Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 85, 12 ʻApelila 1894 Edition 02 — Mistakes and Blunders. [ARTICLE]

Mistakes and Blunders.

[roiiiir>ir4Sxr.] The p. g. laanched into po-wer on tbe 17th dav of January. 1S93 ? by tbe mi.«taken policy and cooperation of Mr. J.L. Steven?' f at one time enjoying the title o{ Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Coart of Qaeen Lilinokalani, conld not have gtarted nnder fairer aaspi* oes. Tbey were accorded all the arms and ammnnition whieh eonatitute powee— so far, so good r | how did they ase it? lst. They went in for annex- 1 ation to the United States. Mis- 1 take No. 1. 2nd. To accomplish this end they trampled on everv one s rights by imposing conditions, oaths, and a thousand oth£r things on pnblic servants just saddenly roshed frora one state of at!airs to another. Mistake Xo. 2. 3rd. Immediately on assaming the reins of power, they send five men to "\Vashington to barter 1 away what they had never obtained possession of. Mistake i No. 3. ■4th. They created an advisory eouneil of this country and left the freeholders of the country out of consideration. Mistake No. 4. 5th. They then eommenee to mako laws, whieh, as being only Provisional, they were by all laws of nations, incompetent to do. Mistake No. 5. 6th. Not content with using tho severest amount of friction both socially and otherwise, they tell all natives to go to h—1 as they were the bosses of this country. Mistake Xo. 6. 7th. As guilty consciences make many an uneasy fellow they 1 began to see ghosts. Mistake No. 7. 8th. Having by right of Government the control of all sales of arms and aramunition in this countn r , they start in to arm i irresponsible persons in order to scare away the ghosts. Mistake ! No. 8. 9th. Being as they think well I prepared to meet the ghosts, the ghosts suddenly tarn on them with the selfsamo arms and ammunitions. Blunder No. 1. 10th. Suddenly they get large in the stomach and bo!d in ; **., a me ootside world. Blunder No. 2. llth. Thenindesperation they go in for conventions and impose a damnable oath that no sane man will take. Blunder No. 3. I 12th. Blunders. Blunders. It would be possible Mr. Editor to eoulinue this to more columns than you will allow, bat reallv when one sees such a glorious (?) ehanee to emblazon the names of Dole and company, on the pages of history as remarkable men (to say the least) it is remarkable how they, with all the “wealth and intelligence” on their side cou!d possibly have let the opportunity slip. As it is they have invited their own doom, men of ! the stamp of President Cleveland at the head of sixty milliona of | people do not usually take snubs i from men like Dole at the head i of (well give him the 732 registered today) well ask whom? I have passed through the crises caused by wars in Europe —havo seen the severe diplomatic strains between one nation and another—have watched the fine i points of diplomacy on the thread of whieh hung the fates of mighty nations, but never have I seen men well started on a career, the

end of whieh might haye been success£nl to themselyes, work so successfullv toward defeating their own object by such egregions blunders as those calling themselves, the P. G. of the Hawaiian i Islands. Soon they will be ftble to retire to the opera house at the corner of Bichard and Beretania, where tbey deal in defaming u'omen's ehameUn, and, accompanied by soft straina’ from the organ prodnced by Joe Emeraon, they ean sing dolefu!l, dirge-like strains “What fools we mortals be.” The worst of the whole business is, that they (the P. G.) have systematically defeated their own object by their orass ignorance. With regard to the first miaiake mentioned above, they Bought anneialion immedi-

1.. , i ately at the begmmng of toe game to the United States. That took them wiihin the realm of Amenean politics that at onee made the'Unitod States, | the arbiters of their fate—anJ as a matter of course they were left with practically nothing to do about their own atfairs. The second mistake was nothing more nor less than rank in- j jostice, in as mneh as they started at onee to alienaie from themselves, tbe very men who had most to say in the matter. All the rest of the mistakes are but emanations from the above and show a want of business fact whieh has stamped the quondam rulers of today as wholly unfit to ; pose before the tax-payers of this country and ask for their support. Hawah. j