Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 119, 22 May 1894 — That Chinese Petition. [ARTICLE]

That Chinese Petition.

The p g. press are naturally exercise 1 over the demand of the j Chinese for the frauchi3e,and the goverun;ent org.ms are casting about for sophistry to assist them in dodgiiig the main issue. The partv of provisional methods have r_un themselves into a cul-de-sac , and the wily oriental of the two predorainant races —whoare herel in business rivalry—are eagcr tol take advantage of the situation, iand one result is, that in this ; i matter of asking for a vote, the! provisional government is placed) between the devil and the deepl sea, aboat midway between thej numerically and physically pow-l erful Asiatic, and the “brave< men” bv the mightof whose guns tbe provisioual government pro~' fess to exist. Tho stateraeut in last evening’s' S(ur th it the “Chiuese have placed ihemse!ves in an absurd' position by askiug the highest; possib!e favor of the goverument * * ai.d at the same time| qnestioning the sovereign powerj of the governmeut to whieh tbey appeal,” is misleadiug. Tbei Chinese simply a?k the govern-; ment to plaee their elaim. as we ! read it, to the voting franchise,( before the body whieh claims 1 tlie right to determine the qoestion and as the Chinese are just as able to see a hole througb a p. g. ladder as their critics, they ve.-y properly addrossed themselves to the existing gov- j erumeut. kaowing that it is the I hand of tho provisiorial Esau whieh proposes thump the Constitution iuti shape. and the bogus coQveutiou iuto snbmission.