Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 68, 7 December 1893 — AS AMERICAN SCHOOL TEACHERS SEE US. [ARTICLE]

AS AMERICAN SCHOOL TEACHERS SEE US.

Ofa Different Stripe to OIcson. Hyde, Bishop Thf H.iwaiian Monarrhy Tbt' Io’ig expechnl decision of tbo Hawniian qnostion, basod on the facts presented by Mr. Blonnt tho comraissionor sont to tho islan ls to ; vostifjato mattors. has at last been announoeil Acconling to Mr. Blonnt. annexatiou was supportod bv bnt a ! sraall portion of tho jveoplo and ! alniiist exclusively by alious. The attachraent tothe Qneen and the ohl government was great araong the natives. aml the chances of a beginning of the provisional govornment wouhl have been siu.il! if they had beon snbjected to the test of a vote, unless the nativos were excluded from a vote by thel *ndingof troops from tho l'. S. \varship and that force was bronght to bearbvU. S. Miuister Stevens. Secretarv (ireshain thinks tl.erefore that it is ouly an act of justice to restoio Queen Liliuokalaui or her bcir to the throne. Bv this action our government while doing an act of sobst«ntial justice secure all the real advantages that annexation or protectorate ean give and secnres them with the consout and even eooperatiou of other nations, aud without any respousibility not easily raet. With annexation on the other hand there vtonhl have been enormous responsibilities — political, hnaneial. militarv and moral—such ns neither our forra of government. nor onr political habits, nor our geographical situation \vould pormit ns to meet adeqnately. — Th e Journal.