Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 176, 10 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We really f<sel sorry for Ad- j vert -rr, sd<1 ean jxfrfeclly under- > .-ia’,<l ;t- h«rd feeling ae-iinal ihe i Holomi'a. Th f> fiets are tb it t;;e Advertieer rnen puhhīh ndaiiy native i>ap--r called the “Ku<»lcoa whioh n»body buys and n -lx»dy read-». It i? distributed daily in the town gratie. and the deliverers give it away by hdndfuls to the natives who accept it gratefully—and use it to make fires with in the morning. That aueh enter- I pn-<e iā not of the dividend-declar- j ing k■ n<l i« obvious. and that p<x>r Henry, whoee j> icket has to stand the I088. gets ugly against the HoLOMi'A, whieh ie the pnptr of the country, is excusable enough. Perhaps he will now admit, though, that the newe j>rinted in our yesterday s issue was no eananl. The uews by the Monowai show« that the annexation scheme at present is at a standstill and our privaie advices inf<>r.n us that in his inaugurution address President Cleveland, in referring to the Hawaiian question. recommends to the Congress that a Commission be eent to Hawaii f«r the purj>ose of ascertaining the wishea of the Hawaiian j>eople in regard to annexation, and that all further action be deferred untill the retnrn and rejx»rt of such C<»mmittee. Great credit is due to Neumann for the masterly way in whieh he has slaved the haety actions of the Harrieon Admmistration. Never in any j>olitical situation in the hietory of the United States ha« there been eueh an absolute reaction in the sentimente of the members of Congress, the prees, and the people as is the case in the Hawaiian incident. The main reason for this ie the step taken by the Provieional Government in refueing the repreeentatives of the Queen j>aesage on the Claudine, wh ieh apj>eared to the American nation euepieioue aud unfair, and when the Harrisou administration tried to hurry the treaty through without awaiting the arrival of Neumann the euspicione incre <aed, and finally they took a decisive ehape when Secretary Foster delayed the preeentation of Neuniann'e precis to the Senate and that body co"nsequently refused to act and the whole matter hae been deferml to the extra session of Cdngrees. Messrs Wilder and Chas. Cooke returned by the Monowai. it is to be hoped as wiser men. having learned lhat the making and nnmaking of governments, and nations, is not so eaey a work as it seems to have ai>peared to the Cbristian brethren of the Central Union. Mr. Marsden has been left behind —we supjx»ee to join Thurston’s dime-museum for whieh plaee he undr>ubtedly would be more fitted tban in the dip!omatic gallery of tbe Senaie in W«shinglon. Thurston and Castle have finally taken their refuge in vilifying and alandering in the foulest way the Queen. It is safe to aay that none of theee creaturee, uufit to be called neen, would dare repeat in this city their filthy, fouL and infamoua ineiouaiiona against the woman who is Ihe U«fni ruler of this

countrv. If they did. an indignant people wou'd be fully justified in s immarily making »n exsmple. whieh would leaeh the onprincipled 1 »coundreI« that tbe Hawaiian | Nation is ready, and able to proi tect their mothers, wives «nd | daughters.against any fbuI-tongued : cur who dare besmircb their j I namee. The Band Boys rece:ved their iustruments by the Monowai, and Honolulu ean aeain look forward lo ->me g<»d music. The present band is enough to drive even a fiock of Maredens crazy. Ieave alone the Profeseor him»elf. We ! hear that some doub!edye<.l villain m this city wrote to the firm from whieh the instruments were ordered, and tried. by making some lying statements, to prevent the bovs from getting the instruments. We ehall endeavour to find ont who the perpetrator of such adirty contemptible trick ie. and publish his name for the kind notice of the boys. Pnymaster Sull:van was detached from the Mohiean by Secretary of the navy Tracy as a punishment for having expressed un-Amer!can sentiments and being tactle3S enough tocomment on international affairs still unsettled. Mr, Sullivan wu8 accused of having committed such a 'oreachofetiquette by criticising the Behring Sea difficulty in some Bnt sh Victoria newspapers, and w.is unable to give any 'explanation of his eonduct satisfactory to his superiors. Perhaj>s it is lucky for Wiltse’s Kentucky orator that Tracy is out, and a new secretary is in, eise he might have been so mueh “detached” that even his ueual three S’« couldn’t bring him round again. James G. Elaine eame down by the Monowai. He probably eame to condole with his friend Stevens for havlug made another diplomatic fizrle. One of the great jxiint« made by the Provieional Government, and it« commissioners in palliation of the revolution is the alleged move of the Queen in regard to a new conetitution through whieh a certaiu class or classes of the citizens, it is alleged would have been disfranchised, and as Mr. Thurston states in a New York paper, would have had to aueeumh to the terriLle curse of taxation without representation. What coneistency there is in Messrs Thurston k Co. talkiog thusly ! Are they not the very men who to-day are advocating that the Hawaiian nation be disfranchieed, and are we oot all at present enjoying a regima in whieh we distinctly have no representation with tbe pr<>8j)ects of extra-heavy tazation to meet the enorraous, and unwarranted increases iu expenditure 9 Is not the pre«ent government pas«ing laws, and enforcing them, and spending the taxpayers’ money, and doing whatever they please, without the •lightest consuitation or regard to the wishes. and will of tbe People at large ? Ax« not tbe ProTisi«nal Commis«ioners falaely and fraudulently P>-day impoaing on the American people by maaquerading a« the Representatives of the Uawaiian Nation, aitbongh the nalion bas never heen conault«d, or •ignified its approval of, or aulhorixed a «ingle atep «hieh tbe Commiaaiooen «o far hara lakeo 7 If the «nppoeed contenU of the new oonstitution really adrocated taxa-

