The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-06
IS DISCUSSED ABROAD.
The Action of u. S. Minister
Willis.
FROM THE WASHINGTON STAR,
Consul Gilman says the Minister Is
Friendly-The star Says He Is
Influenced by Cleveland-The Pos
sibility OF a Recall-Comments.

While there is hope here that tn
latest report from Honolulu connect
ing Minister Willis with an indignity
offered to the Hawaiian Government
may prove upon fuller information to
be exaggerated, the story as given j.
by 10 means improbable in the light
Of the Minister'S past behavior, say s
the Washington Star. He is no friend
Of the Dole Government. He went to
Honolulu TO insugurate a policy for
its destruction, and he probably tods
regrets the failure of that scheme. Il
is an open secret that for some time
past he has been at his post practical
~ by the sufferance Of the Hawaiian
authorities. The Minister of any
other power would in like cireum-
stances have long since received his
passports. But the friendship felt by
the Hawaiian people for the people of
the United States, and the knowledge
that that friendship was cordially re-
ciprOcated, caused the vagares and
Obbtl MANIFESTATIONS Vi MT. w Ills 10
be condoned.
sees No One but Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Willis at Honolulu, if this
latest episode has not been misrepre-
sented, is shaping his course by the
Bayard pattern set in London. That
Is to say, he ignores the people of the
United States, whose servant be is,
and acts upon his individual views
and those he thinks will meet with
the personal approval of the President.
Invited 10 PARTED pate in a celebration
OF what may DE termed the Hawaiian
4th of July, be declines, upon the
ground that the means employed in
The establishment of the Hawaiian
Republic were publicly reprobated by
Mr.. Cleveland. Willis, looking in
this direction, is unable to see any
body but Mr.. Cleveland. The people,
SO far as he is concerned, are com
pletely lost in the Presidents ample
shadow. He knows, and knows Of
fcially, that the President was at last
forced by the people to acknowledge
the Dole Government, but, as Senator
Gray would say, he "barks back on
the old track" and refuses to obey the |
horn of freedom and progress.
The Same Case with Bayard.
This was the nature of Mr.. Bay
ards otfense in England. He took no
thought of the people of the United |
States at all. The fact that protection |
had been the policy of this govern
ment from the beginning, and that
his own party, after successful bun
eombe campaign for free trade, had
passed a protection tariff bill itself,
was wholly ignored when he came to
speak. He only considered that his
own views and those of Mr.. Cleveland
were opposed to protection, and he
fired away. He did not deem himself
answerable to the people of the United
States.
He was not, in his Opinien, their
representative, but the representative
of the official who had selected him
for his post. Being certain of Mr.
Cleveland and of himself, therefore,
be took no further thought as to the
of his course. He is a pious
man, and not to be suspected of en-
ploying Mr.. Vanderbilt's expression
about the people, but his action might
be explained in that famous phrase
without Injury to the meaning il coz
Veyed 70 the people.
A Possibility to Come.
There are such possibilities ia this
line of procedure for the assertion of
for public sentiment by for
eign ministers and ambassadors, the
House, it is thought, in the coming
debate on the Bayard matter, could,
with profit, go thoroughly into the
subject. Another opportunity-it
may not be seized-will shortly occur
Ia this Cuban business. Congress,
of CO operation with the
President, will shortly declare for the
Cubans. When that is done, will {
Minister Taylor at Madrid feel justi-
lied in saying to the Spanish authori
lies that the deliverance is of no mo
ment? Mr.. Bayard or Mr.. Willis Ia
place would probably say: "Don't
mind that 1t is only an expression =
ot Congress- body gathered from
he turbulent people. 1t is of no i'm
portance. The President does not 8
approve it. The President is the state
the United States. Keep your eve I
'n him. So long as he is with you all {