The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-29
LOGIC OF EVENTS.

hoSoEAho Soyo, iho tSPuDilSau
friends of Hawaiian annexation
should be very careful not to be
guilty themselves of the sort of
offense which some of them sharply
rebuked when committed by their
opponents during the last admins
tration." This is good advice from
the annexation side in the States,
but it came too late to prevent a
large proportion of the Republican
press from letting off all the party
bile possible on the question. The
savage tenor and tone of the Re
publican papers referred to, over the
Presidents withdrawal of the treaty
and the Commissioners withdrawal
of the protectorate, made the anti
annexationists on both sides of the
water smile with grim satisfaction.
They saw in this exhibition of ran
corous partisan temper certain sign
that a party fight was inevitable
over annexation, and such contest
meant complete sitting of the
whole scheme to the bottom. This
in turn was an assurance that the
United States Government should
have to face and act upon the re-
sponsibility imposed upon it through
the action of its representatives in
Honolulu. If President Cleveland
should act upon the facts that he
has now had ample time to obtain,
and do so in consonance with the
established principles of the Ameri-
can Government, there will probably
be no need for any polling of the
Hawaiian electorate at present on
annexation or no annexation, nor
any use even in discussing the pro-
visions of the treaty under consider
alton by the Provisional Govern
ment.
1t is either confirmation or repu-
diation of the forcible conquest of
these islands which President Cleve-
land has now to decide. Should he
decide to confirm the destruction of
Hawaiian autonomy, then there will
be no more to say against stern fate.
But if the word is to be reputation,
it can only be put into effect in one
way without being mockery more
cruel than the thing repudiated. 1t
is impossible to see how the United
States can avoid the moral response
bility, with whatever national dis
honor it may involve, for the vio-
lence done in Honolulu last Jan
uary, if the Government of that
country once accepts the results OF
such violence. Even successful
revolution" as the convenient phrase
is, cannot be enough in the eyes of q
high-minded and powerful Govern
ment to justify its taking possession
of civilized country, at the request
of the successful revolutionists, with
out the consent of more than a small
minority of it's intelligent voting
population, especially when it is {
fact that the forces which made the
success" of the revolution, after the
United States forces had overawed
the then Government into submis
sion, as we'll as the forces that sus
tain the revolutionary government
to-day, are largely foreign drift
element of those who never cast ;
vote in the country, and with yer.
few exceptions would not be eligible
to vote for Mobiles if an election o
new Legislature were now ordered
President Cleveland can scarcel,
discharge his responsibility by mere
ly Furnishing Minister with a recall
that signifies condemnation of hi
acts. That action only makes th'
rest of his duty clearer. Neither
would it be proper or statesmanlike
to tell the different parties here t.
fight it out. Such thing would b.
barbarous, more like the gruesom'
pastime of tyranny than anything
else, after the United States force
had given to one side the "nin'
points of the law" which it is no
slack in boasting of. For a grea
Power to help one faction in veal
country to secure all the means O
warfare and positions of strength
together with all the mechanism O
government to keep opposing fac
tions from defending themselve
even against possible oppression, AM
then say, Slight it outP" would b
the blackest outrage of the world
history. The United States is res
ponsible for the peace of this coun
try until she puts things here in tn
position her representatives foun'
them when they first leagued them
selves with the conspiracy agains
Hawaiian independence. Since tn
foregoing was written it is Learned
by later news from the United States
that the negotiation of a treaty I,