The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-29
LET'S HAVE BOTH SIDES.

Since Secretary Gresham has
seen fit to make use Of the Ameri-
can press to defend his action to-
ward Hawaii's representative at
Washington, it is certainly high
time that a statement emanated
from this end of the line, which
statement we believe would put the
boot on the other leg and prove a
charge of petty duplicity against
the Administrations exponent of a
new and unprecedented code of
diplomacy. The only distinction
Mr.. Gresham can claim is his won
derful ability to 'pick row" when
q less combative individual would
have surrendered the task as a bad
job.
It might be possible that an
opinion from an Hawaiian source
would TEEN with prejudice, in
which instance we can do no better
than quote the opinion of the edi-
tor of the Washington Star, in
which he says: Carefully con-
densed, the Administrations accus-
alton amounts to nothing more
than that the Hawaiian minister
permitted the publication of letter
written by friend in Hawaiian
unofficial communication through
out and one which the minister
was honorably at liberty to give to
the press if he deemed it proper so
to do. None of the statements
contained in the published letter
in question were made by the min
lister; he simply allowed the Amer
lean public to read a communica-
ton in which the political situa-
ton in Hawaii was accurately de-
picted. For the doing of this Mr..
Thurston made personal apology to
Secretary Gresham, but when the
Secretary insisted that the apology
be in writing the minister declined
to so humiliate himself and the
country he represented, and as the
outcome of all this the Hawaiian
government has been requested to
send another preventative to
Washington"
AS direct proof of the enmity of
AIR. Gresham for anything and
everything connected with the pres
ent Government in this country,
is his action toward Spanish Min
lister Muruaga, who lost no oppor-
tunity to berate the Administration
for what he termed its thoroughly
undiplomatic action in the Alliance
affair. This gentleman not only
took occasion to criticise the Ad-
ministration, but ridiculed Secre-
tary Gresham and his diplomacy.
Mr.. Muruaga's return to Spain
was caused by change in the
Spanish Ministry, and although his
resignation was requested, he was
complimented for the management
of his campaign in the United
States.
'It is therefore in evidence that the
Spanish Minister said great many
offensive things about this Admins
tratiOn, and even about Mr.. Gresham
personally, and was not mOlested
Minister Thurston permitted the pub
LEGATION of a purely private letter, with
which the State Department had
nothing whatever to do, yet because
he refused to put in writing his verbal
apology for this shadowy Offense,
only verbally and pot in writing, Sec
rotary Gresham arrOgantly insists
that Mr.. Thur-tOn shall no longer be
Hawaiian Minister to the United
States. OF course, the pretense does
not deceive any one. The civilized
world knows how miserably Presi ent
Cleveland and Secretary Gresham
failed in their endeavOr to revive a
rotten monarchy that had been over
thrown by the reputable people of Ha-
waii 1t really m kes no difference
who represents the Island Republic at
Washington; the presence of al arch
angel with credentials fir, M P esident
Dole would be every whit as Office
tionahle as the presence of Mr.. Thurs
ton. The Administration shows de
cided repugnance toward those who in
their person or by their comments
remind it of its laundering policy in
Hawaii"
This opinion, coming from a con-