COMMERCIAL INTERESTS V. JUSTICE.
THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION. In a leader on the revolution hj; Hawaii the London Telegraph says :- - The spectacle is one to astound and scandalise the civilised world. President Hanison played into the hands of the sugar pirates openly, and Mr Cleveland did not dare to wash his hands of the baseness and brutality wrought by his fellow-President in. Honolulu committed in open daylight, It is everybody's interest, except the declining race of islanders, to hush the matter up and allow speculators to end a spurious Government and stain the American flag by taking upon it this bastard repubHc. We do not suppose that any power w: : ll protest, unless it be Japan, when she has leisure. The American warships have playad ' cat and mouse ' with the islands, and dodged about just enough to give the filibusters a chance to escape if things came to the worst. Thus, because justice was nobody's business and Li.'iuokalari was not rich or powerful enough to command friendship; England and America have cllowed this flagrant crime to be. It is a sorry one for Christian morality, and it is a bitter lesson of what feeble races may pi'pect when the interests of civilised Powers come into collsion.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 124, 24 April 1895, Page 4
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