Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 170, 2 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

From our special correspondent we learn by the "Belgic" that there are no prospects of any action being taken on the annexation pf Hawaii by the present Senate and under the Harrison administration. The outlook is that a commission will be appointed by the Senate to proceed to Hawaii and investigate all the proceedings in connection with the annexation rnove. and that a vote of all citizens will be taken for, or against the accomplishment of the annexation proposition. Secretary Foster while approving of the landing of troops for the prrotcction of life and property condemns Stevens for having assumed a protectorate. Princess Kaiulani, escorted by Mr.T.H.Davies, is in Washington appealing to the American Nation. W . R. Cnstle has filled the press with his usual lies about British influenee and intrigues here. The Commissioners feel very uneasy, and only Wilder and Marsden will return by the next steamer. Paul Neumann is in Washington vigorously at work. London, Feb. lSth, 1893. Princes Kaiulani sends the following address to the American people. Four years ago. at the request of Mr. Thurston, then Hawaiian Cabinet Minister. I was sent away to England to be educated privately and fitted for the position which by the constitution of Hawaii I was to inherit. For all these years I have patiently and in exile striven to fit myself for my return this year to my native country. I am now told that Mr. Thurston is in Washington asking you to take away my flag and my Throne. No one tells me even this officially. Have I done anything wrong that this wrong should be done to me and my people? I am coming to Washington to plead for my Throne, my nation, and my flag. Will not the Americau people hear me? Yesterday’s news from Washington were not received with so mueh enthusiam among our missionary and annexation friends, as could have been expected. We thought that whatever Thurston a Co. did was well-done. but it seems that the proposed treaty is not considered a very gilt-edged instrument by our planters. Of course the Provisional Commissioners have given all to the States. and received nothing in return. This was to be expected. How mueh they may have wished for different terms they had to swallow the medicine they made for themselves, and must now try to digest it. The Provisional Government will be in the same box. They dare not refuse to ratify the treaty, and so make fools of the United States, but on the other side, they must know, that the treaty simply means total ruin to the planting interest. The labor laws and Anti-chinese laws of the United States will be made applicable to Hawaii. That means farewell to cheap labor. and we expect that every Japanese now under contract working for $10 or $12 a month, will only be to glad to receive one dollar a day in the future. By a few ce-

arrangeLneats. among the Chinese and Japanese, Ial>>r will so<jn eommand a resi>ectable figure. and we predict a g >lden era for the retaii firms whieh wiil be the imm»Hliate gainers bv h:gh paid ialx>r. Thal | is. if auy pUnUlion here c.\n aff>rd j to pav such wages as will be dei mand«i. and yet exist. We doubt | ! that any of them ean stand a sv?tt-m of free and nellj>aid lab >r under the present sug»r-priccs. leaving alone the uucerUinty of retaimng the nieii. nolong“r h»un<l to retnain in one emj>l<>y bv eontracts, and tbe inaster and servant act. and at the mercy of the plautation ix>liceman. And ihe sugar-b >unty ! L-tt t<> be sett!ed by the Co gress. \es ! We guess t!iat the bounty will be sett!ed by tb>- Congress»and sett ed ! so well. that our j>lanters will never see any b-nefit frum it The dream of the g»ld-n era is over. and the awakening as we hnvepredicted will be r»ugh ou the very menwhobicked the revolt. We understand, that the large sugar houses here will use all p»ssib!e pressure to prevent the treaty from being r.itified by the Advisory Council. lt is too lale geutlemen. Y»u leaped without looking ahead, and you are now in the ditch, A general subscription for the purpose of tendering the Pr>>visional C»mmissioners a puhlie reception and ball at the Opera House is now in order, and we trust that the 8tockholders in Ewa snd Kahuku plantation will eome down handsomely. The five men who, through lies and fraud, have made the United States believe that they represented Hawaii, and who 8<>Id their country, and received abs»lutely nothing inreturn deserve emall consideration of this nation. They will be remembered by the Hawaiian nation to the day of their death, aud retribution will follow them during the reraainder of their life. * It is left for Congress to settle the future form of government for these Island3. Some prospects are thrown out, that we will be a Territ»ry un the Alaskan plan or a District on the plan of Columb a. We theee poaeihilities at j>resent. Long before this matter eomea bcfore Congress. the xontemptible oulrage, contain«! in 4nch& pr»p»sitifn. made clear to that angust body of meu, and we ean feel assured. thal this c»untry will u»t be deprived of self g >vernmt-nt, and be left to the teuder mercy of such numbeknlla, as domiuate in the present governmeot. The Advertiser need not worry over the Citizens Rights League whieh it reports on under the heading »1 ‘*The Black Flag.” The League will get along and proeper and gain ils object wbich is plainly s«t f>#rlh in the name of the league, without asking for the assistance oftte Advertiser nor caring for the opjx>sition of that aheet. If the Advertiser and its editor were aware how they arc looked upon in this community, even by prominent members of the Reform Party, they would reali*e tbat any oppoeilion from tbem will be of benefit to any enterprise ratber thau a hano. We have seen few aueh hieaehee of eommon jouruaIiatic decency u that exhibited by the Reform Party’s organ in regard to the |

Macfarlane Ā* Coe.. Iiquor ca«e. Thai Mr Castle ha? a >rreat inelinalion to prvja-iire betv>re tbecourt?. and lo atteaipt U>instrnct the iudges h<»w to aot ha? been : noticeab.e i r s*>rae tirae. but to , pr«nounC“ ,t-e.oe m a cise uot , vd eettled, a d st ite ‘*that the ‘ licen?e of th.it aiioon shouid be • ' cancelled. M i» s ich a p;ece of in- j himoup ira .*ertinence lhit it d-5krrvcr 1:1 . ii recrun»iid from the bench .»!;h > i. »ve hard y p>ipp«e t i.«t »-ven - ieh a raea«ure wouid h »ve y «tT ct <>n t’»e un- I geutlera»nly t- »v i > are play- , ‘ ing fast aii'i «e wilh lue Advert.5 r iik With all i.i- r =,-ect f>r Mr i Hunlemaii. and r grvts if we 1 shouid hurt h - feelmgp, \v - have , got t«> ci»ngr. t'..ial* M..rsh.»l Ashley } for having app»inted ->Ir J. A. ; Mehrtens t> h- lns deputy, and a!so Mr. Mehrtd »s >»u nis »vell deserved appointuient. T>» have served for ye rs m the po!ice-force and always b*eu recoguized as an ab!e, trustworthy and discreet oflicer is of coarse a draw-bacli in the eyes of Mr. Huntsraan and hia friends who are ul,” but U» the reasouabie raind aueh qualities seera to be theonly tueasure whieh should decide au appoiutraent, and whieh it evideutly has donein this inaianee. Pr.»ise from the Holomi'a, we are aware, is dangerous for any official, b it we h >pe that our fnends the Att rney-(jeneral aud Marshai wii! s rvive «ur. eompliraents on this just and popular appointraent. The Imperialistic policy, whieh the republican a<lministration has iuauguraled on the eve of their being kicked out of office, and whieh also seera8 to receive Ihe approval of the navy or at least of the naval orator of Opera House fame, does not fittd the support of the !arge maj>»rity of the Araerican press wnieh believ»s in retaining the true republican form ofgovernment rather than entering mto the tempting. giittering bubbles of lmperialisra; whieh, if cirried through, eventually will lead the United States to ruin. We reprint in regard to this matter »art ofa well written editorial frora the St. Louia Republic f>r the apeeial benefit of the Kentucky statesman from the “Bostoti.”