St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-02
MORE OF STEVENS TALK.
THE EX-MiNIS TER AGAIN. RELIEVES
HIS AiND
ON THE HAWAIIAN TROUBLE.
Meeting of the Pawtucket Gar
- field Club Gives Him the
.sf Chance, and He Vents His
III Spleen on the Course the ADJ
3 ministratiOn Has Chosen to
Pursue in tho Matter.


PAwTUCKET. r. l.. Jan. 1.-The Gar
field Republican club held brilliant
BANG uet this evening, fitting close to
the days inauguration ceremonies.
Covers were laid at the AlcaZar for 200.
Mayor Tiepke presided, and, besides the
special guests of the evening. ex-Min-
lister Stevens and ex- Congressman Horr
were present. 1t was o'clock when
Mayor Tiepke introduced Hon. John l..
Stevens, eX-minister to the Hawaiian
Islands. Mr.. Stevens was received with
prolonged applause. His preface was
an exhaustive review of the resources
and population of the Hawaiian Islands,
and their commercial Importance to the
United States. Treating of the pres
ent aspect of the Hawaiian af-
fair, he declared that the re-
turn of Queen Liliuokalani to the
throne by any outside force or iDtimida-
ton by any diplamatic pressure or CHI
canery will be public crime. by whom
soever perpeurated. 1t would make of
Hawaii a second Singapore or Hong
Kong, 1t might be all very we'll for a
British colony, but not adapted to Amer
lean institutions nor intended for Amer
lean form of government. The execu-
tive of this great republic has assumed
a hostile attitude to the American col
ony in the Hawaiian islands. Why this
unfriendly course of action towards
people who never did us any harm?
Why this threat of war against people
who mean to bring untold wealth to our
doors, for nowhere on the globe, except
In the North Pacific, is American NOM
merce SO vastly in the ascendency
as at Hawaii, which is as Amer
lean in its sympathies. its ropes
and its ambitions as California or
Washington or Maine. 1t is deeply hui
initiating to every true American to see
this condition of affairs. and it makes a
page on the history at which all Ameri-
cans must blush. When Cleveland
emissary reached the islands last March
there was no part of the United States
more peaceful, for the monarchy was
dead aDd official corruption had been
put an end to. This same emissary bore
letters Of credence to representative
Americans whom he subsequently,
stabbed in the back. On the secret tes-
timony Of enemies the respectable
members of the provisional government
were condemned as Grim nals, and in
suited with the promise that when the
grossly immoral Queen Liliuokalani
was restored to the throne she would
pardon them. Pardon euch men
as Chief Justice Judd and At
torney General Hatch, son of
New Hampshire, and the supe-
rior legally and III every other
respect of Secretary Gresham; pardon
such representative men, whose private
aud official characteristic no period in
their past lives ever had blot upon
them. With sorrow and shame we look
upon this sad picture to which we have
been brought by the present admins
tratlon. In the name then OF freedom
loving races, in behalf of all who love
justice and fair play, in behalf of Chris
tian civilization in the United States,
let us do our duty in endeavOring to put
a stop TO this extraordinary uSurpatIon
of power. and stamp out this outrage
inflicted upon our patriotic, devoted aud
imperiled fellow. countrymen of the
North Pacific" EX-Congressmlan R0s-
we'll u. Horn, of Michigan, was next in
troduced, his address being purely po-
litical and a vehement denuncIation of
the Wilson tariff bill. Brief addresses
were also delivered by Attorney Gen
eral Burbank, native of the Hawaiian
islands; Prof. Williams, of Brown uni
verSity, and others.