Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 279, 9 ʻAukake 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

\Vk r ferred i» uninixt.»riab'e |:*«ig’i;<g >nye«ierday’» isaue t * the ( r . aty «bicb b-« b**en c«>ncoCted by llie r. f»., whieh tlie latest »t«l<8in«n R»>d dii<!omit of th«t |< fiy 1 ><!y, Profewor W. I). Al< x|ander if 8upponrd’.to lake to be «e 1 ecpt <l by *. u e 'VS \drninistratioi<. I Tno main j»oiuls of ihe lreaty are as . Collx’.> s; , • “Artiile I. ccde§ from the d»te cf rxcb g<* of ratificati«»n (<f the |re<ty. wilhoul n*»erve, all righte cf «overeignty in and over the Hawaiun I«iiud«,and dej>endencie8. ,|o tbe United Pt;»tes, to heeome an jntegr.il jnrl t!>ereof. “Artilell. cede« and transfers th<> «b«.>lut<* fee of (he Government and ttorn iinds.j<’ib!’C bu’.Idinga.i»<<rts, dyrb >rs, f<rtificitu>ns, military or «•val e<j<iij<ments and all other property. 1 • •' “Artio!e III provides that the ♦xirling GoverirmetiX of the U«waiian 1«bmds «nd law« relating i».* its int*>rn«l j>o|iry «re to be eonii«u:ed f<»r five j<*ars. t<> be execited.ai d rarried under the direciiou <T a United Slntes Com»nisii<vier, Hpuniuted l*y the Pr«sident «Fid 8en <le, »»id Comnr>i«sioner t<> wea (b* in the Hawaiian Ialand? with |X)«r* r !<> \n t<> wilhin ten days any Act j* s?cd l>r the Loeal Govern ■ient. whieh ahall therenpon beC»n e void unlesa _ftorw«rd aj»pr<*vcd by the Prefiide»t of tbe United ft <t»s. “Art<cV IV. pn>hibits tbe ioimigr.,*: .i of Chineaa lab<*rers into thc *4awa iian Isl tnds until aueli time , W C«ngī.&) «iiall provide further lion; it alao prohibits Chilab<nvra now here fr >rn enter4og the United SUtes. Othrr>vi»e, 4he i nmigration aud labcr laws t<> Wfmain as thej #re where they do «ol c *me int >confl : ct with the Con•titution of th« United States or ®ucb f<iture lm*s as Congre«s m»y prov.ide. * l Art;cV V. provides tbat the •»bI’C debt sha!l be »t)s<imed by ihe l ;’’ted 5 Btates, but the HawaiiAi Governme»t ahall eonlihue U> |>ay tl e interest thereon. Congresa •» t> provid« t!is future curreucy of |be lsland». As wili br* aeen fr<>m tbi» miisterlv • docament, Mr. Uole and hia geventeer> co!!eig ;e* in the first urticle, ccde « ithont re«erve all r;ghta of ».v\er< ;gnty in and over the Ha«ai- ! iah !si t inds. aud dependencie«.” A» l*r. P>> e and hia seventeen e <1leag' > !, v<*r h»ve had nor ever b;<ve a y t.tle to ihe Hawaīian Iw3iuls, and • dependencie«. «« ■houM b Jhirt Article I. ie cuiF>cient t-> destroy the other ; cUuses. and t> CiU»e ihe abandon- i i« vent of f,irt'>tT • neg>tiati<»ne. It ■>uet 1« rvtnembered that Mr. Dole and his seventoen collesgcea are |>ot making lheir offer in the nam« cxou b»*balfof the Hawaiian pew |>:e, and whal American nill deny lhat >n tl:8 people ve9t» the titie to ft c*,»unlry. Mr DoIe and hi» sev•aleen t*ils have never submit1*1 \Keir tresty or tbeir own pol<1 exffitence to a vot« of th« |K»ple, beC3usetbey know only too w«l! tbat the reault of a plebiacit« woald be wor»« thao d;eastroua. and would eover iheua with ridicule and • >ulempt, la it tbe idea. we «hou!d liie to koow that Profcs«cr Alexftoder # aid«d by that ehampiou lixr

