The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-22


mating, governing and protecting a
horde of leprosy-tainted and debas-
ed islanders and Asiatios and serv-
ing the purposes of gang of sharks
by not only maintaining their pow
er to loot them, but adding to it the
privilege of looting us through the
sugar bounty.
If the Holomua, for instance, had
got such strong and hot stuff of, his
doom would certainly have been
nothing milder than life banishment
to Ocean Island-a territory, by the
way, which the United States ap-
parently does not know she is going
to have thrown into the bargain,
with the prospect of the anniversary
of its conquest by Col. Boyd of his
late Majesty's staff being added to
the glorious list of American holi-
days.
The Chattanooga (Tennessee)
Times of January 81 suspects "there
is truth in the charge of the London
newspapers, to the effect that
Yankees are at the bottom of the
Hawaiian revolution" Again: "An-
other thing that indicates the fine
hand of the American is the form of
provisional government set up in
stead of the miniature monarchy.
An educated citizen of the United
States would know that scheme for
an American contrivance, with his
eyes shut" The Times goes on to
argue that annexation would violate
all the traditions and policies of the
United States Government. 1t gives
a summary of the area, population
and trade of the islands, and while
concluding that the United States
should continue it's control here,
says, "What we need can be obtain
ed and held more easily and securely
by diplomacy than by seizure and
domination"
The Grand Rapids, Michigan,
Press of January 30 says: "We don't
want it," concluding: "The govern
ment will protect the interests OF
American citizens and will insist
that the Monroe doctrine be carried
out faithfully in the establishment
of new government. That is as fal
as Uncle Sam will go, and tlat is fal
enough"
The New York Evening World OF
January 81 says: "The change can
scarcely be accepted as fair and
full expression of the will of the
people. Perhaps the best way would
be to let the people have an oppor-
tunity of saying just what sort of a
government they want and whom
they want to rule them. We don't
want to annex, but"
The Cleveland, Ohio, World says
1t is far away. 1t could never be
anything but province. 1t is likely
to always be troublesome and turbu
lent, and it has within it few of the
possibilities of self f-government.
The empires and republics of the
past fell through trying to hold too
many subject provinces and to apply
the laws and institutions that are
adapted to the people of one regior
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regions and adverse climates.
Rome had her free states and sub
ject provinces, her citizens and hel
slaves, her great statesmen, her aris
tocrats and her rabble eating from
the public crib. She conquered tn.
world in the first round, but th'
, world soon wiped her from the face
of the earth.
The St. Louis Chronicle of Jan 81
says:
The truth of the matter is the re
cent revolution was not movemen
of the people for free government
1t was work of revenge on the par
of Americans and Europeans who
under Kalakaua, had license to rol
: the people, and under the Queer
have been without the authority t,
:, plunder.
They will probably succeed in an
nexing the islands to the Unite'
' States, and at the same time secur
}: the recognition by this Government
of "rights" granted them by tn
: King which the Queen revoked.
9 The Chicago Herald is quoted a
: follows by Springfield paper @
5 Jan. 81:
3 The appeal to American patriotism
q ambition and cupidity will be stron
and will be pressed with earnestnes
3 But the Sandwich islands would no
y be desirable acquisition. Formin
g pigmy state in the union, it woul
: be ridiculous. Any sort of popula
3 government, even such as those il
, our territories, would be impractica
: BILE, owing to the character of tn
: masses of the people. The mos
n that could be made of it would be
: sort of satrapy, and its politics
: management probably would be pro
= fligate and corrupt beyond anythin
n possible, except the negro govern
a ments in the south after the wa
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