Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 18, 29 April 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

It is 9*id bv m»ny of lbo« who forroer!y were how!i.tg that we wou!d be annexed right aw*y but who now »eero to h«ve lo«t their former brilli*nt ho|.ea that annexalion must oome br-cause il is again*t tht geniue of tbe United State« to restore a mnnarch to & throne—that it ean only eounlenanee a repub!ican forro of governmt!it. The«e people f.<rget that the United State« cannot aff.*rd to oouDtenanceintrigues.ig'iiopt liberty, whether of her own citizens or ; thoee of a foreign state. Tbat ehe eannol afford to eully her fair name and record aa tbe ehampion of liberty, freedom. and equaiity, by appearing in the role of an intriguing d«9{>oi!er of the rights of lhr weak and the friendle«9. The | United Statee are so great and powerfu! if they want to take this j country by force of arma they are j able to do »o. No one here is etrong enough to prevent their. If the United States wiwh to aesert that their rights and inHuenee here reqnire them to control the governmeut and »eire the country they ' ean do bo. No other nation will j interfere to say thera nay. Bul j the United Stales eannol afford to I I sully their nalional honor bygoing | down in the uages of h’8tory as haviug countenanced and upheld an intrigue of its repre»entative at the court nf a friendly j nation to overturn the government by the aid of it« arrae<I f**rces, and ropresent that it was by and at i the deeire of the helpless subjectB of the friendly sovereign that the ! infaraous deed was done. Still less ean it afford to have erablazoned in Ietters of the blackest dye on the golden record of time that it has gained lerritorial advantage or political inHuenee by such ; despicable and cowardly intrigue. Nol none of those things j ean the United States aff<*rd j to do. The lesson to those of her : own citizens that ends of personal profit jnstifies the means, howevei tyrannical orjesuitically deceptive. j would !*• ono of tbe beaviest blows j ever struck at her own liberties. i Then indeed might she fear that in future her trained diploraats, assisted by her array or her navy. might endeavor to make themselves despotic masters of her own destinies and liberty, to their own personal aggrandiseruent and profit. And what excuse could she | off«r for condemning them if thev atteraj*ted it and failed. Would 1 they not be ahie to retort—(it quo• . qne! Did not you, as a nalion. i inlrigue through your nalional i r»presentative to destrov the lih- I erties and government of the Ha- j waiian people against their will? Did you not, if you did not author- j ize it, did you not profil by the ! transact«on and take the government so overturned? lf you eonderaned the 9inner, did you not profit by tbe sin? If you punishcd the thief, did you not keep the 1 fruits of the robbery? Thcse are the reasons why the United States j aa a great and free nation, cannot > annex us. Because they eannol > afford to sully their glorious Na- j tional record of honesty and liber- I ty; because they caunot aff.»rd to j loae the prestig« they have over I cther n*tions of not oppressing tbe helpleea and weak and taking nothing except by consent, or in i fair fight; and laat, but not least, ! heeauw they cannot aff >rd lo train j op lheir citixens in the belief that | bonor, honesty, liberty. and freedom. are not the inalienahle rights qf every ooe, to be praciised according to therr own lights, and may be sei»ed or aboHebed by ; •ny epeeie* of intng*»e or display | of force, and they oannot aff*rd to ; admit to tbe world that migbt makee ngbt, and it is for iheae maona and heeauee we b»Heve tbe governraent of tbe United States to r . . , . .. . , be now in tfae b*nda of bonest *• d bonorabie men th«t we expect eee juBtica doae to tbe Quecn *od ber tion *t tbe h*nds ofthe Ualted Steta* to her fpi«f sUtktn t*ken ber by the »ln«ue* of