[ Thur»ton. and feebly ae«i»led by ex mājah Hastings. are to pre«ent the treaty with the assurance that it ha» heen ratifinl by the P«od!« of Hawaii. and that they »Und lhere to-day rej*re«enling ihe Hawaiiao nalion. It so we wi.l have i to remind Mr. D>le and his eevenI teen p«ta that a «imilar altempt was mada immediateiy after the revoIution, when the five brave C •uimis3iouer? set out for \\ aehington. «nd there claimed to rej>re- «.< 1 1 iawaii,;»nd how ignominiou»;y : tbey f»iled in liie attempt,and how th«*y wers ”f »und out” in double quick time, and hied themeelvts i home eue by one iike whipped doga wifi t leir t;»i!s between tbeir legs. Tne admiu:str.ition in \\asbingt »a i« loo >vell pogtod on Hawaiian aff.»irs to d <y t<» be imposed upon and made t<> believo that the j;r<>- ! pertv otl-red them belongs to tlis parties whiea make ths offer. Mr. i Clevcland’s Commissioner to Hawaii Mr. Blouut acted ;-s searcher uf rec >rd-<. and it is s.ife to s iy j that he fmnd Mr. D »le’s title, b«l and fraudulent oa thefaceof it,and the United Stales have not yet beeome receivers of stolen goods. After Mr. Dole and his seventeer. wieemen have in Article 1 dieposed acresof the whole country andgiven that away, it is not surprising that they in Article II “cede and traa8ler ihe «bsolute fee of the goveriinient and Crown Lands, Public Buildinge. porte, harbv)rs, f<>rtiflcatione (tbe sandbags at the Paluee?) military and naval (sic!) eqaipmeuts and all other puhlie jtroj>erties.” If of courss the U. S. aliould tind Mr. Dole and his t*eventeen great and sma!l proph«ts authorized to dispose of the sover«ignty of Hawaii, it ia presumable that lbere wili be no doubt as to their nght to dispc8e of any otlier piliaged property within their reuch even down to the naval equipnieiits, but we would eal 1 the atteution of the An»erican adminietration to tbe fact that the very valuable Cr<»wn L.»nds will never go imo the posses8ii»n of the U. S. wiihoul a m<>8t vigoroue proteat aud lawsuit from tbe r:ghtful heirs an 1 owtiers of those lands. We do n<>t doubt that it will be hard for the Navy Department to resist the temj*tation <>f accej>ting our uaval ! equipinentd and equally hard forthe Secretary of the army to refose our ‘ fortificutiori8” but they muy get over their disappointment in time a »d pcrhaj s ieam that they didn’t 1 >se ao mueh afler all. Article 111. contains the mi’k of the nut. That is what Mr. Dole * ! and his c >mj>atriot3 have been ! scheming and strnggiing f<>r from the very d »y that lhey and their j»<»Iitical party were reduced t<> p<>1 litical ashes at the baIlot-b<>x, hy the will of the people, and th»t C!ause Ī8 th.it “the exi.<ting p> 1t’'rnj me t of the Haieaiian lilands and 1 law* relaUng to it.< iniemal poliey are to f>e continued for Jice years” So thal afier all it has been pruven to be true that it was aeif-aggran-d zeraeut and their lust f.»r pelf and p<>wer whieh were the chief motors whieh set the revolutii>nary machinery in power. All the cUitus to patrioli8ra, to a deeire for a free antraiuueled g>verutnent — aii tbe promis«s to the Hawaiiana that nobody here «ver dreamed of disfranchieing tbem, all the aasuraneee that the Uawaiian p«ople would be eharer» in the great prineiplea of the Unitcd Sutes regirding hberty and self-governmant, •11 lhat we eee eomee to naugbt, and ail that ia fiaallj bj Aniele

III. of that infatnous treatT eUmped as lie?. lies and nothing but Iies. So Mr. Stevena diegraced tbe flag | of the United Sutes ar.d draeged it ; into the gutier n.»t for the purjx«« !of gathering in the ripe [>ear of Hnwaii or f>r adding “ , thoee be«u- ! tiful emera da” t» the jewelry ol Ihe Umted States. but eimpiy to ! assist a handful of un?orupulous adventurers l > thr>>w a free pev»ule ! inlo pclitical 3ervilude and 8u«tam anolig.rchy m its iuo«t obuoxious, nu>st dainnab!e f.»rin. Aud do Mr. lX>le at.d his seventeen o-mat«s really believe th;>t any adtnu.i8tratmn in the United States w«»uld ■ dare to comrait such an outrage j actinst ail ihe ho!y priuciples i whieh were emb >died in that great ! master w.»rk, the coastitution of the