Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 23, 27 January 1894 — Honorable Mr. Blount. [ARTICLE]

Honorable Mr. Blount.

benator Hoar is geuerallv amusing in debate, but was never tnore amusing than when ho said lalel}’ that of the tbree hund-red-odd cases of appoiutments of diplomatic comraissioners bv the President, withont tbe consent of the Senate. only twenty or thirtv were exacti\ r like the appointment of Blount, Twenty or thirty will do. The fuss made overBlount s appointment and about the use of the word ‘paramouut’ in defiuing in his anthority is as childish as most of the other talk in this affair. No rational man will deny tbai nnder all circumstances of the case when Mr. Cleveland took office—the haste with whieh the treaty was sent to tbe Senate. ihe pains taken to prevent the Qaeen’s side being heard, the distance of the islands, and the multitude of rnmors about what had bappened —the proper course for him was to m.ke further inquiry into the facis. \\ hen he selecied Mr. Blount, no one questioned Mr. Blouut's competency iu any respeci His report has put oor Minister Stevens and the insur-

gents in the wrong. and h n» therefore set their friend« in this country raging bke »ugry wives. The insurgents now see tbeir mistake. They see they onght to have risen against the Q <t; en wilhoat Mr. Stevens help or e o n n i v a n e e, and have overthrown her in a st.ndup fight. and proclaimed tbeiuselves an mdepeodent republie if thev had succeedetl. Their p<«s;tion then before tho wond woukl have been unimpeaehahle. and President Cleveland woukl bave had no right to investigate them: and they eoukl have bj\sed their government on anytbiug they pleased — men. cattle. sugar, or bananas. But they did not want to expose themselves to the i Q«een‘s bullets. and tberefore got Steveus to leuel them the United States marin s; and when tbe Qaeen gave way to the United States, they hnrried to Washington to get tberoselves int>> the Union, not for??eeing that this raove woukl expose tbora to unpleasunt iuquiries, aud would throw the segis of the Constitutiou over the brown mon whoin thev are trying to disfranchise on accoont of r!»ce »nd color. They now say they are “Americans.” and the only “respectable” peopie on the island, bnt this is what the Southerus said in the recoustrnction pericd. and wbat they said when the force bill was passing in the Honse. How did Reed raeet tbis, and Lodge, aud Hoar, and Fryo. aiui the Tribune, and the whole Republican phalanx? AVe could, if we chose to give the space to it, dig ont from their speecl:es sorae sad passages abont tbe deni<il of the sntfrage to poor colored men by respectable nnd rich wbites, aml yet tlie native Hawaiiaus are far more civilized than the negroes of the South, for they have had diplomatic relations and made tveiities.