! HUle m 9apprehen«ion somewbere heeauae we do noi beliere that Mr. Spn-ckels is working under ■ any vcrv j*r>nounced anxiety to leam what the planiers and the merchants think ahoul annexation 1 but on tbe contrary there has b-en a de«'re on tbe p;trt of the said planP-rs and mercbanla to interview Mr. >prerkels. Iearn his senti-ment»--an<l 9baj>e thesr own accordingly. The Star s»y? that the C>!oneI ean look at the list of , members of the club and there find ihe name of the plant»*rB. bot a few d«ys ag> the iruthtel;ing journai stated that all tbe plauters with i*erhaps two exceptions were opj»sed to annexation, Wbat is Mr. Sprecseie to heiie^e’ Mr. Sam Alexander is b*-5ng paraded as a lea<Jing *ugir-planter whose word has great *eight. For the bea**fit of those eoneemeii we will state that Mr. Sam A!exander is one of the very men who in his role as u absentee landlord ” is a constant injury to this country from whieh he has drawn large amounts of monev and to whieh he never br<>ught one cent. He Iives in California and sj>end8 b;s | money there but he nevertheless considers it fuirandjust, that he , shouId have a deciding word to say in regard to the government and destmy of this country. The absentee landlords are d>ing as mneh harrn to Hawaii as does the s:irae class to Ireland. No country ! ean stand the constant withdraw.il of weallh with no other return th«n the annual taxation whieh in this country is hurdly more than nominal. It was during the debate on J. M. H<*rner’s bankingbill that the evil caused by the j •*abseiitees” was illustrated stronger than ever.” Mr. I£qrner’s theory, j w«ib that as the exports of the ' ! country ainounted to say 13,000, 000 dol!ars and our imports to say, 10.000,0d0, there would be an ; annual surplus of g>»ld coming to ' the cnuntry of three raillions. Tbe > calculation was corret euough but , Mr. Horncr forgot to figure on the , amounl annually swallowed by the | abseiitees wherebv, the correct- > J I ness of his theory w ts destroyed. If tlu se absentees hved in the > i counlry where they earn their j I money, and lived in the sarae j ruanner as Ianded pro( rietors with ; similar ineomea do in Euroj>e, the j } country would be fiourishing and ! prt*sperous. But no. the absentees. draw every cent they squeeze out ; of the soil here, away from here and spent it in California or Boston or Bremen or \Viesbaden or Liverpool, wliile the rest of the landed i)ropriet(>rs live in the style of a second class german peasant and 1 invest the hnlk of their princely s incoraes abroad. Richesse oblige is a sentiment unknow to them ex- | cept they blieve that they Hve up to it by annually spendlng a few hundred or even a few thousand | fur the purj>o8e of converting so:ne } South Sea Islanders whom they considereven more heatheaish and God-f<)rsaken than our loeal Jacks, Palaus and Mrs. Alapais. But when the absentees turn up and ! propose to have a fingtr in the selling of our couutrv, we lose our 1 humhle patience aud we object. Dr. Bowen who lefl by ihe Australia expressed himself as very mueh annoyed by the puhliealion | of an alleged interview with him I in the Advertiser. The Doctor ; claimed th*t he was falsely reported ail through and esj>ecially disj liked the untrue refereuce to hls I ; visit to the Queen. The characters of the Advertiser and the Star for 1 lying and falsifying are getting very mueh recognized by visitors | to Hawaii, but they all regret the ; expenence whieh it costs them. be- ! fore they find out the true nature i of tbe beasta. | The fbllowers of the P. G. who howl ,the loudest for annexatk>n are beginning lo feei tbemselvea eoufroated with more than ooe «oli ūon of Ihe probiern tbat tbey have asaertod oonld only have one eolutia9—«n oexation. In tbeir terror and wr*th «I ānding it wiihin the booods of pos8ibilily tbat tbey

