Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 188, 28 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The annexation party is begining to realize thal it wili be impossib!e for them to make even a half decent «howing of supp<irter?, and ihe party will in dne time demon“tnte that il and ils wmmirsiontr? repreaent nothing, except a small elique of financially strapped shop-keepera, backed hy another small clique of men in 8ul>*rdinate p “ilioni. and mercenarv adventurer*. who simply join them for pay and in accord w ith the o!d adnge, that “it is well to fish in troubled water.’’ Thc greal weallh whieh it was claimed wa* repre9»nted by the annexationists has dwindied sadly down, and the organization of the auti-annexatfbn party. nowgetting into working “hape. represent a greatdeai more property and weaUh than wns even suspected by ihe loyal citizens theuiselves. The women'8 |>atriotic league is beaded bv the leading Hawaiian lad : es. and will he entitled to great eonsideration in the question at issue. The enthusiastic anti-anuexation meetings hekl on l’alaee 6quare by Mr. J. E. Bueh, and at Emma Squure by the Civil Rights League, show8. beyond doubt, wh.it the will of the people is. When the United Stat*-8 Commissioners arrive here they will find that the overwheltmng eentirnent of the great msjority of the people all over the country favors the restorhtion of the monarchy with an Americ»n protectorate. This will show the Ameniean nation that all the rot, niamif.»ctured f<>r the occasion, about Bntish sympalhiea or intrigues and lately about Japanese scheracsand plana, is as senseless as possible and not even worthy of contradiction. It is universally agreed by all sides that if the country is to retain its independence the monarchy is the only forra of government, suitable to the peculiar populalion. \Vith thc monarchy under an Ameniean protectonte and with an advantageonscommercial treaty business will so<>n regain a sound footing and the diflferent industries will flourish ag ūn. The country will obtain stable government and the pn>tectorate wiil keep the Tbupstmi faction in quietness and make them adopt the situation peacefully and prevent any future attempt of their to run this eountry against the will of the people. lt ie characteristic of the reform party that the only times, in whieh they bave heen in power, they have obt«ined their ends by force and never by the popular will. The reason is easiiy found. The Reform P*rtv bas alwavft »corned a conciliatory policy towards tbe Hawaiiana They have treated Ihe natives aa iuferior tools out of whom :t was very good to make money, but whoee rights, opinione or mateml wel&re ahould play no figore in their ealeolaiiona. Tbe Hawaiuni have natarally reeented •nek policy and tbe resolt has bean the oonataot goaahing of leeih and riolent oppoaitīon by the teforaD party agaioat every governmentby tbe people. We Wieee, that the cberi*bed aehaaae of anoexatikm oould have beooaa« ripe m due time, ud per-

I hapa in a time not very far oflf. if ( the ref rm p;irty had g>ne abi)ut it : in a pe'hlie and shrewd manner. j After the late »vents we are in- ; clined to believe that the annexalion prospect have sutfered a setbacit >>f perhai>s twenty years. The intelligent oortion of the Reform Party is now ready to adopt a conciliat ry policy towards their p)iitioal ot>ponent«, and rather trv to reason their annexation j ideas into them, than to force them. as heret>>fore, down the;r thr>'ats by bayonets. Such change m attitude i? wise. we will admit. but we say unhesitatingiy that it is t<xi late. The aversion to annexation and t>> the men who advocate it has bec"me so «trong. not alone among the Hawaiianp, but among a very large nuraber of foreigners. that it will take years anda very ditferent method to c»nvince them that annexation e.in hring any good for the country and the people. <8 It is not uneommon to bear remarks raore especially fr.