Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 83, 26 December 1893 — Light is Dawning. [ARTICLE]

Light is Dawning.

The report of Mr. Blount rei lative to the manner in whieh the dethronement of Queen Liliu- , i okalani was accoraplished proves , conclusivelv that the movement i I * was in its origin and execntion purely revolntionary, that it was carried out in the interests of a , few nnserupuloustnen; and that it i eouUl never have been successfal except by reason of the snpport it received from Uniteil States ! raarines, landed frora the steamer Boston for tbe purpose of proteetiug American interests, but used without warrant to intimidate the native governmcnt and i popnlaiion, and to create the impressiou tbat the revolution was sanctioned and supported by the government of the United States. Wbatever its causes, whatever its justifioation, uo doabt remains tbat it was a governrnent instituted by force and frandnlent pretenses. and that the uaval force of this governraent was used • s a catspaw to pull tho chestnnts of the revolutionists ont of the fire. These facts agree with the i . ° contention of the Globe frora the first. There is no fact jleveloped whieh lends to the provisional government any color of legal standing. It was a usurpation of anthority, for whieh the Uuited States government was morally respousible by reason of the snpport extended to the revolutionists by the unauthorized employment of marines, or, to be more explicit; by the false constructiou placed by the revolutionists upon a perfoctly legal proceeding. For it was proper that the marines should be landed at Honolulu for the purpose of protecting tho interests of our citizens, and it is not shown that they atterapted to exercise any further authorit\ r . The revolutionists, however, used their presence as a menaee by whieh to force the abdication of the queen, who was iu ignorance of the reai situation. Convicted of fraud and falselv •/ construing the necessary presence of United States marines at the Hawaiiau eapiial. the provisional government has no foot to stand upon. It is a recoguized rule of law that fraud vitiates a contract, and it appears that tha sabsequent action of the ! Washington government, through j whieh tbe revolutionists obtaineU partīal recognition, was in eonseqoence of the fraudalont pretenses of the junta. That quasi recognition, therefore, cannot be ( binding, and both in law and 1 equlty should be withdrawn. The facts stated by Minister I Blount are well snstained by the evidenco of partisans of tho proT2aiona! gov6rnment, as weli as by partisans of the queen. It is shown that Americans were not ' the only otfenders. but that Aere ' were p*rtieipante in the enme owing allegiance to both Germ*ny and Gre«t Britain. Bat ihe Americans were tfae leaders

of the conspiracy, aml to forther their eruls ilid not hesitate to plaee oor jrorernnient in a false and iudefeusible position. By so doing thei* not only robbeil their cause of the right of demand to recognition. butrenderetlthemselves liahle to puuishment for an invasion of the rights and territon- of a friendl\' power. Thev were fillibusters in as eomplete a legal sense as was W' alker, who sutfered death in 1860 for his filibustering exploits in Central America; or Ryan, who was shot iu Cuba iu 1873 for invading that island at the head of an armed foree of adventnrers. The Uuited States cannot atTord to heeome the defender of piracy either on sea or land. The fact that tbe nation aggrieved is weak and powerless to avenge a wrong increases rather than dirainishes our responsibiIit3* — iucreases rather than diminishes the criruo of its assailants. When to thtf crimo of filibustering or piracy is added that of plaeing our government in false and nnworthy position the revolutionists destroy whatever right they may have ever had to protection or recoguition. The light is beginning to shine upou this iufamoos business, and before long we will have a eomplete exposure of tbe conspiracy through whieh the Harrison administratiou sought to eommii our government to a policy having frand and piracy for its fonndation, aod conquest and personal aggrandizemout for its pnrpose. —Sainl Paul Globe.