The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-01-12

orleans massacre, with the tax on
American diplomacy to avoid a conflict
with Italy; the outrage committed by
England on Nicaragua, in the Corinto
affair, which aroused the Indignation
and called forth the protests of the
American people; and the war clouds
which less than year ago rose so
threateningly over the Venezuelan
question and were cleared away only
by the persistent maintenance of the
Monroe doctrine.
''The dictates of humanity, and our
vast interests in Cuba, demand that
this Government shall extend to that
oppressed and ill-governed island the
protection of the eagle and the shield,
and command that this inhuman war of
butchery, spoilation and destruction
Shall stop, and Cuba be left free to cul-
tivate the arts of peace and develop
her resources, under a Government of
her own choice and creation.
"Of present conditions the Cuban
question is daily assuming more threat
riotic citizens, struggling through car
mage and conf1agration in the unalter-
able determination to break their yoke
of bondage or perish to the last man
battling heroically to earn for them
selves and their posterity the liberty
our example taught them to covet, ap-
peals most powerfully and emphatical-
ly to the American sense of justice and
fair play, and cannot much longer ap-
peal in vain.
1.-The attitude of the British Govern
ment furnishes another of the present
conditions which Americans cannot
contemplate with indifference. She has
established six powerful naval stations
in threatening proximity to our East
earn coast. She has built others at
Voncouver, Quebec, st. Johns, Kings
ton, and the Niagara River. These
Notifications could not have been de-
signed for defense against any Euro
pean power. They are a standing
menace to this Republic, and no agree
ment for the establishment of a per-
manent court of arbitration should ev-
er be ratified except on the condition
that all her maritime Notifications
south of Halifax and those along the
southern border of Canada shall first
be dismantled and destroyed.
Another condition that appeals with
irresistible force to American patriot
ism is the fact that American citizens
in foreign lands have been compelled
to suffer the humiliation of appealing
to British and other alien consuls fol-
protection against threatened violence
as their own legation was either toe
weak or too cowardly to protect them
During the massacre at Van, our coun-
| trymen were compelled to seek the
protection of the British consul, who
to assure their safety, hoisted the
Union Jack above the American Mis-
sion, the Stars and Stripes inspiring
neither respect nor fear. Only the un
ceasing exertions of Sir Philip Currie
the British Ambassador at CONSTANT
nople, says the Westminster Gazette
| have enabled the American mission
aries IN the Ottoman empire to pursue
| their -labors of mercy unmolested.
1.-The well known policy of this Gov
eminent to keep at peace with all thu
world as long as peace can be pre-
served without loss of honor, will b.
the league, but it will insist that mean
of securing peace is to be found il
the most ample provisions for the de
| Tense of our coasts, both by sea ant
land, in liberal policy toward thu
army and navy, in such an adjustment
| of tariff as will meet all the expense
! of the Government and encourage do
nestle industry by protecting our mar
kets against ruinous competition from
abroad. While the policy of the League
will be pacific and conservative, it's in
| fluence will be exerted to complete tn
Nicaraguan Canal with American cap
ital, and retain it under American con
troll; to extend the boundaries of tn,
Republic to embrace adjacent territory
| the Hawaiian Islands, and the islands
proximate to our coast, whenever thu
people of those countries shall volun
| tarily seek incorporation with tn,
| Union; to restore our merchant marine
to more than it's ancient prestige, an(
to make the flag of the Republic re
| spected in every quarter of the globe.