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Show IJIfAlIDM'i: l'.UIAKIIIMJ HtWAII. Bjiuo of thu papers rue. Impatient bucsutu the ttatu secrets rigardlug Hawaii nru not divulged. ".Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land should taku thu people Into his conlldence," calls out one of them, white others maulfoit fielr roitlessnem variously. Ills worthy of record thut Ihu President ill this matter has added lu his uchlivenivnts onu previously um.er.tood to bu linpotslhle Liaillug oil thu newspaper nun. lVrhapi It Is thh circumstance nmro ttnu any pnttluilu oumldeMllou Hut It to galling gall-ing ti mmo of thu fraternity. Uu of tho pipors that It hud nit and most e.rlstent la its demanJa upuu and criticism of hcadquartort the Hun FraucltCilYirumo'e had this totay in u recent numbtii Inasmuch aUrovor Cloiolaml In his iitlhlnl cipaelty ui Pruildent t tho United S tttus h soul Jutnes 11. IVount 10 IIilMall hu an oxot'lUUo euniltlUnouer, the imoplo uf thu Uiitletl hiatus bate an absolute, and iiniU.illllji right to luiuw what Mr. lUmiui'i Iti.lnietlun-, irum tho rnident were mid wh n iho rout ubjuet uf Jiw inUNlrin in. a-wo lirn from the uio.t ronti' iiitie4 irum lUvtuli, L'oiu-iiiUtouerlllouu L'oiu-iiiUtouerlllouu 11 di'lmi:iiiiili!i: htm solf by hii tali ut jt reui'. , but while hu liuliU his toiuuu ftuieiii.inulyliiuliiesi. J Is going to tho dug;, and Amerfun intor- et In Hawaii aro In danger of ruin and oxllticllon. Our western colemporary then ad. vises the President tbarlf ho has au-thing au-thing In tho nature of a clear or well defined polloy rogirJIng tho Hawaiian lilands Itlstlmefarhlm to declare IU "Am-umlng that ho wants to undo the work of the Harrison aJmlnlitrallon In order to glorify and exalt his own, he has had ample lime t make a new start and establish a lino of action of his own, and yet all wo can learn from Hawaii Is that Uommltaloner lllounl atksininy questions, looks very wise andsays nothing." It Is high tlme,con-tinues tlme,con-tinues the Cironfo'0, that the President should awake to the realization if the fact thst the annexation or non-annexatloc non-annexatloc of Hawaii la n national and aud not a pirlltan question. "He seems to think that slnco tho Ilnrrlion administration did not concludo the matter It comes to thu Democrat! as a lltlcnl, not n national legacy, and that I e nnd his party may treat It Irom nurely paitltan standpoint." There will be some radically divergent diverg-ent opinions on that point, we think, and not all of them will bu entertained by Demicrnti. It Is really premature to undertake to say uat now what tho President's motives art; he has no contclonce-keeper aud has at fir dli-closed dli-closed his purpose to but ono nia-i James II. Illount. Whuu that gentle-mau's gentle-mau's labors on thu Islands nru concluded, doublleti we shall know It alllogether with the why and wherefore. where-fore. Musntlmu, let the rust-lets rust-lets American whoso alventuroua eye wis turned to the Insular government wust of us niesi hltsoul In peace, be-lug be-lug assured at he oujlit to bo and tho rittof ua now ate that annexation at thu time It wat prctts 1 moit strongly would havo brought us lulu collision with nt lea, t one an 1 perhaps two or throe of tho great power. We havo escaped that through the President's action nnd we ought to be thankful for It. It would hardly be the proper thing to be entertaining gueitt from abroad at Chicago and fighting their countrymen country-men oil the Pacific, would II? |