Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 1, 2 January 1894 — Public for Hawaiian Matters. [ARTICLE]

Public for Hawaiian Matters.

— . , i_ Partisan consider.itions aside, . the resolution oflerod by Mr. 1 ( Hoar in the senate yesterday: | conceruing Hawaii was perfectly j proper, and should have met i with the support of the democratic senators. Instead. it w»s opposed by some of them, j although finally passed without division. The senator from Massachusetts raerely asked for information frora the President as to iustructions given any miuister or naval officer of the L nited States since March, 1891, in i regard to the preservation of I order ih Huwaii. The republican , seuators, of couose, made the motion an excuse for more or less violent attacks upon the administration and more or less foml ; apologies for the discredited ! Stovens. But that iu itself did i not vitiate the Ho»r resolntion, for the information certainly . belongs to the senate, and we are not sure that the Presideut acted ! in g -od taste in withholding it so long. Mr. Cloveland’s course in regard to Hawaii thus far has had i the support of the majority of temperate Americans. So far as it uas been published it has been thoroughly courageous and man ly. Nothing in it—nothing in the course of the President on ■: any public qnestion in fact—- , demands sheiter from the : scrutinv of the world. Honestv » • I is the one thing that ean stānd .iu the ligbt without blinking, and that if the instructions to Irwin and Wiliia were along the ; line snggcsted b\ T Mr. Gresham’s coramunication and Mr. Blouut’s report, tho President need not fear the rending of his f»olicy bv the hands of his political euemies. Every disclosure of i the sitnation in Honolulu, inelu- ■ ding the utterauces of Steveo8 I and Thurston, have strengtkened Mr. Cleveland’s case. Tbe more light on his policy the better for bis defenders. —Ch icogo Poai.