St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-19


the agency of Mr.. Stevens and the
troops of the Boston,, by setting on
foot an inquiry into the true condition
of matters there, and the causes which
had led to the negotiation of the treaty
of annexation you mention. For that
purpose Hon. James H. Blount was
sent to Hawaii to investigate. He re-
mained there about four months, and
made an exhaustive inquiry along the
lines involved. He, to our personal
knowledge, invited the fullest state
ments from all persons and all inter-
ests. He was besieged by the minions
of the obligarchy, who thought to cap
ture him and dictate the tenor of his
report through the medium of social
courtesies to him and his wife. Hav-
ing failed in that most enterprising
design, their
VENOM BOILED
over in subsequent letters to the press
of your own state, wherein they lament
ed the waste of the chicken broth and
homemade bread and butter bestowed
upon Col. Blount's sick and suffering
wife as the price Of report that her
husband refused to make. We know
from personal observation of Col.
in Honolulu that those who have since
falsely charged that they and their
statements were refused recognition
by him were fairly camping upon him
for weeks, with the evident purpose of
monopoliZing his attention, to the ex-
clusion of those who might wish to
make statements unfavorable to the
views which the provisional govern
RI a c
result of an investigation characterized
by courtesy. fairness and diligence,
Col. Blount made clear, true and
able report of conditions in Hawaii.
Acting upon that report, Mr.. Cleveland
proposed to restore the status quo
ante, which had been destroyed by Mr..
Stevens and the troops from the
Boston," but the presidents just and
benevolent intentions in that behalf
were frustrated by narrow and par
tisan prejudice on the part of the sem
ate, which ignored the justice of the
controversy, and appealed to consider
ations Of expediency which, in private
or commercial life, would disgrace
and ostracize an individual. The mel
ancholy spectacle was then presented
to the world of a great and powerful
nation having, through it's diplomatic
and naval representatives, overturned
the administration of q feeble and
friendly state, robbed helpless and
confiding people of their birthright;
destroyed a representative govern
ment, and
SET A DESPOTISM
in it's place; followed by the humiliat-
ing admission of an American presi-
dent unable and an American congress
unwilling to redress the wrong. If you,
sir, do not blush for your share Of the
responsibility of such results, then we
blush for you. You are not ignorant
that, when Mr.. Cleveland assumed
office, the protest of Queen Liliuolanki
and her ministers against the usurpa-
ton of the American minister and
troops was pending before the gov
ernment at Washington, and had not
been disposed of or in any way an
swered. How then, can you allege that
there was then absolutely no ques-
ton between the United States and
Hawaii, excepting annexation under
the treaty which had been negotiated
under the administration of Mr.. Har-
ricon?
BY the way, who negotiated that
treaty on the part of Hawaii, and
what was the authority under which
the negotiators acted? You are GER
tainly in a position to know, for much
literature has been placed at the dis
posaI of the senate upon this and
kindred questions. Do you claim, for
an instant, that the Hawaiian nation
ality was annihilated, and did not ex-
ist, when the five commissioners left I
Honolulu, two days after Mr.. Stevens
revolt of Jan. II, 1893? If the nation ex-
. listed, in a form to admit of diplomatic
representation, who were it's legitimate
and logical representatives, the queen
and her ministers, who had yielded
to the superior force of the United
States of America" upon the landing
and menace of the troops from the
Boston, or the insignificant minority
whom Mr.. Stevens, with his naval con-
tingent, had placed, and was support
ing in power, in defiance of the will of
THE VAST MAJORITY
of the residents, and of all thel Hawaii
ans in that country? If your consci-
ence does not admonish you that there
was no moral right on the part of the
American administration to treat with
those self-appointed commissioners,
after the conditions surrounding their
appointment became known, then we
blush for the impotency of your in
ward monitor.
1t is obvious to all who are not blind
ed by partisan zeal and prejudice, that
there was another question between
the two countries at the time of which
you speak and which dwarfed the
question of annexation. 1t was the
question of abstract right and wrong
involved in the upsetting of the Ha-
wa1ian throne, the plundering of the
Hawaiian people, and the setting up !
to rule over them of a government of I
force and fraud, representing no one ]
but the handful of men who signed the I
proclamation to that effect, and for all
of which the American government
was directly and primarily responsible.
The question of the protest of the
queen and her cabinet, representing
the whole people, against that most
unholy series of acts on the part of
the American representative, was still
pending and unsettled. The question
whether the United States would be-
come particeps criminis in the most
collosal scheme of grand larceny of
modern times was pending between
the two countries, and between the
conscience of every American senator
and the people of Hawaii, at that
juncture. Did your conscience give
you no intimatfon of the presence OF
that question, senator? 1t was and is
question of giant magnitude, involv-
ing the life of 81 nation, and of people
long renounced for their
ABoUNDING HOSPITALITY.
generosity and good will toward the
white strangers who came to their
shores - guests who, by the apparent
consent and approval of yourself and
others of your political associates, and
by the grace of the military aid of
the United States forces, are now en-
gagged in the most grateful task of
trying to rob their generous and con-
fiding entertainers of their homes and
their country. Before that question,
the merely secondary and purely mer-
cenary question of annexation, at the
invitation of a mere handful of foreign