>m foreigners to such eflfect aa ‘T don’t object to annexation in itself, but I do object to the manner in whieh it is beiug attempted, and the way in whieh it is proposed to aeeomplish it.” Tiie inlelligent portion of the reforra party fully realizes what the situation is and are willine to recover Iost ground, but the clog around their legs is the mercenary, loud-mouthe<l blatherskites who under the pretense of being Americans indulge iu the most oflensīve spread-eagleism and deliberately insult, threatenand try to bulldoze their political opponents into changing of opinione and principles. For eaeh convert whieh the conservative men in the annexation party may make by sound argumenta and ealm de!iberations. the party loses ten undecided citizens through the vulgar tacticfi of their political bosses. Threats of boy cotting and dism;ssal frora offices and black-lists have very little effect except to imbitter the feelings of the victims of such threats against the whole move. The shortsightedness of the anneialion party will be demonstrated when they muster their strength ut>on the arrival of the U. S. Commission. There is something rather amusing in the way in whieh tbe annexation crowd talk about the commĪ8sion whieh is expected here. All the merabers are in favor of annexation. they say, so consequently tuey will report favorably and annexation will be a certainty. Such remarks are very insulting towarda ihe gentlemen who constitute the commis•ion, as it implies tbat they will not do tbeir duty faithfully, but that they will substitute their persona’. opinions for the facta whieh they will find in the premises here. The President of tlie United State» does not send three gentlemen out here, intrusted witb a mnat important miaeion, tc learn the privat<j ideas of these gentlemen —that he cou!d obtain far easier, and at far leaa expense to the taxi»yers of th« United States. through a conversation with tbem in his office. Bat he seada tbem preeamably, heeaoae he ooosid«rs them ahle and boneet men, (o maka a thoroagh invecrigatloo and report to him tba troth and the whoie trath, whieh will aeUle ia his mind ’ail doubta—if aneh yet eziat—>whetber the Hawaiian inei- j

dent is the outc»me of and based upon the willofthe people. or if it is I a game of Mutf on" hy the sugar p!anters on the Amenean Kepuhlie. To intimate thalthecommi??ionere wi'.! make a faise rep»rt &nd deliberate.y lie to their g *vernment i« an uncalled f'r insult, but il emanalea qu:te natur.il*y fr.Mii a r>;irtv wh. -• c*nimt?ei ner? in W .i?hitigt n atterapteil to gam their endi by misrepreHeut.iti<>ns, . fa!«e etatemente and lies. The Hawaiian pe.ple looke f-»rward with contidence to any e»>mmis?ion ī whieh it roay pleaae the President , and hi« governraent to ?end here. l The a!mii:htv truth mav be per- ... verted for a short ppuee of tirne—in the end it will a!wavs stand vict- * 1 onous. i — The mass-raeeting on Emma Square last Siturduy was very largely attended, fully three thousand people being present. The Advertiser oflered to bet ten to one that there would be no natives at the meeting and the Hawaiiana hurried up to confirm the wellknown fact that the morning org n never knows what it is talking about, and is unahle t<> tell the truth if there is a pussible ehanee to lie. The epeeeh of Mr. Charles Cre'gliton was received with great entbusiasm and his question, if the Hawaiians want annexation or not were answered with unanimoue cries of No ! No ! The &nnexation club has suspended a large Amenean tlag across Merchant Sreet probably for the purpose of scaring antiannexation horses passing henealh it. We are informed that a number of American fl tgs with 45 stars have been imported by an enterorising annexitionist. His speculation may turu out a failure as it Iooks most probable that the 4>th star wili be out of plaee until Utah becomes a State. and wheu thal wiil be only a central Union Astrologer ean say at present. In the New York Sun of March 8th appears a lengthy eommuniealion from a person signi.ig himself George Parsons Lathrop who has been allowed two eolumna of tbe space in the Sun to harangue the Hawaiian Ruyal family and more especially Princess Kaiulam in that vulgar and ungentlemanly manner whieh lately ha» heeome characteristic <>f the missionaries here and their friends in the States. We shall take no noliee of