Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 51, 2 March 1894 Edition 02 — The Sitnation. [ARTICLE]

The Sitnation.

The political aftairs in Hawaii have now eome to a tension that I ilovelopments of a definite natnre J i ean be momently expected. The I ! nnparallelled delay of the United States in taking a decided stund in regard to Hawaii has naturally increased the feeling of unrest, | and dissat sfaction among oui citizens. The |>eople—i. e. the great majority—whieh have re mained loyal to Hawaii, and to ' Constitutional Govemment still retain a firm belief iu the honor i of Grover Cleveland, and they rest assured that he cannot. j withont coveriug himself with ridicule, aud disgrace. abandon the jnst caose, whieh he has charapioued, and whieh he has declared it his duty to defend before the eyes of the whole world. The Hawaiians feel that the Ameriean administratiou cannot with any show of S'.-lf-resj'«ct admit that the Amenean people. throogh their rej resenīatives. have been guiltv of an ontrage and a gross injastice, and then deolare its inabilitv to rectify the wro:ig. an 1 at the same time forbid and prevent 'anv otber Eower to do what is fair and ght. if the President of the Uniteil 5tates cannot carn* out a policy to whieh he has committed him>eif, in snch a mannei as he has >©en doing in regard to Hawaii, he glamonr ar.d brilliancy whieh ro are told surrooud his high md nohle oftice will prove iteeif

the tinsel and sham cf the stage and America will be he!d op to the unbonnded ridicule of the i world. What do we see to day in Hawaii* A provisional government , comp?sed of mercbants and m;s- ; sionaries, of land-grabbers and specolators.Mea who gnmed their power—as a«lmitttd bv America—throogh the tbreatening attitude of Ameiiean soldiers nc.J throagh I the moral snpport of the oflicialiy recognized representative of a friendly pow?r. Amenoa has admitted her wrong and yet the party kuown as the Republican partv, for the sake of excolpating and white-washiug their last administration. attempt to bo!ster np an oligarchy in Haw ii, and wa»te their breath and voeabnlary in praising aod doi; g the screaming-eagle basiness over a govcrnruent whieh exist on the 1 bayonets of hireil advtturers and ■ thrmigh the support of its iufamI ons laws and willing courts of justice. It is surprising that the world sbould see the day eome when the men who preached liberty and boasted of theirgioriousfree iustitutions and their respect for the equal rights of a people independeut of color, race, anel creed shon!d be fonnd en’isted on the side of au oligurcby like the Hawaiian provisional government whieh, to its sharae be itsaid,has enacted luws against freedom of ■ speech freedom of the pi*ess and against the liberty of men. Tbe i latest act proposed by TV. O. Srnith, tbe Attorney General, whieh provides for the deportation of men not in accord with the government wonld do credit to Russia or to j Germany. When Bisraark invented the word i ‘-nislief>ig” ! and appiied it to everybody who f crilicized him and his government, tho civil zed world stood paralyzed for a short while. Bnt a wave of iudignation arose and { swept the word and the principle represeuted by it, not alone from Germany’s statute-books, bnt frora the Germau langtiage. Mr. W. O. Sraith is not a Bismark j ! and any attempt to iraitate tbe | Iron Cbuncellor will raost likeh ibe disustrous to him if he does | i not desist in time. The “Wesfcern Civilizatioii" does not approve of 1 the laws whieh interfere with the right of every mau in a eommuni|ty to express his thonght and work for a forra of goverument whieh according to his idea is the ! most henelieial to tho countrv at at large aud not to any single i clique or class. In tbomeantirae | the people of Hawaii will preserve 1 their peaceful dignity aud await patieutly the answer from Clevelaud whieh he must give sonie day. Tbe answer so f;ir given | refuses to grant the petition of the so-called provisional governraent for aunex,«tiou to the L T nited

States. That government whicb aocordiBg to its own proclamation was fdrmeil for tlie purpose of obtaining unnexation ouly Las failed in its object and it has neither a moral or legal i igl;t to be recogniz-*d as tbe government of Hawaii. It has proveu a failure. It has been requst»d to disappear by tbe President of the Uuited States; a furtber recognition of it by his government would be an impossibiiity and an absnrdity. If the L'nited Statcs refuse to ccrrect the wrong whieh it is admitted was done to the Hawaiian j)eople and state so in plain and detinite Ianguage, other means will be. fonnd and other ma«saree wiil be provided whieh will bring Haw,«iian affairs into projH.-r -.nd jost grooves. If auy trouble ar.se> throngh the inactivītv or throa"-h the refusal the l nitod Stab*s to do what is right, the blame w!ll ! fa.ll on the Fresident of that Hepablic, and will r main there as an iudelibie st-«in on American honor. ===—