The Mystery Explained

Sorne day, in the sweet by and by perhaps, we shall know exactly what Senator Morgan's report on the Hawaiian investigation really means. We shall know whether it is intended as a manly demonstration of American sentiment or a suave and servile whitewashing of a discreditable blunder - whether it is a shriek of the noble bird of f reedom or the still Bmall warble of the lowly cuckoo. For the present we are able to disentangle from the bewildering labyrinth of lts language one isolated fact of moment - the fact that Mr. Morgan and a majority of the committee with him believe in the . annexatiön of the islands. Out of that wild and tossing sea of rhetoric we have eucceeded in snatchine; th,y lonely derelict. But all the rest of it is enveloped in a tender haze of volubility, whica, while it accomplishes wonders in the way of stimulating guesswork, is valueless as a guide to definita conclusions. The utterance appears to be confused with howevers and notwithstandings and moreovers, and there is in it an opulence of "if so, why not?" profundity that baffles exact analysis. Aocording to this astonishing document, everybody connected with the Hawaiian incident behaved like a statesman, a scholar, a hero and a patriot. Mr. Stevens was correct, and so was Mr. Blount. President Dole is a great man on the right track, and Liliuokalani a perfect lady, if somewhat in distress. The United States authorities acted wisely in recognizing the queen's downfall, and the administration has kept well within its lawful powers in trying to set her up again. In a word, the report furnishes a cominon ground upon which all men may meet and where al eorts of opinions can find encourage ment and sympathy. As we say, there is just one downright proposition to which the bewildered citi zen may cling, and that is the clear, un equivocal and unmitigated declaration by seven out of the nine parties to the report that they favor the annexatiön of