Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 40, 3 November 1893 — THAT PLEBISCITE. [ARTICLE]

THAT PLEBISCITE.

; I So, the P. G. men are at last . willing to bave a plebis.*ito, if j they ean have it and manipulate , it to their own satisfaction! Auwee’ Althoogh the proverb i eavs: better lute then never, i vet. in this case it is better never than late. Many men who ought to know, are confident ti.«t the ; American Government will not reqnire any thing like a plehiscite to restore the legitimate | ) Sovereigu and Her legitimate government. A great wrong to the couutry and to tho legitimate | citizens has been comrnitted | bv Minister Stevens, withont a j plebiscite; Ihe revolntion fomented and abettcd bv him w«s equivalent to an overt act of piracv. America will right that great wrong without having to i consult the here. So there is no reason to worry on that , point. But it is really laugh- | j ahle to see the somersaults of j the P. G. men! If they had had any eommon sense about them, they would have takeu a plehiscit?, to cover aud color their infamons act, right after the revolution, when they eoukl have manipulated the votes to their own plea?ure, and perhaps could have obtaine«I au appearance of j popular backing. Dut eveu in the I fiush of their success, they were too moeh scared to trust any thingeven to a fraction of the inhabitants, and they contented themselvos to arrog«ntly defy the natiou, and declare that no eleelion of auv kind, would bo allowed for the next four years ; at the verv- least, during whieh the People, rich and poor. Noble ior Representative voters alike, were supposed to submit quiet!v to the iniquity of being arbitrarily deprived of all their poliūeal { rights. But now. whon the P. G. sbip is sinkiug aud stinking, then the Noble Voters (because of their being gratuitiously snpposed to be the most disloyal part of the Nation) are snddenly found goo«l enongh to be eonsnited as a forlorn hope; evidently the time is noi far away when even the riffratf of the represent- i ative voters will also be foond s good euough! Go to! you Pharisees! The . plebiscite wouUl be in order onlv j if there was yet auv possible donbt of Stevens’ goilt and yonrs too; then it might be projier to consnlt all tbe legitim«te voters, beginning with tbe aborigines or troe sobjects, aud dostng with the naturalized foreigner», the j ballot being pot under tbe soper- j vision of U- S. officers, to prevent any frand. But as soch ia not the case. the Queen wil! be doly restoml by the forces whose presence in front of the Palaee ! belped to pnt Her dow n. and the only way for the P. G. men to save themselves would be for tbem to do, at onee, tfae act c>f contrition, before they are £orced , to it by the United States Government—Jxudice.