ex-Minister Stevens and ex-Congress-
man Horr. there were many others
prominent In public life.
After the banquet Mayor Tiepke intro
duced Hon. John l.. Stevens. The ex-
minister gave an exhaustive review OF the
resources and population of the Hawaiian
Islands and their commercial Importance
to the United States. Treating of the
present aspect of Hawaiian affairs he de-
clared that monarchial restoration Of the
return Of Queen Liliuokalani to the
throne by any outside force. or intimida-
tion by any diplomatic pressure or
chicanery, would be public crime by
whomsoever perpetrated. 1t would make
of Hawaii n second Singapore or Hong
Kong. All very well for British colony,
but never adapted to American institu-
tions nor intended for an American form
OF government.
Cleveland Charged With Hostility.
The executive of this great republic has
assumed hostile attitude to the Ameri-
can colony in the Hawaiian Islands. Why
this unfrendly course of action towards
people who never did us any harmf
Why this annual threat Of war against
people who mean to bring untold wealth
to our doors, for no where on the globe,
except In the Northern Pacific, Is Ameri-
can commerce so vastly in the ascendency
as at Hawaii, which is as American In its
sympathies, it's hopes, its ambitions, as
California, Washington or Maines II is
deeply humiliating to every true Ameri-
can TO see this condition Of affairs, and it
makes page Of history at which all
Americans must blush.
When Cleveland's emissary reached the
islands last March there was no part Of
the United States more peaceful, for the
monarchy was dead, and official corrup-
tion had been put an end to. This same
emissary bore letters Of credence to repre-
sentative Americans, whom he subse-
quently stabbed in the back. On the
secret testimony of enemies the respect
able members Of the provisional govern
ment were condemned as criminals, and
insulted with the promise that when the
grossly immoral Queen Liliuokalani was
restored to the throne she would pardon
them.
Annexationists OF High Character.
Pardon such men as Chief Justice Judd
and Attorney General Hatch. a son of
New Hampshire and the superior legally
and in every other respect OF Secretary
Gresham; pardon such representative men
whose private and official character at no
period in their past lives ever had blot
npon them. With sorrow and shame we
look upon this sad picture to which we
have been brought by the present admin
istration.
In the name then of our common an
cestry, In the name Of freedom loving
races in behalf of all who love justice and
fair play, in behalf of Christian civiliza-
tion in the United States, let us do our
duty in endeavoring to put stop to this
extraordinary usurpation of power and
stamp out this outrage inflicted upon our
patriotic, devoted and imperilled fellow
countrymen Of the North Pacific.
Mr.. Stevens gave interesting statistics
of the actual conditions in the islands
whose population is now composed of
10000 foreign born or children of such
and $4,000 natives. The American
policy is to make as many free holders as
possible as opposed ito the monarchical
policy of controlling the crown lands,
to lease to men like Spreck-
els or sell to court favorites at
prices far below their value. 1t is fact
that the $4,000 natives today cover more
land i'm severalty than did the $50, 900 ma
tives who inhabited the islands 20 years
ago. The native population is rapidly
dying out and the most intelligent part
of it reared in the public schools under
American teachers In the islands is with
the Americans. With It's diversified re-
sources properly developed the islands
would easily support half million, but
Spreckels prefers to confine the product
to sugar, utilize coolie labor, get his land
by monarchical favor and charge the other
planters big rates at his refinery in San
Francisco.
Mr.. Stevens, despite his advanced years,
is a powerful speaker. II Is said that he
was for ten years an active Universalist
minister. His elocutionary talents
are admirable, his address, was carefully
prepared and the result was most in
teresting and inspiring.
1t was big night for the Garfield club
and fine elimination for Mayor Tieplxe's
Inauguration day. Pawtuc<et, the
Garfield club and Mayor Tiepke
have the honor of securing the first
spoken utterance in public that ex-
Minister Stevens has made on the Hawa-
iian question.
A fine orchestra under Mr. Albert
Testers direction furnished music and
Gelb d Norton were the caterers.
The Druid at ~. John.