Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-24
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"coMPuL SION" OF THE HAWAuANs.
when Democratic journal in New
York and another in Charleston. witch
have been for years respectively the
apologlst and promoter of all the hang
Ing, burning and laying alive of negro>
with which the South has been disgraced.
ion voices in plea for the invaded
liberties of the poor blacks of the Pa
cifc, we may suppose thet the Hawaiian
hysteria has reached its limit.
If so, we may, perhaps. be allowed to
inquire the difference between tie Ha-
waiian senate's action in ratiiying the
annexation treaty and any other action
taken by the same senate, or its prede-
cessors under the constitution of 1887,
during the golden age of Liliuokaani
BE the piece good or bad they are all
of the same piece. We can readily i'm
agine a Honolulu Bonaparte forcing a
senate to register his DEGREES on the day
after his coup d'etat. But four years
and six months thereafter-that IL a
different matter. The annexation treaty
was approved by the representatives OF
the Hawaiian people after period of
deliberation never before, we think, ac-
corded to such a measure. As for CO.
erciOn-let us see,
The one stain upon the Cleveland ad-
minIstratiOn that will not out is the at
tempt to force a second revolution in
Honolulu. With generalization the late
president withdrew the American war
ship from that station. lie wasl openly
and avowedly resolved that, if the ma
tiyes chose to rise and butcher their
oppressors, they should do so without
let or hindrance from this government.
The royalists took him at his word. As
soon as the United States cruiser on
guard left the harbor they organized a
revolution. They had not only the in
citation of the American government at
the time, but the sympathy of the Brit
ish. The minister and, as we have
learned since. the colonial bishop, were
royalist intriguants. The insurgents
must have had, if what we hear now of
the unpopularty of the 5000 sons of
American missionaries is true. the
sympathy of the Portuguese. and
japanese residents as well. They had
all the physical and political force
necessary for successful revolt They
failed miserably. Hawalans. British,
japanese. Portuguese, all the Joseph :
coat of population, refused to respond
when the question of the queens restora-
ton was put to them badly. The eighty
men who constitute the standing army
of usurpation iran in the Honolulu
Vel dee. and the only actual blood on
Mr.. Cleveland's hands was that of a
Young American volunteer who set out
to quell the revolution before the police
arrived. The spot that will not out i III
the Cleveland conception Of conditions
that should have followed his with
drawal of the American crusier. Had
Hawaiian affairs been as Mr.. Cleveland
thought they were. he. out of political
spite. was inviting massacre of Gavin
pore. But the people could not he
tempted to revolt. even by the presi
dent of the United States They haC
lost bad government and gained :
good one. The good one could have
gone on indefinitely Oui for the thinly
disguised japanese attempt at its over
throw.
70 assert the compu|sion of the la
waiian people with these facts fresh IL
the public mind is "A fearful example o1
the Gepths of sponsibility 20 which {
portion of the American press has de
scended. When man permits himsel
to rave ia the manner thaT the journal:
indicated have done it j. pretty fail
proof that he expects no one Ia pay at
trntinu To what he SAYS New IOrl
Press.