New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-22
Hawaiian Eumbug.

There is but one resource for the%De-
mocratic organs in dealing with the I'M
! PARALLEL action of the administration on,
the Hawaiian question:. 1t is to put the
best face possible on ;,n ugly situation
and confront the American people with
fine spun theories about the duty of this
government to hel people to free in
situations. Thus the St, Paul Globe:
There is one justification, full and
complete, for the course pursued by the
administration in this matter 1t is the
principle underlying republican govern
ment-the light of every people to self
government. If the majority of the
people Of the Sandwich Islands wish re-
public, they should be permitted to have
one; but if they prefer monarchy
even such a poor apology for one as they
lately cnjoyed--they should be protect
ed in it's privileges.
This is the cry of the embarrassed ex-
ponents of Democracy everywhere; and
never in the heigh Of political cam
paign, was there heard from the platform
more arrant buncombe. We will do SUI
fcent justice to the intelligence of those
who talk this way to say that we have nc
idea they believe it themselves. They
are talking simply for effect.
There is not and cannot be any such
thing in the Sandwich Islands at present
as ''self- government The people are
as incapable Of it as a lot of school-boys
at play are of starting and running a cot
ton factory. There is no such hing as
majority rule. There is no such thing
as public opinion. There are several lit
tie cliques of active and ambitious for
eigners, numbering a few hundred each,
and vast mass of inert, ignorant, care
less native population, who would hear
with equal Indifference the news that
President Dole or Queen Liliuokalani
was to be shot, and would hurry out to
see the show with equal enjoyment in
either case. What is the sense of using
the terms that we apply to American
politics in conditions where they cannot
possibly have any meaning?
Let us recur to the facts onceI.more,
briefly. The population of the SAND
witch islands was in round mum bers, co.
900 in $780, Of these over $4,000 fare
Chinese, and over $4,000 Japanese. The
natives number "a, 436. These Kanakas
are on the decrease. They are light
hearted, indolent people, whom it is as
impossible to interest deeply in question
of government or politics as it is to teach
political economy to a butterfly. The
| less than 1000 Americans, 1000 Ger
mans and 300 British in the islands
constitute the only public opinion that
there is. circumstances have so arrang-
ed it that the United States must per
force determine upon the form and con-
dition of government in these islands. II
the monarchy is restored, it will not be
because the 'people'' want it, but be.
: cause the United States has SO decreed
If the republic stands, twill not be be.
cause the "people'' want it, but because
it represents the authority Of the United
States. Whether it was for good or to-
ill that we first became involved in Ha
!. waii, whether Mr.. Stevens did right O.
wrong, does not alter the situation now
and cannot lif.. our responsibility. al
talk about self government and free in
stitutions and public opinion and a de
Iliberate choice Of forms BY the people 0
the Sandwich Islands is unmitigate'
humbug. The future rests in our hands
Pioneer Press.