Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 43, 7 November 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The “Hawaiian Star” is moved vitb pains an<l a hope that Min5ster Willw will reail the HoLo- ' nr\'s veiled social jokcs an<l re ’anl the«n aa an index to the “moral as well a.s poliiieal sentinient of the monarchist party. ’ We imagiiiO this wouhl act as a boomenr.g. for the social foibles , joke<l about, eoneem mainly the ( elite of the Stars enlightened ' circles. Bnt if the Hol<j.mua’s little j jokes at the passing sho\v are so | wiekeil. what shall we ihink of ! the Star, \vhose oolurnns since its ‘ first issue are daily filled with the most venomous and unprincipled f.ilsehoo<ls and abuse of the Queen, and the verv considerable circle of ladies aml gentlemen who as royalists and loyalists wero aud are vet essociated with the monarchy. The career of the Star has been uo credit to the Anneiatiou Club. Its denunciations of the Queen aml the Royalists have not heen based upon argnment against their method of goverument, but simply is wild abuse. liead last night's “Star where it refoi*s to the late monarchy as a “rule of bribetakers aml harlots." Cau the dignity of journ.dism descend lower tban this. Can tho organ of the annexatiou club fiud no bettef argumeut than this coutemptible insult as a cause for their ex-i-:tenco. Let us warn the Star that there is an unwritten historv of the misdeeds of the harlots and bribo givors of the highly moral reform partv, during the Iast Iegislature, that would mako this city blush. The P. G. organs are fond of repeating the refraiu that “revolutions never go backward.” This may be trne, but is it not also truo that backward revolutions never go forward, aud isnot that axiom proved by tho present sitnation. The revolution of January not only stopped tho wheels of progress in Hawaii, but set them paddling astern. This little Kingdom was making fair progressin itsself gorernment acoonling to mod©rn democratic principlos, when the towering eoneeii of a minority caused them to break down the establisbed fabric of law and order, and neplaee it with a military despotism, depriving the people of their representative rights, aud maintaiuing a system of gorornraent. decidedly backward in its despotic tendencies. All Hiwaii now waits expectantly. for Minister Willia to act. A Provisional Government eannoi Ust forever and must be replaced by a permanent organiaaiion. It is the hope. prayer and belief of the native inhabitants and trne citizens of this little conntry, that the

United States throngh its Representatives will repair the political crime of Mr. Stevens, and his cotcrie of traitors. and restore to tbe Hawaiiuns tbe independent government of their ehoiee. The two band concerts last night were fairly indicative of the ditference between the political minoritv and majority. At Emma Square the P. tr. l>and of imported foreigners tooted to an amiienee th»t never amounted to over 30. At the Hawaiian Hotel the N «tional Band, the band that has endearetl itself to the peoj\le bv its patriotic loyalty to the Queen, drew a delighted audience of over 3000. lf Minister Willis was atteutive, he wonld have 1 fonnd it diffioult to reconcile the visible fact of an accomplwhed band of native musiciaus pUying j to a large audience of native Hawaiiau men aud women. ; or<lerlv, well dressed, and thorI oughly civilized in character, ' with the assertions of rhurston and his claqners that the Hawaiians were ignorant, deKraded, and semi-civilized. O