his remarks agalnst the Prinoess as tbetone, in whieh hisletteriscouched, is suca that he plaoes himself beyond the pale of gent!emen or even men, but there is one delicious bit In his eommuniealion whieh plainly shows his earmarks and proves to what flock he belongs and that is where he says : “They (the Americans in Hawaii) made the const tutions under whieh the country has been governed, and it would appear therefore that they have a clear right to unmake or remodel ihe late«t of thoee constitutions recently in force.” We now recommend the P. G. to send immediately for thi§ Mr. George Pars>>ns Lathrop and make him Attorney-General in their government. He evidently would be the man tbey need to “fix things to aoil.” It is no wonder that enoowoi and £alae impreseiona heeome gen- , er*l In the United 8tate« in regard

j to the true sute of atfairs in Ha- | waii when il ;s taken mto coo8ideration what a lot ■>! ;n!sstatements and r>t is shippe«i away from ht*r-* in ihe shaj>e »f pr ; v.ite e *rreapc>iidenee. As an ex imple we reprint a pieee fr >;u an e.asler;i j i;.vr - wing ihe style < f c .rrrsponJence with whieh American iad.es {?] here have enterlai!ied their friend? in Amenea. “A{ r p s nf an.eialion the f»lI»wing extract from a priv.ite letterfr»ra 'laui. Hawaiian Islands. 1 may he ofinter<-t. The writer i? the wife <<f an Amenean r< sident. a ?;ig;ir plauter, and has lived at ihe Islands eight yeara. “Of course you have read in the papers all ab >ut our revolution. It was a bl«<Kliess atT.ir. as is usual with us. wherein we are l*etter than the S »uth American republics. We are wailing P* see what UncieSam will <1» ab < it it. 1 hope he will take us in. but l am bv n» means snre of the out* ! eome. If he d»es n»t we shall have a republic of »ur own —»e bave said g>xxl-by t * a monarchial f»rm of gi>vernment and K maka rulers. We have been excit**d about the malter, but everythiug ! is quiet now. To show you what Kanakae are —even ihe wisest of them —the \ Qneen preci{*itate«i the tr»nble by getting up a new c»nstitution on her own hook, and presenting it t» | the cabinet to sign wherein she disfranchise»l all foreigners aml exeused all Kanakas fr»m paving taxes. What could be m»re f»ir than a divisi»n of lal><*r—the whites to pay taxes aiul the K inakas to votē? But she did n<»t c»unt on l>eing asktsl t» vacate her ■ thr»ne f»r such a pieee »f origin- j ality. They a!so kicked over the ! throne aft<*r she 9tepp<*d d<>wn, s * as to make snre that she could never sit on it again." Mailed at Hon<*lulu, January 1893. The latest e<litions of the N. Y. Herald received here eonlain <l»ily articles objecting str»ngly to the annexat<on ofthe Hawaiian Islands. and in its eolumn arespacedat different intervals hrief giiotati<>ns frmn American papers und**r the head lines of .Vo Hawaiinn .4nnfxntif>n. We repr»duce a few <*f tne m<*re pointed. f»r ihe epeeial benefit of the Advertiser. “We should d«> theui jn?tice and nreserve our creilit as a people to deal faifly and h<*n<*rably by all in i*ermitting the native population <>f the Hawaiian Islands to express itself in this propoBĪtion and not pr»cee<l up<*n the rer*re- ; Bentations «>f a c»mparatively f<-w men whose selfish interests afl'>nl valid reyis*>n f<*r distrusting them —Omahn B”f. “Sentiment was in favor <>f the annexation of the Sandwich Islands, but sober s* , cond thmight has had time to eome to the ?nrface and has be«?n found to be against anything more than a protectorate. It d<*esn’t pay to be in a hurry —Bnffnlo Ksprft*. “If the island8 are t<> be takeii they sh<>nld c»me in the right way, and not by the wi ld. bot head**d. hamm scsrum raethod that hna characterized the pr<xeedings eo j far. It wou!d be better to lose them a!together or even to fight for them, than to estabiish a pre- | cedent on the line of Mini?ter St#ven’B course —Atlanta Heral<l. “The administration at Washington has shown an indecent haste in this matter, whoae unfavorable reception has heen increased in intensity by the now i\otorious fact that the annexation movement in Hawaii and in this country ie funnshed by the Hawaii sugar and land rings, and that no other inAaeno* has heen consulted— Arkan»a* Gautte. “Ann«xation would have *om» disadvantages to us. The is!ands woold he expoeed to naval attack by foreign oatioos *nd woold reqnire a ftroog naval armam«nt for their defenae. Moreover H is contrary to the poiicy ofthe Uoited

