Arizona republican., 1898-06-18
FOR THE ANNEXATION OF HAWAII
Other Reasons Why it Becomes Not Only Desirable But Necessary for This Government to Take the Islands
 Under Its Protecting Wing.

shows that he Is better fighter ana thinker than writer, but ,dt is a whole some and we'll timed appblication and his array of facts appears to be .nn- 
 It was Lieutenant YouEg who landed at the head of the marines from the Boston to maintain order and proteee American lives and property whffe. the revolution was in progress. It was he who. at the request of Minister Stevens, when foreign intervention seemed imminent, hoisted the starA ing in Honolulu as token that the islands were under the protection of the United States
 That identical flag which Commis- |sioner Blount. by direction of Groves Cleveland, hauled down on the iiD- honored Fourth of July, 1893, is stiH in Lieutenant Young's possession. Commander Wiltse having permitted him to keep it. Lieutenant YounH hopes to be permitted to raise it once
 more when Hawaii is annexed to the United States. and with the assurance that it will never again be lowered in. disgrace. sl- ,-~sr-s7ss Poor Secretary Gresham. who. like Stevens and Wiltse, has now passed beyond praise or censufe felt deeply the part he was populasly understood to have played in this drama. Just before his fatal illness he drove around to the residence of Chairman Hit of the house foreign affairs cornmittee (who himself was then on sick bedl and solemnly assured Tim that he
 knew nothing of Commissiores
 BIount's instructions until after his departure on his. paramount missfpn
 when copy in President Clevelandaa own handwriting was Banded him to place on the files of the state depar4-
 ment This incident caused a coOl- ness between Gresham and Cleveland
 which was never healed.
 THE CENSORSHIP. | The long interval between the giv- ings out of authentic news of ae- complished events of the southern coast of Cuba, was quite as trying to those here who had some inkling of
 the real state of affairs as to the gen eral public, which was fed between times with rumors of visionary Span ish battleships threatening our coasts and statements as to irreconcilahla differences between the war and navy departments as to the landing cf
 troops. But, as one of the leading 0f-
 ficials who was appealed to to permit some slight let-up on the official cen
 sorship in regard to newspapers pub- lished thousands of miles in the in
 terior. said, wisely and well:
 Let us for once unite in giving the
 public enemy the same dose of guess ing between conflicting rumors that they have given us all along. They
 have never told us or their own people
 when their ships or troops sailed. On the contrary. they have lied in the
 most variegated fashion, ard have only
 admitted the presence of their ships
 at any particular place after we had
 discovered them and when they found | it necessary to explain that their pres ence there was the result of delib- erately executed maneuyer.
 "I have read" he continued, lone of the Spanish accounts Of their victo-
 ries, upon which the Spanish senate adopted resolutions of congratulations.
 but my mind is carried hack to the old forty-niner times, and the victory
 which Don Phoenix, E A, obtained
 over his editor. Of course you remeu-
 Der it: Holding him down by my
 nose, which 1 had inserted between his
 teeth for that purpose etc, etc. That
 is the way the Spanish have been hold ing us down at Santiago and Manila
 What do you think cf these peace
 Tumors?" I asked.
 Most of them put out for stock-ioh-
 ping purposes, I should judge. You
 notice that they emanate from Madrid
 correspondents of European journals Continued on Eighth Page.)