Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 29, 15 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We wiah that the prori«k>o»l eovernment wou!d ioform us throngh ita org»n« if it woold be considered treason or sedition or an individu»l cou9piracy if pelilion» were circulated for the pnrpoee of ■ requesting tbe goveroment to anhmil Ihe future of Hawaii to a vote. Every decent man who really loves this country. be he a royalĪ8t or an annexationi9t would 9ign aueh petition and wōuld favor all measure« necessary for the taking of a plebiscite,throughthede9iretoavoid a rumpus with the Attorney-General has so far deterred the from taking such a step. 1 Why, by vhe way, the governraent should he«itate in taaing a vole on lbe lines 8ugg»*9ted by Mr. Paul Neumann we eannoi eee. There are about 11,000 voters in the country. Out of that nnmber the annexatiou club and the revolutioniets generally elaim that 7,000 ; have eigned the clubroll8and have taken a etand as pure annexationiets. That would only leave 4.000 for the opposition, and the gnvernment would stand on a elean popular haaia, and any proposition made by them tothe United States would probably be entertained and granted. Itcannot be that there ia 8omething fishy about thoae 7,000 annexationists. We »dmit that we haven’t seen tbem nor any considerable fraction of them, but we have the word of tbe Advertiser and the Star. and of all the leading club men that the 7,000 are there, and that they are »11 votera. “Con-aul-General” Wilder tella the San Franoisco papera that out of 7,000 tbero are 1,500 HawaiisD8,and who would refuse to believe tbat farilhant yontb? But if aueh are the fucta, why not have a vote taken, and ao relieve »ny doubt whieh yet may exiat in the mind of aome doubting Thomaa aa to the popularity and authority of the proviaional government, »nd by proviug to the world at large »11 the »Mertiona raade, th»t the provieinnal government is e«tabli»bed by the people, and that ihe reque.at for annezation to tbe United Slate» emanated spontaneoualy from (be Hawaiian nation. lf the anneialion party telia the truth the government will have » Iarge majority if » plehia cite waa takeo, and more than tbat we gaarantee th»t »8 «oon »8 we aee plainly throogh the results from tbe ba!lo( box that we are in a helpIeM minority we tben ahall eeaee to oppoee the goverument,and heeome its warmest Bupportera and j willing 8harer» in its patronage. j Th»t Neom»nn’« letter ha» Hkd a p»raly«iog eflfect oo the government there ean be no doubt of. It i« not the «ords io the Ietter it»elf whieh «orry them, it is not even tbe foroe »nd «eight «hieh tbe governmeat knowa ih»t Nenmanu’a letter «Ul carry «itb it botb here. »nd mere e»pc«Uliy abro»d. bat it i» tbe terrible stgnificanoe of tbe apoeamnee of th»t letter at thi» p»rt»cular time—l«o d«y» befbre the unnl of tbe «teamer firom Californi». Mr. Dol% oau re«d w«ll »• the ieext mau, and tk« full s>gniftoaBce of iheee hoee ieperfcclly eiear lo him: *9Do wmt «hat >s jost aod rifbt, oot firom fear or h <*• Tbe »riting m ~ ~ •‘"r -^