The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-28
VIEWS or AMERICAN PRESS.

Certainly those who have mapped
ont and been connected with the
carrying cut of the American poll
cv toward this country duringsthe
mast two years, will not be obliged
TO study the stars to read the an
swer of the people. Sentiments, az
voiced in the press, are neither
vague nor inclined to shade the
proper parties from their RESPONSE
bility. The New York Sun, dyed
in the wool of Democracy on the
morning of January 10Th, gave vent
TO the following expression:
I The uredIetion admiral walkers
| wSe verified on January Oh. Fnen
| tlSe paYtisans Of LiliuokAiani, navIng
received an assurance tnet sue WOsIo
| he recognized by Englands rePresen-
tatiye as sovereign if they could man
| ace To occupy the palace at Honolulu
INT three hours, organized q consplra-
| co which has resulted in the death OF
| MANY persons, including tie distin-
0uis6ed representative of pro-Amer1-
can sympathies, Charles L. carter,
| formerly Annexation Commlsslone.
/ to the United States Inc oloou VI
the victims lies on the neau 81 Zen.
/ who gave this outbreak moral lDcen-
| tive and who alone made 1t possiole.
The people Of this country know
i uhere to fix the responsibility. Iney
will not regard Secretary Heroert as
other than an unwilling agent 10
Transaction whose shameful purpose
is now thoroughly exposed. CohsLu
Grafton of who would De gamer VIII
convinca all candid men that as re-
4 cards This bloody BUSINESS in Hawaii
SgeveIand and Gresham were aces
sories before the fact. Having COM
United themselves to the assertion
that the republican Government at
HonoIuIu had no right to exist, ana
did not properly represent the daWsl-
ian people, they wished 10 see tne
assertion verified by Its bowman:
These men, who, TO our nlsloI.r ~
and disgrace, exercise the poweis VI
| onr Executiue, were waiting Tor the
outbreak of this royalist conspiracy.
They knew it was coming anu tney
bontsd it would succeed. No DOUBT
thew are sorely disappointed. Inc
friends of Republican Government AZ
Honolulu have proved themselves
able to deal with their enemies, oue
Who Is to deal with the treacnerous
American officials, who, by conniVlng
at a royalist conspiracy, nave olsnon-
ored the United StatesT
The New York Press, in COM
menting on what it terms, MI
Cleveland's Confession" made In
the publicity of his correspondence
. With Liliuokalani's commissioners,
says:
The people are not very greatly con
cerned - to whether the visit OFT
! Hawaiian Royalists TO Washington
was the especial cause OF the abandon
fmenE Of Hawaii by the American
r navy what thew demand is that the
; fIapiof the United States shall be SEM
, tbfck to the fiarbor Of Honolulu AND
. maintained there, in token OF the pro
, tectorate which the American Repuo
Iic has formally assumed over the
} Malta of the Pacific. The most Inn
portant point about the PrestdenGi
o extraordinary manifesto IS mrs unquAt
3 flied admission that he personally
not Secretary Gresham, as CERTAIN
Q Democratic Journals have persistently
{ ed-H'undeTtoek the task"
striking down republican freedom II
:, Hawaii and setting up over men anC
?. | women of American blood q barbarian
despot whose craving for the lives o
q her enemies was so fierce that she
i could not restrain its utterance evel
when she was dependent for her owl
life upon the men whom she was plot
"a ting TO murder. That this abom1na
BILE scheme t'failed' was not due q
'I any compunctions on the part OF 1t
If Presidential head and iDspirer, but
the peremptory and thunderous Vet
. of the American people, expresses
q through an American Congress an
in the columns Of American news
3 papers from the Atlantic TO the Pa
g. cifc.
r The San Francisco Chronicle ha
Or the following to offer:
70 1t will be a pretty difficult matter
convince the people Of. the Unite
at States who haEe been watching tn
n. trend OF affairsfn Hawaii that Grove
Cleveland did not deliberately kee
he the man-of war Philadelphia ava
N from the Islands 90 as to give the d.
voted followers of the deposed quee
IL an opportunity to work their VII
az Cleveland was repeatedly warned thi
the withdrawal OF the Philadelph
Ia would be the signal for an attempt
.;r overturn the Republic, but he dlsr
parded every warning, and IKE
things so that the royalists would n
L. feel embarrassed. He will probab
regret TO learn that the Republican
ed were too prompt, and that the revc
- was crushed before it made any serio
Roadway.