Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 79, 5 April 1894 Edition 02 — RULING BY FORCE. [ARTICLE]

RULING BY FORCE.

I The P G. Neither Representative Nor Popular. ThenewsfromH iw*h in«lipatcs j clcavly «>• that tl.e pang of Lucr īs who h:.ve se z-J tlie povi n m» r.t of tli;.t comj{iy' are . L« r»i|;;.ll j_ t ) V ll 7.6 the dfficill- I ti ( S <f tl:eir position; aml that ' tlicsc cl fl:cult.es will grow witL tirue is :» truism whieh ali | tlioogiitfol men must realize j The < tci " whieh eame Ly the I l n st n; i 1 to tlie»ffect that fiom fjftv to (iiC hundied inen. who L :id n >i;ev enongU to p«y their I fiist week s board's Lill witbout | sccr.r : u u job tlie inonieut after i l .m' iep I ;i• | arrived there receut- I lv ni;<l li:ul so distmLed the inon'al r< i < so of the Provisionai Govenni;ent tb;<t it liad not ouly ! • 1 l« gislatt d" to prevent any fur-1 tl.<r laj:dii gs of ti:at sort. Lot ' 1; j,d al-o •]' :.ss ‘d luws’ .eonipell- I ing slr i)gcrs who have already ] arrived to g>> thr«u gh the same openlioii tii.it trampsme obliged t i suLii)it to in this conntry when they re arrcsted for v grancy, onght t e xcite aiuusemcnt everywheie. The prcsent “aotbority cf ILiwaii'’ aie dor.bt!ess nnduly und unnccessarily alirmed, nnd t!ieir al.uiu has created spectres v\ho. fri.ui n nuraerical point of view, e'/ow liko FalstatTs “men in Lueki im;' it may bo that n guihv eoi science makes tham iuclined to suy to these newly arrivcd rcfomiers of government: ‘ Shake n<»t tliy gory locks nt me, thou cans'J not say I did it.” Be thnt as it may the position of the Pru\ s oenl tiov4iriunotot īe >n il»»s respect a somewhnt pecaliar one; it enn sc ircoly saysthat it hasbeen ealleil to adminieter tho governineiital aff»irs of the Uawaiiau Islaiuls Ly the voiceof tlie Hawaiiuu p >p!e, r b\- the voice oftbe peoplo whom the Hawaiian peo]<lc allowui toscttle in t!ieir midst; as a i; tt rof trutli it is soniewhat not. iioiis that t!ie present Provis!onal Goveruraeut of Hawaii holds office in opjtosition to the '/<■ • of (lu’ people of Hawaii or tho people whom the people of Hawaii allowed to settle iu H awaii. As Mr. Thurston. who was tho leader of the alleged rovulution, said in n letter to Mr. Ant.>ne lh>si: “It is a govcrnment of force.” The Provisional Governmont is not a dynasty nnr is it au outgrowth of popular feeliug. At a liberal estimate there aro ])robably not more t! ui t\vo thonsaud of the seventy thousnnd peoplo on the Islauds who nre in fav. r of it, and of tliese two thousaud there aro not more than five huudred who would i-nioe a finger to save it from desiructioo. The Provisional Government, as a matter of fact, was cstabl;shed by the l’uilinl St itt's marioes, and bas practica!ly Leen mainUined since tboso tuariues wore ordered on Lo.ml their ship, by the presence of American vessels iu the harbor and the geueral underst«nding. Lased upon the declaration of American officials, that the usar]> ors sliould not be distnrbed { ]>eiulinga decisionof theircase“at! \Vashii:*’tou” where the “Llaek quceu” of descent thought that she cou!d get jnstice. That decision has becu reudered but not oxecuted, aud—well, one of the Amoricau vessels has been ordered cti to tbe Bebring sea aud the other may be toIJ to t «ke a cruise at any momcut. In tbat case who will protect the poor Prov;sionvl Government? This is a qucry whieh naturaliy creates ahum ut the headquarters of Mr. Dole aud his associates and makee Uie gouiIcmen who are on-

■ eeiiaio wbetlier tbey *ra A>ner-1 ieau cr Hawaiian cit *ens fancy ! they ean see “Cauadian raercen tries” «■•n erciy corner. specia!ly i iraported for tue pnipoee of cutI ting off tbe r beads. i'keee geni tLmen who compoeed the Provij siona! Government bave, therefore, b<come very indignant (for a)arm deve!opes iod>gnatioo ard i other pbysical sympti>ms) at the ; gupposit on tbat somebcdy ( body unknown nnd cnidentifi.«bie) has | «mported “raercenarits.” Bnt in tbis connection impertioeot outsiders may feel iuclined to in- ! quire; who is the Provis;onal Governir.enl« Mr. Tbnrston, who is one of iU fonnder?, ns a!ready stated, told Mr. Rosa tbat it is n i ‘governroent of force.” What • the chamct<*r of t’uat force is may be gatberedfrom thefollowiugeij cerpt whieh we t .ke from tbe columns of the Examiner of last Novtmber: John Sl«ttery. a yong p»gil st from Svdnev. Anstr-«lia, i» dving in Ward A in St. Luke’s Hi«sj>it «I. He is snt!ering froin a caucer in the stoni icb eanse«l by poison taken while sereing in tlie Provisionat army in H<«w<ii. Slattery is ;«bont twenty-seven ye «rs of age and he eame to this city severai ' years ago. He is known to the sj>ortiu)£ fraternity and abont a vear ngo he had an »thlet;c club nt tlie Potrero wl.ere he tanght Loxing. He;«riog th«t thero \vas |ii good open ng m Honolnlo in I his line, Slattery left for the IsI hinds some time in Febrnary last and there he got « ]>osition as instrnctor of boxing. Then the Queen’s Goveroincnt was overtīirown and the \'oung boxer joiueil the I rovisional ar.ny. i A goveruraent whieh is raade I up of and supported by “forcs” |of that high ch«ss aud patriotic | order ought natnrally to object to t'ae iutei (’erence of foreigu “morcenaries” in its affairs. It is ouly right that it should do so; but, at the same time, it is worth suggesting that it is nnlikelylhat the Hawuiian people are importing “raercenaries” to recover their stolen government for thera, and for(wo reasons: first, they have no money, aud; second, they are, when aronsed, a brave and even ferocious race of people who are ! quite c>«pable of doiug their own figbtiug. — Toicn Tallc.