St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-18
THE LIMOGES, REPUBLIC.


That was a gruesome story our
columns contained yesterday OF the
"sons of Christian missionaries IN
Honolulu stringing a man up by MS
thumbs. his feet off the ground, let
ting him hang until nature sought
relief in a dead faint, then trlclns
him I'D again, until the sheer agony
of the torture compelled con
fession" of completely in the re
bellion" as the sole escape from the
tends. It was an American citizen
of the United States whom the OIL
ficers of the latest republic were
thus torturing. Access to the MIN
lister or the consul of his country was
denied him when arrested, ana ne
was hustled off to the dungeon anu
put Oh the rack.
And this is in that same republic
of which we have heard so much IN
the two years past. 1t is the same
one that was established by the AID
of a man-of-war of the United States
and sustained by its marines. IL Ii
the same one that President Har-
risOn proposed to annex, and whose
deposed queen he proposed 10 put
on orr pension list with the widows
of our soldiers, at 100000 year. 1t
is the same one the virtues OF whose
citizens" we have heard so eAtolled
as the descendants of the mission
aries who went there to convert the
islanders, and whose sons converted
the island to their own possession.
1t is the same one that PRESIDENT
Cleveland received so much abuse
about because he sought to undo
the wrong done a friendly govern
ment by our officers.
1t is the same republic that Frye
and Lodge and Boute1le have al
ternately wept over as they des-
cribed it's heroic, Christian savlors,
rescuing the islands from the mis-
rule of a heather queen, and ragged,
and fumed and roared over as they
denounced the attempt of the ad-
miniStration to restore right and I'M
do wrong. And it is the same repub-
lie about which these same phllan-
thropic and patriotic, if thrifty, gen
tlemen have maintained so rigid
silence ever since it was intimated
that their interest in Hawaii rested
chiefly, if not solely, in the stock of
the Hawaiian Land and Improve
ment company, blocks of which, fol-
lowing illustrious New England
precedents, had been placed where
they would do the most good
1t is the same republic" whose
saviors disfranchised all but a
couple of thousand of the ten or
fifteen thousand male inhabitants of
the islands, and thus secured the
adoption of constitution that,
among other things, denies freedom
of speech or the press. 1t is the ere
public" of which it's minister, Thurs
ton, recently said it's government
sis surrounded by a preponderance
of population ignorant OF the first
principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty,
accustomed and satisfied with the
absolute government of China and
Japan and Polynesia" On these
people these sons of Christians had
forced, by the aid of our navy, a
government maintaining, he says,
'the outer breastworks of civiliza-
ton in the Pacific with a reserve
consisting Of handful Of men,"
And this republic" this "outer
breastwork of civilization" this out
growth of Christian missionary eff
forts, finds no better way of main
= tanning itself than by resorting to
the cruelties of the induisition, and
putting on the rack of torture those
from whom it thinks it can thus ex-
tort the information on which to
base the death sentences of a court
martial. And this is the same re-
public which congress now links to
us with a cable, to be built with the
peoples money, and owned by some
gang of jobbers