Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 37, 13 February 1894 Edition 02 — Out of His Own Mouth. [ARTICLE]

Out of His Own Mouth.

E\-M5nister Stevens’ statement about Hawaii, ia the most conclu*ive statement yet mvde by either side: but the eoneloaions it strengthen are not his own but those held by his critics. : tbat the Queen’s Government was Overtnrned. not by her own subjects, but by the Uniteil States troops. His first sentence is an attempt toswaken prejudice, his second is an appeal to it. His ’ criticisms of Blonnt are trivial in the e\treme. He didn’t like ' Blount’s boteI keeper in Honolulu; he didn't like Blount blnnt manner npon meeting him; he didn t like Blonnt s refns »1 to rccept the otfer of a honse whieh Stevens made him: he didn't like Blount’s refusal to let Steveus introdnce certain friends. and be did not like the fact that Blonnt was not satisfied to let him, Stevens, select such docoments as he ple sed for examination. He j doesn’t explain why he recognized tbe provisional government and established a protectorate ■ before a skirmisb had been fought and before a single post guardedby the Queen s troops had been captuted or snrrendered. He convicts liimself bv his assertion that the Oueen destroved her . - | own goverument by tryingto pro ranlgate a new constitution. Yet for fifty bours tbereafter, according to his own statement, during , ; whieh we are given to understand there waa no government, he failed to laud any troops to pres ervo order, as it was his bnsiness to do if the government had been destroyed. When he did land | them it was jnst in time to sup* port the provisional government, and he does not show that any request wbatever eame for the troops from any quarter except from the revolutionists themselves |He says ho tried to secure another hall for the troops before be took Ariou Hull, but be does not state that this otber hall was just adjoining Aiion Hall, equal- | lv fur frotn Ameiieau re?ideuts whom his.troops were landed to i defend, and eqnally comraanding j the Queen’s palaee. So determined was he to get the troops into tbat location that when he failed to get the first hall be |iersisted in getting anothor one in the same plaee.

lt is not likely that tho eommunications of the sly and clever ; Secretary of State who sent Mr. , Jobn L. Steveus to Honolulu as Minister of tbe United States, to whieh some of Mr. Steven’s dispatches on file at the State Department seem to reply, were ever made officially and put on file where they migbt be brought out bv inquiry. Mr. Blaine was , too smart for that, but as nsnal he left traces that exposetl the ; general character of his designs. ' Tbere is little donbt that the acquisition of Hawaii was a featore of tbe brilliant jingo po- ) licy whieh he desired to cariy I out, and whieh he made sucb a mess of wberever it was tried, i and that it was fully understood by Mr, Stevens. He was probably to be the instrument for acbieving a masterstroke devised by Elaine, and had an under- ! standing about it when he went to Honolulu. The scheme is a!together B!aine like, and the metbod of its attempted execution was quite in his manner. But, as in most of his scheraes, there was a fatal defect of ealeo l«tion that ignored all moral forces and all sense of jostice and letl to inevitable failure. The trail of tbe serpent was over them all —Stic York Timts.