The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-20
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Turning again toward the poets
domain" so writes Helen f. Gregory
Flesher, of visit to joaquin Miller,
in California, "upon the top of the
mountain and to the right we see
| three high, square heaps of stones and
| beside each pile of wood. One of
| these is Joaquin Miller's funeral pyre,
cremated. One has already been
used, and the other is for Partisan
lady whose body, when her spirit has
left it, will be brought hither and
burned"
Once more we have the temerity to
ask what is the matter with our Mr..
Gresham Minister Thurston OF Ha-
waii dared in a dignified way to de-
fend his colleagues against the prede-
termined aspersions of Paramount
Blount of Georgia, and Mr.. Gresham
lay back his ears and showed his teeth
and demanded Mr.. Thurston's official
beheadIng. On the other hand, the
Spanish Minister rushed into print to
denounce various Americans, incIud-
ing Mr.. Gresham's assistant, as liars
and fools and arrogant blackguards,
and, in short, abused the whole Amer
lean Government as worse than pick
pockets, and still Mr.. Gresham,
though said to be indignant, has not
yet made any exhibition of indigna-
ton. Why is this? Why should the
America Hawaiian be promptly
thrown and hobbled for one small
below, while the Spaniard is allowed
to below and lash himself to fury,
and plunge about madly and paw the
earth all over himself without any at.
tention ? Can Mr.. Gresham explain
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liar position at the federal capital,
and he cannot Justly be held to the
exact code of diplomatic usage. In
the first place, the Department has
ignored him to a discourteous degree,
and has thus, itself, violated custom.
Besides this studied discourtesy, it has |
IN other ways absoIved him from |
strict attention to the usages of min |
Isters at a foreign capital. The Ha- |
Walian Minister represents Govern |
ment which the Administration was /
aboring for year or two to over |
throw. By open means and secret |
means it was striving to destroy the |
1ew Government of Hawaii; and the |
from Honolulu has been
obliged to adopt means OF offsetting |
his influence. He had double mis-
ion, to represent the Hawaiian Re.
public and to defeat the schemes OF
ts enemies in the United States. He
las performed these perplexing duties
With ability and dignity. Cleveland
nd Gresham had no more right |
o subvert the Government at Ho.
lolulu than to undermine the Gov
rnment at Madrid or Berlin; and the
hawaiian minister could not be ex-
ected to view their efforts with in
Inference. It is only a few months
ince Cleveland, though he has been
hwarted in his measures against con-
titutional government in the Sand
'ich islands, held friendly and SYM
athletic communications with the en-
Isaries of the monarchy which a rev.
luton had abolished. When we con-
der the singular circumstances sur
the minister of Hawaii, the
and u>urpation which he
as been called upon to oppose, and
.member how the conduct of the
ADMINISTRATION has infriuged the US ,
yes and principles that govern the
hcial intercourse of nations, we can"
ot but feel that it shows an obtuse-
sss and an indecency in Cleveland 4
ld Gresham to treat the minister
ON Hawaii as they propose to treat
e minister from Spain.-Eastern
xchange.