Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 254, 30 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Afteb more than five monlha of ex.Ptence the provieional government of Hawaii hae fina!ly admitted tbat tbere yet exiat Hawaiiana in the country aud that they perhaps have some elaim to have a voice in the ru!ing of the country, in that Mr. John Ena hae heen e!ected a member of the eouneile. The etep taken we unheeitatingly consider the wieoei act yet perforraed by that remarkably impolilie body of men whoconstitute tfae P. G. It has heen nec«*esary for them to Buflftr a humiliating defeat in \Vashington to realize the blunder they committed in trampling on and ignoring the civil righte of the Hawaiiane. They have had to invent ihe moet wnrthless and easily disproved Iies first to make it appear as if they had the support ofthe Hawaiian voters, thenasifthe Hawaiiana were indiflferent to whatever wasdone with their country, and finally as if the Hawaiiane were a semi-barbarous people and shouldn’t be consulted anyhow. But the unanimoua voice of the liberty-loving people of the United States of all parties and of all elaeaea responded constantly it is no use —the iuajority must rule, we eannol take a country against the will of the people. And even Thurston wrote ther. to his poliiieal opponents among the Hawaiian? and told» thera that without the ooneenl of the people annexation was an irnpoBeibility. But the P. G. continued their hostile and in8ulting attitude depending on the vagrants and crim»nals, whom they, in an **vil ruoraent for themselve8, had furniehed with arms and ammumlion to defend them against the people of Hawaii. We have more than onee quoted the remark of Lorrin A. Thurston in the great epeeeh whieh he made against the McFarlane Cabinet in October 1892 when he, in denymg an aeeuealion againet him ae being an annexationiet, eaid; "The Unitfd Sta(e» of Amenea mll nerer annr. r the Hawoiian Is’.ands again»t the \cill of the Ilawaiian peoide Evente have proven that was righi in hie judgment of the Greal Republie tben, but why he and his psrty have tried the game furlher anyhow we eannol see. Mr. John Ena’s appoiutment is »a a whole satisfactory. He ie a oonaervative and sbrewd business man, and he is as atubborn ae a uiule. He will undoubtediy join the »ntelligent wing of the eouneile whieh will iucre»se the m3jor»ty of th»t party. The rab:d wing will loee a rote whieh will make them etill more out of sight tb»n th«y l»tely have heen. Mr. Ena ie of course nota repreaentati veHawaiian as he hae no »nfluenee and fol!owing «mong hia countrymen and his career in the Iast Legisl»ture waa eueh that be killed himaeU poliiiealJv with tbe men who elected him. But aa neither political !ntegrity nor any other pol:tical qualitiea

are neceeaary to sit in our aelfelected Dpgielature Mr. Ena’e p»at political faithle«3ne*3 and errore need not be remembered at tbe present time.