The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-01-05
PLEA FOR FREEDOM
Stevens Gives Another Speech
on the Hawaiian Question.

He Says That President Cleveland Di'
Wrong and Accuses Blount of "Stab
bing In the Back"
PAWTUCKET, r. l., Jan. 2-The Garfield
Republican club held brilliant banque
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 a public crime by
whomsoever perpetrated. 1t would make
of Hawaii second Singapore or Hong
Kong. All very well for British colony,
but never adapted to American inDtitu-
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 unfriendly course of action towards
people who never did us any harm?
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, its hopes, its ambitions, as
California, Washington or MaineP 1t 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.
Annexationists of High Character.
Pardon such men as Chief Justice Judd
and Attorney General Hatch, 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
hPOu W IUh SOIIOW dHu S1ldIue we
look upon this sad picture to which we
have been brought by the present admin
istration.
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 mem bers 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.
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
of the North Pacific.
Ex-Congressman Roswell G. Horr of
Michigan was next introduced. his
address being purely political and
vehement denunciation of the Wilson
tariff bill
Brief addresses were also delivered by
General Burbank, native of |
the Hawaiian Islands, Professor Williams |
Of Brown university and others, and the |
festivities were brought to a close shortly |
before midnight.