Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 16, 19 January 1894 — Hawaiian Snffrage. [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Snffrage.

— AVe are greatly siirj)rjsed at the absence in this discussion of all allusion to the virtues of universal suffrage. The 'I'nhune this morning h»s some mention of a certain “free anil intelligent people” iu Hawaii, whom this wiekeil administr.ition is forcing to submit to ‘ a corrnpt, idolatrous, and barbarousdespotism.” But it does not say of what this “free and intelligent people" consists. It eannoi be possible that is consists of the 637 white Americau residents in the capital in a total registered vote of 13,593, and that the term excludes the l>ulk of the population simply because they are nativeboru and colored? lf this should prove true, we should all die of shame. Wheie wouhl it leave tbe colored citizens of the Southern States, and tho federal electiou bill, «nd the wicked Democrats. and the “great work of reconstruction,” and the Union League Club? What wouhl “the Committee on Politieal Reform” of that institution say ' Why, the very dogs iu the irihunt olliee wouhl arise and howl over such a view. We take it for grauted that the Trihune means by “the free and inielligent people” the uative-born citizens of Hawaii, without distinction of race or eolor, and that it is under the impression, formed through misleading repoits, that they aie furiouly i opposed to the Queen’s governmeut and wouhl overthrow it but for Secretarv (ireshara and Mr. Blouut. When it learns the true st ite of the case, it w ill eome rouud, uud will deuouuce the predjudice agaiust color just as wo do. and deraaud an equal voice in the governmont for the ooloml Hawaiians for the eolonnl Amer-icans.--/Vs/.