the Queen; that if he dared be wi-)old be put out of office. That > Comraissi<>uer Bl<>unt dare not r**c«>mmend such a courae, or take p<art in such sctu>n, and lhat if. in : sp;te of all, ihoee gentlemen did restore Her Majesty that tbey (the bl»*.bering idi<"<t9 9foreeaid) would, altboogh Ameneana, t»ke up arma againsl the f <rces < f tbeir own nation to prevenl such a dis.>greeable c>nsummation to them. The St.»r and its weaker eeho, the Advertiser, first tried to cajole the Hawaiiana into supporting aonexit«on, when they found that annexition oojld not be obtained. except by the e*nsent snd at the wish of these same native Hiwaiians, by telling the:u that the oreigners wouid ask nothing for themselves that they would not a!s<> i ask f r the onee despised Ha waiian. But the snare was too patent and not a bird wa9 entrapped. Then, for a time. the old refrain from ■ Dickens’ Oid Curiosity Shop was introduced—“Codhn*s the friend. and not Short” —Don’t listen to the RoyaIists, hearsen to the anneiationists, they are your friends. But 1 the native Hawaiian »as not to be fooled and simj*ly took a doub!e sight at the antiquated charmers by extending the tiogers of both hands j froin the tip of his nasal organ j while whistling Listeu to the | Mocking Bird.” Now, however, cot content with : their former illsuccess at the sunri- | ter in modo style of attracting Ha- ; waiians to the ever-blessed annex- ! ationist fold, the Star has evolved, i j no doubt after unieh labor with the ; pestle and mortar, the following astoniehing hlue mass pill whien j they present to the Hawaiian. to ; awallow as a cure for the ills t whieh annexation will bring him. This brand new rem*>dy, orcure all, is to take the Crown Lands and cut them intohoraesteads, and give ; the first ehoiee of these t<> the native Hawaiian who hasn’t got | any land now. Without regarding j the fact that the Crown Lands are i i neither theirs to give now, nor j will be hereafter, if the country is annexed, and that the unsophisticated Hawaiian knows this fact ' better than they ean tell him the | main noint to be looked at is what value is there in a proposition whieh requires twenty or thirty | years for ita realizatiou. 1 Pretty nearly all the Crown Lands in the Country are under lease, and most of tlie leases have twenty or thirty years to rnn. And no government. wbether the j P. G., orapjx>inted by the United . States, will dare to eaneei those leases or confiscate that property without the lessees’ consent first i had and obtained, and as these ] leases are valuable propcrties ] that they will never obtain. So the Star’s fiiraous pill narrows itself down to this; Give your eon- i sent to the sale. by those who have se zed itby fraud and force, <*f yo jr ( own and yuur children’s birth- j rights now, and we (who havn’t j the slightest particle of authority i to say so) will proinise that in , twenty or thirty years to eome it j j you baven’t any land, you will ■ be given a kuleana whieh you ean i reside on. but cannot sell for at i least thirty yeara afterwards. and | whieh may T not be big enough to i maxe a Hving off, <»nd may bs will ] be selected in as far removed a j spot in the bills or mountains that j ean befound, that your presence may i not contaminate the Star’s blue- < blooded essociatefl. And for that t they want tbe natives to accept ■ annexation. Sugar-coal your next t pili if you want it swallowed. ( The Star and the Advertiser affirm daiiy that the j*rovisional government wili reroain in power . until annexation is accomplished even if th«t Bh< uld not happ n f>r fouryear8.—Itla evident th*t the annexationists are exj*ecting and | boping for tbe defeat of tbe Derooc- ( r*tic party at the eleelion in 1896, and tbat tbey believe tbat a Rep- | nMlean admipistratiou would reopen the qbestioa of annexation rf t it 18 abelved by PrMident Cleve- ’ land—Wbat ehihiiah aud ridiea1> ooa dalono&8 two uientioned papet» are exi*ting underl—The i pawlwoMi gorernment will re- 1 HMin ln pov«r for fbur rears < eiuband i _ I

