The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-11-07
THE ELECTION SCHEME.

If the intimations that are find.
ing their way to the public eal
through the medium of administra-
ton organs are approximately &C
curate it can reasonably be con-
cluded that the president disap-
proves of good government in the
only section of the earth outside OF
the United States where his disap-
proval is of much moment. For
many months the people of the
Hawaiian islands and other people
whose material interests are de-
pendant to considerable extent
upon political conditions in the
one time Pacific kingdom, have
waited for an opinion from the ex-
ecutive branch of the forces that
rule the United States, but up to
the present time no word has been
vouchsafed and as a natural conse-
quence conditions in Hawaii are far
from tranquil. But, even as gas
escapes from imperceptible orifces,
the rumor comes from what seems
to be an authoritative source that
President Cleveland will urge nom
action on the part of this country
until the inhabitants of Hawaii
white, brown and yellow, learned
and unlearned, clean and filthy,
civilized and barbarian, bond and
free-express their preferences at
the polls. This decision is probably
in accord with that reached by Min
lister Blount and recorded in the re-
port which Mr.. Blount and Mr.. Chas.
Nordhoff of the New York Herald
went to Hawaii for the purpose of
making. Speciously presented to
unthinking people, the general
election scheme seems reasonable,
but under the circumstances it is
nothing more nor less than the
only way in which the United
States government can place the
American-hating Liliuokalani on
the throne; and that is what the
administration seems bent upon
doing. 1t is estimated that there
are about 5000 native voters on the
islands; the foreign vote is more
than 5000. Only 1928 voters are
Americans, but this minority, in
terested in modern form of gov
eminent, owns much more than 60
per cent. of the property and does
over so per cent. of the business.
The immediate conse-
quences of a return to power of
Queen Liliuokalani would be most |
demoralizing. For many years
some of the most devoted religious
workers the world has ever known
have labored for the salvation of
the Hawaiian people, and their
efforts have resulted in an eleva-
lion of the moral tone as pleas
ing to decent people as it has been
to the leprous-minded
horde that has ever surrounded the
,o-ealled royalty which once
,eigned at Honolulu. A relapse
nto the condition of barbarian
monarchy could not fail to bring
With it such a lowering of the
moral tone as would prove to be
much more of a burden than Presi-
lent Cleveland could well bear.
Honolulu would become the head
quarters of the great lottery COM
)any that SO nearly succeeded in
getting possession through the aid
If the late queen. The opium
the gamblers and thou
ands of other equally undesirable
persons, who have steadily tried to
freak down the missionary infu-
nee, would come into control.
Wholesale degradation of the ma
ives would surely follow and, to
UNI up the almost certain posi-
,ilities in a sentence, the civilizing
influence of generations of mission
ry effort would be wiped out in
family. Surely it is not President
'leveland's purpose to aid those
Inprincipled wretches who would
.elight in the ruin of thousands
ecause the decentralization and
destruction would bring to the
.estroyers great financial profit
Washington Star.