St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-19
HAWAIIAN F,LIRUsTERtNG.

1t is reported that an armed body of
Canadian adventures have rendeZ-
voused at Victoria, and will shortly set
sail for Honolulu with the purpose of
capturing that city and raising the Brit
ish flag over the late domain of Queen
Liliuokalani. The plan is said to be
secretly favored by some of the leading
politicians or the dominion, who are ap-
parently more plentifully supplied with
patriotism than discretion.
The promoters of this expedition-if it
is really contemplated-muS be aware
of the penalties they evoke by such ad-
ventures. Many years ago it was all the
rage i'll this country for restless spirits
to tit out expeditions for the capture of
Cuba. A number of such expeditions
actually set sail, and one actually land
ed from the Vlrginlus, headed by a fiery
young Irlshman named Ryan, who had
served with distinction III our civil war.
The party was captured by the Spanish
troops, and every mothers son of them
was shot after trial by drum-head court
martial. Appeal was made on their be-
half to the United States gov
"a hLhCdls OuU hCttACl COuiO GuSlI
lives be saved nor could Indemnity
be recovered. They we're treated
as pirates are treated under the law of
nations, and all the world approved
their punishment. Walker and his fill
ibusters met like reception at Nicara-
qua in 1857. Ii the Canadian party
/ should invade the soil of Hawaii with
the purpose of conquest, they would be
exceedingly fortunate if they escaped
the fate that befel the American fill
busters in Cuba and Nicaragua; and the
British government, if it observed its
own traditions, would be the first to an
prove of their execution.
There is no doubt that the present
disturbed condition of affairs in the
Hawaiian islands offers great tempta-
| ton to adventures from every part of
| the world. 1t is thought that the peo-
| pie are practically defenselesS. 1t is
| true that the native army is small and
| Insignificant, and could offer but a
feeble resistance to invasion. But the
foreign population is by no means in
significant. Less than two thousand of
them are of British birth or sympathize
with the British government. The Ger
mans, Portuguese and Americans, to take
no account of the Chinese and Japanese
| the latter an important and influential
element of the population-would look
upon such an invasion as the one con-
templated as an assault upon their
rights, and would resist it to the bitter
end. An army of five thousand men
would be insufficient to overcome them:
ships load of imperfectly disciplined
Adventures would be swept into the
ocean with rapldity that would cause
the world to wonder.
The report in question is probably the
| creation of some sensation-loving cor
| respondent, or the invention of some
| Jealous anneXationist, who hopes by
| such means to preeipitate action by
!, the American congress-most likely the
latter. 1t is not reasonable to suppose
that any sensible official connected
with the British or Canadian govern.
ment would lend countenance TO such a
scheme, for it would be fraught with
extreme hazard. Neither the United
States nor Germany could afford to per-
] mft-such thing. and would resent it to