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THE missionary BUGABOO,"
Il Sits on the Editors Desk in the
Nations" Sanctum.
Corre.oondenrs RemArks on the Policy
of the United STANDARDIZATION
BugabOos."

sons in this community who nave
read with much amusement and
some enlightenment a recent artl'
Gle by the editor Of the Nation
on the Hawaiian situation. This
gentleman is 30 we'll situated tC
form q full, clear and unprecedented
opinion of political matters in The
far Pacifcl Then, too, being
person of an entirely unbiased
mind, and possessing no more
venom in his quill than the inofen'
Give rattlesnake has In his fangsi
the editors remarks on Hawaii are
worthy the most serious considera-
ton. It is interesting to note how
some of the editors Of Eastern
journals start with the broad pre-
misc that "they know it all :" then
take counsel of their petty spites
and their partizan prejudices, and
proceed to write weighty editorials
on our foreign relations with Ha'
waii.
The keen discernment of the
editor of the Nation has led him
very quickly to strike the trail of
the "British Bugaboo," as he calls
the scare of certain journals In re-
gard to British influence In Ha-
wall, and he has DO doubt caught
some stray glimmering of truth on
the subject. For, as a matter of
fact, highlands attitude toward
these Islands during the last few
months has been fully as friendly
as that adopted by the United
States.
Perhaps she felt that her inter-
e5ts were perfectly safe In the
hands of the present administers
ton, or, possibly, she recognized
the fact that the claims of the
United States were of 80 para
mount a nature in these Islands
that interference in the affairs of
Hawaii would be uDjustifiable.
However this may be, highlands
foreign policy has been so uni
formIy aggressive that it furnishes
presumptively some substance to
this shadowy form Of the British
Bugaboo" conjured up by the Re-
publican press in the United
States. But We would humbly in
quire Of the editor of the Nation
which is worse-a British Buga-
boo" growing out of a jealous de-
sire for the advancement of Ameri-
can interests abroad, or the "Mis-
sionary Bugaboo," which stalks up
and down the sanctum of the Ma
ton, and, when questioned, "Wbo |
caused all this trouble in Hawaii"
answers, "The wicked mission
aries" "Who deprived a poor
'dusky queen of her rights?" "The
wicked missionaries" "Who are
the curse of Hawaii" "The |
wicked missionaries"
The learned editor must also |
have his fling at the officers of the |
navy and their professional en-
It is unfortunate that
there are certain people who have !
to be thorn in the flesh in the |
side of all true enthusiasm. They |
consider that such aloofness digni- |
fies them with an intellectual and
moral superiority which separates |
them from the common crowd. IL |
was men of this type who, during
the Civil war, despising the patriot
ism of the people, shot the poisoned
arrows of their dissent and dis
loyalty into the backs of the men
who were fighting for the Union.
The strong enthusiasm and Ameri-
car ism of the men or our warships
ought not to be slurred at, it would
be profound pity if it were lack
ing. But the acrid, carping spirit
Of its detractors is to be despised.
The editor of the Nation refers
to the Harrison treaty of annexa-
ton" as a disgraceful thing. But
wherein lies the disgrace2 Is it
such because it follows out the
policy of Cass, Webster, Marcy and
Blaine? The said treaty of annexa-
ton was simply the logical out
come Of our foreign policy toward
hhWAllS WnlCn AhS OcOu AOlIOWOu
uniformly for the last sixty years
it was the final seal of validity
affixed to that policy. The proof
of this statement will be found in
the extracts from the diplomatic
correspondence of Webster, Marcy,
Cass and Blaine, published in the
first volume of Wharton's Inter
national Digest under the head of
Hawaii.
Now we ask, was that policy and
the treaty founded upon it a dis
grace? The editor of the Nation
says it was, and accordingly the
mighty shades of Webster, Marcy
and Blaine stink back abashed
from the pointed quill of this liter
airy giant, but he follows their re-
treating forms and Kisses after