tion of c;tiiens with»ut repre#enlation, aad «oeh poI5cj was two months ago oiRsi iered a just and manlv reason fr a rev.i!ulion at all h>nrds. and an indignaut i appea! to ihe great nalion whieh j per«onifi“s poi>u!ar iiberty and •e;f £ vcrnmeat. whv ;• not the propo«;tion n»w made l>y tbe Provigi»nal G»vernment‘s tives to disfranchise tbe people and trample upon the r:ght« of mHiihood » ffrage ts elr»t;g a rea•on f r revolut;on. aml f»r an indignaut appeal for !issietaace to j the Amer:can Republic ? lf tbe | | idea of a p»rtial d!sfranchiaemei l wa? odious and rrvo.ting two ! mouths ago 11 Mr. Thurston and ; hii frieuds why is a total and absolute disfranchiseiueut not so to them lo-day ? We will answer our own question. For the aimple reason that the proc!aimed “principles" of Mr. Thurston and his party are only produced and advocated when applieahle to the interests of them•elves (though they generally find themselves utterly mistaken in the | long run), but they vanish in the : blue air as soon as the main prin-' eiple is carried througb—the urineiple of obtaiiung olhee, and power, and pell'. This was proven bevord doubt during the last Legislsture when Mr. L. A. Thmat»a through falee promises and pretenses secured an allianee between the Liberal party and the Reform party, and subsequently threw the first named party overboard in the most contemptible mauner as soon aa the Reform party succeeded in obtaining office. It is the same now. The princu>le for whieh Mr. Thurston has heen screaming. and revolting, and risked his life [by getting pleurisy] has been ahelved f<>r the present occasion. Government of the People, by the People, and for the People 1 with the biggest P] was the ‘*principle” whieh woke up old Steven§, pnt Wiltse in battle array, and raade Lueien Young full—of eloquence—at the soul-stirring appeal of Thurston’s §tentorian voice. But alas! as eoon as Thurston and his friends have got the reins ,of the g»vernmt nt in their hands, Thureton’s voice is no more heard and old Stevens sleepeth Hgain while Wiltse disapp€ars in the foam of apollinaris water and Lueien becomes silent and never full (of eloquence) sgain. And Thurston ariees in Washipgton having left the principle in Dole’s strong b»x —tobe taken out a»d used on §ome future occasion if their nefarioua eehemee fail them this time—and appeaie for any kind of government whieh the great Republic msy granl Hawaii as long as it be n»t for the people, of the people. or by the [>eople [with the very smaliest P.J “I do not know a country wbere reigns in general less independence of spirit aud true liberty of discueeion than Atnerica The majority traces a form : dable circle around thought. Withiu these li uita the writer is free; but misfortune to him if he dares go beyond tbetu ! It is not that h« has to fear an &uto-da-fe, but be is made the butt ofevery species of dislike and p«raecuti»n every day. A polilieai career ia closed to him; he haa offended the only pow«r whieh haa tba ability to opeo it for him. They refuse him everything even giory”— (D« Tocquerilla- Democracy in Americ*n 1832.)

Bryce in quoting the abov« in hi? American Coramonweilth siys; “This may have l-een true sixty years ag» but it has cbanged today l»'' absolute tTeoi ui a»i to!eranee." We wish now l» ask if ihe Provisional G >v*rnment repre- tnt the Amer an maj r;:y of r that ■ f 1 "'.'i?