Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-01-24
Sorry They Did Il.
THE REPUBLICANS NOW REGRET
HAVING DEFEATED Mr.
CARLISLE'S BILL.
Burden Will Be on Them, and 8 Poll
Shows Them Worse Divided Than
the Democrats The Ha-
waiian Row.

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the Democrats The Ha-
waiian Row.
WASHINGTON, u. G., January 10,
MIR. Thomas b. Reed and his Republi-
a followers In the House of Repre-
seatatives are now beginning - feel
sorry that they did not participate
with the Democrats in the effort TO
pass a currency hill, When Secretary
Carlisie's report and Recommendation
were read In the House the Republican
comment was "all right, but lot the
Democrats in Congress tackle the
question:" The Republicans held aloei
from the conservative Democrats and
aided the extremists in defeating ae7
ton ON the Carlisle bin, Many of the
Republicans favored the principles at
the Carlisle bill, and many ct them
were earnestly in favor Of taking ae7
ton ON some such legislation tfoni
purely patriotic motives, Bur the
partisan instinct OF the Republican
leaders controlled their actions as q
party. Seeing that the Democrats
were divided, they thought il would
embagrasS the Democratic leaders and
the administration If they sided with
the minority, This they have done,
rhey have contributed their iniin-
enee To tearing down, and have OPP
posed all efforts TO build mp Now
they realize thai they have made a
mistake. When they take CONTROL OF
Congress in a few months, they vii
find the Same question confronting
them Just as ugly as it eonfronts the
Democrats now, Mr.. Reed Thought
that he could settle the question him
self and get credit for doing 50. Now
he learns that Mr.. Teller, MIR VOL
colt, MIR. Dubois and the other free
coinage Republicans IN the Senate,
Will be as aggressive in opposition te
him as they are in oppositioif TO the
conservative leaders of the Democracy
in the present Congress. Reed held
the Republicans aloof during CHS SEES,
sion, in order to expose the divisions
in the Democratic party TO the country
He did not take into consideration
that by so doing he was paving the
way for an exposition of Republican
family fueds in the next Congress:
The riot, rebellion or whatever i
was in Hawaii was the occasion to-day
of a shower of resolutions from the
Republican Senators. The Republi'
cans of the Senate seem DESTROYS o
posing as the special guardians of Ha'
waii and open and avowed advocates o
annexation. The missionaries who's,
descendants overthrow the Govern
ment of Liliuokalani were New Eng
land people and the little coteri'
now in charge of affairs in Hawaii ar
either Yankees or the sons or grand
sons of Yankees. The present situa
1 tto4t III l. oCS1IAo " bC NSI ~
pie. AS l get it from naval officer
and tourists who have studied the sit
uation in the Pacific islands, it is some
thing like this:
The missionary children feared tina
the agitation of this question Nigh
lbecome-popular some day and tina
efforts might be made by the over
whelming majority of the natives t
make the newcomers give UP wha
they obtained from the natives b,
covert theft or sharp practice. Thi
caused the missionary crowd to begil
an agitation for annexation, their OBJ
ject being to get the islands unde
United States law and get American
title, SO to speak, to their properties
They found Stevens, the American
Minister, a willing tool in their hand
and the Queens Government wa
overthrow by the aid of the Ameri
a Minister and the American ma
rines on board the Boston.
Their annexation plans miscarried
but they used the advantage they ha,
gained owe the natives to keep them
selves in power, and they established
Constitution which DISTINGUISHED abou
80 per cent of the native population
made ineligible for Office about 90 pc
cent of the natives and confined tn,
power of authority in the islands ex
clusiyely to the missionaries and thei
offspring. Many of the natives ar,
fairly well educated and the agitation
for universal suffrage has been goin,
on among them ever since the adop
ton of the Constitution. The ruin,
class in the Hawaiian Islands at presen
comprises not more than 5 per cent o
the population. The Government i
really an o~ligarchy.
This oligarchy, through the in
fluence of New England Senators, i
trying to compel the United State
Government to keep warships at Hon
olulu to perform police duty in tn,
Hawaiian Islands. The United State
marines have dethroned the Queer
and established the oligarchy in power
it is but natural that the natives would
believe, if an American man-of-wa,
were kept at Honolulu, that its bust
ness there was to keep the oligarehy il
power.
President Cleveland and his Cabine
advisers, as well as the Democrat,
leaders in Congress, are old-fashioned
honest people, who do not approve O
robbery even when committed by the
children of missionaries. Nor do the,
believe that the people of the United
States should be called upon TO pay
taxes to maintain a navy to do police
duty at Hawaii to keep an oligarchy il
power. 1t is only the New England
Senators who seem to be interested il
the Hawaiian missionaries, but the
New Englanders control the Republi
can Senators from the West as if they
were SO many children.
The fact is, our New England friend.
look upon Hawaii as a Yankee colony
They shed tears over the alleged dis,
reimbursement of the negroes in Mis-.
sissippi, in Louisiana, South Carolin;
and elsewhere in the South, but they
entirely approve of the total dis.
reimbursement of a more inteIigent
race than the negroes in the Hawaiian
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