The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-02-22
WEDNESDAY, FEB. %, 1898.
WHERE THE PRESS Is FREE.

There has been lot of vaporing
in Honolulu about alleged "inaam-
matory" publications, and one editor
after another has been hauled up
for "examination"-frs under mar
tial law and then by the remarkable
process of warrant of the Provisional
Legislature-to give an account of
articles in their papers held to con-
tain unfair criticism or contempt
for the supreme powers. 1t is moth
ing to people who support these
proceedings, or to those brainless
louts who talk of adopting border
ruffianism against free press-such
as stuck California for heavy dam
ages in the early days of it's civiliza-
tion-it is nothing to them that the
chief cause producing the confusion
and distraction which led up to the
late revolution was the false criti-
cism and inhammatory libels and
seditious utterances of host of pa
pers among which was the AdXer-
tiser, now so valorous in demanding
all sorts of extreme proceedings
against its contemporaries.
The foregoing statements can all
be proved by closely connected
chain of evidence, but it is not to
prove the Indictment that this arti-
Gle is printed. We wish to give our
readers some samples of free United
States opinion on the Hawaiian situa-
tion. The dates will show that the
journals quoted did not take their
cue from any opposition publications
in these islands, there not being time
for such to be the case.
The Omaha World Herald of Jan.
81 heads an editorial article, "The
Spoliation of Hawaii. The article
advises that "it would be we'll to go
slow before taking this step" (annex-
ing the islands), and says:
Whom does this committee repre-
senti Does it represent the senti-
ment of the natives, or of the carpet
baggers in Office, or the greedy mer-
chants bent on gain7 1t is said that
the queen has threatened to disfran-
chise all foreigners. This certainly
cannot matter to the United States.
They cannot be citizens of Hawaii
and expect the United States to pro-
tect that citizenship. If there are
any American citizens there whose
lives, property or liberties are en-
dangered it will be simple thing
for us to demand justice or restitu-
ton, and in the event of not getting
it, force it from the queen or close
our ports and markets to her.
But the complainants in this case
are not American citizens. They
are Americans who have gone to the
islands obtained, Office and been dis
possessed thereof by the queen. The
natives have not complained. So
far as we know none of the visiting
delegation are natives. The COM
missioners say they do not want an
independent republic, but annexa,
tion. The annexation of these isl
ands inhabited by semi-civilized peo-
pie and many hundred miles from
our shores will be ridiculous and a
mighty injustice to the natives.
Under the heading, "Revolution
for Revenue" the St. Louis (Mis,
souri) Post-Despatch has an article
from which the following para,
graphs are taken:
The principal reason urged by the
statesmen with hair-trigger tongues
and the patriots with axes to grind
for the annexation of the Sandwich
Islands is that if we do not take
them England or some other country
will. This is the stock argument which
has served many a turn of those who
either from folly or shrewdness seize
opportunities to advocate territorial
aggrandizement and an aggressive
foreign policy for this country.
Sufficient information with regard
to the causes of the revolution has
been made known to prove that it is a
revolution for revenue only, and that
it represents the attempt OF small
coterie OF spectators to retain their
privileges and enhance their ability
to tatten off the resources of the ISL
Ands' We can obtain all the advan-