| Show HAWAII AriD SAMOA The Republican press is still harping on the subject of the Hawaiian policy with a great deal of rancor and the endeavor is still being made to have the people believe that President Cleveland Cleve-land has committed an unpardonable sin by attempting to act justly with a monarchy They still cry out about L setting up of a dusky queen about people oppressed by a monarchy and desirous t de-sirous of freedom and they say that President Cleveland did not show sufficient suffi-cient desire for republican hibert yon y-on the islands Leaving aside the question as to the justice of this government being a party to the overthrow of another government gov-ernment and then refusing to right the wrong and the further question as to whether the Hawaiian islands are now being governed In the form of a republic re-public in view of the fact that a majority ma-jority of the men who constitute the government are foreigners owing allegiance alle-giance to other nations and holding office under laws which disfranchise fivesixths of the people and absolutely absolute-ly muzzle the press it appears rather strange that the Republican papers have not been saying something about the pet king of uncle Benjamin Harrison Har-rison Recent events have made only more emphatic the argument of Senator Mills on this subject immediately after the recent tinpot revolution in the Hawaiian islands Those who shudder at lithe dusky queen and howl about the right of a people to govern themselves them-selves will be struck with an absolute chill if they but allow themselves to consider for a moment the present condition con-dition of affairs in far off Samoa that little Malayan island in the South Pacific Pa-cific ocean Here the great Benjamin I who trembles at the thought of the Hawaiian queen joined with England I and Germany in forcing upon the ignorant ig-norant people a king whom they did J I not want and would not have until they were forced to accept him by the bayonets of the three great powers that had descended upon them in their weakness No right of the people to govern themselvesa right that should be accorded to even the most ignorant tribeswas given They were not asked any more than the natives of Hawaii have been asked what their wishes were They were simply told that they must do as ordered Then their chosen yuler was placed in Jail and the new t1 king was put on the throne As Senator Sena-tor Mills said He Mataafa the old king was sent off to the Mars iaU islands belonging to Germany He is there in prison today to-day and has been for years with the waves of the ocean breaking around him in that desolate isle with no I earthly prospect of getting back to the land of his nativity and the I people for whom he has been destroyed de-stroyed for whose liberties and rights I he is suffering imprisonment guarded by American bayonets and the expense of his incarceration paid out of the pockets of the hard working people of the United States I The treaty which is keeping in powerw j the present king of Samoa was negotiated nego-tiated by Harrison through Phelps in Germany and by it the territory of the people there is partitioned out among the three powers to the treaty as cold bloodedly as was the territory of Poland Po-land l parcelled out to Russia Austria and Prussia Further the treaty provides pro-vides that Maletoa shall be king until the three powers decide otherwise Absolutely no provision is made for an exercise of the will of the people of the islands If there is any dissension among the three powers that have ruthlessly trodden a helpless people under foot then the appeal must betaken be-taken to the King of Sweden as much interested as either Germany or England in keeping up the pomp of a monarchy Everything is done by the powers The people of the islands are forbidden even to sell their lands The only right that is given them is the right to lease them for forty years This government has pursued a shameless policy to the Indians of this country They have trodden them down in the march of civilization and practiced upon them barbarities that darken the history of the country Yet they have never gone to such extremes ex-tremes even with the Indians as the concocting brains of the heads of two monarchies and a republic have gone in making up a scheme to rob the people peo-ple of the Samoan islands of the right I to govern themselves Senator Mills said further I This Republican treaty also imposes taxes on those peoplo I have always I understood that of all the powers of government the lIilower to take the property of the Stizen is the greatest power that can be given It is the greatest power to be intrusted it is the power most liable to abuse the power most frequently abused and yet they do not consult those poor I people about the taxes they are to pay to this republic But this royal Republican Re-publican treaty of Samoa lays down all sort of taxes there and among I them import and export duties I do not know how any American Republican I Republi-can ever got it into his head that an export duty was a republican tax how that came out of the civilization of the United States when in the very constitution of our country we have said that no export duty shall be levied at all But they have got beyond this country They were away down 10000 miles in the Pacific ocean establishing a royal republic with the aid of Germany Ger-many and Great Britain and there they imposed export duties and import duties du-ties and capitation taxes taxes on boats taxes on colored plantation laborers taxes on firearms taxes on dwelling houses special taxes on stores occasional taxes license taxes all sorts of taxes and when the whole land is torn and blasted by this abuse of taxation to guard against an uprising I up-rising of the people of Samoa they disarmed dis-armed them and in this Republican treaty they declare that no arms shall be imported into Samoa nor shall any man sell to a native Samoan a gun They disarmed them What says the constitution of the United States to I this magnificent treaty What did your fathers say when the Constitution was framed in 1787 A well regulated I militia being necessary to the eecurity of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be in fringed It is useless to talk about keeping a people free when they cannot use the jewelry of freedom when they cannot fight force with force when they cannot can-not plead their cause on the battlefield bat-tlefield with gunpowder and bayonets Our fathers secured to us the right to keep and bear arms so that no power in the Union can take tt from L us In case the government shall become be-come a despotism the arms of the freeman is the last resort of the people peo-ple for the preservation of their liberties lib-erties They have said that no power shall disarm the people of the United States and yet in this republic of Samoa Sa-moa a Republican administration in combination with the two most powerful power-ful monarchies of the world stood band r b-and aided in the disarming of those 1 poor defenseless people As to the secret reasons for this American interference In the affairs of Samoa they appear to be the same as those which move upon the assailants 3 of the administration because of failure fail-ure to listen to their clamors for L American absorption of Hawaii Mi Mills thus put the matter before the Senate All for sugar My President This treaty when tested by the polariscope will show 96 degrees of saccharine strength And so with this affair lithe li-the Hawaiian islands Let me show what has been paraded for the delectation delec-tation of the American people about the Hawaiian islands Forty corporations corpora-tions with a capital stock of 28400990 American ownership 522459610 nativ Hawaiian 266250 The American percent per-cent of all these corporations 7417 British 1811 German 62 and native Hawaiian 8 of i per cent I |
