Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — MORE ABOUT HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

MORE ABOUT HAWAII.

Mr. P. W. Reeder, a prominent Republican of Cedar Rapids, lowa, has given out a personal statement concerning Hawaiian matters in which he reviews tin situation to the extent of six columns of small type in the dally papers. lit charges that the revolution In the Sandwich islands was the result of a conspiracy aided by United State* .marines and ex-Minister Steven*. Mr. Reeder was a resident of Hawaii four mouths last winter and speaks from personal knowledge. He states that the position assumed by President Cleveland is the only possible one If justice is to be done. The deposed Queen was wrongfully deprived of her throne and it was dune through the instrumentality of the United States officials. The government of Lilioukalani was native in name, but in fact it was American. In conclusion Mr. Reedci says: ■' Why pursue it further? It has been a government plunder, the recitai of which is sickening, and yet this is the country that John L. Htephens said ought to be annexed to the United States in order that a higher Christian civilization might obtain there. In his view these men are its exponents. If I had any prayer* to offer it would be that another Nazarene might arise, clothed with authority and with thongs in His bands, who would drive these men from these temples <4 justice, where they have been and are sqqking the life blood out of the nation. I must dose. I have written uuthii g dowu in malice, but have given a fuiui sketch of the events as they lr*n*ptr- i I ei re me while there, and given them *? I saw them. . .