Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 35, 10 February 1894 — Mr. Thurston's Errand. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Thurston's Errand.

There ia interest and impor tance in the report. whieh tbe annexationist organs are tmmpeting. that Mr. Thurston’s flying trip to Hawaii is for the pnr pose of pntting a spoke in the wheel of the administratiou by inducing the Frovisional Govern ment to declare Hawaii a repablie. It is to be regretted that there is not in tbe aunexationist interests enougb fidelity republican pnnciples to indnce the declaration of a repnblic for worthier motives tban to embarrass a political adversary. For the facts is that if a republic were really established it woukl embarrass no one who wishes an honest and creditable discharge of tbis eonu trv’s responsibility for Mr. Stevens’ acts. Let the Hawaiian people bave the nndisputed right to make tbeir own form of governmeut aud choose theirown ru!ers, without the restriction or intimidation of a suiall ruliug class, and tbe duty of the L nited States in the premises is ended. But it shou!d be remembered that tbere is a wide differenee between declaring a republic and establishing the actuality of po pular self-government. Balma- [ ceda clairoed to be a rejmblican rnles; but he was really an abso lnte tyrant. Fonseca declared a republic: but his mle was that of military dictatorship, sill less real republicanisra than nnder the Empire whieh it suj-planted. There bave been claims by the Jingo press that the Provisional j Governraent of Hawaii is a reI puhlii-: and if that sham hatl not | been utterly transparent ou its face this errand of Mr. Thurston | sho\vs its complete abandoument. Let Mr. Thurston secm-e not ; ouly the declaration, bnt the es I tablishuient of real popular government in Hawaii, aud no one iu this country will say him nay. —Ex.