The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-16

troll of the capital of the Hawaiian Islands,
| hereby recognize said Provisional Gov
eminent as the de facto Government OF the
Hawaiian Islands. JOHN L. STEVENS,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States.
The faIsehoods of this document are as
remarkable as the precipitancy with which
it was accorded to its bene6ciaries. The
Dole conspirators were not ''in full pos
session of the Government buildings, but
of only one of them, which was occupied
only by clerks and porters at the time OF
their raid And it was still too early to
apply the word recent to the Govern
ment of the Queen, for the rebels did not
wait on the Queen with their reasonable
proclamation uutil after Minister Stevens
had recognized their Government,
The Queen yielded, of course. She
could do nothing else against Il rebellion
that was so manifestly backed up by the
superior armed forces and by the Minister
of the United States. She signed. under
protest, paper renouncing her rights.
The new Government. fired with joyful
zeal by the ready cooperation Of the
American Minister, then asked him for the
support of the United States forces through
the night, and requested ''that the com
mander of the United States forces take
command of our military forces. This
was little too fast even for Stevens, but
by the end Of January the Provisional
Government, officially confessing that it
was ''unable to satisfactorily protect life
and property, and in order 'to prevent
civil disorders in Honolulu and throughout
the Hawaiian Islands, prayed our Min
lister to raise ''the flag of the United States
of America for the protection of the Ha-
waiian Islands for the time being. He
who raised us up will sustain us, thought
the rebels And he did The flag was
raised over the Government building,
United States troops were quartered within
it. the Provisional Government troops
marching out. The new Government had
been created under the encouragement and
protection Of Minister Stevens and the
United States armed forces from the Bos-
ton. Its most impostant function, the
protection of life and property, was after
wards performed by Stevens and the United
States troops.
This is the story of the establishment Of
the present Hawaiian Government, the
story of crime of which we are the per-
petrators, and, contrary to the well known
maxim of law, are about to become the
beneficiary The evidence is unmistak-
able that Minister Stevens was in the
councils of the robels long before the out
break that he was their main reliance;
that without his help and that of the troops
the attempt would not have been made,
and that without his aid the new Govern
ment could not have sustained itself 1t
is this crime, denounced by Mr.. Cleveland
as the first of its kind in our history, this
gully and fragrant partici patton Of a United
States Minister in reasonable plot to
overthrow il friendly Government, that
makes the Hawaiian annexation job so re-
voting to Americans who apply moral
standards to public affairs. 1t is this
knowledge, added to the conviction that
down deep in the dirty mess, at the foun-
dation of all, there lies sordid and cor.
rupt money speculation that makes it i'm
possible to still the voice of protest when
the job is pressed to its cOnsummation un,
der the hypocritical and baseless pretense
that it is a war measure.