Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 172, 25 Iulai 1894 — Undiginfied. [ARTICLE]

Undiginfied.

Tbe iangoage employed by Mr. Cleveland in bis proAamatioo to ' the people of HIinois doring tbe recent eh-ike, woald be a sorprise to a cannibal in the darkest Africa. TLe proclamation does not soand as coming ftom tbe cbief of a great republic, becaase it is coacbed iu tbe langaage of a petty lawyer making a plea, or a poliee officer reading a writ of 1 execotion in an old tenement ; bouse. From the brief orders of Cesar or the peremptory pronun- ( ciameotoes of Cromwell or tbe soal-stirriug addresses of Napo leon to tbe proclamation of the bead of tbe alleged greatest repnblic ou the eartb, the fall is iudeed as from tbe sublime to tbe zidiculous. lf the proclamation bad been signed by David Kaapa or some other sherifTs officer or bad emanated from one of tbe eheap po!iticians in tlie Americau League, nobody would bave wondered or objected. ! Jo see the name of tbe president of the United States attached to tbe following lawyer’s scroll is disgusting and ondignified: I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States. do hereby admonish all good citizens and all persons who may be or may eome within the city and State aforesaid (Illinois) against aiding, countenancing, encouraging, or taking part in such nulawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages; and 1 do hereby wnrn all persons engaged in or iu any way connected witb such unlawful obstructions, combinations and assemblages, to disperse aud retire peacefully to tbeir respective abodes on or before 12 o’eioek noon on tbe ninth day of July. Tbose who disregard tJiis warning. and persist in taking with a riotous mob in forcibly resisting and obstructing the exeeuiion of tbe laws of the Uniied States, or interfering with the functions of tho Government, or destroyiug aud attemptiug to destroy tbe proi>erty belougiug to tbe United States, or ander its proteotion, cannot be regardad otherwise than as puhlie enemtes. The troops employed against soch a riotoos mob will act with all moderation aud forbearance consistent witb tbe aeeompliahment of tbe desired end; bat the necessities tbat confront them will not, with certainty, permit discrimination between guilty participauts and those who are mingled witb them from curiosity and witbout enmioal iutent. Tbe only safe course, tberefore, £or tbose wbo are not actually unlawfully participating is to abide at their homes, or at least not to be fouud in the neigbborhood of riotons assemblages. While tbere will be no hesitation or vacillation in the decisive treatment of tbe guflty, this warning is especially intended to protect and save the innocent. In testimony wbereof X bereunto set my band and cause the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. Done at ihe oity of Washington tbk,eigbtb day of July, in the year of Oor Lord, 1894, and of the independence of the United States of Amenea, 118tb. 6boyxr Clkvelahd. By tbe President. W. Q. Geesham, Secretary.