The Portland daily press., 1895-11-05


and lover of this Republic and be-
lever in its future destiny. he has been
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations since Mr.. Cleveland has been
President this last time. Mr. Cleveland
never has consulted Mr.. Morgan about a
single act of his foreign policy, from the
time he became President down to now.
Ii heS had, he would have behaved dlnef-
emily from what he has about many
things AS l say, we paid no attention
to this message. The committee on fore
ign relations was against any such propo-
sltlon. We believe if we have Pango-
Pango Harbor, as has been ceded to us.
1T is our duty to keep it, and to surren-
der nothing which we once have taken,
and believe i'll taking great deal more
that we never have got hold Of Gap
plause).
Now, to take another thing. For sew
enty live years the Hawaiian Islands have
been ripening to fall into the lap of the
United States. That is where they be-
long. The Islands are owned by Ameri
can citizens. They are. politically and
commercially, of the utmost Importance
to the United States. You build the
Nicaragua canal-and of course it will
be ! built-and those Islands, standing
right out in front of it, as they do, in
the protection and saftey of the Nicara.
qua canal You let it DO in the hands of
Great Britain, and, in the case of a war,
| wouldn't give a dollar for the Nicaragua
canal with Great Britain on the Hawaii
an Islands, where she could have coal,
ammunition and all that sort OF thing.
The fathers of this country, from way
back down to the present time, have all
held and maintained the opinion that
the Hawaiian Islands must be ours. They
are an absolute necessity to this republic.
Let the plum ripen and fall into our
lap, and didn't suppose there was a
man in America who wouldn't pick 1T up
and put it in his pocket. Mr.. Cleveland
Immediately rejected any such proposlt-
ion; but consulted, no one. He sent a
comm ssion from
ALABAMA TOsTHE HAWAIIAN Is
LANDS
to take testimony. He consulted only
with the friends of the dusky Queen,
and took hardly any testimony from the
friends of good Republican government
The commissioner made, his report. Mr..
Cleveland took from the Senate the treaty
which had been sent there, and never re-
turned it. The United States investigated
the very questions which Mr.. Blount was
to investigate, the committee on foreign
relations, and we found overwhelming
testimony refuting every proposition
which Mr.. Blount had made and which
the President had maintained. 1t did
not have any effect upon the President.
No. He knew. (Laughter) He sent a
minister to the Hawaiian Islands and he
instructed that minister, SO far as one
could be instructed, to restore to power
that dethroned Queen, to lift up from its
fallen position that monarchy, and to
drive out the republic, so far as it had
been formed upon those Islands. He
violated humanity, he violated civiliza-
ton, he violated almost common decency
in his Instructions to Mr.. Willis. How
far he would have gone do not know,
but he could not lift up the fallen
Queen. He could not declare war. Tine
power to do that rests in Congress, and
the President was obliged to send COM
munication to the Congress of the United
States and Congress was dead against
MIR. Cleveland in all those propositions.
The Senate was against him in all those
propositions and it passed resolution
declaring that there should be no Interior
ence with the government of Hawaii, and
at the same time added to it, nor should
any other nation interfere with the Ha
waiian Islands (Applause). | am not
giving you blio WOIus, uilO out1ouaHOCJ
and Mr.. Cleveland was again inglorious-
" defeated in that policy, which it seems
to me, in the light of the civilization of
today, was as outrageous as man can.
conceive.
Now there is good deal of doctrine
about
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
1t either means something Or it means
nothing. If it means anything, it is the
duty of the President of the United
States to see to it that it is enforced.
Now I do not know what is going on
in Venezuela today, because what infor-
nation we get is through the public
press, and that is not authoritive. /
suppose the English keep their own coun-
sci very largely, and Mr.. Cleveland has
kept his. too, but the intimations in the
press are that Great Britain is willing
TO arbitrate at the demand of the United
States government, or at the request
should say of the United Staets govern
ment, one question; not whether she
shall hold what islands she has stolen
from Venezuela heretofore, but whether
she shall keep what islands she now pro-
poses to steal. That is, as | understand
from the press, about the position of the
thing. Now I haven't shadow of a
doubt but that that Mr. Cleveland will
agree to that. Mr. Bayard will advise
u,