The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-30
THE FATE OF THE WHITE
PEOPLE IN HA WAII.
An Article from the Portland "Ore-
goninn" Gives Us Some Cold
Hard Facts.

The fate of the white people of
Hawaii is IN their own hands. If
they have courage and resolution
to fight for their government, they
can maintain it. If they have not,
they deserve to be ruled by her
dusky majesty and plundered to
support her corrupt and luxurious
court. There, as everywhere, only
those can enjoy the blessing of
freedom who are willing, in the
last resort, to risk their lives and
property in its defense.
The white people of Hawaii are
the mainstay of its civilization.
They have built up its trade, es-
tablished its industries, created its
national wealth. Four-fifths of
the property of the islands
are in their hands. They pay
most of the taxes to support
the Government. The intelligence,
enterprise, capacity of the islands
is mostly theirs. They should
control the state. They may, if they
add vigor and daring to their other
qualities. They are in possession.
The Provisional Government is the
only one established on the ISL
ands. They have the revenue and
the police. They have had time
to collect small treasure and to
provide arms. They are the only
fighting force on the islands worth
mentioning. An hundred of them
ought to be able to protect their
do not deserve to keep it. They
are on trial. The way they meet
it will prove the reality of the
revolution. If they submit to the
restoration of the queen without a
struggle, they will confess the fee
bleness and futility charged to
them by Blount, and the world
will believe that the late revolution
was a mere intrigue of Minister
Stevens, and that it had no force
or vitality not given it by the
naval forces of the United States.
1t may be said that it would be
hopeless for the Provisional Govern
ment to try to resist the naval forces
of the United States. 1t is very
doubtful if the President will dare
to employ actual force to depose
the Provisional Government and re-
store the queen. He expects to
succeed by moral influence alone.
Minister Willis is to bully the Pro-
visional Government into resigning
power without an effort to defend
it. If the revolutionists should do
this, they will deserve their fate.
They will be fit merely to earn
money and pay taxes to support a
dissolute, mongrel court, without
having any voice in the disposition
of the revenues, protection for their
persons or security for their bust |
ness. 1t is perfectly clear that the |
first act of the restored monarchy
will be to disfranchise the whites.
They will become the serfs of the
piebald lords of the soil. This they
will deserve, if they permit it.
Should the President make such
a fatal mistake as to try to displace
the Provisional Government by
force, they should still resist, sacri-
ficing their lives, if need be, to de-
tense of their State from such unwar-
and outrageous aggression.
They will be overcome by the we'll
armed and disciplined forces of the
ships, of course, but the
act will arouse a storm of popular
feeling in the United States that
will assure the survivors the SYM
patty and support of the American