Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 8, 26 September 1893 — The Right of the Government of the United States of America To [ARTICLE]

The Right of the Government of the United States of America To

Proceed with the ef HaTrsiian Afiai-s. ! - The Adver4iser and the St.vr, the povernment and the anneretion clnb organs, are muoh exercised over a ielepniphk* deapatcb froiu the N. Y. Her»ld*» Woabiogtou eorresfK)ndent annunneir.g tii.it an eitfction wouUI ; prubahly be onlered in tbese is i lands to determino the form of i governi)ienttiie Uawaiians prefer, , aud whieh ap(>eurs in u "sjHX , iul i deapatcb (r m Washington to th« 1S. F. Cbroniole." (any matterof news <»f such iaiportance reported in the Chronicle most be “tho , whole truth,” or it would uot bo i pnblished.) In fact that de«I patch hiis put both of theso papers iuto “a fit" whieh proves conclnsively that there mnst bo more “trutb” than poetrv ia what the Herald’8 covrespondent says. Theso admiralde sheets have informcd us tbat tbe C»uvernment of fbe United Sbites of America caunot hold an election here to determine a perrnanent form of goveniment; tbat that Governmentcannot t«ke any stej>s for or make anv ncg<jtiations for a futnro governtront here \vithout tbe consent und endorsement of the “Provisional” governraent, the goverumt*ut at preseut in existeuce, p]acrd thcrebyMr. .1. L. Stevens when representmg th«3 United States of Amenea. It h a matter of no con«rern to thi*i commnnity whetber the present govcmraent has or h«s not received anv diplomatic or any othcr dispatches confirming th*3 telegram referred to. Thero no <loubt that the informatioa coutained iu the Cbronicle’s des patcb is correct. Tbese gbeets are bold with tbeir threatening assertions. They shr>u'd not be too hasty, perhaps the <lay will eome when all that they hav.j said will have to be taken back. A Provisional Goveraraeut, a teraporarv government or a gover ment for the occa-do:i temporarilv eetablbbed, snch ii the statos of the present govern ment as st ted in sectiou II of itg own proclaraation of tle 17th < f January last, wheiein it sayw, it is “to exist nntil tenns o* nnion with the United States of Araer iea have been negotiated and agreed upon.'' The prvsent governmenta««sua»t I control under protest from Her M«jesty Queen Liliuoktlunt. Thai protest was acknowledged *n! received for and on behalf cf the Hroviaional Governmenl by Sanford B. DoIe, Chairman of ExecutiveCouncil of lbe Provmional Governmer.t. In ber pr< t -st the Queen alaiea tuat, ‘*I yield to the superior force of the United .Suui of Anienea whoee Minister Pienipoteotiary. Hia Excellency Joba L. Stevens, bas caused Cnitc 1 i'tate* troops to belanded at HonoInlu anddeclaml ihai he would snpoort tbe said PhwiĀaul Government”, In tbe u»-xt *.-otion of her protest she s«ys, ‘*I do

under this pn>tssl and imjt- »d by S iīd force yield my »uth= rty uiilīl such lime »s Ihe Gorernmmt of the L'nitetl Stotej shall ui>»»u t- e facts b*-ing presented t» it u; do the act on of its repre«entative r>d ivinstate me in theauthoritv wh’oh I elaim as the Ci»nstitutional Sovereignofthe llaaraii:«n Isiands Tiit- present g>»vernment aeeei l' i j the entire terms embo»lied ui lhat protest when it was end<>r« d by Sanford B. Do!e. In accordance with the ter-i - 'f that np t-*st the facts reUting to j the dethroneraent of th« Qnren have been presented to liie (i >vemmenl of the l’n«ted Stat“5 <<f Americ.«. The Provi9ional Goverumentunder section 2 <<f its t»roclamaiion ha9 9ent CoTamĪ9si ners innum<-r ib : e to arrange t*ru>- of union, and to negoti.«te tr<*aties. Both parties in 3>ih.n;ttinz t r clairas to ttie UnitedStatesnf A-.i>' rica have theref<»re by such <c <>n r«*Cogirzed that G<»v-r ;ueit t t>e their arb : trat<*r. by wh- >'’ deci>don both partie9 wiil hav* t<> ahid * As arbitrato>‘ the Government of tbe United States of America his the l iwful right t> t «ke anv steps th.-it it may choose t - warcls the determin tion an<l settlement of the present poliiieal differences, So w hen it isreported thut the Governinent of t’he United States of Am rica prop<>ses to order certain proceedings carried ont, it is cbi)dish ōn ti e part of the Advertiserand the St *r cbque to squirm :md wr ggle ard say, that the Uni’ed States G>vern!nent will have to obtain tho permission of this government beio:6 it ean proceed. Thc • a s seem to ove.-'ook t’ie f.ict. lhat the Gnveininent of 119 Uniied S;.ates h s recognized o r |»resent governn:ent me eiy B» a maiter of fo.m pending the invest*gatIon. Tne aītenfion of tie c!lques repifcsente<l by the A1vetLise.* and the Si:ir mīgut be drawn to the fact, that no o!her P »wer has recogn zed tnīs governmcnt even as a government de facto. HAWAIIAn annkxation. This is what tbe New Tork Herald of the 2nd of Stjpteniber s*i s, on H.-.waiian j«nnuxation: ‘‘E’HewlieK in tlie Hei*ald this morniug Mr. Charles Nordhotf disposes i»f a batch of annexation attacks naturally aroused by his ielling Hawaiien despstches. “He shiiws that the jingo elaim that the nat;ves want annexation is contrarv F to the facts. They are strongly opposed t<» it. and that is sufiicient reason why tte United States should uot annex the islands, s n e anm x ition without tbe consent of the people woi l l l»e 8uu| ly forcible seiznre. But even if iheHawaiiau- d d w>int it, that won!d not settle tbe q*iestion. It is n<>t the policy of tbe Umted St,ites to annex a dist.nt group of islands simply becaiise they desire to be aunexed The question is whetber we w«nt them. “in this c-«se tbe people of the United States, as well asthe people of Hiwaii. are oppt»sed to annexation. That sbotild settle the matter.”