The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-21

FIX EA8 HAA1k-
TIE resu1 In this Hawaiian islands
wzs prsrnpfly suppressed II was put
1osn by The government thai Cleveland
4sd Gresssass conspsres against. dis
cressssea and sought 70 overthrow. The
RIGHTEOUSNESS we're viii ssppaaed with
arms and ammunition. ard fszsa one or
more pieces of artillery. When Gresham
was told thezs facts ne held up his
hands In real or assumed auaazeasserst
and anrruaaltty. lie may have been ac-
ssaalsy asfonsxfs~i. For tsne credit Of the
government Il s to be hoped SO.
A week ago the government al Wash
sngson CITY was warned that this up
rising was likely 90 occur. On the 18Th
trssf. this Hawaiian minister of foreign
affairs arrived In San Francisco. He
forthwith wired to the Hawaiian mill
lister, Tnursson. fae troubset condariun
OF affairs AT Honolulu, VINO promptly
notified the secretary Of state. Nothing
was doase. Yet even at that time the
4hreafened rsvo1 had taken place and
the consTirastxs against the government
been routed and defeated Now. two
weeks succeeding the occurrence and a
week after warning h&d been given, a
warshipwnach for. months past has been
lying Idle at Mare Island, il hurrietiIy
dispatched 10 Honolulu.
Why this haste ncw2 Is there any
greater danger now to the lives and
property Of citizens Of the United States
resilient IN the Hawaiian islands than
There has been ali along? Is there as
much rsyw that the long threatened
earxaste has taken place and proven un-
successful? Plainly not. The lives Of
our citizens and the $23. 900 900 worth OF
property they own upon the islands were
never so safe as since the outbreak.
The government has shown It's strength
under a severer test than any hereto
fore. ard there is probably less need of
a wagship of the United States in Homo
lulu harbor now than ait any time since
the establishment CT the new republic.
Ti1en why this hot haste TO send the
Philadelphia to Honolulu? The repiy
this craven. double-dealing adHnanassra-
ton h afraid. not thai the nsw republic
OF Hawaii cannot maintain Itself, not
that the lives and property OF our citi-
zans Ia the Hawaiian islands are not
safe and Will not be protected, not tina.
there Is danger OF foreign intervention,
for that opportunity Is past. but OF the
righteous Indignation and fierce condeu1-
nation Of its dupEcsty and poitroonsry
by congress and this aumiliaeed ma
ton.
In the Hight OF what has transpired,
DOES any ono believe that, had the
course OF this administration toward
the new government OF Hawaii been
otherwise, had 1t rot been known and
felt by the adheveslas of the deposed
queen that the president OF the United
States only awaited themere shadow Of
an excuse to add them 10 reseae her
ON the Hiarone and promptly recognize
her restoration, this revolt would have
occurred? Is IT not the truth that by
word and deed. 50 far as this adninas
tsastaon has ventured to do so. the sup
poaters OF the ex-queen have been en-
couraged to attempt the overthrow OF
the Present government Did not the
president in his letter to the cx-aueen's
ambassadors. white protesting sais in
ability to render the aid sought and
coYa'siy pledged deplore The fact. In
tone IL not in words. declaring that but
for the failure Of hts plans the end
they wished and sought would have
been accompl9sl,esi9
In thus f'evolt-~encousag ei and abetted
by Cleveland and Gresham's r,olicv-
many lives were sacrificed. Most Of
thasffi were OF natives influenced by roy
afist consp!rators. who themselves be-
came invisible when firing began. ION
the side Of the government" said Mr..
Boutusae In congress on Saturday. "a
Young MAIN of .Aalres-icxsn lineage. with
hseed that runs back to Boston on she
one hand and through the missionary
stock that went there and redeemed
these Islands from barsayssm upon the
other. has faiten. fighting to defend his
Nome and fiissside against an insurq,ec-
tion stimulated by the aahe~enss OF a
discrNsiited monarchy, and encouraged
by the aSTfon of the executive govern.
ment OF the United states, sa removing
from the hsa'bor OF Honolulu the las,
sefs'aSse or moral support and sympathy
OF the people OF the United Stafcs..'
Oh. the infsmy of II ali. And yet there
ara men IN both houses who rsaetex and
hesitate Ia condemn While yet they aar>.
n.st vsssaure 20 defend the bastard r,,sev
OF an administration that, abandoning
every American tradition. Deliberately,
ccaisKsiFed 20 undermine ana overthrow
a republic barn of the impulses and ef.
forts os men az American lineage.
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The strikers on the trolley lines In
BROOKLYN ctatsn that IL Is a lockout instead
of a strike IL is the outcome, however az