Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 68, 7 December 1893 — Representative Outhwaite's, Opinion. [ARTICLE]

Representative Outhwaite's, Opinion.

, t)ne of the first puhlie men of prominence to publicly eomlemn the action o£Miuister Stevsns for' the unwarranted act oi dej>osing t!ie Queen was Kepresentative j Outhwaite, of Ohio. Mr. Outhwaite is now equally enthusiastic i iin his approval of President Cleveland in correcting the gross outrage. Ilo said to-night: ‘At the time the provisional governi ment was established through the assistance of the United States Riinister and the Uuited States troops, I exj>ressed the opinion that it was au outrage upou the Iaws of nations and of men. The j governmeut of Hawaii just previous to that event was one friendly disposed to this country and at peaee with us. As I nuf.erstood it. the coustitutiou of 18»7, excluded a large proportion of the uative citizens from the rights of citizenship, and that receutly the Queen submitted to her cabinet a constitution extendiug to her subjects these priviledges. For some reason this d»«l not suit the class of citizeus who have since, for their own benefit and interests, sought annexation with this couutiy, and they raised disturbance and did all ia their power to overthrow the existing governmeut. Our minister called ashore the forces 1 of the United .States ship, the Boston, w hieh was in the harbor, to assist this revolution. Now, if a similar s"ate of atfairs had : exi>tod in Cuba, or the Bermudas ' <>r Mexico, no minister of the l"n.te<.l States would have dared 1 to porpetrate snch an oatrage. But the Hawaiian govemment was a feeble one and easilv inti- ; midated. •Tbe otficiaI communications received at that time indicated that there was no justification for this condact on the part of onr minister. The evidence secured

by Commissioner Bloaut on the reoeut utterance> of Mr. Stewt:s prore that withoat the intenention of the Uoiteil Staks forees no revolation wouKl havo occnrrevl. ‘Minister Stevcns altempt.> to jostifv his coniioct on lh< gronn<i tb;»t it was neetssar\ to eail the American forces ashore in onlcr to »iefen<i the Iives ami propertv of Araerican citizeus. He <1;*1 not point out a sinj;le act on the part of auv one showing th .t either tl»e lives or the propertv of American citizeus were in ilanger. In fact, he contra«licts hinaself. for he now s»ys th<t the provisional governraent was eompletely estal>lishev) at the time he recognized it aml befor<* he brought the nrme»l forces ashore into Honolulu. ‘ Justiceand rightdemand that this government act as far ns it oan in g<K»d policy toward undoit!g any evil that the minister of thi» country and the naval f.»rcea mav have promoted. The j>e<>jile of Hawaii should have a fair opps.rtanity todetermine whether thev shall mainlain the present p<>ver.irnent or restore the m<>narchv. and if the j.>ev>ple of H iwaii decide to restore the monarchy, then it is the duty of this goverument tn recognize it. This talk of our government doing a wicked thing to set uj> another government in Hawaii of a mon <reh.ieal characler because the islands are a part ot the Amerioan c<>ntinent is simpiy ridiculous. No one proposea to set np another government, but simply to let the p»<>,>le of the Sandwich Islands det»-rrnine for themselves what kiml ofgovernmeut they |>refer. and they hnve jnstas mueh right to do th»t ns any other people.”