The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-05
FACTS ABOUT HAWAII
Only the Planters Favor Annex
alton, and Even They Are
Not Unanimous.
TRYING TO AROUSE VIOLENCE.
New York Herald


Honolulu, April 8, via San Fran
cisco, Cal, April 16, 1s93.--The pilot
brought the news to the Alameda
steaming into Honolulu-news al
ready told to you-that Colonel
Blount had ordered the naval forces
to be withdrawn to their ships and
the Hawaiian flag hoisted instead of
the American flag over the national
buildings.
Thereupon there was great excite
ment among the Hawaiian passen-
gers, some of whom were for the
Queen and others for the provisional
government. A dense crowd of ma
tive Hawaiians filed the wharf and
welcomed back Paul Neumann and
his associates who were returning
from Washington, where they had
pleaded the Queens cause and that
of the native islanders. The town
was quiet, but in the small business
quarter many American flags were
displayed ostentatiously and as
though inviting to excitement and
collision. Here and there one saw also
a Hawaiian flag, but it was evident
that the planters and their depend
ent traders were impudently mis-
using their privileges in planting
a foreign tiag-doing this to de-
gree which would at once breed
trouble in any other capital.
PLANTERS INVITE VIOLENCE.
Two old OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
cans and annexationists, members
and leaders of the planters party
called on me earl y-and expressed
fears of a violent outbreak. One
absurd person spoke of "a repetition
of the scenes of San Domingo" |
can only say that if there should be
rioting this would be the fault of
those who in such time as this are
ostentatiously Haunting their foreign
annexation flags in the eyes of the
native population who-on the
planters, own admissions-are una
nimously and strongly opposed to
annexation. The orderly and peace
full conduct of the native people
under the circumstances and under
the aggravations of the planter an.
nexationists is admirable and de.
serves the greatest praise. If there
should be trouble hereof which
there is no likelihood-the blame
will be entirely upon the annexation
lists, who are to the last degree EN-.
Uttered by the failure of theil
schemes, and some of them woulC
welcome the violence they are incit
ing, because they haveno hope OIL
success.
| saw at San Francisco and on tn,
ship coming here number of ole
and new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pro
visional government men and annex
ationists-others favorable to tn,
maintenance of the old system. AL
of both parties frankly acknow
lodged that the natives, forty thou
sand in number and all of prope
age, able to read and write AM
brought up under American mission
airy training, with a very few excep
tions, are strongly opposed to an
nexation.
NATIVES OPPOSE ANNEXATION.
| wish to emphazize this fact
confessed by all the annexationists
have seen-that the natives ar
solidly opposed to annexation. Their
are against these 10000 natives, 1872
Americans, men, women and chile
rem, most, though by no means a
of whom want and cry out for al
nexation. The leaders of these al
heads of the fading provisional go'
eminent.
That these 1923 are not unanimor
is clear from the fact that the al
nexation and provisional govern
ment scheme has made trouble
social circles, trouble in the Churc
, and in business relations, so rutI
) lessly have the planter annexation
lists pushed their revolutional
scheme and purpose among the
; own class. An American or 9th
foreigner who does not go in for a
nexation must keep quiet or stuff
: persecution in Church, society al
, business.
The course and conduct of ii
native people, who are not, remel
Der, savages, as in Samoa, but a rea
ing and writing people, for whom
this time several daily papers a
: printed, are admirable. The Anne
can missionaries who taught the
!, and who were the fathers of MAJ
y of the small but bitter annexati,
. group, taught them well.
y | have asked dozen respectful
Americans, long residents here, II
you fear trouble anywhere on t
, islands from the natives?" and tn
a uniformly replied, "No; not in t
: least. In Honolulu only the excit
+ ment may possibly end in a riot"
q Surely that is high testimony
,, the peaceful good nature of the i
/" tive population against whose VI
!, lence the sixty or seventy plant
- tions scattered among the islands
lonely places would be defencele
And it is undeniable that it is t
n annexationist provisional Cover
n ment and its small number of adj
~ rents who are all this time, by t
p Haunting of IA foreign flag and
y other misconduct, melting to V
y lence.
i WHY NATIVES ARE QUIET.
n Why are the native people
10 quietI you may ask. ] put Il
Ie question to-day to one of their M
d Intelligent aud able Representative
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