Sute? to anr.ex the i?larnls by any arbitrary or high handetl pwce*l* w-n: d rv'jr*r f-r complaint to other nationf lr'-iing in the Pacific— Tinu*. "So m.itter wh*t benefit.-* may accrue t-> us fr>tu the acqjis t;->n of Hawuii, we have n-> r;gut in m->ralily or international la« t-> reacb f<>r them without havinj permitted the j»eopie and ihe r lawfu.lv o>n9t;tuted auth>ril»ee 10 de\*Ure whetter or uol they wjsh t<> bec >nae part «>f our inali-tuti->n> — Ch{■•>»•]■' Hfrahi. “m• e 1M4 wi ■•; we re.-->gn "*d the independence of the is,au<ls. the attitud« of th - e •untrv U>ward iheen ha- been ? ih<lantially the -ame. \Ve d<> n«»t waut them. and we do n<>t pr->tx>9e {-> t>er.ii't any other {x>wer t<> take them. There is oot tbe slightest reason to I any v>ther jx>wer will atteinpt to lake thera. We have no r:ght to medd e in th domet?tic atT.iirs ->t the islands. t>ur lre:»ty rel itio: s gave ih al! we have ever a-ee 1. i all that ean be of the siighteat - benefit t<> us. T > giin «n<>re wou!d be <imply t > inti ct ;j>>n ourselves j j>r>blems of race lr.uiitions, - . ial c<*nditions and jH»litical eat*nglements whieh it iā n t w«>rth <*ur while lo attemj>l lo āolve —M ’ ilf Regitt-r. “Unele S»m has no regard l»r ; r >yalty, but he has a aincere reg;»r-l f->r the r;ght, whether he is de.tiiug with a balf healhen mnnarch <>r the Emj>ress of Great Britain aud i India. • Tiie American j>»--p!ede-tuand that the «hole uiatter ba ! heard bef.*re aelioii is taken. Tne growth «f Unele S»m’s d->m.»in is not to he f*>stered by trickery— Bn»ton Post *‘lf there iā t<> be annexation it shou!d be with the c*»nsent an-1 1 desire <>f the peoj>le to be aniu-x*d and not at Uie wish of a hamli’ul of Americaus who have g<>ne there to cultivate sugar «;nd rsce —lf’»/mington Moi ning St ir. “If it is an Amenean idea to grab terriU>ry in any distant j»orj tioa of the globe without any reference t-> the wishes *>f the populalion; t<> mamlain government without c<»nsent < f tiie g.>v>-rne«l, and t*> roaintain coātly an*i distant establisbments s!inply f->r the saiie, as some of our naval jing s have put it,<>fhaving a “Gibraltar in the Pae fic” then the argument iā decisive— t‘itt*hurg Dr»j*itr.h. “The efT>rt t > ruu the Hawaiian annexation tr«in as a apeeial haa caused a diplomatic wreck. !t rau against the g .*>d sense *>f the American pe«>ple. A’ ■ w York World. “\Vhat Mr. Cleveiand’a views may he only hia m<>st intiuiate friends snow. and they are not talking f>r puhliealion. Il is more th.ni likely lh.it he wouW h« s. wita an arrangement far sh -rl <>f annexation. Tne Unite<l needs a coalmg stil.*>n in the Pacific Ooean. an<l thia ean i>« secured from a j>rotecU>ra(e mueh more easiiy than froru posses«ion. it does iio: api>ear that llawaii wants to be annexed to this eountry, and it is far icss evident that t. country has anything to g»in by, complying w-.th such a wish if 11 shouid be expressed.” D< ir<>«port Drrnoorat. Shall we ti<r >»v overboard a11 tbe j>rofessions and traditions of uur nal onal life as 9<>on as the first temptation i* «-fl’er».*d to u»? lhat Hawaii should smk to t:«e b->tt->m ->f the * eean or bec >tue a fort:fied h»me f>r j>iralee thaa that we sti->uid g » back on and trampie under foot every prof-s»i<m <>f our lives to acquire tbis lerritnry even if it ia fertile aod pr>ductive. Rirhmon>i Timrs. **About the best new» fr>m \Vashineton at this time is that tbe Hawaii annexati>>n busine»s is shelved f->r the present and jine*>ism will taxe a back seat. TAtdo Bre. “If we need tbese is!ands [ Hawaiil il is held by some tbat, baving used the pov>.r U> take and bold tbem we should atilize tbe preaeat opp»rtunity fraud or oo fraod. It i» the soggestioQ of the bu!ly and the brute. T<> do so.because we bave the pow<*r would be meae and eoolempūhle. In all deaiiogs amoog nien or naiiona tbere is a right and wrong wa j.** Grand Rapid » Preu.