Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-12
In League With England.

In League With England.
There does not appear to be any reason
why the republic of Hawaii should not be
permitted to exercise the same sovereign
rights that are exercised by other indepen-
dent nations. The attempts of Secretary
Gresham, acting in harmony with Great
Britain, has undertaken to deny the right
of the Hawaiian government to try rebels
by court martial The New York Sun,
commenting upon this matter very pro-
perly asks
Glow are we to explain the fact that
orders Identical in substance and in
words were sent almost simultaneously
from Washington and London for the self
same purpose of crippling the Hawaiian
government in its means OF self-defence.
and of encouraging future pro.monarchist
conspiracies by an assurance of impunity?
Was the original despatch penned by Sec
retary Gresham, and was the text of it
cabled by Sir Julian Pauncefote to the
British foreign office, whence copy OF it
was transmitted to Honolulu! Or was
the despatch drawn up in the first in
stance in London, and cabled to Washing
ton for submission to our secretary OF
state, who fastened to approve and dupli
cate it? Or will Sir Julian Pauncefote
lay claim to the authorship of the precious
document, by which two great powers
Jointly undertook to rob a young and fee
bic commonwealth of the right to shield
itself against conspiracy?
1t matters not which of these three ex
plantations is accepted. The proof remains
equally patent and incontrovertible that
our state department and the British gov
eminent planned to cooperate in the
most intimate and Jealous way to save
foreign residents in Hawaii from the con
sequences of reasonable acts, to which they
had been prompted by the verbal incen
tives which Messrs. Cleveland and Ores
ham had so literally supplied. In view
Of the evidence brought to light by these
identical dispatches, it is no longer pos
sible to doubt that our state department
and the British foreign office have been
accomplices, and that England's repre-
sentative at Washington has been the
go-between throughout this deplorable
Hawaiian business"
Never in the history of this republic has
any acts of administration been so thor
oughly discredited by the American peo-
pie as have those of President Cleveland
and Secretary Gresham relative to Ha-
waiian affairs. No patriotic citizen has
ever been able to discover the motives for
such action although these latest devel-
opments tend decidedly to throw light
upon this phase of the subject. From the
time that he withdrew the treaty of an
nexation submitted to the Senate by Presi
dent Harrison, and sent Paramount
Biount q fat-witted Georgia politician,
whom the people Of his state had very
properly retired to private life, to work up
a brief against the provisional govern
ment, Grover Cleveland has apparently
cherished the most bitter and vindictive
tanned American interests, and stood for
Christian civilization in those islands
The fact that 1921, 900, 900 of the $36, 000,
900 invested in plantation is the proper
ty of American citizens has, apparently,
had no weight with him, so intent was he
upon his plans for the restoration of his
dusky. blood thirsty friend Liliuokalani
to her tinsel throne. After Paramount
Blouut had completed his labors, and filed
his brief the President sent Mr.. Willis of
Kentucky as the accredited representative
of this country to the provisional govern
ment. He went with expressions of
friendliness from this government; but at
the same time he carried the following
secret Instructions:
On your arrival at Honolulu you will
take advantage of an early opportunity
to inform the Queen of this determine
ton Ito withdraw the treaty.
You will however, at the same time, in
form the Queen that when reinstated the
President expects that she will pursue "a
magnanimous course by granting full
| amnesty to all who participated in thel
movement against her, including persons
who are or have been, officially or other
wise connected with the provisional gov
| ernment, depriving them of no right or
privilege which they enjoyed before the
| so-called revolution Having secured
the Queens agreement to pursue this wise
and humane policy, which it is believed
you will speedily Aobtain, you will then
advise the executive of the provisional
government and his ministers of the Presi-
dents determination of the question
which their action and those of the Queen
devolved upon him, and that they are ex-
pected to promptly relinquish to her her
constitutional authority.
| We doubt If, in the whole history of
modern diplomacy, there can be found an
other such remarkable document Mr..
Willis went, with warmest expressions of