Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 186, 24 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Memhen» cfthe Hawaiian Civil liightH Leapue wiil speak to-inorr'»w night at Kmma Square. A11 men in fav.>rof the la<lependeuce of tliis countrv aii 1 11 nie llule sh<>u!d go there and 1 is»t»-ii to the orators of the day. There have been some error»eou9 ideas that the Hawaiian Patnotic League and the C'vil Right9 League '.vere not working iu harniony Both Leagnes have the welfar<! and preservation of self-gov-ernment f<»r their objecL B<>th Leiigues demand that the will of the great iuajority of the people ahall dominate, and they both deeline to allow a handful of foreigners to nin this country, and diafrancbise a nalion f<»r the pur)»ose of personal aggrandisement and a paltry sugar-b>unty. \\'here tbe annexation party has shown their cloven f<K»t i.-, when they propo«ed to accept a government appointed from \Vashington without the Hawaiian people having a voice in the matter. \Vhat man deserving to be called a man wou!d stand tamely by and see himself and his fellow citizens deprived of their civil rights and refused a v6ice in the government of his owu country. The sycophants. wh < like slaves, bow down to the will of the plantera and canitalists. and declare theinselves willing t > sacrifice their manhood suffrage for the purpose of supporting a pl«tocracy, des-rve no consideration in the plans f<»r the future of this country. lf they are willing to grovel in the dust f<<r the sugar ring and goldeu calf lei them do s<) —praised 'oe tlu G<kIs lhat tiieir auii)ber is emali, and tiiat lue greal majority prizes j>olitical freedom, aiui hberty, aud equa! nghts higher than mamoion —that the m;<jority of the j>eople who inhabit this Paradise of the Pacific are Mkn and not thralls. The loyaI vut-rs of Hawaii have been strt*ngly accused <>fand abused for being oorrupt and mercenary in iH>Iitics. and always open lo bribes or ready to give Iheiu, by the missiouary party, who pretend h*>w to view such state ol' affairs with horror, and use the allege<.i fact as a good cause for a revolution. In th'.s community it ispretty well ku »n, that it is this very reform party wiiioh has esi>ecially excelled iu bribing aud corrupting. but s«> f*r the missionarie« nave strongly denied the eoft impeachment. Une Ol UK*u auu. ut’ iu iuC t.n . Mr L. Carter, a Comrois- | aiouer of the Provisional Government. eomee out openly, and admita that tbe hope of the &nnexation party for success is mainly in obtainiug votes through cortuption *nd bribes. We repcint

an interview wtih him by a New York corre«pondent to th« San Francisco Exa<niner : "Were the queslion of anneialion put to & vote of the people would majority be !•»r or tgains: the pn>pos;liou ?” he was asked. C. L. C:.rter— Speaking off-hand. I should say the anneialion or ar.ti-annexation uartie- wou!d poll ab <ut the - ime number of votes. The native Hawaiians are a» raerce:iarv as their hretbren in other countries. and it leaulā he largely n <>/ >'n*h >.chether the r oter« o ■ aga' U a exation. Mr. Carter is n<»t alone ofl’-hand, but r»th-r <»fl'hi- b ise, if his meaning is that the whole population stands evenly divided on the annexation <juestion. There are perh.ips an equal number of foreigners t’>r und against annexation in any form, tbat it will need a gre.it deal m <re cash, than Mr. Carter and Company ean raise to swii>g their votes. When Mr. Carter accuses the Hawaiians *>f being e >rrupt, he evidently speaks from tue experience of his party. The natives who have been gathercd up by the “honest” reform party were gathered through the means of the almighty dollar, bnt fortunately t’<*r the Hawaiian Nalion the number of those trait*>rs does’ not exceeti a bakers dozen. When a vote is taken in the c»untry Mr. C. L. Carter and the other bribegivers will find that the Hawaiians will cast a solid and ?trong vote f*>r the independence of the country, and nobody will grudge the anuexation party the proud po89ession of the interesting trio consisting