The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-22

in the islands, took possession of the
Government and Immediately started
to make tender of the Islands to a
foreign nation. He regards the
recent changes in Hawaii as induced
by revolutionists greedy for Office, or
aiming at big sugar profits, who have
no authority to act for the people of
Hawaii. 1t is surprising that so in
telligent man as Mr.. Cooley should
intimate, even in the guarded manner
used by him in this article, that the
white population Of Hawaii termed by
him foreigners, had not the right is
well as the power to preserve this
country from allthe terrors Cfanarchy,
and in the interest of law, order and
good morals, to establish a govern
ment which would secure the just
and equal administration of law; or
that to do this required plebiscite
among that portion of the native
population which was under the
direct influence of the very sovereign
who tried to subvert the Constitution
under which she became a sovereign.
There is much partial and incorrect
statement in Mr.. Cooley's article
which the limits of this paper do not
permit one to discuss, but surely no
one knows better than he does that
relief from the anarchical tendencies
of the crown which eliminated in the
attempt at a coup detdt last January,
was not to be found by ieiSnyeB
calling together of Hawaiian voters,
nor was permanent relief from the
threatened dangers more reasonably
to be sought or expected than by
applying to the United States for
annexation, or aid in some other form.
The fact that the Provisional Gov
eminent, twas at once acknowledged
by the American Minister" is dwelt
upon by Mr.. Cooley as if it were not
true that it was also at once or within
very short period acknowledged by
all other foreign representatives.
Whether a treaty for annexation
is shortly to be made, or a treaty
securing American supremacy in Ha-
wall and aiding the Provisional Gov
eminent to assume gradually more
representative form, leaving the ques-
ton of annexation for the future to
decide, is not matter of vital con-
Germ to Hawaii; but it is matter of
the gravest concern to the United
| States, to allow no incorrect or half
statements, and no unappreciative or
| ill-informed conclusions based on
such false hypothesis, to deter it
from discharging its full moral OBJ
legations towards the people of the
Hawaiian Islands. If forty eight
millions of dollars could be devoted
from the United States Treasury to
the object OF promoting American
interests in Hawaii by means of the
treaty of Reciprocity of 1876, which
in 1887 was extended for a further
term, VII full knowledge of its
financial results, does anyone believe
that those interests will be sacrificed
forever by a refusal on the part of
the United States to secure for itself
in some way permanent supremacy?
What is wished by every right
minded person, and all that is wished
is honest and stable government.
No intelligent man denies that we
now have an honest, upright admin
istration. HNeither nonresident cap
italists nor resident corruptionists
have longer the control of the des-
TIMES of Hawaii To make such
government permanent and stable
may largely depend on Mr. Cleveland
and his councillors. | have yet to
doubt that such results will be Sc
cured by the course which he will
ultimately take, even if Judge Cool
ey has discovered, obstacles to Ha-
waiian Annexation"
ALFRED S. HARTwELL.