Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 66, 5 December 1893 — Land and Trade Monopolists. [ARTICLE]

Land and Trade Monopolists.

One phase of the Huwai*an affa.r whieh has been bu{ slightly t' aohotl upou iu the man\ uews. p per articles on the sabject ] wliieh have appeared during the . p st few days; is the fals. p.>sit: >n i:i whieh President Harris.>n \v.-.s placed in eonnoeliou with ihe change of dynasty. Mr. i Harri'On was really the vietiui of : a gr<'3S deception. His underj staud;ng of the condition of af ; f tirs s.t Honolulu, was based enj tirely on tho reports of Minister Stevens, who represented that a revolution had occnrred, that the p<*ople of Hawaii hatl volontarily deposed their qneen acd erected a provisioual government. and that, in conformity *with established interuational policy, he had o;hcially recognized the uew ly installed authorities. The truth is that there was no rcvol«tion in Hawaii, except what w;ts conducted by a troop of United States marines. acting nuder orders frora Stevens, and that the so-called revolutionarv party consisted only of a handful of laud and trade monopolists desircus of booming their business !>}' securing the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. Had Mr. Harrison been reelected, in all probability he would Lave songht to repair the wrong dono the Hawaiians by whatever tneans lay in his power. As it is, the onn.- of reparation rests npon President Cleveland anel only the most unreasonab!e of critics will elaim tliat the President is not honestly doing his best to vindiqpte the repntati«>n of the United States for fair dialing in its relations with ii:feri'.r powers. — (Pittd>ur>jh Leader,)