ter. The letter of one President to another; of one
friend to another. The second letter was addressed to Mr. Willis,
in which Mr. Willis was told to upset Dole at the first opportunity
and put the deposed Queen back on her throne. This may be diplomacy,
but it is no kin to honesty.

In my judgment, it is the worst thing connected with the Hawaiian
affair. What must "the great and good" Dole think of our great
and good President? What must other nations think when they read
the two letters and mentally exclaim, "Look upon this and then upon
that?" I think Mr. Cleveland has acted arrogantly, foolishly, and
unfairly. I am in favor of obtaining the Sandwich Islands--of
course by fair means. I favor this policy because I want my country
to become a power in the Pacific. All my life I have wanted this
country to own the West Indies, the Bermudas, the Bahamas and
Barbadoes. They are our islands. They belong to this continent,
and for any other nation to take them or claim them was, and is,
a piece of impertinence and impudence.

So I would like to see the Sandwich Islands annexed to the United
States. They are a good way from San Francisco and our Western
shore, but they are nearer to us than they are to any other nation.
I think they would be of great importance. They would tend to
increase the Asiatic trade, and they certainly would be important
in case of war. We should have fortifications on those islands
that no naval power could take.

Some objection has been made on the ground that under our system
the people of those islands would have to be represented in Congress.
I say yes, represented by a delegate until the islands become a
real part of the country, and by that time, there would be several
hundred thousand Americans living there, capable of sending over
respectable members of Congress.

Now, I think that Mr. Cleveland has made a very great mistake.
First, I think he was mistaken as to the facts in the Sandwich
Islands; second, as to the Constitution of the United States, and
thirdly, as to the powers of the President of the United States.

_Question_. In your experience as a lawyer what was the most unique
case in which you were ever engaged?

_Answer_. The Star Route trial. Every paper in the country, but
one, was against the defence, and that one was a little sheet owned
by one of the defendants. I received a note from a man living in
a little town in Ohio criticizing me for defending