of Joseph, Bob \Vilcox, aiul Chas. Notley. We mentioned in our Wednesday issue. that \Viltse was ratber sick, because he didu’t get the expected ovation upon his arrival in Calil’omia. If ihe fullowing editorial whieh appeared on the 9th inst. m the Fresno Dailv Evening Expoeilor voices tbe senti>nents of the people in Calif >rma, the galiant Captain ean rather prepare himself for a Court-martiul than for an ovation. Call Wiltsk Back. One ofthe first things the new Secretary the Navy sbou!d do is to recall Captain \Viltse of the man-of-war, Boston from command of ihe naval forces at Honolulu. He has been alt<>gether t»x> ofticious and superserviceab!e during the recent "revolution” precipitated 1 by the foreign residents in order to get the isiands aimexed to the United States in the int rests of ihe sugar pl nters \Viltse appears to have place<l himselt ai»d his ship at the dist>osal of the anneiationists, and to have assumed, since the Frovisional Government was declared. the role <>f a military dictalor. Had Wiiise and his ship not been at Honolulu, there would have been no revolution, and no Provisional Government. It was the show of force he made bv marchiug his uiarines ashore lhat gave the annexationisU tbe power to depose the Quee.i, overlhrow the constituti»u, and set up the mle of an irresponsible oligarchy. It was not the actual ♦V» t An. I ablcd them to carry out their designs wuhoui senous re«i8Unce, but the shadow of the authority and power of the United States thrown around them, and tbeir acts by Minister Stevens and Captain Wilwe. Since the revo- •

lution Wiltae ha? been put:ing forth the strong haud m a eharacteri?tic wav to «u»tain the annention revoluti->nary junta and enforce eilenl acquie3cence. 1 henever anyone preauaie>J to eipres8 di8;atisfaction iu l«x> audible tonea. Wiltse hie pronjptly notified him that he hid l>etter keep quiet unle«- he l-«red t*> get into trouble. N iturally p-ople—es-j.>eci i;! v th -* - > inoifen>ive and un? ph:8ticjted a> the Uawaiiana —quietly sub:nit when 3ubniisaion ' is en!* rced by the sh 'tt»Nl guns <>f a ruilit.iry dictat <r. who h<s nob<>iy t> d spute his auth >rity or ohullenge hi- s-vay. Of c<>urse, it is an e.i-y tuatter t > overawe the ignor:int and unanned Kanakaa, but the nieth< <1 of doing it. and the purp <se for whieh itisd>ne. are a'.ike disgraceful. \\ iltse’s acts are wholly discreditable to the service ar.d to our G >vernment, and he should be promgtly recalled from hit- present station. Minister Steveus has a!so outlived his usefulness. He shoukl be divested of his ill-used authority and permitled to rctire into the shades c.f mer;ted obscurity. The New Y<>rk Tribune, the orgau of the Iate liepuhliean administration says: “The friemls of the Hawaiian treaty in the Senate rnay as well understand now as later that the new administration comes inlo power with a deoided prejudice against the views of Webster. Marcy, Seward, Klaine aml Harrison as to the value of Hawaii and our duty to its p*ople. It may not be easy to find time to dispose of the treaty now, but it may be more diflicult than ever hereafter.” Thus it apj>ear3 that Democratic statesmansbip will rise superior to Kepuhliean jingorsm. A writer in the N. V. Herald comrnenting uj*on Mr. Thurston’s monograph on Hawaiian aflairs in the North American review says: “Mr. Thnrston's threat that if tbe Senate does not ratify ihe pending treaty he and his eolleagues will deliver to England the islands whieh he confesses thnt the United States have elevated to Christiaiiity, civilization and prosperitv, is not quite niee. If he and his colleagues “try il on” in the face of the ex:sting treaty of 1875, he and thev may find themselves in hot water if caught in our jurisdiction, and Hawaii herself may feel a very iron har.d. Mr. Thurston’s writing uuder that head is 1 very silly.” Mr. Thurst<>n may be con«idered a divinely insj>ired stitesraeu by our C. U. Church and P. G. Government, but in America he is a very small i>otat>, that would not even take a prize at a country fiir.