...building, and the Stars and Stripes were hoisted. Minister Stevens sent home a despatch, saying : " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. " On February llth, President Harrison disavowed the protectorate, though authorizing the presence...

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...was publicly read. In a dispatch announcing the assertion of a protectorate. Minister Stevens said : The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. On the receipt of his dispatch Secretary Foster wrote, Feb. 11, disavowing the minister's action so...

...islands." He reached his climax on the 1st day of February, 1893, when he wrote to the State Department: " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." When Mr. Cleveland assumed for the second time his high office, he at once withdrew the proposed treaty...

...exultant enthusiasm with which in a letter to the State Department dated February i, 1893, he declares : " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." States" he assumed the protection of the Hawaiian Islands and declared that said action was "taken...

...day of February, 1893, when he wrote to the State Dapartment : " The Hawaiian pear is now fully rips, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." When Mr. Cleveland assumed for the second time his high office, he at once withdrew the proposed treaty...

...Government building, and the Stars and Stripes were hoisted. Minister Stevens sent home a despatch, saying: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." On February iith President Harrison disavowed the protectorate, though authorizing the presence on...

...exultant enthusiasm with which, in a letter to the State Department dated February 1, 1893, he declares: The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. protection of the Hawaiian Islands and declared that said action was "taken pending and subject to...

...and to give a complete account of the existing state of things here. And February 1, he writes : 7 " The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Finally, in the "North American Review" for December, 1893, Mr. Stevens winds up a long article in...

...exultant enthusiasm with which, in a letter to the State Department dated February 1, 1893, he declares: The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. protection of the Hawaiian Islands and declared that said action was " taken pending and subject to...