Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 80, 21 Kekemapa 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

[\Ve do not hold onrselves responsible for the opinicns or the ntterances of our corres{x>ndent8,] Editor Holomi-a: Last Tuesday the d«j* on whieh Minister Willis called on the Provisional Government to announee to them the decision of President Cieveland in the Hawaiiau matter, and to make the request (whieh is now known) was just eleven months since the Taesday on whieh Queen Liliuokalani sorrendered to ihe United States forces under protest It has been a long wait. The Queen with a trnly Cbristian resignation has bome

. u . I Her sbare of anxi<;ty and i suspense with grwit fortitnde. | Daring the months in whieh abase, slander, and ererv spite- ! ful saying imagineabie could be | written against her, not a woid of mormar was heard from her. Sbe had faith and trust in God j in whose bo!v keeping she placed herself. Yet the editor of the j Advertiser a professed Christian, j yesterday wrote these words: “But there is a farther elemeni | of nnprecedeuted singularitv in the demand It asks this Gov- j ernment to do this in order to ! give plaee to a former queen, one Liliuokalaui. whose record is that she is of healhen parentage, with strong personal retrogressivo tendencies; that she is totallv devoid of ratioual ideas of oonstitutional government; that she is of arbitrary temper and despotic uotions. that she is in every essential respect as nnfit to preside over any civilized state as would have been any of her heathen ancestors.” The qaestion may be asked. who is the most “ heathenishr ’ The Hawaiian People have shown extraordinary patience during the past eleven months, although aggravations of nearly every nature have been placed before them—likea red rag before a bull —to irritate them and to cause them to commit some overt act. Listeuing to the voice of their Queen whom they love, they have remained perfectly quiet. The Advertiser’s profes siug Christians ean well take a lesson in true Christian charity and principles from their brethren (?) biothers and siSters. It is now known that the United States Minister on behalf of the President of the United States of America is bringing the Hawaiian matter to a eloae. To that effect he ■ has had—as has been stated in the papers- interviews with the Queen, for what pnrpose, he has stated to the Provisional Government. The qnestion is now in the hands of this Governraent. It is for the Hawaiian and Loyalists to remain quiet vnd awaii the result. It is not the time to cry out “Constitutional Principles ” — “ Constitutional Monarchy” —“Who is the cabinet?“ etc. It is for us to bave faith and trust in those who are engaged in bringing the matter to a peaceful and satisfaetory solution. We may feel assared that it will be done in a CoxSTITUTIOXAL WAY. Obsebver. Epitob Holomua: lt is worthy of uotice that at the concert at the Opera House last Saturday the m8rshal's pet j actually took off his x <?ap to a ■ lady. This was just after the gun • episode when he searched the house of minister Colburn, aud stalked through the residence of that gentleman with his bead covered in spite of the enforced preseoce of the ladies of tbe house. I presume tbat the Makawao cowboy was dreaming at the Opera Honse. and heeame coarteous uuintentionalIv. Miss ' Rose Albu was singing“When the heart is young” and tbe pet probably dreamed of the glorioos days when his faeart was young : and his underextremities sufifi- i ciently elastic to assist him over the Maunaala garden wall. CHESTEBFEELD. !

