Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 64, 2 December 1893 — Letter from T.J.Burke. [ARTICLE]

Letter from T.J.Burke.

. i [Mr. T. J. Barke ot DeQTer Colo*do. «ho Tbat«d th«« UaBds some n>onths *go «rites the foIlo«iBg interestinij letter to a eeoUeman in this to«n.} Deak Feiekd; — It is my pleasant daty to aeknowledge the receipt of yoar favor of the 31st of October, and to sav to yoa that yon cannot be in any doabt at tho present time as to the resalt of yoar ‘'Tempest in a tea-pot’ ’ revolntion as yon tenn it. My friends here say, that this (the Hawaiian matter) is the only thing done under the Cleveland Administration that has been done to onr liking; be this as it may, Cleveland has ; done an honorable and necessarij lj- a creditable thiug to the great American people, althongh his course will be very severely criticised by the opposition and many a man who, nnderstanding the | real true condition nnder whieh the Queen was dethroned would persue the same course that he (Cleveland) did, were he in positiou so to do, will now, under the pressure of partisanship whieh will be bronght to bear on this qnestion tlenounce his acts as uupatriotic and undeserving the sanction of American citizeus. However, when the true eonditions are explained, and yon will find that time will necessitate the explanation, then the honorable Americans will endorso his course regardless of party lines; As a disinterested admirer of your country aud the people of it, I take pleasnre also in congratulating them on the replacemont of their ehoiee to the throne “Queen Liliookalani,” and I wish her all the success that be!ongs to a queen whose intentions are to do the most good for the greatest number of her people and I believe that to be her sentiments. I am aware of some newspaper criticism in Honoluln on my letters to a newspaper in this State, and I will say tō fyou now in regard to it that my object in writing to such paper as was mentioned was that the paper isj>nblished in the home of onr two United States Senators jind I knew it wonld get to W ashington and be placed iu the plaee where it woukl be scrutinized carefully and comraented on sufficiently to get au expression of opinions, that woukl do some good for an honest cause as I believed it to be, and 1 am now rejoicing on acconnt of itssucces. There is considerable taik as well as newspaper threats here that the Provisional Goverument will i-esist the United States in re-instatiug the Qneen, but 1 know it is all bosh, and I do not hesitate to say that there will not be a rifie ou the usaal quiet that onlinarily prevails in Honolalu the day it takes plaee, and those 2,000 sharp shooters that they talk of (in the papers here) will diminish to less than twenty, and they, I think, have wisdom enough to look out for themselves | and put their TVincbesters in a i safe hiding plaee or they will be | takeu awav from them. i _— —