Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 31, 6 February 1894 Edition 02 — The Truth Must Out. [ARTICLE]

The Truth Must Out.

The Presiilent’s H>iWHiian mess:«ge, a strong Stat« pnper. 1 evidently troubles or annoys his hitterest opponents, as the qnotations froa» the press, well sbow. Bitterness, vinegnr aud g II characterize the anti-Cleveland utterances uiostly. The Xew York Tribune speaks of the un- 1 pleasant relevations concerning ex-Minister Stevens. as being ‘•whHt(tho President) chose to ' regardasthe f«cts in the case" | on the d*y that the President i :issumeil his oftice. The reason that message hurts Mr. Cleve- , iand’s enemies so badly is that ■ “what be chose to regard as the 1 facts in the case" taere the aeiual j and undeniable facts. Mr. Stev- | ens was rusbiug things at a paee | a little too rapid. The best men aud most of the real c>vi)ization of the islands «re oo the side o( the provisional government Also ii is true tbat the people of tbe United States woald like to see some furm of a protectorate over those islands scr important to Amenean cummereial and n ival interests. Bot Ameneaua are jmst. and it is proper for ihe

j Pr&sident to bring ont the real sitaation th«t exist-id at Honolala as it actaallv existed, last * | Janaary, when Mr. Stērens, tben L'nite<l Sutes Minister at Honolaln, was so actively engaged in f>rwardingtheoverthrow whieh he hnd so singalarly fore- . shadowed, ia his letter to Mr. Blaine. The gnomoc oa the world’s dial does not move back- ! ward. The L nited States will not p e r m i t any foreign power to control those islan ls. Americ »n interests and ideas mast. from the sitnation of things. prodeminate there. All the same, it is right that the trath abont ex-Minister Stevens’s coarse at Honolalu one year ago should be seen and uaderstood, and Mr. Cleveland brings it out iu its strongest Iights and shades, and to great 1 edect. — Har(ford , (C t.) Times. i