Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 292, 29 ʻAukake 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The following deep sentence is ( |the iatest from the pen of Mr. ! Johnsing. the witty and profonnd writer for the Advertiser: Thel; present movement for the annexation of thes« islands to the Lnited Statea ie a movement based upon principle. (Cireat &cott!!) Not i tbe principle of the irresponsible, but the prinrif>le of the people who p<iy the taxe«. While we were brooding over the beautiful principle whieh underli.es Mr. Johnsing’s sentiments and whieh could so appropriately be condensed and expressed by saying. Damu the People, we happened to glance at the Aeu - York Advertiser of the 3rd of Aug. Let us remember that the New York Advertiser is the bitterestopponent to Hawaii’s iudependence and the warmest ehampion of the cause ol the annexationists and is in fact generally supposed to be pretty livelily subsiduedbv Mr. Thnrston on behalf of the aunexatiun party and Harbor specniators in Hawaii, but this is what that representative annexation • organ writes: *‘We have eaid all a!ong that if the people of the Sandwich lslands do not desire anuexation, we do not want them. We bave maintained that, in view of the large Amenean interest at stake in the Islands it was our duty to aid in every pos9īble way, the movement free and independent government.’’ Mr. Johnsing will please take notice that the paper quoted speaks about the people and not about the taxpayers, #nd he will, if his braiu is normal, this afternoon perbaps be able to realize that when an American ■ paper speaks about a “free and independent government” it does 1 not mean a miaerable military o!5garchy of foreign filibosters, bat ‘ it means a government of the peo- ’ ple, for tht oeople, and by th» people! r - -