the part of the giivern!nent itseif eveo to undertake such a task. Xo g*?vernnjent auywhere in th«* world ean exirt 3«a»RSt the »iil of tbe people «nd Hawaii is no exception—*nd w aen refnsal to annex by the Uaited States eomea. the annexationists aud tbeir club ean rest a*snred that a stab!e and 5ettied government act>»rd*ng to tl;e wishes of the peopie will be established. even it it does not suit the club. The United Slates never do thinirs bv balves and they are greut enough to aduiit when they are in the wrong and t»> e *rrect their error. If the ambīttous provisi*»nal o»onciliors uelievethat they are *‘in if f-ir the next four years they better d!3abuse their miuds of such ideas or they will get dis-app-iinted. Besides the Kepuhlicans will uot win the eleelion in 1S96. Now the people of tbis c«iuntry kn-»w whst we are to expect if the Uoited States retuse to annex us. U’e are to have the prese;it P. (j. for four ycars. They will be backed by the militarv and the annexation club. The kind of backing they have had from the military while the case is still pending befire the I. nited States. is still fre?h in the minds of the people. W hat kind of backing it will develop into when they have no fear of being interfered with by any foreign power, , people ean guess. If the Star ! s insane project is carried out. of having the P. G. for four years more, it will result in a military desputism worse than that of any of the Centr.il and South Aiuerican Republics. It is not often we agree with the Advertiser and we hasten to express our agreement on this oeeasion as it sbows that the editor of that paper, if hecontinues to perose J the Holomua carefully, will ullimately bea worker in the cause oftruth and good government. This is what he says yesterday: “An j oIigarch3' is as impossible as it wouM he unjust and undesirable and an iudependent republic with a general suffr , ge would rival a dance of devils in PaiMemonium. ” Shake, brother, shake. We are with j'ou. An oligarchy—that is the present P. G. —is as impossible as it is unjust, and undesirable and an independent rej)ubhc with j eoy variety of suffrage, would indeed be a worse condition than the infernal scenes enacted in France nnder Robespierre. Keep it up aud we shall yet stand on one platforrn lighting for honesty, truth. and good governraeut. At last the mask has droppetl—the truth has been spoken—the feline quadruped been permitted . to escape from the portm inteau in j whieh it was contained. The Advertiser of yesterday, gives away the whole secret of the revolution. These are its words (the italics are ours): “It was the hope of achieving annexation to the United Stat»s whieh made the revolution, and without that hope no finger would have been lifted .” It was not forthe sakeof good governraent. It was not the lottery bill (they h d signed the petitions lbr that themselves.) It was not the opium bill (that they believed in). It was not tbat tbe Queen attempted to have a new C-»nstitution promulgated (for that had been abandoned and assurances given to the foreign representatives and the peoplegenerally that Her Cabinet would see that no further attempts were made). lt was not danger to life, and property (for there was no danger, either present, imminenl or to eome). It was neither one. any, nor all of the alleged reasons whieh hitherto the Advertiser and its c!ique have endeavored to palm off on the outside wor!d. The one eole cause was the desiyj of oertain p;»rties here for annex »tion tn the United StUtes, without whieh, and backed by the U. S. forces and the pledges of the U. S, Minister Resident, as tbe Adver iser trutbfully sajs, “no finger would have been ilfted. ? * Why d;d tben people desire anneaaūon to the Uoited Statcs? Vu il patriotidm? 0r wa« it pe)f? Obvioc*iy tbe latter for when tbe iaaiiM seot down 1U reprefida 8u Pnoeiaeo to iHMillm iheoa «e lo tbeir views on eU baetened to deoy tbat they «aM—Tbey knew wwwl _ e<lwriie> H weaMiai tMm politioeUj. Yet

! forthe sakeof their guava jellr and tbeir canned pineapple*, »ith the sug:ir agents—not the pl*nters —f-»r the wke of their eommiaaion on the sug«r bounty, these meo dcliberately to#k the first oppor tuuity to businese. plunge the community into coufusion 1 and d stress. and overthrow with the aid of the troops of the great republic a stable government. For the sake of a few dollars they have caused all this extravagant roilitary exj>enditure and conseqoent financial confusion to the community at large. "Aud thev shall receive their reward.