Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 28, 2 February 1894 Edition 02 — The Hawaiian Question. [ARTICLE]

The Hawaiian Question.

— Tbe Hawaiian policy of the ad- i ministration, whieh bas beeo temporarily cb*cured by the proposed taritf bill, will be promptly j revived by the senate. We roay j prepare onrselves for a variety of j speeches, the principal featnre of all of whieh will be the dizzy j fi ght of ihe Amenean eagle. If we are not m;»tuken. we shail be treated during tlie next few weeks to more fiabdub in this line than • we bave had in many moons. Kings and Qceens and Princes f will be hand!ed witbout gloves i ° and at a safe distance. We have not been unaware of the superficial unpopnlarity of the policy recommended by the administration in regard to Hawaii, and her present ex-Queen. It has aronsed the annoxationists, stirred up the natural enemies of the administration, and let loose the prettiest lot of eheap demagogues the world ever ssw. Not one of them has conflned LimseM to the single proposition laid down by the secretary of state, whieh care fu11v avoided comraitting the administration to a fixed policy as ts the ultimate relation of the two governraents. We have foIl«)wed the attack upou the ndmin- f istration with great oare, being one of the very few jouruals of the country to support it. The great majoritv of its opponents have attributed to tbe administration pnrjiOses fnr whieh there has been no foundatiou, or else have deliberatelv, aud witbout a propt-r examiration of all the j facts, condemned aa uutrustworthj’ tlie inforraat : on whieh tbeie is nothing to show was not carefully aud sincerely obtained j by it. There lias not beeu a bit of evidence ou whieh to base tlieir eonclusions and their predictions and they stand to-day, where tliey were at first, as critics who do not know what they are criticising; critics who lacked faith in the Americanism and justice of their own goverurnent. We shall now see what we shall seo, when the senate hears from President Cleveland and has the papers in tbe case before it. ! It m*y or may not believe Mr. i L5louut that tlie old government of Hawaii was overthrown by Ameiiean interference. It may or it may not follow Mr. Cleve lan«l’s advice in the matter. What it will «io caunot be foreseeu, bnt we believe as we have al ways believed, and as we think the majority will soou aeknowlo«lge, tbat from the first the administration has been raoved by the loftiest, and purest of mo- : tives to right a gr«at wrong, and that the principles of interna- i tional justice for whieh it has been conteuding will be approved.—Neu' Ihnen Ct. Reifister.