The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-27
HAWAIIAN STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY.
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1898.
REVOLUTIONARY GATHERINGS.

KENOLU llONARH Gal HERlNGS'
1t is given out that the Royalists
will hold a meeting on Emma Square
Monday night to protest against the
proposed new treaty with the United
States. The real purpose of those who
have the matter in charge is understood
to be to embarass the Government in
its coming negotiation by giving the
American people to understand that
the Hawaiian nation" whatever that
may be, is opposed to the measure and
is not represented in its terms We
may expect at this symposium unlimited
abuse of the Provisional Governments
and the usual incendiary appeals to the
deluded natives to stand out for au.
tonomy-"an anatomy" most of them call
it-and to bide the good time coming
when the royal ensign will once more
float on the towers Of Iolani.
If it should be given out in republi-
can Paris that the Bourbon party
would gather on the Bots de Boulogne
to proclaim, in the name of the people
OF France, that the Government is
not representative, the leaders of the
movement would be jailed in two
hours and the rank and file, on their
way to the rendezvous, would run into
a Gordon of gendarmes.
If call should be issued in republi
can Chicago by one Of the revolutionary
leagues of that city for a rally in the
Haymarket, at which some Voluble sue
Cessor of Spies and Parsons wouc
arraign the powers that be, the distrc
police would be instructed to arrest tn,
whole outfit and bring it before ;
magistrate, under the laws which forbc
disturbance OF the peace.
If some Fenian Head Center SHOULD
emerge from his retirement and cal
upon the people who favor home rul(
to gather before Dublin Castle and al
their complaints, the British constabu
larry would swoop down on the Grove
with uplifted sticks and the Fenial
movement, taking to its legs, woulc
soon reach a vanishing point.
If some misguided Russian shoulc
stand on a hydrant in the Nevski Pros
pect and 50 much as say that he coulc
not conscientiously agree with the ide
that the Car is the flower of Dem
ocratic chivalry and the patron Of ciyi
rights, he would not fail of the gibbe
or the Siberian mine
All governments on earth except tn
patient and long suffering Proysona
Government of Hawaii believe in keep
ing revolutionary elements under stric
subsection and giving them no chanc
to get into touch with each othe
through public gatherings or priyat
cabals On these islands conspiracie
90 their way unchecked and unchaI
lenged The excuse is that there is n
danger in them and perhaps in MAJ
row sense this is true; but it remains
fact that every unhindered parade c
Royalists and every uncurbed expires
sion Of Royalist sentiment leads som
correspondent of the American paper
to plausibly declare that the e>
Queens cause is gaining groun,
and that the Provisional regime is to
weak to deal with those who are amin
daggers at its life - whereupon OF
friends in the United States grow de
pondent and relax their energies an
American craftsmanship comes to bC
lieve that the revolution by virtue {
which the title to the control Of tn
Islands would have to be conveyed,
only feeble makeshif which the "H;
waiian nation" may at any time abolish
If the meeting on Monday nigt
should be prohibited and the prohb
ton enforced, this talk in America abor
a coming restoration and the weakness
of the Annexation cause on its ow
ground would never be heard Of more
On the contrary, the world would begi
to look upon the powers that be i
Hawaii as stable, dominant and safe,
The secrecy with which the sponsor