Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 66, 5 December 1893 — HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

HAWAII.

It is now prett' clear tbat the conspiracy for the annexation of Hawaii wiU be futile. The publieali iu of Secretarv Greshain’s report recommending the restoration of Qneen Liliuokalani iudicates that President Clevelaud has made hj) his n>ind to reverse the Jingo policv nf his j»redecessor. This is creditable to both his courage and bis sense of justice. īt requires a considerable amonni of tao forruer quality, in whieh to be sme Mr. Cleveland has not generally boen found lacking, to reverse a policy whieh ab!e papers like the N. Y. Sun nnd the Tribune bave contrived 1 i tocoverwith a patriotic glamour, [ aml in the enforcei«ent of whieh j the navy and the tlag have been used to stir the popular ini;iginatiou. But of the justice of the determinatiou to abandon tbe Provisional Government of Hawaii there ean be no donbt afttr the i f;icts are known. In the first plaee, it should never have been recognized at all by our government. • Under the rules of international law a new government is not to be recoguized as de facto nntil it is. actually a fact. Bnt the Provisional Government has never beea a government ablo to maintain itself It was estab lished by the armed interveutiou of the Uuited States. The blne jackets fiv)iu the Boston be:ng first landed, and marched with rifies and gatling guns to a public hall, secured for them in advance by tiie United States Minister, it was only after their presence had over-awed the people that the Provisional Government was ])rocluiraed. After it was set up, the Provisional Government found itself helpless, and made earnest appeals to the American Minister for protection against the j>eople wliom it pretended to govern. To give a national stauding to this band of eonspirators, who, with the eonnivanceof the American Minister, organized this pretended goverumeut, is to make a farce of international relations. If the arraed forces ōf the I Umted . States be withdrawn ! entirely from the neighborhood of Honolulu, or 4he moral etfect ! of their presence be imllified by a declaration that they will not be used to uphokl the r«volutionists. the Provisional Government will crumble awav. Mr. Blount, • our commissioner, did not meet a single revolutionist willing to . submit to a vote of the people the qnestion of the £orm of gove“nment. The moveraent had no snpjx)rt outside a small circle of alien planters, among whom Minister Stevens was either s tool or a eoospirator.— Di.tl(imore AVirs.