Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 56, 22 November 1893 — THE IMPENDING DANGER(?) [ARTICLE]

THE IMPENDING DANGER(?)

There are strong eridences that ihe nominal editor of the Advertiser has beon publishing some of his own editorials. This is a somewhat rare occnrrence on the editor : s (?) part. but is not the less amusing on that account. The antique Rip Van Winkle of tbe Advertiser sanctum reminds us of nothing so mneh as of Artemus Ward s comment on a performing raoukey,—that he was “an amusiu' little cuss.” It is difficult to suppress the inelination to smicker when we view the mischief whieh our antique friend is creating among his own “forms“ and in his columns. It is becoming increasingly mauifest that the part}- of iramaculate pretensions, (as distinguished from practices) shonld gag tbat loquacious old party, or interdict his access to writing materials, Poor okl Kip never sees a bottle of ink withont an impulse to tuke a bath in it. The latest exploit of that journalistic freak is nearly two columns of “hog-wash” in this morning issue, upon the mnehabused “situation.” It is evident that tho editor has lately emerged from a cave, another locality beyond the reach of news from Hawaii, —for he gravely assures Mr. CIeveland that his proposals for a “treaty” (save the mark) “whatever they may be, will receive the full consideration of the P. G.” How consideratel how reassuring!I Now let the U. S. Goverument dismiss its fears—and its army—and rest assured that tho P. G. of Hawaii intends no immediate act of aggression. “MahalolM” will suroly be_ Mr. Cleveland’s exclamatiou when this herald of peaee shall reach him. “But the pieee of editorial bric-a-brack referred to, hastens to add that “no stop eau be taken by it (the P. G.) whieh is not fully in accord with the puhlie seutiraent whieh uow rules, and will contiuue to rule iu Hawaii.” Yo Godsl aud little fishesl Since when has “puhlie sentiment” had a ehanee to * rule in Hawaii?” Our aneieui friend must have been thinking of pre-revolutiou-aiy times, when we had a eonstitution, and a government adjusted by, and respoasible to the “puhlie sentiment” that he so iliadvisedly meutions. We all know that the advent of the P. G. marked the suspension of tbe iufiuence of puhlie sentiment in our gcr«;rument aml that nothing save the death of the P. G. will suffioe to revive the fair and droopiug form of “pnhlie sentimenf in our midst. But it is restful to be further assured that “there is no reason to believe that there is anv immicent source of puhlie disorder likely to break out here”—even if we are immediatelv after informed that this fearful prospect “is entirely because the governmeut is well armed and watchfQl ’ —and that. if the IoyaIists “i-emain passive, it is only, because insurrection is made so plainly hopeless by the thorongh and vigilaut defense maintained by the governmeut” Now, here is the most nneqaivocaI admissions of the existence of bayonet goveniment that the ‘missionary’ press has yet favored us wiihal,

anel we again eall forthe gagging of that garralous old fre»k in the Advertiser o&ee. Tui;« is the government that has been preachetl to the world at large as the best and most representative government the lslands have ever had. This is the same crowd who have been. by their own dictation and their own corps of monumentally truthful “commissiouers.” held np to the United States Government. Congress, press and people as the represeutatives of a vast majority of the j>eople of Hawaii, and of all the “truly good” people thereof. Isn t it a sweet and insjiiring spectacle? An alleged governmeut covering bchind sand bags. surronnded by bayonets, most of whieh aro wielded by ex-con-victs, thugs, thieves and alien beach combers; with ea n non frowning upon every approach to the puhlie offices; with morcenaiy “crooks” prow!ing the streets aiul dogging the steps and homes of reputable aud peaceful citizens, to rej»ort and magnify all their acts, and their exprossions upon the eondnct of tho government, with the socalled citizeus reserveswarming in the moonlii streets (they are not equal to a rally in a raiu storm) with all manner of fire arms and cartridges: with free sjioech stifled and the jiress attempted to be gagged by the odious “Sedition Laws” of last January, and with executive officers tlying into a frenzy of fear wheuever one of their own “crooks'’ reports a Eoyalist plot to restore the Queen. Who ean restrain his adrairation for the powers that be, or with-hold his acquiescence in their elaim of being the God-appointed, Heaven-annointed preservcrs of the rights and liberties of the people? But in spite of all eflbrts to obscure and comjilicate the situ-' ation, the fact remains that there exists absolutely no likelihood of any violence in Honolulu excej>t such as shall be precipitated by the minions of the P. G. The loyalists, whieh term includes all who nre loyal to eonstitutional forms of government, as ojijiosed to au irresponsible and usnrping dictatorship. have waited raore than ten mouths for a redress of their grievances, and will continne to wait until the United States sha 1 take final aeiion in the premises, without a resort to force. The Ioyalists, relying upou the enlightened justice whieh has at all times animated tbe i American Government (except during Harrison’s “reign,”) are confident that no resort to foree will ever become necessaxy on their part, in order to secure a restoration of Constitntional Governmeut in Hawaii. I