The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-25
PARTlALITY TO SPAIN.

PARTIALLY TO SPAIN.
A few weeks before the schooner
Wahlberg sailed from San Fran
cissJ wltu arms for Hawaiian revo-
lutlonists, the Government OF the
United States was officially notified
bv this Government that more thar
a hint of such a project had beef
received here. A reasonable time !
before the Wahlberg sailed from an |
American port with arms and |
ammunition to be used in an at
tempt to overthrow a friendly
power, the authorities of the big
Republic had their attantiOn called
to the extreme probability Of such
a measure. This was on the as
sumption, which holds as good to.
day as it did then, that the United
States would discountenance any
such movement. The belief was,
and it still holds, that the men en-
gagged i'll such an undertaking
would be hunted out, restrained
and punished. The note on the
subject was sent from the Hawa-
ian Foreign Office to the State
Department at Washington. twas
a decidedly shrewd and opportune
grasp of the forelock of Father
Time and was done with the neat
ness and form of APP
proved hnesse. But nothing
came of it. While the advice on
the subject and the request for
preventative step rested in the State
Department at Washington, the
Wahlberg loaded on her twenty
four dozen rifles and 10000 rounds
of ammunition and boldly sailed
away to Hawaii few months be-
fore recognized by the United
States as a sister Republic. This
is not all. The tools of the fill
buster projectors were captured
with their vessel at an American
port a short time after their cruise
had been completed. There was
no question about vessel, men,
or the act. Still, through some
fault of operation of the courts,
surely through no fault Of the law
itself, Captain Martin, the pirate
who carries arms from the United
States for the insurgents of another
country, is free and enjoying unen-
numbered possession of his vessel,
the schooner H. c. Wahlberg.
Really, were justice served, this
case would be reopened.
Now for a case so different that
it will remind you of the one pre-
scented above. A dispatch from
Washington of June IL says:
Secretary Olney the new head of the
State Department. is thoroughly deter
mined that tine United States Govern
ment shall do all in its power and all
that international law requires to pre-
vent the violation of the treaty by per-
sons who undertake to make this coun-
try "a base of hostile operations against
Spain, with which power 1t is at peace.
Complaints have reached the Depart
ment of State through the Spanish MIN
lister that men are being recruit d on
American soil and thai armed eXpedit-
ions are leaving our shores for the pur.
pose of attacking the Spanish forces in
Cuba Whenever the necessary evi
denCe can be produced these infractions
of the law are to be severely punished,
for the Secretary of State will leave no
Just ground for complaint that the
United States has failed in its obliga.
tions to other nations
Meanwhile, however, it has teen
deemed proper to give formal warning
to misguided people of what they may
expect, so this afternoon the following
proclamation was issued from the State
Department:
BY the President of the United States.
A proclamation.
This proclamation is couched in
the most severe of formal terms. 1t
calls attention to the fact that "the
laws of the United States prohibit
citizens, as we'll as all others being
within and subject to their jurisdic-
tion, from taking part in such dis
turbances adversely to such estab-
lished government, by accepting or
exercising commissions for warlike
service against it by enlistment or
procuring others to enlist for such
service, by fitting out or arming or
procuring to be fitted out any arm
ed ships of war for such service, by
augmenting the force Of any ship
of war engaged in such service and
arriving in a port of the United
States, and by setting on foot or
providing or preparing the means
for military enterprise to be carried
on from the United State against
the territory of such government
Such citizens" having evil in.
tent in the filibuster line are adj
monished that they will be vigor-
ously prosecuted if detected by
officers of the United States, who
are enjoined to use the utmost dill
gence in preventing violations of
the law and 'in bringing to trial
and punishment any offenders
against the same.
BECAUSE" is a charitable con-
struction Of the very general and
positive protest against w. R.