Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 298, 9 October 1891 — Hands off Uncle Sam. [ARTICLE]

Hands off Uncle Sam.

Tit; Dublication in SanFrancisco of patches from Washington, con<' r;iiag Hawaiian politieal eonditions and prospects, throws[some moro lights upon the attitude Vcertain parties or factions in th ■ oapital seek tohave the United h government assume to\vard Mau uii. The mbst recent and inter»?siing of these dispatches is to 4h«» <;ffect- that the State Department. aware of the Hawiiiian Qu i! b having ignored and aniag . ; d the native nopulation, in h<-\ !!'-advised pandering to the wh ; mißsionaries, fears tbat a revolutionary movement by the natives is imminent, and that the U:>ited States is going to be prepara<\ for any such emergency, by the preft( ii :e here of ;in ample iraval ,4 ]»oliee" force. -Onr English contemporaries have r< -1) v■: i ahed this (lispateh, with c:, u:.ients i4 all their own," — while «aeh of them declares there is profound peaee iu the land, and no prospect. eveu remote of revolutioaary enterprises cropping up,f AdveHimr belies its pre-; tended confidence by iavoking the . armed intervention of foreign oow«rs to suppress any revolutionary «dbeme that inay break out. |

ehooee io disFegard entirely, ior the purpose3 of this article, the 4que»tion wfeether an early revolu4io« is |>robablc or improbable in Haw.iii. Bdt it may not be out of pl»; ve to bere remark that the native population have been taaght br )li9 Honor the Chief Justice, in ihe oelebrated oaeo of jßex. vs. Wi>ox, that the riyht of revolution <Jways and evervwhere exists, and th« act of revolution is aJ*vays sanc-1 by its succesp. This lesson ! h.Hf? sunk deep into the native iuind, and is there to stav. He l.:i> ?oen its truth illuBtrated inHaw.iil in.1887, aud in Ohili in 1891. ; He also saw the reverse of the pro- j P'>>itiou illustrated bv the non- i " i 4su-t\:ess of the* Hawaiian insurreeof 1889, that riiovement wae t :ninal.—bccavsc it failed;-*-had it *- i« ceeded. it would have been j ust und lawful. Such is the law, and «ueh the logie of political revolutiot;s, and the law and the logic arc equally agreeable to Ka Leo.

But whatever the rights of the people with regard to revolution, they will insiBt upon a due respect belng paid to thoso rights hy for«%n nations. It is claimed in ottr that we aie an independent govemment, a aovereign etate. la tiutt elaim well founded ? Ib it it ttue m fact ? 0r is it a rnere fiction, for uee In diplovnacy, and for Buppression, instead of asseriion, in time of need ? We deelare onr belief that our elaim of politi* independence and sovereigiity gci\ume, and well ibnnded, and ♦-hal Hawmi hae nvA yet sunk to th»> depth of to whioh the jnissionary —£ogar-Karon eomhi*if\t!on have of late heen trymg to <-«>nsign her. We are not yet so I

reduced as a State, aE to be obfiged i.o yield to foreign dicfcat ion in our purely domestic concerns. We are not obliged to ask the permission of foreign powers to make desired changes in the fabric of our govcrnment. We are not yet reduced to the condition, so lately sought to be imposed . upon us by the mis-sionary-planter elements, of subr servieiicy to foreign bayonetp, brandiohed in the suppression bf freedom y and in support or a gree3y and irresponsible faction o» foreign"thrifties."

Hawaii is still independont, iu fact, at well as in name, and the people of Hawaii still retam the exclusive right to order their t>wn domestic afFairs, as to them shal) seem best. The invocation, the appeal of the Advertiser. to the ship and bayonets foreign powers, to intercede for the suppression bf any efforts that may be made for the restoration of his rights to the Hawaiian in his own country, is disloyal r undignified and cowārdly. The mention of foreign gune is no longer the bugaboo it onee was to the Hawaiian, who claims, and, upon just occasion, will assert the right to settle his own quarrels in his own way. even though that wav should involve a revokition, And if, übon the happening of such i an event, the desire of the aboriginal population should unhappily be balked, through the agency .of a foreign faetion on our shores, let k not the intermeddling faction sup!posc themselves exempt from the visitations of a just retnbution. Those who owe so mueh of wealth, comfort and Becurrty Hawaiian i docility, should be careful to not {too violently abuse or impoee upon | eueh decility. The awftkening lrom their dreams of Becarity nught be rude and discomforting.