Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 36, 12 February 1894 Edition 02 — A Republic Without Electione. [ARTICLE]

A Republic Without Electione.

The sarcasm of the Hawaiian i sitaation is made sncb as to render langnape almost mnte by tbe late advices from Hawaii to the eflect that Mr. 'Willis’ endeavor to settle the Hawaiian qnestion 1 is “farther complicatel by Pref sident Dole’s nnwi11ingness to conseut to a pepnlar Tote on the qnestion of a change of the form o ! government. Ihia is the most eloqnent eommentary on the hysteries of the Jingoes over President Cleve!and s alleged assanlt on “American ideas” and “the spread of repnblicnn ? v#*r nieu.. The basic idea ol the Acuerican Governmeut was d»'ciared at its veiy inception to be lhat the jnst right of government to govern ; mu»t be founded on the eou- ; seut of tbe governed. The AmeI rican system oertainly has noticharacterize it if it does not him refer all puhlie questions, and particnlar!y any change in the form of government, to a vote of the people. The very Republicans who are trying to make so mueh party capital out of this artair have been pledged during ' their whole career to the princi- | ple of unrestricted suftrage. All their own principles are i brought to nothing by the fact that their special pet, the President of the Provisional Government, Stands on the ground that 1 the 9,000 native voters ofHawaii, and 2,000 Portuguase voters i thougb given the right to vote ; by that Constitution iu defense of whieh Mr Stevens rose in revolution,shall have novoice’in determining their government. That : isa matter that mustbe left euti- | rely to the Anglo-Saxon property ; owners who have been so hospitably treated by the Hawaiians i that in a single generation they have riseu frora the raoderate fortnnes of missionaries to the possession of nine-tenths of all the propert\’ in the islands. It seems to be high tirae that some of our strenuous statesmen ahouhl give a little time to j learuing what republic:in principles really are. —Pittsburgee Dh.sj patch.