The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-09

shout or hurrah, because the queen
hau expressed \ desire for absolute
quiet and no demonstration.
ms act of Colonel Blount removing
the trocn$, taking away the American
nag and hosting the Hawaiian fIay.
was, as tAey do not conceal, extremely
unpleasant TO the Provisional govern
ment aud its adherents. Ii showed in
It's results the falsity OF their plea that
life and property were in danger and
required foreign protection.
BLoUNT's SILENT WAY.
ought to say that Colonel Blounts
mysterious powers and his very Judi
cious conduct keep al eyes here on
nln. de Is the most silent man they
nave ever seen out here. He is acces-
slole to everybody of all parties; he
listens TO all who come to him; but,
a. everybody reports, he never says a
word.
'He gets more out of you than any
body ever knew" said a disappointed
nan TO me today, "but he never tells
anyh dy anything of what he knows,
thinks or means TO do"
Moreover they say of him that he is
friendly, even genial, with every body,
nut shows by his occasional questions
that he knows a great deal about isl
and afa's and by the few orders he
has so far given that when he acts he
mea ) business They have given him
cl-ver uickuames here. Tn call him
he Minister Reticent Mr. Stevens he
ing still the Minister Resident. must
confess that, So far as L am concerned,
Colonel Blount eminently deserves
This title.
Tine present situation is this: The
Provisional government continues TO
exist, hut is slowly losing adherents.
IL would go to pieces by a slight push,
but II i the policy of the native lead
ers aud their American leaders not to
push, hut to wait. The Provisional
government leaders have no hope ex-
cept iu annexation They know and
cbnfess that they cannot maintain an
independent existence, but would be
voted down ct once, not merely by
the natives, but by a considerable
number of Americans and other for
eign residents. The impression of
Ca eful observers Is that they are in
the situation of the man who held a
bear by the paws and did not know to
let 20 without help. They would quit
if they SAW how TO quit. The intiu-
ence of the queen and all her advisers
is exerted, so far, to- keep the pee pie
w
dent CIevelaud's decision, which ihey
believe will he just and restore the
constitutional government. No one
except u very few absurd people fears
any violent or lawIeS5 outbreaks out
side ( Honolulu, and here only If an
neXationists should endurably irri-
tate the people, as some Of the less
judicious seem inclined TO do.
"TIE Pearl NOT so RIPE.
The American Minister, Mr.. Ste
veus, though substantially defu1ctuS
o6ictO, Colonel Blount having plenary
powers, still goes about urging and
encouraging annexation. HIS speedy
removal would help the situation here
and perhaps be welcome to him, as he
has certainly discovered by this time
that "the pear" is not so ripe as in
his queer dispatches he persuaded Mr..
Harrison it was. A republic does not
seem to he favored 10y anybody here.
The Provisional government people
declare against u republic very posi-
lively. They want only annexation,
and thereby declare themselves con-
sciously incapable of ruling, as indeed
their misconduct before this revolu-
ton showed them 20 be, for their only
aim was then to make a regular gov
eminent impossible by upsetting sue
cessiv- cabinets.
| ought, perhaps to say something
about the questions of which much
has been written-opium and the lot
terry. As to the opium question, the
provisional and annexation people OPP
posed very foolishly, as / Think, 4
proposition to admit opium under a
high duty and with strict guards
against illicit introduction, and thus
while limiting the use to secure rev.
enue from it, they demanded that its
introduction should be prohibited
that it should be entirely excluded
and this in a group of islands whose
extensive coasts invite smuggling and
make exclusion VIGOROUSLY impossi-
BILE.
THE QUEEN WAS WRONG.