Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-27

fed; Mr.. st, vens know is satisfied, ano
his friends throughout the country are
amply satisfied with the verdict of the most
distingui she'd man you have ia either House
of Congress.
You can say what YOU please OF Mr.
Stevens acti IN there. II was IN the line OF
progre =; il WIS in the interest OF 'lvllza
ton; 1t WAS patriouc, and when perhaps
all of US are forgotten, future generatlont
in the island of Hawaii will remember Johr
L. SseveDs as we remember the men tc
whom we look back as those who have DC ne
good for their country. Applause on the
Republican side.
The same subject being under discussion
tn next day Mr. Miliiken spoke as follows
Mr.. Milliken. The gentleman from Ken
lucky inquiries why these repeated cefenses
of the Republican party are heard upon this
floor. 1t is Simply because the Iolcy OF
the Republican party as carried out by the
last administration and by the very worthy
and eminent minister " no the n repres' nted
this country at the Hawaiian Islands has
been repeatedly attacked here. Our Demo
cratic friends cannot see m to forget their
own unfortunate mistakes, and when
other people would willingly LET
them be buried with the dead, they try to
d up the old rotten carcasses, and If pos
1ible breathe into them some semblance of
Especial ility. have been amused at
their persistency. They remind me of the
old lady who called her husband" Scissors.
He concluded he vould stop that thing, and
fiaally he chucked her down into wen.
She still kept saying Scissors and when
at last he held her under the water so that
she could not say Scissors" any more, she
held up her two fingers and worked thu m
like the two blades of apair of scissors.
Laughter.
Now, after the Hawaiian policy of the
present administration has been condemned
by the most distinguished Democrats in the
Senate, after it has b en- condemned by the
ma )rity of the committee on foreign rela-
tons of a Democratic Senate, after it has
been almost universally condemned by the
press and the people of this country, our
friends still seem to feel as if they can rake
it up and galvanize it into a little respecta-
bility. As sid yesterday, it shows sub
Inner faith in the power to do something i'm
possible than l have ever seen manifested
before. SO far as Minister Stevens is con-
cerned, he was sustained by the administr. =
ton that sc mt him to Hawaii when Presidel
Harrison sent to the Senate for ratifcati, n
the treaty framed between this country al
the IIaw allan Islands.
He was sustained by our administration,
and he has since been sustained over Shelm-
ingly by the verdict of the people and the
press of this country; and | pity the STU
piii;y of the man, whether he be Democrat
or Republican, who has not felt in the air
the patriotic rebuke given by the people of
the United States to the present admins
tration for its attempt to restore a rotten
mon archy in hawaii. The gentleman says
that the administration did not try to do
that. Why, sir, the President in the mes
sage which he sent to this House and which
was read from that desk, stated that he had
done it. But, says my friend from
Kentucky, the President did not use
force. Why did he not use force:
1t was because he discovered before
he got very far into the business that the
people of this country wonld not allow him
to use force. in violation of the Constitution
of the United States, to restore rotten
monarchy in place of the enlightened and
civilized government that had been set up
in those islands where the American people
have been so large factors in bringing about
the degree of civilization that exists there
today.