Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 180, 27 April 1891 — WHO ARE THEY? [ARTICLE]

WHO ARE THEY?

Thnt Johnstonian editor who j hae the privilege of U caterwauling" i in the Bulletin, '*with aIL the attri butes of a physical monkey." has« never been overpowered with pergpicacity; nevertheless, under the rale that every dog has his day, he thinks he has just accomplished a moBt wonderful feat, the startling discovery that there are per6ons in these Islands ,( who advocate a republic," that these perBons are "gentlemen" [no ladies allowed, eh?] "that eaeh and everv one of them is a foreigner," *'born and bred" [how could thēy! exist if not born?], and that eaeh is attempting to secure suf!icient w backing "with native Hawaiiane »io geli them out." | Ofcourse, what is news to the Buūetin star-gazer, is an oid rhapsody for the people here, who do not forget that am@nfijst the upatriotic" preparations for the "Revolutiōn" of 1887. was a republican Constitution, all readv to be proclaimed after the abdicati©n or the death of the King, death whieh, in the previsions of the f>romoters of the ipovement, was tobe a necessary consequ ēnee of it. The prospective \ r ice-Fresident of thiB Bepublic had even been C selected in the person of a worthy native gentlemen who did not make himself very conspicuous during the last Lagislaiure, and the ehoiee of the President a wbite man of course bad been a matter of eoneiderable dispute and jealousy between the gentlemen at the head of the Revolutionary na^vement. Thus it is an historical fact that inany of the foreign-born Reform memhe^,— —and gentlemen «f wealth and good missionary Btanding too.-—-were u advocating a republic for Hawaii" four years ago; and, as there are no historical proofs to show that a ''man," onee imbued with republican tendencies, will ever shift his convictions, there is every reason to suppose that here also, these u nondescript gentlemen," as stvled by the ~3Buūctin—are still disposed just ;is. inueh as formerly, to "advocate" the same ideas, wlh*th€r or not they "be disappointed in not seCuriDg the coveted vffices," or

| "by financial necessities." Bo then, the information in tbe Bulletin is rather out of datec But if these san)e gentlemen, —■ or any others, —are at present again tryingto"urge ths nativ.e Hawaiiane to republicanism," and if the editor of thē Bulletin % through ahy connection with them, has any reasons to fear that they are now ready to give their ntopias a more tangible form, why does not this vigilant editor give the pub!ic and the government, not a raere hint but the full bonefit, I of his knowledge, in order to pre* serve tranquillity and security • for the people, and to obtain for him-' st'lf a good billet in recompense | having saved the country ? ! Why does he not eome out "patrio-1 tically" with ail the names of these U gentlemen, n "every one of them foreigners born and bred," of these <k ngitators neither Ammean nor Hawaiians ?''. ... . . why docs he not pul)lish all about their intentions "of selling out the natives," ur.leHS in this he only judges others through his. own disposition ? . Anyhow\ the Leo, as the i 'oiee of t'ne Hawaiians, would like to be fullv posted on the matter, and we say that, if the Bullethi, after saying x as mueh as he did, does not give out the proper details, the B\dUti)i is a humbug !!