Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-02


fanny? Can We even By courtesy call this
secret att mpt to destroy the only decent
government that these islands have known
in twenty years . mediation by the execu-
tive of the United States in b,half Of pub
dis morality2 II it to overthrow the gov
eminent Of these guilty men that you have
sent accredited to them one minister utter
another With the fairest professions of good
will, while you have disclosed to the imma-
culate .x-Queen and her favorites your Sc
cret purpose to re-establish her 'constitu-
tional'government? It 10 those men who have
assembled . fighting force of 1900 srmed
men, and fortified the government build
ings; the only ones they have had any ser
ious reason TO fear being the armed forces
which yon have assembled ut Honolulu.
ais there really. Mr.. Presi eut. any oc-
Carton to be surprised at the check which
(your) plans have thus encountered ls
not this very peculiar way to engage in
successful executive mediation even If
it had been sought IL it not obvious that
something besides the perversity of the
guilty government has injured the pros
poets Of your successful mediation?
.'Is it not little surprising that in your
long message, in which you freely express
your indignation against the guilty inten-
tons of thOse who overthIew rotten and
uncomfortable government which was en-
d-av ring to turn our fair land into gam
hliag hell, that it never once occurred to
you to say one word about the guilty ioten-
ions of the constitutional ex-Queen whom
Won were so determined to restore? For
far less crimes against the liberties of Eng
land than hers against the right. of Hawaii
did Charles 1 lose his head With far less
provoc ,tion from George Ill the American
colonies spurned the yoke Of England.
1--WE Hawa,ians find it difficult to believe
that the chief obstacle in the mind of the
ex Queen to reascendipg the thrOre is other
tina her knowledge that che would need
continuous foreign armed assistance in or
der to maintain herself there. II you bav'
not been able to pledge her such continuous
military sill, the difficulty of Carrying out
your project is evident.
The Landing Of thu Marines.
"You express surprise that Minister Ste
vens shou have brought American marines
ashore to protect American life and prop
erty the Monday evening after the great
mass meeting which decided on the deposit
ton of the Queen and the formation of
n W government, because, as You say, there
was no rioting or distur bance. Ii is true
that during that day of Intense excite
M 1T the dangerous elements of the city
that were ready for murder and rapine did
not dare to show their hands but as night
approached the town was full of threats of
blOodshed and iucrndiarsm. That it was
necessary to have brought the troops ashore
to fulfil the minister's instructions is incon-
testably proved by the fact that two incen-
diary fires were started that very night, not
withstanding the presence of the vipilant
United States marines. That the forces
we're entirely neutral as between the contes-
ants for power is proved by the fact thu,
twenty -one hours after they came ashore the
Green's Cabinet asked Minister Stevens to
use these forces to upheld the Queen in
pow er; that twice Mr.. Stevens refused re-
quests from adherents of the provisional
CIV rnment to use them in their behalf.
The same is shown by the statement OF
Charles Wilson, the command of the
Quet MS forces, to Commissioner Charles
Carter, that he knew that The American
forces would not and could not be used
against the Queens government, and by the
fact that the Queen surrendered to the rep
r, sentd,ives OF the provisional governm mt
and not to any representatives of the United
States governme Mt, though at the instig ,tiop
of her lawyers she 8 mt a lying pro
test, claiming that sha yielded to American
int ference; AID finally by tn fact that the
new government was recogniz by all the
other governments having representatives
at the capital without a single pr 1t, ST from
one of them-not even from the Bri,i-h