Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 260, 12 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Hon. Paui. Neumann hes in his open letter to Mr. Sanford B. Dole, bit the nail on its head. He hae as it were thrown adynamite homh into the P. G. eamp whieh will have a great deal more effect than a12 the homhe whieh Walker & Co. did not throw, and for whieh they were arrested. The effect on the insurgent« <>f Mr.Neuuiann’s Ietter, caunot be better deecribed ihan by the eipresaion of the official editor of the P. G., who. in hia commenta eomplaina over that "terrible tiretl feeling” whieh haa seized them by peruaing Neuman’a miaaile. And what is it that Neumann demaud8 of Doie? Simp!y that the question of Hawaii’e future !)e submitted to the popular vote,and that a true government of the people,by the people and for the people be eetab ished. The failure of ihe P. G. to follow Neumann’a suggē3tion will further eiuphaaiae in the eyea of the world, that the present tempr»rary government ia 8imply an oligarchy; yes, a tyranny established through tbe f >rces of the U, S. legal repreaentative and in the nameof the United States. That such agovernment cannot be recognized either by the Hawaiian j>eople or by the great country whoae name has been misused in the establishment of it, Mr Neumann pointa out to Mr. DoIe in a ciear and jMiinted manner Whatever effect Mr. Neumanu’a letter will have on the provi»ional governmenl tirae will ahow. but that it wi(l open the eyea of the American people to the true eituation in Hawaii, we ean consider a sure tbing and the consequence willl be that whatever aympathy certain parties may have given to the all*'ged Ameneana in Hawaii who elaim to atruggle for a free and popular government their refusal to 8ubmit to a plebiscite will emphatically do away with all sympathy and only leave a feeling of 8urpriae and amazement over the gigantic gall and unlimited eheek wīih whioh a mi>6t unheard of fraud has heen atterapted to he perj>etrated on the American j»eopl« and the U. S. Goverument. The Advertiser man in hia |fomraents on the letter takes exceplion to Mr. Neumann uaing the word “we” when spe*king ou beualf of the Hawaiian people. In every sentiment he utters in that letter, Paul Neumann repre*ent« the Hawaiian people and is tbeir apokeaman. The Hawaiiana have not heretofore agiUtei verv «trongly for a plebiacite simply heeauao tbey knew the utter hopeleeaneea of eueh a demand, but that they bave desired aueh a step to be Uken and th*t they have heen fullr prepared to «how their sirength at anr time a vote should have been Uken «ither through the United SUtes or throogh Ihe

P. G. ia a fact well known to every body conversant witb tbe situation. The Advertiser man heeome* amusing when he denies Neumann the right to epeak on behalf of the people and at the same time ae- f sumes to bimself “ sucb right as when he says that ” the people are determmed to have gid governmeut. Tbe Advertiser sbould bear in raind that tbe amall clique of foreigners whieh stands behind this government —hired. coerced or voluntarily ,is not the people and will in the future. as*in the past, play a very small and inaignificant r<>le in the government and destiny of Hawaii; the people are the sons of the soil who eall these fair Islands “ their own. their native land” and with them rests the fate of Hawaii-nei