Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-11
NJ N STER WILL S
The Story of Indignity offered Hawaii MOI
Improbable.
Could Sec No One hut Mr.. Cleveland
and, Like Mr.. Baynrd, Did Not
Consider the People.

While there is a hope here that the latest
report from Honolulu connecting Minister
Willis with an indignity offered to the Ha-
waiian government may prove upon fuller
Information to be exaggerated, the story
rs given is by 10 means improba BILE in the
light of the minister's past behavior He
is no friend of the Dole government He
went to Honolulu 10 inaugurate a policy
fcs It's destruction, ard he probably today
regrets the failure OF that scheme. 1t is
an open secret that for some time past he
has been at his post practically by the suf-
ferance of the Hawaiian authorities The
minister of any other power would in like
circumstances have long since received his
passports. But the friendship felt by shc
Hawaiian people for the people of the
United States, and the knowledge that that
friendship was cordially reeiprocated
caused the vagaries and other manifesto
tons of Mr.. Willis to be condoned
Sees No One but MIR. Cleveland.
Mr.. Willis at Honolulu, If this latest epi-
sode has not been misrepresen:ed, is shap-
ing his course by the Bayard pattern set
In London. That is to say, he ignores the
people OF the United States, whose servant
ne is, and acts upon his individual views
and those he thinks VIII meet with the
personal approval of the President Invited
10 participate in q celebra ton of what NAV
be termed the Hawaiian 4 Ii of July he de-
cIlhes, upon the ground that the means
employed in the establishment of the Ha-
Waiian republic were plblicly reorobatel
by Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. willis, looking in
this direction, is unablssae see anybody bat
Mr.. Cleveland. The people. SO far as he is
concerned, are completely lost in The Presi-
dents ample shadow. Hs knows and knows
officially, that the President was at last
Iorcea by the people TO acknowledge the
Dole government, but, as Senator Gray
world say, he ''barks back On the old
track' and refuses to obey the horn of
freedom and progress.
The Same Case With Buyard,
This was the nature of Mr.. Bayard's Of
tense 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 government from the beginning, and
tnat MS own party. after a successful bum
eombe campaign for free trade, had passed
a protection tariff bill Itself, was wholly
ignored when he came to speak He oniy
considered that his own views and those of
Mr Cleveland were opposed to protection,
ana he fired away He did not deem him
seif ansWerable to the people of the United
States.
He was not, in his opinion, their repre-
sentative, but the representative of the
ofnc1al who had selected him for his post
Beng certain Of Mr.. Cleveland and of him
self, therefore, he took no further thought
as to the propriety of his course. He is a
pious man, and not to be suspected of en-
ploylng Mr.. Vanderbilts expression about
the people, but his action might be ex-
plalned in that famous phrase without in
jury to the meaning 1t conveyed to the
people.
A Possibility to Come.
There are such great possibilities in this
line of procedure for. the assertion of con-
tempt for public sentiment by foreign min
isters and ambassadors the House, it is
thought in the coming debate on the Bay
ard matter could, with profit, go thor
oushly into the subject Another oppor-
tun1ty-it may not be seized-will shortly
occur in this Cuban business. Congress,
despairing of cooperation with the Presi-
dent will shortly declare for the Cubans
When that is done, will Minister Taylor at
Madrid feel justified in saying to the Span
Ism authorities that the deliverance is of no
moment? Mr.. Bayard or Mr.. Willis in his
place would probably say: Don't mind
that. 1t is only an expression of Congress
"a body gathered from the turbulent peo-
pie. 1t is of no Importance. The President
does not approve it. The President is the
state-the United States. Keep your eye
on him. So long as he is with you all is