Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 78, 19 Kekemapa 1893 — Constitutional Monarchy. [ARTICLE]

Constitutional Monarchy.

For eleven weary months the loval people of Hawaii have patientlv w iite»l to see if the L nitcd States wonkl have honor cuough to restore to them selfgovernment. For eleven raonths the me:t—and women — loyal to the cause of Hawaii have toler.itcd the vile akuse the cowardly slanders and tbe contemptil)Ie actions of men like Mc(xrew. the Castles and the adventurous hireling tho editor of ttie Star. The day has eome at last when justice will l>e done and tho Hawaiian government replaced as it was found before J. L. Stevons keeame soized by inmne amhition and listened to the terapters who bribed him with 8ilv«-r aiul made hirn through promises a lraitor to his land—anilluatration of the errors committed day after d iy by the would-be diplomats of America. THK 81TUATI0S. Anyone fimil»ar with the fundamental law of Hawaii mugt know tue great princip!es on whieh our government is built. We do not for a meueenl say of dare to sugg< -t that a cotnproralse whieh will bring prosperity to Hawaii-nei, is nol plausible. Far be it from us t-> ra-se uny ob?taclea towards any proposition whieh, perhaps may lead to the prosperity of Hawaii, but we do not hes!tate openly to 8ty • iat the Hawaiian people no mo»e love a sovereign who should —eveu for a moment, forget hor position as a constitutional raonarch — than they woukl tolerate a rebel government established by foreign bayonets. Loy.u.ty. i

The H«waiians are loyal aiul they are ready to sacrifice themsolves for the individual placed at the head of a governmeut throogh their loyalty. They are ready to lay down their Iives for the iudepeudence of their eountry and for self-governraent. But not one of them who possesses the spirit of his ancestors, the indej>eudent feelinggiven to them througb modern civilization will submit to connive at a scheme, whieh virt«ally means the ‘*selling‘' out of even*one who has and agitated for the purpose of at arriviog the climax, aud reaching the day where we nudoubtedly now staud. Loyalty to the people, loyalty to Hawaii, loyalty to the rights of every free born citizen of theso islands has been the causo, for whieh wd have fought and agitated, and iiken our chances. No one be he or sbe, bigb or low, shall ever with our sanction beable to block us, and to throw us ovor for personal ends. The Hawaiians will rather drop tho independenco of their country —dear as it is to them, thun submit to auy action of any individual att ‘mpting to m ike slaves and irresponsible beings of them — even if it is done in ihe sacred nime of hberty, of a popular gjvernment or of a crowned haad.