Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 38, 14 February 1894 Edition 02 — BREAKERS AHEAD. [ARTICLE]

BREAKERS AHEAD.

MISSIONARIES IN THE SMOEE. The royalists need at present do notbing except lie qaietly| back and amose them>elve3 by taking ie the circus whieh is be ing performevl between the Leagae, tho cl«b and tbe government. The j>oor missionaries are not in it. Thev have sowa the wiad : aud they are reaping the wbirlwiud. The American league is coastitated and composed of goodness know whohas swamped the conservative auuexation club totally nud has forced apon the goverouient, a man who certainly has no aflinities with themi3sionarv The leaguo whieh repres«'nts a radical crowd of more or less strangers led by a few demagogaes and professional ward-politicinns is dominant an 1 the moneyed iuterests with thoir representatives hava met a snow storm. The respectable godfeariug ehmeh goingroforra part} has had to sit still at a meeting listeuing to such seatimonts as the following from the lips of a stranger, one W. G. Smith: “1 hope it will be im[>ressed on all onr friends who dissent from us. that iu this era, the radical movemeut must, and shall and will have it ways.” The ideal goverumeut of the refonn party we have always been told was the Wilcox, Brown eahinei. Tbo ideals of the radical party whieh “shall” “must and will have its way nre evidently Smith the shoeman, Sraith the w*riter, Murray tbe —well what is he? Tbe refono party is dead i * * and we have no toai-s to shed over the corpse i but for the good of this country we tbiuk that sometbing should be done to eheek a move whieh will lead ns sorae day to tho abyss of anarchy and riot. Who ure tbe membcrs of tho American League who presnme to dictate to the country ? Wo are told that there are about 500 members of th it organization and we are also informed that more than 200 of thein have not reside<l iu this country for one year. Is it to 3 :Ch tbat the control of the government i.s to be given? Where are the Germans. tlie British and t>e Portuguese citizens? Are they going to sit tamely by and see a mob grab tiie reius of the £roveruraent and run the countrv to ruin at the bidding of a man like Tioa Murrayand his suj>porters? We hardly believe it jiossiblo and we hardly believe in spite of Mr. Frank Hatch’s assurances that thero is only harmony, love aud fraterual feelings ; among the men who snpport the P. G. Mr. Samuel Damon iu his nnfortnnate but inborn desi re for popnlarity has oj>ened the da:os and lat loose the flood i>f mob mle. He will find tbat it is muoh oasier to let it lo<>s«} than 6ver to stem it ag »in. and if not checked now it will carrv him and his inteiests with it to the deop and bottomless sea. The American League appears now in its true co!ors. The me>ubers aro all members of the Annexaticu Ciub, but diss itisfie 1 with ! tbo brotberho «1 of tho «>ther n iti;on »lities represented there | tbey have isolated themselves laul by their actions deprive l tha other members of ; lb«> annexation club of all voice m | tho g»verntcenL If it waa ’l that | we deej>ly f«el the danger whieh I tbreateus the welfare of tbe eoinmj ioitJ and of tbe voi.ntry, wesbould . on:y rejoioe te se«? the mea wh o»ncocted and helped in the late revolat:oo, hoi3ted by their owu peUrds and politicaIly sbelved by a iot of foreign adventurers and fil.baater8. Of courso ihe councils wiil laek the moral ourage to refuse a seat to Mr. D. B. Smith, and select in his piaee a man who, ean, as far as the real annexationists are concerned, ean be cilled rej resentative and sitisfaciory. That Mr. D. B. Smlh i» ueitber is the opinion of every man who knows his record in thie country and* who doesn’t consider an endoraemeut cf tbe League a criterioa of ahility, r«ep«ctabi!ity or bone«tjr<