The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-22
TUESDAY, AUGUST %, 1898.
PLAIN TALK TO ROYALISTS.

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fire the city. Lately the tale has been
added that arms for a Royalst insur-
rection could at any time be procured
from the United States in a vessel
which should break the American neu-
trality laws and land its cargo at some
obscure point along the coast. The
sum total of these stories is a continued
ferment among the Royalists and a
refreshment of the worn old hope that
something may be done to break down
the powers that be and restore the bat
tered throne by force.
While it is true that the leadership
of the ex.Queen's cause has scarcely
risen above blind and reckless medi-
ocrity, still there are one or two in1u-
entail men in the monarchist party who
must know, and who ought to tell their
fellows, how absolutely hopeless a coun.
ter-revolution would be on the explos-
i've and incendiary lines laid down.
The Government forces are far stronger
and are equipped in a much better
fashion than the RoyaIists as a whole
imagine; and the signal which the
torch or the bomb must give would be
that for a punishment so swift, SO
deadly and so terrible as to leave few
of the monarchst outlaws to tell the
tale. In the work of putting down the
barbarians of fire and dynamite no help
from the United States forces would
be asked for or desired; but all the
same, the American naval authorities,
who are at hand to protect the property
of their fellow countrymen, would
land their rihemen and artillerStS
and the moment an inCendlary fire
reached an Americans house or the
bursting of any explosive compound
damaged an Americans property, or
the bullet of an insurrectionist struck
an American man, woman or child not
participating in the conflict, that
moment would see the crews of the
Boston and Adams at work moving
the outlaws down. 1t goes without
saying that, between the iron millstones
of the United States and Provisional
Governments the party of anarchy
would be ground to powder.
If any Royalist still holds the fatter-
ing JUNCTION to his soul that a vessel
could bring arms and ammunition here
from the United States to be used
against the Provisional Government, he
is the sort of a man to mistake hash
heesh dream for an experience in actual
life. OF course, to get here such a
vessel would have to run the gauntlet
of the United States authorities. II
she escaped a coast harbor she would
be chased, as the Itata was, for the
purpose of bringing her back. Should
she arrive off these shores, fact which
would be reported at once by the
secret service, the outlaw craft would
become fair prey for the Boston ano
the Adams. No vessel-owner in the
United States would be likely to risk
his craft in such desperate and hare
Drained enterprise.
There is nothing palmer to oul
mind than the fact that a counter
revolution would be crushed TO Z
bloody pulp in an hour after it hac
touched its match or pulled its Ian
yard. The same thing ought to be
apparent TO any Royalist who has a
spoonful of brains in the back of his
head. The word impossible covers the
whole proposal. And it may as we'll be
said further that the ex-Queen's cause
is now SO dead that the arm OF resur
rection can never fathom its Januar,
grave; and that if those who adher'
to it ever expect to acquire influence II
Island affairs the sooner they stop try
ing to galvanize the corpse the bette
for them. The future has the preSag
of annexation, either now or later. Ii
that result, and only that, with its prom
Use OF the suffrage of American citizen
ship, lies the one hope of those wit
now kick against the pricks and gna'
the files and plunge head on agains
stone walls, to become once more @
consequence in the national politics 0
the Hawaiian group. That conse
quence may not be great; but il
any other political relation likely to b
reached it could not be visible