The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-15

l.. A. Thurston, it was declared that
the most potent advocate of closer
commercial relations with the United
States to send to Washington would
be Queen Liliuokalani. To alter the
words of the Star, the truth would
be told in the following assertions:
Stagnation in trade has not been
caused here by royalty; the political
weakness Of these islands has in the
past, up to January l6 last, kept
them from being the prey of strong
maritime nations; royalty has not
been more rotten than democracy,
nor are boodling legislatures foreign
to republican forms; Hawaii under
royalty has been one of the most
lightly taxed countries in the world (;
titles have been as secure and sacred
here as anywhere; while government
by political adventurers is only to
be prevented by soundness in the
body polite, which is as easily at
tainable in Hawaii as it is in New
York, without regard to the form of
government.
Do come down from stills and try
serious argument. Nobody of sense
will assert that all the prosperity of
the past might not have been
achieved under republican form of
government. 1t is equal folly to de-
clare that no such prosperity is pos
sible in the future under an exten-
sion of the era of royalty. Repub-
licanism is on record in history as
having had to take severe lessons to
keep it on the straight path as we'll as
royalty. There is nothing in either
name to make a nation great or little
The hired tooters of the Annexa,
tion Club might win more respect
for their employers cause if they
paused little in their frothy decla
nation to study the actual situation
There is no election being run now
No appeal is being made to the peo
pie to support rival sets of candi
dates or contesting programs o
| policy. The people of this country
native or foreign, are not in the cas-
except as witnesses before a cour
not of their own creation.
: If supreme domination of on
country over another means any
thing, these islands are now annex
ed to the United States. What els
:. does it mean to see this one of tn
several Powers, which had 70
fifty years accorded documentar
: assent to the independence of HI
n waii, now acting as sole arbiter of il
r destinies while the others all loo
e on in tacit acquiescence? Is thel
IS any other meaning to the presenc
II of an envoy of the dominating Powt
5. in this capital, who is looked to b
k all parties as holding the who
n situation in the paramount contrt
delegated to him by the head of h
nation? Should this envoy now c
| under advices to reach him in th
I future restore the old form of GOV
/ ernment, to be maintained undo
J. some recognized representative unit
/ the United States decides that tn
l. time is ripe for extending complet
5 republican government over tn
II group, what are all these noisy PEE
e pie going to do about it who al
IL now saying, "Thus shall it be, onl
II as we ordain, and not otherwise"
the face of the absolute and undi
= puted control of the United States
; Nothing will be left to them but
l. protest as the Queen did when tt
u presence of the American troops
= front of the Palace overawed h'
N Government. But when full repair
~ ton had thus been made for VIII
- has appeared to the Queen, and m;
a. now appear to the United States,
/; an act of the strong coercing tt
70 weak, the political atmosphere wou
, be clear for calm and dispassiona
discussion of the future.
n Should the United States cor
e. into that discussion with an arg
f. ment to the effect that she w
an henceforth only deal with the II
is waiian Islands commercially on
an similar basis to that of her genel
n policy toward other neighbour
in countries, unless the Hawaii
IS Islands shall voluntarily accept t
as sovereignty of the United Stat
IN flag and the forms of the Unit
,w States constitution, then it might
ht in order for the friends of the Que
At and the royal family to advise the
er to begin negotiations with t
,rN United States Government for tn
se retirement to private life on ter
ne honorable and just to themselves,
leasing all loyal subjects of
Crown of Hawaii from further al
glance thereto, in favor of a II
Id Gealty thenceforth to the Amerio