St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-19

tect itself? You could not have been
ignorant, when you wrote your article
in question, of the facts here. cited,
and, If you were aware of them. how
do you justify your assertions of the
completeness of the success of the rev.
olution? Once more, you are in error
as to the extension of recognition OF
the new government by the representa-,
tives of foreign powers at Honolulu
Only the United States, Great Britain,
Portugal and Japan then had diplo-
matte agents in Hawaii, though. other
governments had consular representa-
tives, with functions
PURELY COMMERCIAL. =
At least one of those consuls actively
participated in the revolutionary
movement, and was, of course, prompt
in extending what he was pleased to
call the recognition" of his govern
ment to the new creation, as were
some other consuls who lacked diplo-
matte standing at that capital. The
fact is that Mr.. Stevens, for the
United States, was the first to "recog-
nize" the new government, and his
letter of recognition is more than sus-
pected to have been written and de-
livered to one of the revolutionists be-
fore the provisional government was
proclaimed. The representatives of
Great Britain, Japan and Portugal
waited until Mr.. Stevens had taken the
new government under his wing, had
aided it in the disarming of all the
forces of the constitutional govern
ment and thus established it's de facto
n 10 rnn far>- hnf how .
even the de facto government In the
case of each of the governments last
named, the recognition was merely
tentative, pending instructions from
their respective capitals
Conceived in conspiracy, born in
fraud and nurtured and protected by
force, the provisional government
withstood it's enemies about a year and
half, during which time the protest
of the queen and her ministers had
not been answered by the United
States. The native subjects of the
queen utterly refused to participate in
the government in any way and fully
one-half the white population with
held from it their support and ap-
proval. But, by the grace of the pro-
lection afforded by Mr.. Stevens and
his naval forces, the new government
sufficiently intrenched itself in power
to be able to defy the people, when the
resolution of the American government
to take
NO FURTHER STEP
toward righting the wrongs perpe-
trated in it's name was announced at
a comparatively recent date. You
stigmatize the effort Of President
Cleveland to restore the conditions
which Mr.. Stevens and his bayonets
destroyed as being unique and unex-
ampled in the history of civilized di-
+ plomacy." In view of the known facts,
even those established beyond cavil
or dispute by the documentary evil
! dence in the case, do you not think,
senator, your neat phrase just quoted
could be- more appropriately applied
to the action of Mr.. Stevens. than to-
that of Mr.. Cleveland? ,.
You are a prominent and influential
member of the most august legislative
body on earth. You are. an exponent
OF the principles of the Republican.
party, in the greatest republic of his
tory. You cannot be ignorant that the
government previously existing 4, in
Hawaii was a practical; republic,
though with a monarchical head. The
people elected the legislature, and some
minor officers of government The leg
islature controlled the cabinet, and
could GUST them at pleasure. The
cabinet were the executive. and the
sovereign was a figurehaed, who was
bound to follow ministerial advice.
That government has been overthrown
by American bayonets, and you ap-
plaud the act. 1t has been succeeded
by despotism under the name of a
republic, and you worship the sue
eessor. Did it ever occur to. you,
senator, that you are something of a
political paradox? There are still
American citizens, among whom we
wish to be numbered, who believe that
when Lincoln uttered his magic and
matchless phrase concerning a gov
ernment of the people, by the people
and for the people," he gave, in those
words, tolerably accurate definition
of a republic. There are those who
believe that a republic is something
more than
MATTER OF LABELS,
that republican label would not
make a republic of the present gov
ernment of Dahomey or Turkey, any
more than it has had that effect in
Hawaii. There are those who think
that American statesmen should be
proof against deception by pretenses
so obviously false as those under which
the Hawaiian government seeks recog-
milton and sympathy as republic"
There are those who think that
United States senator from Minnesota
should be above the worship of a
fetch, embodied in a named belief by
the object to which it is attached.
When you wrote your article in aues-
tion, you had probably heard of the
recent arbitrary action of your pet
republic in having abrogated the
constitution of it's own make, which it
had imposed upon an unwilling people
only six months before, and, under the
devils plea of state necessity, hav-
ing subjected American and other
foreign citizens by the score, and
Hawaiians by the hundred, to arrest
and Imprisonment without cause and
without warrant of law. You may
have known that this misfit ire
courts were open, and competent to dis
pose Of all cases brought before them,
was engaged in rushing those prisoners
before "a military tribunal, as Illegal
as any lynch court ever convened on a
court house square by moonlight, and
having that group of plant and preju-
diced military gentlemen go through
the farce of a trial and the form of
a sentence, in each case, as a pretext
for Furnishing their political enemies
for entertaining the opinion that Lin
coins definition of a republic was ac-.
curate, and that an oligarchy is
NOT A REPUBLIC,
whatever its label? You must have
known, if you read the papers, that
punishments of preposterous and cruel
severity had been and were being, by
that lynch court, imposed upon your
fellow citizens, for alleged acts of
which no civil court, could they have
had their constitutional right Of trial
by jury, would ever have convicted them.
You might have known that others Of
your fellow citizens had been expelled
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