Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 31, 6 February 1894 Edition 02 — Mr. Dole's Blunder. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Dole's Blunder.

It is a pitifnl s : ght lo see the j go vercmf nt organs attcmpting to | «lefend, exciise and explain the h ghly nndipl< roatic letter whieh Mr DoIe 1ims seen fit to send to ; ?«Iinister Willis, and whieh may , cost onr conntry mueh annoy- \ anee if nothing w«*rse. The ; letter was uncalled for in the bighest «Kgree. and the stat«- j m<‘nts nn«l insinuations inade in j it are to say the least incorrect. Minister Willis ashed f<>r sj>ecifi- | cations of th«» charges ag«inst ; him and it wouKl be of int«‘r st j if lie will fnrnish some 1 for Ihe stat«ments whieli ! he nnblushinglv niakes. Wheu • has this city been in a state of | terror and when have the loyalists conspired? If a!arming rnmors were spread, will Mr. : Dole deny tbat they were origin;«t<'d. and mannf.-ictured by the bired sj>ies of his own government? What nnj>rotected women h a v e a s k o d the Japanese miuistcr for j>rotection and | who bave been living in eon- 1 st«nt auxiety and inaking (Great Scott!) bamlatje>*i Jf rumors ever | t«>ok the sliuj>e of truth, or rather j possibi!ities were they not of the ; kind whieh were startcd sav i - 1 when Sj»reckels’ gnte was placard« d and dynamite found uext to tlie Qneen’s j>remises? And who porj>etrate«l these acts Mr. Dole? Where it not doue by • men īu it>v> service—aud yet emjdoyed by Mr. DoIe’s worthy raarshal Mr. Hitchcock? Indee«l it wonld be of interest to bo ■ furnished uith sorae specifications and sorae proofs, bnt of course Mr. Dole will retract his letter and apologize. The A«lvertiser considers a demand f«>r a retraction of the iinj>udent letter au extrenie mea snre, but it cjtu rest assured that Mr. Clevebmd will nihko it, and that fce will be backed in so «loing by the wliole Anierican people. Tho imlignution felt against him for his “aj>peal frora tiie Americun President to the American j>eoplo” is we-11 exj>ressed in the following extract fi"iu tbat powerful journal Iltirjhr'ft Weekly whieh says: “President Cleveland has ren«lerod the conntry the inest»‘m «ble servi«'e of killing tbe annex- , ation project, «t least, for the j>eri<'il of his Presidential terra. Bnt while we «re disposed to let the Hawaiians. «nd their gov«rnment alone. thoir minister of foreign atfairs, in a diplomatic j d*»cument addrt'ss« «1 to the ■ Minister of the U n i t e d ; States, gives ns notice | that his government does not niean to let il« alone. He says; While we. the Hawaiian provi ■ sional g«»vernraent accept the «le , cision of the Presideut of the United States declining fnrther to consi«ler the annexation pro- ! jK»sitioa as the finul conclusion of the j»reseut admiuistmtion. we do j, n*<t feel ii.cltned to reg;ir«l it as the last word of the American Gi)vernintut ujx»u this subject. lu other words, the Provisional i Government of Haw.iii enters an appeal £rom the President to ihe j American j»eople. The eool im- ] piulenee of the aunonueemeni is | cbaracteristic of the notions , whieh tbose men have caltivated , among them»eives, and whieh j they seek to cultivate among the ] people of this coantry. They i seem to have actuaīly made j themselves believe tbai since | American missiooaries have civi- ( lized the natives of tbe Hawaiian e lslands uniil only a small £raction of tbeir popalaiion is Ieft, and aniil the bnlk of Uie valoable rcal cstatD hu paased <3

into tbe possessioa of tbe I < nits*ionaries' socs ac<J tb-3ir' I frient1s. the A menenn peop’e are . I iminty bocml to nii.ke th»t real s estate .still n5°re val Dn b!e by annesiDg tbe islands »o the Uniied ! t States aod tbat no dab’ we think we o\re to oor ewn coontn- &bodd prevail against tbe dnty ve owe to them. As tbey eipress it, the Aicerican people cannot ‘’go , haek” on tbem withoot d!sgrace. ■ TLLs is a roost preposterous na- 1 tion. but if it shoukl gaiu gronnd aroong our people, it wonld be a very dangerons one for onr future. And it seems to be assidouslv fostered by muny of the Hawaiian ■ missiotaries frieiuls among oor clergy. If we are foo]isb enougb | to give any weight to such an | appeal and to treat such a elaim I as valid. there woald be no end i of similar pretensions. Thev wonld be put forth bv all sorts of Ameiiean adventurers, who had I acquired interests in other quart i ers of the globe acd then wish j this republic to take those interests under its proteetion aml enj chanco'their vulae, and we shall never cea.se to be tronbled by the j agitation of the wildest «nueia j tionschemes. Thisistliomostdan gerons kiiul of incitement to reckj Iess terr torial aggran(lizen;ent. and when onee started on such a j career we shall find it difficult to j stop. Such pretensions should therefore be repelled at onee w it h t li e u t m o s t decision and firmness, and the ; impndent Hawai.an appellant ! from the American President to tue Anierican people should be : made to understand that if tbe ! missionaries’ sons and their . friends imve succeeded in feather- : ing their nests on the Hawaiian I Is)ands, tbey have done so at i liheimwn risk: that we do not j ] grudge tiiem, tbeir good fortune, j but that we are not willing to i curse this republic with a policy | obliging it to build and raaintiin j I a navy as large as anv naw in i the wor!d for the puiqio.se of pfotecting tbose nests.”