Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 149, 27 June 1894 — Wiltze Redivivus. [ARTICLE]

Wiltze Redivivus.

It is generally stateil to-day by ieadiog p. g. men, that the Ameriean minister has signified his rcadiness to land tbe troo|>s under tbe command of Admiral W alker on tbe Fouitb and allow the new “repnblic” to be proclairaed beneatb Unele S.»m's bayonets. Wo bave reason to be'.ieve tbat lhere is no trutb in tbo statement, ythe course of Minister \N illis Las been so tbat we must be prepared for any action on bis part. Nothing better conld happeu to tbe royalist cause than such an act of tbe I uited States representative. President Cleveland bas, officially aud publicly, adraitted tbat lbo establisbment of tbe provisioual governmeut on the I7tb of /anuary. 1893, was accomplisbed lhrongb tbo cfficos of minister 6teveus, and even tbe Harrison administratiou disavowed the Btevens-TV iltze move in establishing a temporary protectorate Over Hawaii. If tbe W iilis-M alker combiuation is to fo!low in tbe footsteps of Stevens-Wiltze and use American moral and physical pressure wliile tbo Hawaiian re|>nblic is being proclaimed, tbey v ill bo outitled to tbe same blume, tbe same o»lium and tbe sarae censure whieli fell 011 tbe beads of tbeir prt-decessors. and tbey vrill jeopardize their official posi|ions. If tbe Hawaiian republic is competent to exist on its own nierits, let it appear to tlie world tbat sucb is tbe case. lf tbe re. public is dependent on tbe bayonets of United States’ troops let it be never be boru. Avoluntary snpport of tbe people is tbe oulv safegoard of a repub’ic. Wiltze is dead. Stevens is forgotlou. One went to bis grave a disappointed, misled aud beartLroken man; tbe otber fonnd bis polilieal grave tbrough bis fanalic:sm aud unsorupuloosnes8. Bolb aro forgotten. It woold K»robably be well for Messrs. \Villis and Walker to benefit by th is hisiorical example.