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Show MUX IT HU IMl'lAlllXlLMt Ifthuloneof the Ilepubllcau preis aud Iho temper of iUpubllcaii statesmen states-men may be taken as a irlterlon It looks very much aa though a cise ot lmeachmeut wero being worked up against President Cleveland because ufhUncllou lu tho Hawaiian ullalr, lu Iho list of newspapers who oppose the President's action, however, wu flndlhoTeow Vork .S'oi, 11 Democratic but still un aull-CloTiland paper, whloli In n nceut Unuu auggisteel that If thu executive had taken certain prominent men In hli I arty Into his coulldeucu ho might liavu esca ej souiei very aunoylng coueiuencti. rhtreUuu ueitlon as to thu Con stt'utlon miking no provision lor eptclal messengers for thu hind ot tho nullou. Tlds, however, docs but raise tho olnt of whether or not such powtr Is Implied. A charier e a 11 not In tlio very nature of thlnuiibo n codo of laws liuldei of which everything nud ouMdo of which nothing. It Is merely the fjuudatlon nnd limitation ot thu law making power, sitting forth certain rules for our (.uldauci, nud not lu any carusnjlni; what, under thotu rules, we may or may not do. This being tho case, wu take It thu Presidents dufeliu, would mainly arliu from tho section which piovWta that by aud with the ndliu an I consult uf tho binato ho shall main treaties, etc. It doi not say tliut lie) ahull havn lutir-oouieaullh lutir-oouieaullh nu utlur authority llniu the Binuie, beoauiu t lit body re-riimail) re-riimail) luuks to hliu, 11 it hu to II, for jllklai Information nui he must huvu some moans uf nciUlrlng this Informa Hon without going In personal ipust of II. An much responsibility rest? upon UI in as upon tho uper brutch ol C'ongriia fir nil our forulgn transactions, transac-tions, and If Cougrcts tan xend out for 1 orsonr, papers uud Information gone rail j which It uau lutlsputubU why not hi? It will buobsorved that till situation wna becoming crltl.al; that all the puwera wero oil thu alert, while Qrial llrlUilu and (Jinuan) we.ro iuletly oeilaoklng tluir 10re.es. It was 1 absolutely nee ssury, beforu con-summatlus con-summatlus uu ucl wlioto ouliome meant k serious entanglement If not actual hosllllllts.tliat It bo deter-mine! deter-mine! beyond peradvenlura what thu status of aflalrs on the Island! waa; whether, as It was first male to appear to us, there waa n great popular movement move-ment Iheru looking to Immedlnto annexation or not. This. In the atreuceof 11 cable, could only bo determined deter-mined ly tiersonal Inspection nnd Investigation, Indeed, it Is n question If uvon with that advanced facility for communication we could have had a peifeclly satisfactory undettttndlng, since tho other ind of the telegraph service would not have been controlled by thoso most IntoimtcJ. That ought to bo enough, but If more should be wanting It might be fiunl In tho perhaps unwritten but certainly existing requirement that tho lieu J cl thu nation bo ever on the alert regarding Ita best lr tercels and welfare. He wanted, doubtltis, to maintain tho frlondly relations at proiontsubs'sllng between us nnd all other powers at lintt during tho I rosent year of grace, and coull porhapa lee no otlur way of doing It than the course which he rursucd. His emissary emis-sary leems to have foati J, up to date, that so far from annexation or even ti rotiotorato being thn thing dcslrol by tho 1 eople of Hawaii, the thought that Isuiporruost with thtm Is by what authority any luort thing was tver accomplished at nil. Ho lia as the bUrsnud Httlpee (baled over thn gov erumont building nt Honolulu, Juatso long wns this country Louti I to attack or diftuJ agalirt any other poa-cr that made advances In that dlncllon thus forcing ui Into tho position of belug a protector whiro our protection wai not asked and having all nations that wero not IndllTcient opposed to us besides. lleforo utterly condcnnil'jg the hauling elorrn of tlio flag In Hawaii, let ua first determine whethir or not there was sutllclerit authority for rail-Inglt. |
