The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-09
Mr.. HIT ON HAWAII.
He Upholds the Provisional Government
and Heaps Ridicule on the Administra-
ton of President Cleveland.

In the course of the recent debate In
the national house of Representatives
on the Hawaiian question Mr.. Hit, re
publican. of Illinois, gave temperate
yet searching analysis of the Cleveland
Gresham policy. The following is g
brief synopsis of his patriotic speech:
The finding of the senate committee
which has been investigating the
whole matter and which would be pub
lished in few days would be far diff.
ferent from the statements (Blounts)
which are so positively asserted Il
there was any man unfit to be quoted
1t was the man who had made that so
called investigation. That was the last
source to which we should go for in
struction touching the matter of inter
ference. Applause. The previous
speaker had rallied against annexation;
but how did we know what would be
the opinion in the white house
next week? Laughter and applause
He praised the administration of
President Dole and its stability, and
said that, in spite of the efforts of a
powerful government to foment dis
cord, that little government had held
its own and had maintained its place
in the family of nations. Applause.
There were only two cases where the
law of nations permitted one country
to interfere with another; one was
where it was necessary for self-preser-
walton and the other was in the name of
humanity, and neither excuse existed
in this case. AS a precedent for the
action OF Minister Stevens in recogniz-
ing the provisional government he
quoted the action of Minister Wash
burn in recognizing the French repub-
lie This country had assumed in the
eyes of the world a position as the en-
bodiment of justice and republican
ideas. Whenever a step has been taken
in a foreign country looking to the
adoption of republican institutions,
this country has been among the first
to welcome it Applause. And to-
day, for the first time in hundred
years, this government is defended for
pursuing a policy inimical to free in
situations. [Applause-l
He ridiculed the presidents attempt
to restore the queen and said every one
who had ever read page of history
knew how futile it was to try to restore
a discarded, discredited and WORKOUT
government. He replied to the asser-
ton that the landing of marines from
the Boston was an act of war by stat
ing that the orders copies of which he
had before him) specified that they
were to be used solely for the protec-
ton of life and property. Was it not
many times more an act of war to send
a minister there with orders to over
throw the existing republican govern
ment and to establish a monarchy? Mr..
Hit became sarcastically sentimental
in referring to the beautiful queen"
whom the president has essayed to re-
store to her throne; but when he
came to that woman he found her more
fearful and bloodthirsty than anything
mentioned in Homer" He paid high
tribute to the courage and perseverance
of the Americans in Hawaii, whose
great sin was their blind love for
America and for free institutions.
And when the men of these islands
found that the policy of restoration
was to be carried out they barricaded
their houses and armed their citizens,
prepared to resist to the death an in
vasion of their freedom and their
rights" [Applause.l
Mr.. Hit referred caustically to the
action of democratic member in intro
ducing a resolution commencing Ad-
miral Benham for firing upon Brazil
ian vessel while there was already
pending in the house a resolution to
blacl1en the name of an American off,
Ger who never fired gun and who de-
clared that his sole aim was to protect
American life and property. But the
American people, said Mr.. Hit, did not
care to have Mr.. Cleveland setting up a
monarchy in Hawaii or attempting to
set up one here. He briefly reviewed
the previous revolutions, alluding to
the abuses which had led to those revo-
buttons. and to the vile crew OF the
palace gang" which had so Disguised
respectable citizens that they ha d been
obliged to rise in protest. And after
they had corrected the evils and abuses
of the corrupt court and had returned
to their peaceful vocations, they had no
sooner withdrawn from the palace than
the debauchery began again. Again
they returned and overthrow the de-
PRAYED government. and when it oc-
Cured third time they got tired and
flung away the monarchy for good
Applause.
1t remained for the president of the
United States to pick up that depraved
and paltry bauble and force it back
upon the shoulders of our fellow citi-
zens- Republican applause. And
because the president did not like the
provisional government he determined
to restore what he termed the consti-
tutional ruler of the islands, that infa-
nous and obscene queen.
In answer to a question from Mr..
Springer Mr.. Hit said the men at the
head of the revolution of 1898 had done
the same thing twice before, and they
would have done it again if the Amer
lean troops had been thousand miles
away.
Reverting again to the question of the
restoration policy, he said it was re-
voting to think of our government
trying to subvert Christian republic
for heather monarchy. 1t was revolt
ing TO our very nature that our forces
should be perverted and turned aside to
attack ourown flesh and blood.
As Mr. Hit took his seat a warm
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