Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-16
wH1rEwAsHED, Bur NOT YET WHITE


WHITEWAsRED, BUT NOT E WHITE
The administration has been white
washed in the Hawaiian matter, but it
is not yet white. Proof of this state.
ment is hardly necessary, and yet it may
be interesting to read what the leading
lawmakers, editors, educators and
divines of the country, have to say of
the presidents policy of restoration.
Laying aside all other questions, the
sentiment of leading Americans upon
the plain policy of restoration, will be
interesting. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge says: II entirely disapprove of
the policy Of the present administration
with regard TO Hawaii. The provision
al government, after its establishment,
vas recognized by every civilized nation,
including our own. 1t has shown that
is perfectly able to maintain itself and
to preserve order" Editor Chas. A..
Dana of the New York Sun, says Of the
attempted restoration: 1.-THE story of
his (Cleveland's) efforts to that end, is
the most h%umiliating and shameful chap
ter in the history of this republic" G.
81. Jones, editor of the New York World
says: "The attempt to overthrow it by
force or by menace thereof, was another
breach of international law, and it's sue.
cess would have placed this government
in a most unfortunate position before
the world" Hon. Nelson Dingley, jr.,
Of Maize, says: "The policy of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration toward
the provisional government of Hawaii
has been unjust, unpatriotlc, indefensi,
BILE and inexplicable." Hon. Chas.
Emory Smith of the Philadelphia Press,
says: 1T reversed and repudiated the
uniform attitude of the American gov
eminent for more than half q century"
Hon. Noah Davis, ex-cbief justice of the
New York supreme court, says: There
is no warrant in the laws of God or man
to justify the president in his course"
Gov. Brown of Rhode Island, says: "It
is un-American and co%wardly." Presi-
dent Gates of Amherst college, says:
''By principles of international law, the
United States was bound not to inter-
fere in the political life of the islands by
an effort to reinstate the dethroned
queen. Pressure to secure this end by
doubtful statements as to the possible
employment of force by the United
States to overthrow a government to
which a representative Of our own gov.
eminent IS accredited, are in%defepsible."
DR.. Rankin, president of Howard uni
versity, Washington, says: "Recent
events make it necessary for this great
people to understand the principles of
international law. 1t is a notifying
thing for a nation to make mistakes in
the eyes of all the world, and as to rules
which effect the welfare of all nations.
Let us call them by no harder name
than mistakes, and look at the Hawaiian
tangle in that light" President Schur-
man of Cornell, says: lin my opinion,
the only wise thing for our government
to do in regard. to Hawaii, is to leave
the provisional government alone" Rev.
Thompson of Madison avenue, Presby-
terrain church, New York, says: THE
presidents policy in the Hawaiian mat
ter has been SO thoroughly disapproved
by the country, that is scarcely worth
While now to raise the question of it's
wisdom" And there are other opinions
in the same strain, too numerous to
mention.
1t might be we'll for the supporters OF
the policy of withdrawing to procure
what, it any, a%pprovals of the policy of
the ~administratic: :, which can be &c.
cured, and array them against some of
the arrangements and condemnations of
the administration.