Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 178, 14 March 1893 — THE HAWAIIAN STORY. [ARTICLE]

THE HAWAIIAN STORY.

From the outset The \Vobld has urged deliberation in the Hawaiian matter. It hae insiated that our Government shou!d learn the facts befe.re taking definite action. So mueh national self respect de.nanded of us. So mueh eommon fairnes8 to a weaker people rendered imperative. Only one side of the story was before ub. The other is now told. The World yesterday published the protest made by Mr. Nei mann in the name of the deposed Queen. It is a straightforward. explicit statement, supported by docu* mentary evidence of ita truth. It has been hitherto carefully eoncealed from puhlie know!edege, though the State Department hae published everything on the cther eide. Now that it has leaked out, The World’s insistenl plea for deliberation will be supporled by the opmion of every fair mind. According to thie sUtement the revolution whieh dethn»ned the Queen. set up a Provi9i>>nal Govvernment and hastily offered tbe islands to the United States, waa a conspiracy on the part of a beaten minority of vuters in hoetility to every principle of jopular self-gov-ernment. It appears that the American Minister Stevexs was birase!f an active participant in tbia eonspiracy, if not in fact ita original insti«ator. It was his promise 'of support by the force« on board the Boetoo tbat alone enabied tbe conapiraton to raiae tbeir movement to tbe dignity of a revolution, and that prumise, according to the 8Utementa now made, waa given in advaoce aod carried out before any pretenee of Deeeasity aroee. Tbe 6octoo’a men were landed when tbetown and country *ere perfectly qaiet, when no in- ,

U>r*«i in anywi«e endsngor«d, atul wh?n the questions helween the lrivernmrnt and ihe pe»>ple j ha.l l>een Mti«fkdorilr »djo»:ed. J It *aj their Un<1ini{ whieh over* thr«-w the Goveroiueat and made the rev«>!uti *n j»•'■*:b‘e. In r»ttirr words, th«* lawful G»>vJ ernment of H"»w.»ii whs overthn>wn by annoi meo fr>m the B«>9t.>n, I acting uiuler onlers from the Amenein Mmister. The Provieional Governmerl was set up by him t> <>ifer anne.XHti'>n U> the Tnite»i St ites. lf ihie is m ct*rrect v. rs».i of the «tory the entire pr >oeeilins has bee« a fiiih"stering e'it A rj>ri'C, a cr:tb game leil by the Americau Mini9ter. >vho h»9 thus o>>nquereil the country t<> whieh he was accredited. dethroned its sovereign * id ?eizetl its territory. The haste with whieh the Admiuistrati»n agreed to a tre.»ty of annexation in such a case was n»t excu?ed by any p»ssib!e j>iea of necessity. It wms unjust and indecent. Tbe care taken to suppress the Queen's side of the st»ry in order that the treaty might be made irrev.>cable bef»re public upinion c»uld judge »f the faets is m»re that suspicious. It isthe j<lain duly »f ihe Senate to p»stjK>ne acti»n ujx>n the treaty ti 11 it shall have j r»hed the ficts to the b»ttom. Ttiis country is not iu the filibustering line of bus;ness. Its j>eople do n»t desire to play the j«art »f freeb.v>P rs and Iand-grabbers. lf the st iternents of Mr. NEI MA.W are trne thetreaty ought n»t to be confirmed at all, and Minister Stevkns sh»uld be dismissed in disgrace from the diplnmatic service. Let us have all the facts bef»re we act ujK>n them.