Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 41, 22 February 1894 Edition 02 — AMERICAN PRINCIPLE. [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN PRINCIPLE.

— '1 The Consent of tbe Govcmpd is Ncccssary. — When the men wao prateabont tbeir admiration of, aod adherence to the great American principles of libert} r , and eqnal- | ity, aud to-day do the "spreideagle’’ act in honorcf thebirthday of that great pi.triot George j Wasbington, they should remem- i ber that they have, since they i grabbtd the government of the>e . lslauds in the most studied j manner trampled the principles, \ and doctrines whieh are the sub • jects of their oratorical screaming under their feet, and that they constitute a form cf government whieh is in the oves of everv true American the nr.ost objectionable, viz; au oligarcby. Let tbem remember that they have disfranchised a people whieh have exercised the right of voting for over fifty years. That they have tried to barter away the independence and sovereignty of tbis country against the will of the people and tbat their everv action has lead towards depriving a friendly, hospitable aud intelligent race, of a home, a couutn r and the rights of manhood. Let the;n scream about Aruerican principles to-day—their screarns will never make them Americans in tbe true raeaning of that honored and justly admired name. And while they to-day will devote their breath and the patience of the audience to the state phrases about "yoke of tyranny” *‘po1itical freedom’, ‘‘governmont by the people” etc. they will sneak into t!ieir oratorieal efl’usious the usual stereotyped declarat ons about the annexatiou of Hawaii to tbe United States. For the benefit of those who yet believe in annexatiou to be accomplished in tbe near future theperusal of tbe following lines from the Bos(on Adverli9tr a strong Repnblican paper may be of sorae advautage; “Tbe raore the Tnrpie resolution is studied the more sensible will it appear. It is in tliree parts. lt is a kind of “tripartite agreement.” First, it gives a quietus to the annexation scheme. Of course that scheme may or raay not be i - evived at sorne future time, but for the present and “nnder existing conditions” it is ‘gently laid away, relegated to innocuous desuetude.’ This is right «nd \vise. Not to mention othor ro.isons, tbe qnestion of annexation ean never bo seriously considered by this countrv as a practical matter open for decisiou until it shall have been proved tbat the people of Hawaii, tae citizens, as that word is now underetood there, desire to surrender their countrv’s independence The Hawaiian .Ta:riotic League. wbose appeal to the justice and lionor of America is entitled to just as mueh resjiect as if it eame frora wbite men, raayrevt assured on that point. This great, free nalion, whieh owes its existence to an assertion of the truth that goveruments derive their jnst powers from the consent of the governed, and whioh araended its constitution in order to forever forbid the disfranchisiug of any nian on account of race or color, is not a nation of Ly|Xicrites.”