Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 45, 23 February 1894 Edition 02 — The Merry War. [ARTICLE]

The Merry War.

( i { The Hawaiian «ar grows ftmnier jinJ fannier. It is nging in Honoiala now, as in Wasbiiurtoo; o r bct there. as bere, tbe war is all on one side. j Tbe provisi nal govermneut is sarroacding itself with sand O and defying the United States io coa;e on. A4 home Senator Hoar . is furiousIy assailīng the adn:inistration for having alreadv gone on aad engaged ifl war. The only part;es to the controversy tbat seem to be entire!v iuactive are the President at Washingtoc and the United States Minister at Honoluln. Neitber one. as far ;.s ean be learned. has raised a hand to do any of the ] dreadful lbiugs they are defied to do ou the one hand and denounced for having d ne on the other. Tbe orgms that bave been ’ assailing the l’resident f r his supposed ection in Hawaii are ■ already beginuing to bedge. Finding tbat he has not done the thiugs they accuse him of doing, . thev now declare that he meant I • « to do thera but was nnable, aud that now his real policy never i will be made known. This is in I • anticipatioa of the message whieh the President is likely to secd to the Senato very soon, and in wl.ieh, tht>re is no doubt, his j po!icy and the reasons for it and i 1 all the icstructious given in aecordance, will be distinctly ex- ■ i plaiu' d. To those whose ideas of nation- , al dignity rise above the petty ■ view of paitisan3, and who have | ; ; tried to deal with tbis matter on- j ■ ly in accordance with trnth and | ; justice, there has never been any • obscurity as to tho Hawaiian poIicy of the administration. The [ only positive act whieh it has commandel, was to carry out the . order of the previous administrat- [ ion whieh had not been obeyed, v to terruinate the nuautborized • protectorate cstablished over the [ islands hy Minister Stevens. . This protectorate was dspressly , disavowed by Secret^*~^Fd^er, [ but was uevertheless ?~.intai‘ned t until the arrival of Mr. Blount, who curried instractions for the , uaval forces to retnrn to their . sbips aml r be re-setablishment of . the Hawaiian sovereignty. 1 No doubt it was expected that > the prov sioual goverument, es- • tablished by t!iis armed intcr- ? vention, woukl fall when its sup > port was withdrawn, and that the ‘ native constitutional government 1 wou!d rwassert itself. Bat this ‘ did not ocour, and it is perfectly clear that no atternpt of any kind has been tuade, lsince the enterprise of M - . Stevens, to dictate to the Hawaiians what form of | goverume; t they shall establish j ‘ or mainlain, Tbe ridiculons dis- i play of warliko preparations re- ; ported fro-n Honoluln is merely an eeho of the partisfns claraor that has been raised in the United States. 1 The annextitionists interpret this clamor as an indication fhat annexation is popular here, and that if they ean keep up the agitat;on they may secnre the ese- ; ! cution of their plans in spite of the objections of the administra tion. As r raatter of fact, all this wild ialk haslittleor no reference to annexation. It is siraj>ly op 1 position to tbe adrainistr.ition. and if it were Mr. Cleve!and’ instead of Mr. Harrison. who bad | • tried to absorb the friendlv po« er throngh a basty treaty with a eommiUe? of foreign residents. ' the pres- nt opjM>sition would be ju>t as violent. We have no doubt a t all tha the whole atfair wiil rigbt itself ; in tirae and that tbe PresiJenfs i sound American po!icy of noninterventi n wiil be jnstified and ' approvevl‘ Meanwhile it srerus to 03 that this nation has 1arger and more important duties on | | hand thi.n fighting over the burlesqoe of national government in the far-off islands of the Pacific. I —