The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-04
HAWAIIAN JOBS ANALYzED.
How to Ascertain the True Wishes
of the People of the Country.

From the New York Herald.l
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
pray you to keep on kicking the
Hawaiian knavery till you have kick
ed the life quite out of it. The Hor-
aid never was engaged in more
patriotic, prudent and statesmanlike
work. Its European edition did, by
the "Disciple of Daniel Webster"
communication cabled hence, strike
/ the keynote on which the nation is
now shouting. Keep on as you have
begun, so that all future Presidents
may be warned by Harrison's exam
| pie. have now the text OF the job
before me. 1t is even worse than yet
represented.
Who isl that undertakes, as sover-
cign power, to convey to the United
States the sovereignty and public
lands of Hawaii? "The President of
the Executive and Advisory Coun-
ellis of the Provisional Government
of the Hawaiian Islands" What
title for sovereign conveying SOW
ereignty All is provisional" The
question is provisional" President
Harrison told the Senate that the
treaty is only "provisional' Is an
! other to be made?
How and whore did the "Presi-
dent of the Executive and Advisory
Councils" acquire sovereignty?
There was local commotion, a re-
volt. The Queens forces and the
revoltcrs were arrayed for conflict.
Marines were landed from the Bos-
ton. The Queen paused. The re-
volters rushed in and sent com
mission to Washington. That was
on January Ii. President Harrison
signed treaty on February II.
Quick work, that.
The preamble of the treaty recites
that the government" what farce
"of the Hawaiian Islands" wish them
to be incorporated into the United
States as an integral part thereof,
and under their sovereignty" as an
Integral" a whole, part of divi-
sion of the United States. What can
that imply? The treaty fails utterly
to stipulate what sort of an ''inte-
grail part" Hawaii-its people and
inhabitants-ar to be. President
Harrison tells the Senate that the
sovereign of Hawaii is willing to
leave all those matters to us and
our Congress.
No real sovereign would thus leave
his subjects naked to foreigners
mercy, The omission stamps the
treaty as a sham. When the islands
have been coded all will have gone
from the ceding government. Ha
waiians will have no country of theil
own to which to go, as Alsatians haC
when Alsace was coded to Germany
A real ruler of Hawaii would hav,
taken guarantees for the citizenship
and treatment of his people. Ha
b wall takes none. The United State
can expel them all from their coun
try. They can be ruled, il they re
main, with Turkish or Russian fe
!. rocity. We never before had such
treaty of cession. Russia in cedin;
Alaska took good care that white o
civilized Russians had as good right
as any citizen of the United States
But civilized Hawaiians will hav
$ not as much guaranteed rights a
:, have our African citizens or inhab
i tants. Even citizen of New Yor
It going to live in Hawaii will ste
= from under the shield of the const
tuition, for Congress can if it wishe
r. rule in Hawaii in disregard of tn
/ constitution. No real and conscient
y Gus sovereign, uncoerced by bayc
nets, unbought by money, uninhr
Il enced by conspiracy, would have lei
, his people thus exposed.
1t VI.
II BY this sugar job the Unite
ar States only get the public lands {
h Hawaii with "a string attached
The second article stipulates tn
J. grantee shall enact special laws fc
the management and disposition
A. of the public lands, but all revenu
' therefrom, excepting such part {
ID the lands as Hawaii or the granite
may actually occupy, shall be 70
J. ever used "solely" for the "inhabi
I'd ants" mot citizens) ''of the Hawaiia
Islands for educational and 9th,
public purposes" The United Stat,
cannot sell and ELEVATE those land
: The ''inhabitants" will have a pc
petual right to the income. III
United States are to be trustt
= under thetreaty, but with no pow
" to sell.
or The third article stipulates tn;
y;fG within one year our Congress sha
A extend to the Hawaiian Islands I'll
Il. laws of the United States respec
ne ing" taxation, commerce and navig
eodI ton. Here is the job Are the Law
he to be our general laws or speci
" laws2 Who knows? Not word
a. said about covering the islands wit
he the federal Constitution. Congre
IN is, says President Harrison, left fir
n to put an .unmitigated despotis
n n over Hawaii The people of Il
i'd islands are left subjects of Congre
of like our wild Indians. What re
an sovereign ever acted thus with
ar people?
nd The public debt of Hawaii is q
NJ sumed by the United States up
Ia S3,250,OOO, but there is no arrang
les ment for dealing with the sever
% creditors if the debt is more TIL