1 | The ProvisionaI GoveramenL — Brtaihes there a man tcith ! 9ovI 90 dead, leho netrr io himaeU t has 9aid, th is i> my otrn, my nafiir land.” When the poet wrote tho.se ■ patriotic Iines, he had never j heard of or foreseen a Hawaiian j ‘ P. G., else he would written an- j | other verse to scarifv snch j traitors and disloval men. The men at the head of the i Provisional Government are mosti ly born here, aud are as mueh Htwaiiaus as any aborigine, but acting under some strange halIncination, not oul\ are their “souls so dead,” but their whole meutal make up appears 4o have parted from every principle of loyalty to home and oountry, and to have gone off on a demented tangent. We will not pretend to deny that the Provisional Goverument and some of its supporters repre seut a certain faction of the wealth, intelligence and civilization of this country. So mneh the worse for them however, for they have heeame identified with a political infamy, that has never had u parallel among civilized people and- must pass into history as a disgrace to the hand aud intelligence of the men eoncerned in it. But we do deny that the cliqne who are the promoters aud 'nain supporters of the P. G. represent all oi the wealth or inteilect of the country. A great number of our leading merchants, capitalists and planters are pronouuced “Royalists:” That is they do not believe that annexation is a souud political policy for either Hawaii or America, and they do believe that an iudevendent monarchy is the best form of government for Hawaii, its polyglot popnlation, and pecnliar interests. For the provisional government to pretend to represent the Hiwaiian people is an outrageons absurdity, induced by their fenr of taking a vote of the people, knowing that it wonld overthrow them. They conld not even secure a majority of the white vote of the islands. They are absolutely a usurping minority, largely overbalanced by the woaltb, intellect and numbers opposed to thera. They exist as a small popnlar aud despotic oligarchy, held in plaee, not by the will of the people, but by a mercenary alien soldierv, recruited mainly from the lowest classes of all nationalities and imported specially for the purpose. The dastardly character of the several clnbs and leagues that also support the P. G. is only too i well known, and further adds to j the undesirable character of a gov- ! ernraent, that too weak to stand by its own moral strength, depends on and stands in fear of organizations of vicious aliens of sundry nationalities, animated with a wo!fish craving to get into office or draw government money. Their threats of mnrder and ; violence, and their determination i to override the Hawaiian. is a I ghonlish infamy called iuto being i by this weak P. G. government Not only is it the fact that the Provisionai Governmenf repre- | sents bnt a portioo. of tbe braius and money of the coontry. bnt that portion is all they represent With but few exeepiiona every naiive Hawaiian

aiui balf wbite «n tbese isUods are stauuch and eath«siastic rovalists. Almo»t all of tbc residunt Chinese and Japanese side witb tbe ro\-alists. Tbe majoritv of tbe Portugnese are in symp!ithy with the P. G. for iu tbeir ignorance they fancy tbat tbe party in favor oan give them I work. A large number of tho Portuguese who are known bere as peaeeahie and prosperous set tlers are openly in favor of the rovalists. Tbe wbite element ap pe.irs to be about eveuly divided. A reaction of disgnst witb the P. G. and its methods, and sober second thought has m ule many coaverts to tbe royalist cnnse. ft is clear as dayligbt. that tbe people to be governed in tbis comtrvare in a large majority opposed to tbe P. G. Whatcouceited deceit it is tben for the P. G. to presurae to speak on bebulf of tbe Hawaiian people who repndiate them. Thurstou m Washingtou claiming to represeut the Hawaiian people is a fraud. and neitber he nor his pals b ive any rigbt to offer to snuex tbesc islands to the United States. Neither Hhs the Provisional (»ovemmenl any righl to continue in power as a permane.it governnient agiinstthe wisbes of ihe iuteiligent voters and tax payers of tlu%countrv. The el que whom they repn , s-. , nt have had their try on roany occasions to rnn ihe couufry, b ;t alwaya proved failnre. The r yalists ean furnish abler men than lhey, who cou!d have the confidence of the majority. This is Ihe.onh” home and eountry of the nttive Hawaiinns and uf tlie half-whites, who in three or four decades will be the prrdu.uinatiug race here It is also home and coiintry for tbuse forfcigners who ehoae to make it so. When the (iueen is restored, Iet her put g*K)d meu and true in office, and this little country ean and will prosper. The P. (J. gang with “s)uls so dead,” h«ve proved so perfidious and disloyal. that we hope they may never agam he trunted with puhlie affairs in Hawaii-nei. The Provisional Governraent is a military despotiem, a usurping oligarchy, and at tbe same time the slaves of a raercenarv eanaiUe of alien adventurers, a»ul as snch are a blot upon the Christian and progressive civilization of Hiwaii, with a retrogressive tendency tnwards the raethods of goverDment of a departed age. The Hawaiiau nation directly prays to be delivered fmm their rule and appeals to to America with the P. G. $logan “turn the rascals out.”