Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 36, 2 September 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The fo!loiring edit<>r'ml froni the New Y<>rri Times e;ui be read t<> a great deal of advantage by our 1 purb!ind and narrow-minded me:n- ■ bers of the P. G. They may be tit to run a b>ard of deacoos, or trnstees in s >me aneieul churcb, but it is a dift‘erent niatter to run n eountrv and pose befol£ the world as statesmen: < : TO (OM E1 A *TOLKN KINODO.1l. The provisional government of [ * | Hawaii persists in its eff<<rts to ; carry out tht one purp»se f«>r whieh , it was set up —the annexat‘on < f j the islands to the domain of the " j United States. lt has appointed , a C<>mmissio'ier in ihe person ot Prcf. W. 1). AIexander to go t<> Washington and assist Minister - Thurston in that des:gn, and the latest news lrom Honoluln cont iios ■ the draft of a new treaty whieh is 1 said to be included in substance in l ' the instructions of the Commis ■ sioner. i , The first article of this proposed i treaty purp< rts to cede to the L'nil r ed States all •*r;ghts of sovereignly 1 , in and over the Hawaiian Islands i and dependeacies.” and Ihe second 1 j piirixTts to transfer t<> the same j power the abs<>lute lee <>f »11 G >vi -rnment and Crown lands, public buildmgs, ports and harb.rs, f >rt)ficatioiiB, military or nava! equ<nments, and a!l other puhiie prop- , ? j erty. i ; it is doubtful whether it would » I be advisable for tbe G >vernmeut of r | the Umted St:ites to accept lhis , | muniheenl ofl’er. with all the responsibiiity that its acceutai.ce * would involve, if it eame from the 1 <>wners of the s »verviguty and pub1 lie property in question. But ii r j point of fict, it is a prooositi<>n t<> convej* and make cver t<> the L"mt5 <-d States a stolen kingd<>m. and * the Governrnent of this Kepuhlie - cannot afford to put ilself in the 3 position of a receiver of stolen goods, eveu if the value to il of the «cquisition were beyund quealiou, What is called the provisi<>nal Gjvernment at Honoluiu was not e | set up by the people of the Hawaie i-an lslands as the result «>f over- ( S turniiig the former rule because it : was uii8atisiuctory to Ihein. Aec><rding to our p<>litical d<>ctr:nes. s the people of th»se isiands have the ' s right to dfctermine their own des- - tiny in the raatter of goVeriimeiit, and if thev had disc.irdt-d their monarchy, set up a provis:onal admiiiistration of their own, and 9 asked the United St»les to assuice r sovereignty over thera and UKe < t posstssion of their puhhe property, | g ihere would have heen a question j for us to drcide with two sidcs to r | il. lf htreaficr the pr<p>jsilion * i sbon!d eome from ihe peopie of tbe t i islai<ds we shou!d be bound to eon- > .! sider it seriously. f But the revulution of Janu«ry | was Ihe reeult of a oloi or oonspimcy j on the part of a few men, not of j the people uf tbe country, and this ; 1 provisioual Ooverumenl bas no ! suppurt in ihe consent of tbe gov- j f erned That the United Stale? ■ Mioister gave eounlenanee to tbe j >lot *ud used hts iuAueuee and the : ' uaval power of bis Guvernmeot to 1 set up tbe provissonal G »vrrumeui ] and maiutain it on iU feet makes ! * it aii tbe mure theduty of our Ut»v- . emmeui tu refu*e t» prufit by sucb l a bold ael uf rubbery. i Tbe 90saUed pxuviBMiul gov-

erntnent li«? no right U» di»pow of! the 9*>verei«nty nod puhlie property of the Hawaiian lelaiwi». It c*n . nnlv acqnire lhat right from tbe . oeople fr<>ni whmn almie «II ‘*ju8t , g.»vernineitt an* t«> be «ferivHi. \l hen it 9hots lūe c»f the g«»vertied” it wili he time eni*ugli for the l nitsd St-'»t"j‘ t‘ oeg“tiste w;th it. l’ntil ihe»» il i* īn lh** =»ttilude *>f <»ff»nng , t» d;si»»st* of s«;.»len g<>Hls. We c«n- j, not h<»uonbly o>nsider the ques- , tiun «>f i>veivmg Ihem. | i