Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 190, 16 August 1894 — OUR "REPUBLIC." [ARTICLE]

OUR "REPUBLIC."

lo iU yet»tenlay issae the AJ~ | rcr(imrr takes the Kew Vork Aa- . fītrn lo task for Jaring to criticize the 60- ca!»e»l Hawaiian Repnhlie and sbowing op tbe discreditable proceedmgs throogh J wbich it was temporarily estab- J | lished. The Adverti*er makes tbe remarkable statement tbat uo reToIation would have beeu | , nccessarv if the Hawaiians bad beeo williug to protect the rights goaranteed them by the bayonet coustitotion of 1887. Great Scott' We always understood tbat the object of the revolation was to obtaio “crosel onion with the United States.” We thooght by this tirae that the main object of the revolotion was to assist Mr. J. L. Steveus in plockiug the Hawaiian ripe pear, and we have j by this time received sufficient proofs to show that the revolutionary* conspiracy for tho bartering of Hawaii's indej>endence had been in fall blast s:nce the arrival of the Kennehee scribbler. | It was then after all,not annex- | aiion, that was wanted And vet, i • • a lnrge number of the former!y most ardent snpporlers of the revolutionary party says, that they were ready to do anything for annexatiou, but they wonld never have raised a finger to i substituto a governmem under whieh at least money fiowed freely with the preseut missionary j government whieh yet will cause general bankruptcy aiul financial ; disaster. One tbing is sure, says the ! AJvertiser, the people shall nevor be heard in regard to tho government of Hawaii. As long as the family-compact is “in” no uotice shall be taken of the d i people. The New York Xation is made to understand that “repuhliean' principlo iu the follow- I ing words: “This is the case in a natsbeli. Tbe gaiu tbus made for political liberty will uever be submitted to ; j auy vote, popular or otheiwise.” j Tbat shows us finally where we staud. The Advertiser and the compact wili never allow the people to decide what form of goverumeut shall exist in | Hawaii. And yet our esteemed i contemporary gots indigaaut with the Xation for criticizing a ‘ re ! puhlie” established- in sueh a mauner and on sucli very unrepublicau principles. The Advertiser says tbat peo- ! ple don’t fight for what they ean | gaiu by ballots, thereby iudicat- j ing that it is justifiable aud right to fight for what c.muot be ob- | taiued by bal!ots. We thank itfor i the Iesson. As popu!ar governi raent canuot be obtained in Ha- ; waii by ballots, as even ballots, accordiug to the Adverliser are refused us, we see uo other romedy thau to accopt the pre scription of the Adverli*er, and ' gaiu by fight what caunot be gainod by bal!ots, viz; govornmeut by the people, of the peo- | ple and for the people. It is noteworthy, by the way, that the Advertiser coustantly speaks about the “fight” made j by the rerolutionary purty. TVe haveyet to learn when and where the fight took plaee. The Tiser ' has told that lie so often that it , fiually believes in it, and evidentI ly the philoaophieal editor oecasionaiiy sees a big read stream ofblood before his eyes— orno.se, I unddreams that he is in the mid- I dle of a battle at Kakaako or measuring swords witb Paul or B;Ily. There "was no fight, brother. The revolution, if it • ean be called so,was manipulated and camed out through trickery, misrepreseatations, lies and J. | L- Stevens, the incarnation of the qoalities mentioned. lf everythmg had been open, and above hoanl Mr. Dole woold not sit j where he ia today, and the physi ; cians in Honolulu woukl not have | so many patients in the miaaion- , ary ranks sutfering from chronic . ] palpitation of thoir hearts. Give < os a rest on all yoor heroics, and I, prove to Ihe Xew York Nalion j and the world, that today Hawaii ( boaats of a gorernment based on I ( truiy repab!ican prinoip!es, and ( deriving its anthority £rom the | only legiiimatepover—the people. {