The Portland daily press., 1894-09-05


sounding pTetensions to sympathy with
the Hawaiians, for if there are any de-
grees to the deeds of the devil the base
est are those accomplished by playing
upon the noblest attribute of the hu-
man heart.
Consider the proposition! Mr-Cleve-
land has succeeded in preventing annex
alton for time. For a time he has
prevented the Hawaiians from enjoying
the blessings of our flag. And we are
asked to believe that
THIS ACTION is HUMANE!
To call it this is to libel not only our
own people and institutions, but the
Hawaiians as we'll. There has not been.
nor is there now. any animosity on the
part of the Hawaiian people towards
our flag. They have always regarded
the shelter Of our flag as place of ref
uge. They have repeatedly sought it,
and Parker, one of their ablest and
most honest leaders, declares il his testi-
mony that he would not take again
cabinet seat excepting under its protec-
ton.
In annexation there was involved 10
question of the destruction of a native
government. There has not been any
native government in Hawaii. 1t was
eigners should be entrusted, those who
made dupes of the natives and excited
| their worst prejudices and passions, the
enemies alike of the native and the re-
putable foreigner, or to such as should
be chosen under the system of govern
| ment which Congress in it's wisdom
| should determine upon,
| Against us and our institutions, re-
| peat. there has been no prejudice. What
mas been falsely represented to be this,
has been prejudice excited for selfish
and dishonest purposes against certain
Americans IN Honolulu,a local prejudice
against specific idividuals. Their rule
! the native Hawaiians have opposed; it
| IS the only rule they really oppose, it is
| the rule to which Mr.. Cleveland's &C.
tion has abandoned them. To this
| they prefer annexation thousand fold.
! have referred to the condition of Lii
| ioukalani, and for this have charged
| upon Mr.. Cleveland the responsii blity;
repeat the charge and challenge deni-
| al. | assert that but for his interference
| through his commissioner, the late
| Queen of Hawaii would be in possession
| of a comfortable competency today. |
| refer to negotiations to this end defeated
| by Blount and on his report for my au-
| thority. He states that was party to
| these negotiations. and though this
| his charge il false, do not hesitate to
| say thatsI would have been proud of
| such an honorable connection. The ne
| gotiations
WERE HoNORABLY CONCEIVED
and would have resulted in the payment
! by the Provisional Government of such
a sum as was originally secured to the
ax-Queen in constellation of a reuuncia-
| tion of her claims. Blount defeated these
negotiations and sent false report of
| his action to Washington.
| No, my friends, if Mr.. Blonnt knew,
as ! believe he did, the determination
I of the administration to be to restore
/ the Queen, then his action. is less repre-
| hensible, however much this view re-
| fleets on the impartial character of his
| mission But if he did not, even though
| his interference only took the form as
| reported by him, of advice unasked, CIV
| en- in resentment of what he deemed to
| be an invasion Of his own prerogative,
| his action was crinlinally selfish, and IN
| view of results scarcely less than brutal.
He can choose
EITHER HORN OF THE DILEMMA.
| And who that knows these facts and
| the sad situation of the last occupant
| of the thone Of the kamehamehas, does
not rejoice that the perpetrators of this
crime are being punished now in the
i pillory of the condemnation of their
countrymen!
4 There was another figure in the drama
enacted at Honolulu besides Mr.. Blount
and the unfortuat woman who was his
victim. This was your fellow citizen,
I the minister resident of the United
States. Not in the present generation
has there been a diplomatic representa-
tive of this government called upon to
meet grayer response bilities. The
affection of the heaviest sorrow that can
enter fathers heart lay upon him.
Difficulties that would have taxed the
aye, and physical perils rs well, beset
| the path of duty, and it is a part of
history that he did not quail.
But, my frien is, there is virtue be-
yond the courage that was behind all
this, and that is that spirit that leads
and contumely for the sake of a great
cause and loyalty to a trust. Such a
rare virtue was his, and as one who wit
messed it l wish here to bear my testi-
mOny.
Subordinated to a novice, whose dip
lomatic experience had been confined to
the walls of congressional committee
rooms. he was not supplaced, but ordered
to welcome and assist the man whose
task it was to caluminate him. The adj
varces of friendliness
WE'RE REFLECTED AS INSULTS,
and the offers to aid in the matters de-
clared to be the object of investigation
were at once seized upon as evidence of
guilt. The man who broke bread at
his table at Honolulu was blackeuiEg
his name and plotting his ruin at Wash
ington.
| My friends, not all this brought MUIR
muring or complaint from this faithful
public servant. And when at last it be-
came evident in Hawaii. as it had long
been at home, that the decision of the
administration was made up, that parti-
sanship, personal malignity, misrepre-
sentation and the insidious and selfish
influence of great corporation, whose
greater triumph was yet to come, was to
prevail, what then? / speak from daily
personal intercourse nothing of re-
proach or doubt, or fear, nothing but
unabated andrun bounded confidence in
his chief, the President of the United
States.
My friends, am not here to. plead his