Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 32, 5 August 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Ose of the chief arfomenU used br ihe aonelalion organa to induce the Hawaiiana to join lheir 1 partv haa been tbe statement that | annezation would,bv m*king tbem Amenean citizeus. give tbem a l*rger iDeasure of independence than I they bave ever h*d heretofore. \et in face of lhis the Adris«>ry *nd Executive Councila decided to 5gnore the re*toration of Hawaiian independence by the British Gov- j ernment through Admiral Thomas, by refusing to Dri>cl*im tbe anniver»ary of that day a puhlie holidav aa haa beeu the euālom of the , • country for half-a-centary past,and tbe organs, iike the obedient pupa lhey are,follow soit in the insult to tbe Hawaiian naiion. by deciaring ihe day a ‘*back number.” Never to any man,of whatever race or nationality. ean the celebration of the I anniveraary of hia national independence he a “back number.” No matter what the fulure may bnng, the restoration uf their national independence will, on its recurring anniversary, alwaya bring to the Hawaiian a warm glow of aloha in his heart, for ihe fact, that onee he was oppressed. but was under ! Divine Providence freed from that 1 t oppreseion, and placed onee more i in the plaee amongst the nations to , whieh his foretathers had obtained for him. The organettes may sueer j I and revile at nalional patriotism in the breasts of thoseof other nation- ' alities tban the one they misrepresent, bot they eau never erase that sent:ment, compoundedof the most manly and divine instincts in the human race. from the bosom of the Hawaiian, whether he be eompell- l ed by f«>rce to sink hia identity in the aggregation whieh is styled the United States of America,or whether by the sense of bonor and justice of that great nalion, he is restored onee more to that position j of independence and self-respect, from whieh a handful of foreigners have torn him, to satisfy their pecuniary greed.