Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 261, 13 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We wi»h that the provisional government woold inform us through its organs if it would V>e considered treaāon or sedition or an individual conspiracy if petitions were circulated for the purpose of requesting the government to submil the future of Hawaii to a vote. Every decent man who really lovea this country, be he a ruyalist or an annexationist would s;gn snch petition and would favor all meaaures necessary for the taking of a plebiscile,tlirough thedesiretoavoid a rumpus with the Attoruey-General has 8<> far deterred the Hawaiiana from taking aueh a step. Why, by ihe way, the governnient should heeitate in taking a vote on the lines suggested by Mr. Paul Neumann we eannol see. There are about 11,000 voters in the e >untry. Out cf that number the annexation eluh and the revolutionists generally elaim that 7,000 have signed the clubrolIsand have taken a stand as pure annexationiete. That would only leave 4.000 for the opposition, and the governjnent would stand on a elean popular basis, and any proposition inade by them to the United States would prob«bly be entertained aud ,granted. It csnnot be that there is e imething fishy about th<>se 7,000 annexationi8ts. We adrait tb«t we haven’t seeu them nor any >con6iderable fraction of them, but we have the word of the Adverti*er and the Star. and of all the leading eluh men that the 7,000 are there, and that they are all voters. “Con-eul-General” Wilder tells the San Franoisco pajx“r8 that out of < ,000 tntre are 1.500 Hawaiians,and who would refuse to believe that brilhant youth? But if such are the ' facta, why not have a vote Uken, and so relieve any douht whieh yet ruay exist in the mind o£,some doubting Thoma8 as to the popularity and authority of the provisiona! gōvernment, and by proviog to the world at large all the assertion8 made, that the provisional government is establi?hed by the people, and that the request for annexation to the Umted Sute» emanated epouUneously from the Hawaiian nalion. If the anneialion party tells the truth the government will have a large majority if a plebis cite was Uken, aud more than that we guarantee tbat as *oon a* wa •ee plainly through th* re«ulU from the hallol box that we are in * helpleaa minority we then ahall cease to oppoee the goverumenLand heeome its warme*t supporler» and willing aharers in ita patronage. That Neumann’* letter bas had a par*lyxing effect on the government there ean he no doubt o£. lt it not the word* in tho l«tter iteelf whieh wbrry thom, it i* not Ibe force and weight whkh the gorerument know* that Neumann’»

letter will carry with it botb here, and more eepecially abroad, but it j» the terrible significance of the apoearance of that letter at thia particalar time —two day» before the arnval of the *teamer from >rnia. Mr. Uole ean read as well as the i»ext man, and tLe full 8ignificance of tb«ee linea i» perfectly clear to him: **Do now what is just and right, not from fear or neceseity, nor un(»7 it u 'Umanded by the L’niieā State*.” The writing on the wall is there. Time will show if the goven»ment is *ufliciently wise and honest to interpret it correctly and justly.