Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 5, 6 January 1894 — The Hawaiian Problem. [ARTICLE]

The Hawaiian Problem.

Since the publicattoa, souio | , days ago, of the letter of Special Comraissiouer Blonnt, who went to the Hawaiian Islands to investigate the condition of , atfaivs there for the administration, there have appeared aeveral repiies to Mr. Blount s stateinents frora ex-Miuister: r Stevens, Mr. Thurston, Hawaiian Minister to the United 8tates and others. These replies have coutained little else than angry < protestations aud veiled threats of fntnre exposures. but they have ntherwise fullen flat as far as throwing any additioual light on the Huwaiian problem is eon- i eeined. The report of Mr. Blount has ' served to put the sitnation in a mueh clearer light, and the oriticisiu of the administration's course is now coufined mainl)' to I the Kepuhliean press and j persons identified with the late administration. These partisan j critics are now endeavoring to goad the State Departmeut into makiūg public the instructions j to United States Minister Willia, j now at Honolulu. It is understood that tbe Minister has been instructed to reinstate the Queen, but the delay in carrying out I these supposed instructions creates the impress»on tbat the duty allotted to the Minister has been coupled with a very liberal sbare of discretionary power. The restoration of the Queen not having yet takeu plaee as far as kuown, tbere has arisen a i serious doubt in the rainds of the ! Republican critics of the administratiou as to the exact course raapped oat by the administration, henee tbey are beginning to ap|>rehend ehe efiects of a too viroleut denuncialion for fear tbat subsequeut devetopments in Hawaii may turn their argnurents mto hoome- j rangs. They are, tberefore, j clamoriug for the pablication of |_ Ministev Willia' i ustructions If the administratioD acceded | to tbis «nreaaonable demand, it • j be showmg its hand to its j ; eneiuiea. without in any waj helpiug its friends or bettering the situation in Hawaii a single j i ot M». therefore. to be hoped ‘ that President Cleveland will pay no atteution to the partisau fchtmor whieh has been raised ag»inst h’g poli C y m Hawaii If j lt is proven that the facts oon- I nected with the depo»ition of the Ha wai ia n Government are correot ' and there is little doubt on tbe s«bject. all fair-minded people will applaad the restoration of the Queen a» a* proper and jngt reparatiou for ao ontrage per> I ( petrated npou a heiplea» state.

y - - - i It m «oiaewhai straDge ;bat ihe partiaans of an admini3tr»tioD whieh relnct«ntlv recogr.ized the reTolntioc whieh Dorn Pedro. of Brazil; and tbe popnla* npheaval in Ghili whieh destroyed the Dictator Ruaiaoeda. shonid experienc« sneh $pasina of patriotic wrath when a Democratic administmtion refoses t' connteuance the active mterreotion of a Feder.-d olheial in the atfairs of a friendlv foreign state. —Orleans !' '<tyun*-