The San Francisco call., 1898-02-25
THE JOINT RESOLUTION.

\ seek resurrection by joint resolution In that case. being sown corruptibe body it will no' put on interruption by any means. Inc titie we propose to receive from Hawaii is not purged of its iniquity by change of process There IS no balm in a joint resolution to heal and sweeten the ofense to this country and to Hawaii.
 The President of the United States said that the government of Hawaii subverted i'll 1893 by an abuse of the authority of the United States, which was in plain violation of international law, and re- cured the President to dsavow and condemn the act of our offending officials and within the limits of his constitutional power to endeavor to restore the lawful authority"
 To this Lorin Thurston, representing the Dole olgarchy replied "The fact that the United States Minister may have trespassed upon the international rights of the Hawaiian monarchy does not thereby confer jurisdiction upon the Government of the United States to deliberately trespass upon such rights of the de ure de facto government"
 Here is the admission that the de facto title to sovereignty was procured for the oligarchy by the act of the United States, and it is proposed to trans fer that title, procured, to this country The manner of the transfer is immateral, whether by treaty or joint resolution We cannot honorably title from its lawful possessors put it in the hands of an intermediary and from them accept it as our own. This is not conquest It is worse.
 MT. Jefferson laid down the principle that should be observed by the United States in the acquisition of territory. He was in favor of the annexation Of Cuba, and writing to Madison that subject in 1899 he said: "It will be objected to receiving Cuba
 that no limit be drawn to our future acquisitions Cuba can be defended by us without navy, and this develops the principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require navy to defend it''
 Tyler Webster, Taylor Clayton and Blaine each stated strongly, declaration to the world, our Hawaiian policy to be the independence neutrality and integrity of those islands.
 Secretary Sherman in his "Recolectons" two- volume autobiography, says: "I hope that our peo- pie will be content with internal growth and avoid the complications of foreign acquisition Our family o States is already large enough to create embarrass ment in the Senate, and republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new ac quisiton will create endorsements If my life is prolonged I will do all cad to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States but nothing extend its limits to add dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.
 Here then, IS the expression of line of American policy from Jefferson to Sherman Every man who declared that policy spoke by authority True, Jef- ferson was not President at the time he made the
 
 that office by Madison less than two months before he wrote.
 Tyler and Taylor were Presidents and their declar ations official; Clayton Webster and Blaine were Secretaries of State and Sherman was Senator
 Nations apprise the world of their policy by acts and by declarations of those in authority. In that way policy toward Hawaii made known and repeatedly confirmed. Therefore the lawful govern ment of Hawaii had notice of intention to aid in its subverson and trespass upon its interna- tional rights act of peculiar turpitude. Our declared polcyhad put upon the defensive in the of international morality every predatory govern that extended its jurisdiction and destroyed the autonomy of weak nations by such trespass as we committed in Hawaii. As we have often pointed out our abandonment of solemnly declared policy has been most grateful to the robber nations, to whom our former position standing reproach