Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-05

thousand millions of dollars, more than the
combined expense of the war of the Revol-
ution, of the war of 1912, and of the Mexi-
can war. or nearly 10 the amount expended
by this Government in the war of the re-
bellion. Ie. these architects of ruin have
the shameless audsciiy 10 call themselves
Jefersonisn Democrats.
But there is another important question
as TO which Cleveland and his henchm6
have made grotesque and shameful exhib-
ition of themselves before their country
men snd the world, by their sutsgonism to
what jefferson, Jackson and Msrcy hel of
the highest value. Jefferson reloiced at
the overthrow of monarchy which had
for centuries corrupted and oppressed
brave people, who had been our friend in
period of danger and suffering, and he ar
IDENTIFY desired the success of the French
republic and aided it with his pen and his
counsel. Cleveland, eager to repudiste
the policy and acts of his predecessors,
FASTENED to manifest his sympathy for a
corrupt. worn-out and semi-bsrbarous
monarchy, and ignominiously conspired TO
restore il 70 rule over an intelligent and
patriotic American colony. and thus to put
in peril the great American interests which
our ptst tiiieritdH stalttuiSi uau CaiSiuilN
guarded for more than half a century. JEFF
ferson threw his entire official influence TO
annex a foreign territory, whose possession
he justly regarded necessary to American
development and to the prosperity of the
great Mississippi valley and 70 prevent
foreign domination at the mouth of that
great river. Cleveland 10 the degree of
conspiracy, treachery, and startling efforts
of usurpation, sought to prevent the annexa-
ton of Hawaii with its valuable re-
sources, its American civilization ere
ated by the heroic sacrifices of Amer
can men and women, its splen lid Pearl
harbor, which our sblest statesmen and our
highest military and naval officers, in the
language of Senator Morgan, chairman of
the foreign relations committee, declare
to be the Gibraltar of the North Pacific,
and a controlling center of the vast future
of American commercial interests and of
great future events yitally efecting the
destiny of the American nation. To have
shown such perfidy to national honor, such
treason TO national interests, in past times
has often sent official representatives to
infamy, to exile, and sometimes to the
scaffold.
Jefferson and Jackson were constructive
statesmen and thoroughly American in
every fiber and impulse of their being.
They saw clearly, as Seward, Grant and
Blaine afterwards saw, that this republic,
by its location and the nature of its oppor-
tunities, must become a giant, that it could
not become pigmy except by cowardice
and blunders which would be worse than
crimes. They saw that this country so IA
vored by God, nature, and the logic of his
tory, occupying this commanding position
between the two great oceans, must en-
large its political snd commercial area ac-
cerding to its necessities for development
and safety. Hence they exerted their Of
fetal power to acquire Louisiana and Flor
ida. just the opposite of these great lead
ers of democracy-thes sc CORSffnctiUc StdtCS-
men, Cleveland and his cuckoo congress
men are dcStrUctirc in their policy aud
aims.
1t will be admitted however, think few
will dispute it-thst Cleveland and his
cuckoo henchmen have made one remark
able effort of constructive craftsmanship.
Let them have full credit of this. Think
ing to extinguish the rising American re-
public of Hawaii by secret executive word
and a single stroke of his official pen, he
has made himself responsible for one of the
most remarkable procedures in American
history. In the blindness of his self-con-
ceit and want of moral sense and of Amer
lean sentiment, he created a monstrous fic-
ton, by the aid of which he thought to up.
DO the work of many years of the best
American craftsmanship of his predeces-
sors. By liberal use of this ro-
nance of lies he thought to restore a
worn-out, corrupt, barbaric monarchy
over people whose leading men are
more than his equals in intellectual
csliber and his superiors in all the graces of
life, and whose every instinct, hopes and
interests are with the land Of their fathers
This attempt to blot out the patriotic forts
of worthy people compelled to create a
better government, this attempt to over
throw them by the pressure of deceptive
diplomacy and the threat of American can
non and bsyonets, sigDally failed. 1t fail
ed because of the American and patriotic
convictions. the grit and courage, of the
Spartan band in possession of affairs at
Honolulu. These brave men, encouraged
by women brave as they, resolved TO die
at their posts rather than to have Hawaii
forced back into the unworthy arms IF
Liliuokalani and her gang of adventures
and knaves. 1t was not possible to execute
it with the promptness and reckless vigor
which such scheme Of political crime
must be executed, as was executed that
known as the crime of December, when
Louis Napoleon strangled in blood the
French republic in a single night. Menaced
for days with the bayonets and cannon of the
L nited States, called in the name of great
Government to surrender tn, ir power 10 TIE
fallen monarch who bgd vowed to behesd
them and TO punish tbfir children with per-
petual banisbment, they stood firm as gran
ite to their cause. Behind their brick walls,
their breast work of saDd-bags, and their
eighteen hundred rifles, that noble band,
nerved by common purpose, were ready to
do what their grandfathers did behind the
stone walls of Lexington and the rail- fence
at Bunker Hill. In vain ii was attempted
to seduce them, to in,imidaie, or to coax
them. Cleveland dared not give the order
to fire upon them. Thus our naval men,
ever proud of their cJuntrys honor, were
spared work from hich they shrank with
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