The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-04-24
"Anierican citizens aud prop",ty
we're endangered" Senator Davis


for r'b"iijoii." II apo. ,r.. bo~rv.'
that Ad,uirsi Walker ~a- ur'cr.,t
away frlm Hmolriu nD ,iusy ~
last; thp sfg,it ,ua,s 4, lace Oh the
10Th II the '.iiu~ipe Jsnusry.
From the tu.., II his arrival at
HonolHlU, od Apnl Is, Admiral
Walker reported not hipu hat ,~are
ami order. On July II ha wrote:
The Royai,ts mu-, accept tn. r..
public ur attempt "a counter revo-
luton by physical Force, and OF such
an attempt there is mo probability
whais var" HIS warning" which
was written at sea 90 August IL,
while he was ca bis way to the
United States, related solely to tb.
spectre of the British int-rv. ntion
As the to Effect VI the ent,re with
drswal OF foreign men Il Sar upon
affairs in the islands, he declared
that II would be not unfsvorable
to order and security aud that
Heading members If the Govern
ment and others" were "stropgly OF
this opiTion" and had expressed
Satisfaction with tho prospect OF
being eft for q time entirely alone I"
Judged by the event. the Admiral's
gift NJ prophecy, with which Ssra.
ter Davis is so deeply impressed, is
yet to- be demonstrs' ed. A revolt
ultimately occurred, but there was
| no British ship aud no British in
terven'ion. Even tue arms, as it
! now turns out, were shipped from
San Francisco on an American Yes
Eel. Aud after the rsvol, was over,
President Dole expressed tn our
Minister ct Honolulu his gratifi a.
ton that no national ship was pres
ent during the Disturbance, as it
gave his Government IAN opportun.
ity to prove ts ability to take caro-
OF itself, which il ouce doue would
probably insure permanent peac'.'
Senator DAVIS finds further evi.
dence Of 'malign disposition in
the recommendation made by Presi-
dent Cleveland, at the request of
the Hawaiian Government, that our
treaty withtha' country b. SO modi
fed as to permit the lease OF either
Necksr Island, Freucb Frigate
Shosls, or Bird Islaud to the Brit
ish Government as a station for a
cable from Canada to Australia.
re'haps we shall all regret, " han tho
Hawaiian frenzy bas passed away,
that such q siWpls request va. net
granted. The islands in question
are small upinhsbited rocks. Necker
Island, which lies midway bet ween
the other two, was described by
Admiral Walker in April Last as "a
very small islet about go mill >"
distant from the Hawaiian group
and he said that, while It had always
been claimed by Hawaii, mo one
had actually landed there and take n
! possession, owing TO the difficulty
Of landing" Senator Davis secs in
this matter an attempt on the part
OF Great Britain 20 ''ins,sll herself
on one OF the (Hawaiisn) Islands,
aud declares that it is not correct
to say that Hawaii desires it," The
Hawaiian Government, however,
sought to effect il expressed a conf.
dent belief that the Hawaiian legis.
lature would literally subsidies a
branch cable to Honolulu, and
spoke OF the "great aud nuqusstion-
ed Importance to the couutIy" OF
such al opportunity. 1t seems uu-
necessary to argue this subject fur
Their.
While / declined, at the outset to
recognize such distinction as that
implied by the terms Democratic
diplomacy and Republican diplo-
macy, j am prepared to admit that
l have heard OF spurious diplo-
macy-sometimes called thorough
ly American"--which its advoca al es
are welcome to the privilege OF call.
ing Republican diplomacy, il they
SO desire. Its conscious advocates
are perhaps few, but there is rea-
son to fear that its dupes are many
and neither its advocates nor its
dupes are exclusively confined to
one party. But, unless the glories
OF our past history are to be dis
carded, it is not American diplo.
macy. It is meddlesome and ag-
gressive; it is envious and suspi.
cious; il il covetous and not very
scrupulous; it eIemplifies the evil
OF power without self.control, and
Of susceptibility to insult without a
due proportion OF self.respect. Its
spirit is that Of conquest; its first
reason, as well as its last, is force.
1t began its career by embroiling us,
under a Republican Secretary oil
State, in the quarrels OF South Am.
ericau republics 10 1881, only to be
rebuked by auothe r. publican Sec.