The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-05


tIation toward Hawaii has come 10
light. This intelligence will heighten
public condemnation of the President
and Secretary Gresham, and further
demonstrate their stubbornness and
lack of patriotism in dealing with q
matter of so great Importance to this
country. The course OF the admins
tration In Hawaiian affairs, as is we'll
known, has been opposed to the best
interests of the United States from the
start. 1t was bad enough to regard
the report OF paramount" Blount as
fairly representing the Hawaiian sit
uation, and later to conspire against
the existing Government of the islands
for the restoration of the dissolute Lii
liuokalani. The past schemes OF the
administration have been farcial in
character, and fortunately Intellectual
In execution. They have served, how
ever, to show the bias and weakness of
the administration.
Having failed so disastrously in
their mOnarchieal programme, and in
cidentally improved EnglanPs po-
sition at the expense OF the best inter-
reasonable to expect that Mr.. Cleve-
land and his Secretary Of State would
see the folly OF their past course and
adopt one more in accord with Amer
lean sentiment and requirements. IN
formation at hand shows that the ad-
ministratiOn's present policy in Ha-
wall is to be one of absolute indiHer-
ence and contempt. This negative
policy, if the course determined upon
can be dignified by such a word, Is as
injurious as were the previous active
schemes against the welfare of the
Provisional Government. Its effect
will be to invite disorder, to further
foreign cupidity, and to induce, per-
haps, actual interference by foreign
powers in the affairs of the islands.
Mr.. Cleveland has decided that Ha-
wall is to be ignored completely, and
any and all moral and physical sup
port to the existing government IS to
be withheld, whatever may be the
change in the situation. Hawaiian
affairs would not take the turn the
President wished them to take some
time ago, and he will now give to the
islands the executive "cold shoulder"
This country is to manifest no special
interest in President DOle'S govern
ment, and neither directly nor by i'm
plication is it TO show evidence of con-
Germ in the success or failure of the Re
public.
THE LATEST ORDERS TO WILLIS.
Hawaii is no nearer the United
States, politically, according to the
Administrations present attitude,
tban Japan, which, as is we'll known,
Is now in disfavor at the Cleveland
''court." President Dole and his
Government are to receive no encour-
agement from the President, but in
fact are to be treated with less consid-
Grafton than any other foreign power
with which this country has inter
course. If the Republic endures, the
fact will probably excite regret in the
hearts of Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary
Gresham, Iiliuokalani's staunch adj
herents. II it falls, there will be no
lamentation. In either event the Adj
ADMINISTRATION will extend neither SYM
pathy nor encouragement to the
young Republic. The snub is pre-
meditated, and Is to be deliberately
administered, regardless OF conse-
Quences. That Is to say, just now,
when the Republic needs, and in ac-
eordance with the time-honored policy
Of this country, has right to expect,
the friendly solicitude OF the United
States, kindly sentiment and watch
full interest are to be withheld as COM
pleteIy as in the case of Japan. 1t
will be remembered that some time
ago Mr.. Cleveland's "great and good
friend" President Dole, was informed
that this country recognized the Re-
public. Mr.. Dole was not told then,
nor has he since been told by the Pres
ident or Secretary Gresham, as he
ought to have been, that the United
States is concerned in his Govern
ment's stability and prosperity, and
that this country would view with
grave concern any interference in the
affairs of Hawaii by foreign powers.
Diplomatic relations with Hawaii, as
carried on through Minister Willis,
are hereafter to he strictly formal in
nature. According to his latest in
structions, Mr.. Willis is to keep the
State Department advised as to what
goes on in Hawaii, but he is not to
manifest any special concern or SYM
pathy, whatever happens. Secretary
Gresham, in framing his recent dis
patches, has been careful not to say to
Mr.. Willis that the Administration
regards the Hawaiian question with
contemptuous indifference, but he has
clearly indicated that Hawaiian af-
fairs are of no special interest or inn
portance. In these dispatches Mr..
Gresham intimates that there is a
possibility to be considered of the re-
turn to power of LiliuokalaDi. In that
event he directs that Minister Willis
is to offer no protest or in any other
way to indicate that the United States
is opposed to another revolution In
the islands.
1t has been wondered for some time
why there have been no United States
naval vessels at Honolulu. Since the
early part of September, when Ad-
miral Walkers flagship, the Phila-
delphia, left that port, no ships have
called there except for supplies. Com
stopped there for stores while on the
way to China last month, but only re-
NAMED at anchor long enough to take