United St.»les, or do these litt:e narrow-iuinded shurUighted petti f >ggers liiiiiK l\>r a momenl that tne representatives of the Ameneau people w«iuld lialen lo such an iul'amous propositiou? Forsooth those whom Ihe (jods wieh to destroy, they flrst deprive ol thair reas>>n. Even from the very first day when the pr>visional comraissioners landed in San Francisco till th:s dav has every journal in America, not excepting the m»st rahid annexation organs, expressed a regret thit the Fr<>visional Government had uot put the question of annexation to a vote before negotiations were opened. And now eome theseeightetn men(?J withthat most un-American proposition that the United Stutes should establish an oligarchy and guarantee these eighteen men(?)asafetyranny over a civilized peoi>le. The enemies of Cleveland onpose the restoration by Ainerican f>rces of the Hawaiij an monarchy and elaim that such step wouhl ba lnily un-American, but wh »t d > they think of the jrojK)sition of Mr. Uole and his seventeen f>ll>>wers? The rest >ration > f the monarohy woul.i mean that the United States wou!dund>a gieat wrong done in their name and it wou!d not be un-American because it would be assisting a friendly naliou to obUin that for whieh ihe United Stites’ citizens fuught and b!ed government by its people, of its people, and for its people. while if they accepted Mr. D>>le’s pr<»position it woald be adding wrong to wrong, infamy to iufiray, and still more, di»grace U» their glorious □ame aud flag. In Article IV >ir. Uole and his seventeen supporters gave s >me prowises in r»g»rd t>>chine?e labor. Mark well. they do nnt say Asiatic !abor, ()h no. the d>»urs of the eountry raust ni>t be shut to Jaj>anese I e.Kilie laborers, and tUe I?lands ean ! be fl.»oded with that class at any tirae, Contract lab>r is not mentioned. but lhis un-Americin system wili, in f.ct reinaiu in f>rce under Article III for five years, all under lbe su; ervision. s»nction, and prutection the United Stateg. Article IV is 8iii»]>!y a catch L«cau»e tlie f.ict i? that no Chinese drsire to eome to Hawaii any longer. and tne sacnfice of Mr. Dole and his seventeen ?harp chums is very eheap and very ei8ily made, but it woo't woric worth a cent on the Americ«n peopie. Article V allows the United State« to pay the debts of Hawaii »ggregaling to about 14,000,000. Mr. Dole if kind euough to promise lhat he aud bis seventeen wealthy brethren will continue to p*V the iuterest on the debt pre*umably out of the taipayer’s money. We euppoee th#t Mr. Dol« feela sure that the Uxpayera

will be perfectly h*ppy and willing to furnish him and his gang of seventeen with ihe ?inews of war, or is tbere a 8ccret Clause in the tr«atv providing f»>r a gunb<»at travellmg arouiid to col<ect the taxes? Mr. DoIe ia very sanguine but heand hiffevent«cn lilliputi*n politicisns will fiud a great and bitler disappointuoant in st>>re f»r them. Beca»ise they ean rest assure that the United States go\- ' emmenl >viil i»ever ratity a treaty whieh :s build on the plineiple cf j t.x.)tion without representation 1 n>>r will tbey enter ir.to negotiation witii the goverumeut wh>ch li.: toi »la v ii:*s nct i;»red to eail f»r a j plebiscite, but ?iuiply stands in tt.e j light >>f :» usurper —» g»vernin»nt against the peonle. luke 1 aul , Neumanu's advice and h“t j tue bailot b>x decide your ex- j istence. Mr. D->le ar.d M. ssrs. s. v- ! euleen snbs, and the question «>f •*clo?er re!ations to tlie Unit-d States. lf yi>u wm, well and g>» d the United St.ites niay then listen to y»»u, but if you i»se, the United Slates will theu deal with lh.>se who truly are— the hawaiian people.