The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-30

Mr.. Castle is a brother of w. II.
Castle, who was a member of the
Committee of Safety and one of the
commissioners who came to the
United States to ask for annexation.
Mr.. Castle feels Eeenly what he de-
clares is the injustice of Secretary
Gresham to the Hawaiians in his re-
port upon the matter to Mr.. Cleve-
land.
MoNSTRoUSLY UNJUST.
1--WE were completely thunder
struck when we learned that Secre-
tary Gresham had been holding a
brief for n decayed monarchy. All
the pretended findings of fact are so
partisan, so monstrously unjust, it is
difficult to- see how sane man, let
alone a judge, could ever have come
to any such conclusion. The article
contains few facts but only enough to
give it the appearance of FEASIBILITY.
1t is not true that the Queen was de-
posed by the American Minister or
the American forces. The American
forces were passive spectators of the
conflict from beginning to end. L was
an eyewitness and i only testify
to what every other eyewitness
knows.
''The men who put the Queen off
the throne knew that it was in bitter
earnest; they knew that they took
their lives on their hands; that it Icy
expected to come out with whole
skins it was because they relied upon
the incompetency, irresolutiOn and
the cowardice of the Queens Govern
ment. The Provisional Government
is certainly not disposed to yield to
anything but force. Cleveland and
Gresham have probably been waiting
eight months to see the Government
overturned. They found that cat
astrophe was not likely to happen so
they concluded they would have to
bring it about themselves.
t'It can't be done, however, without
a violation of the rights OF an indepen-
dent government they have recOgni-
Zed. 1t can't be done without the
grossest injustice to hundreds of per-
sons who have relied upon the good
faith of the United States. The
queens government at best would be
simply q paper government unless
supplanted by American bayonets.
Putting it back means simply using
the full force of the United States
government in order to destroy the
party of progress and ability in the
interest of q monarchy that is not
hopelessly effete and corrupt but has
been assiduously undermining Anne
rican industries and interest in Hawaii
for years.
FRIENDS OF BRITAIN.
The queen and the palace party
have been pursuing a policy that
would have ended by throwing the
islands into the hands of Great Brit
ain. The blow that was struck in
January last was struck as much in
the interest of the United States as it
was for Hawaii. Hawaii is the only
country in the world where the domi-
naut race, the one which is dominant
by it's virtue, intelligence, property,
Industry and it's civilization, has SUBJ
mitted to be governed by an inferior.
The course of the Cleveland admin
stration simply means that 1T is put
ting itself against the forces OF civil
cation. 1t amounts to rank treachery
to American interests. 1t is strange
business for an American to be in,
that of bolstering up monarchy that
is too weak to stand on its own legs.
If that came from the Gar of Russia
we might understand il, but coming
from an American it is past all under
standing. The course of Secretary
Gresham and President Cleveland
seems to have been dictated by weak
and watery sentimentality and bolst-
cred il up with tritling legal techni-
cality that is not even sound. 1t is
the regularity of sentiments OF that
kind that is enlisted in favor of the
1se6ra>- and vicious and against the
strong and deserving.
HAS T said before, Gresham's state
u.ent is lust true enough TO make the
whole all the bigger lie. He makes it
appear that the American Minister,
with a small knot of Americans, over
threw the queen and established this
Government. Nothing could be
wider from the mark. The seeds of
the revolution were laid years back.
Moi. and commercial forces have
been drawing Hawaii to America for
fifty wears. This was a fact that has
been recognized by the State Depart
ment at Washington since the days
of Daniel Webster. 1t Is not in the
nature of things that the Anglo
Saxon race should be permanently
controlled by a POlynesian tribe. The
only difference between the course of
events in Hawaii and elsewhere is
that in Hawaii the transfer of DOM
inion from the inferior to the superior
has been slow, orderly and peaceful,
and accompanied by a consideration
for the inferior without a parallel in
the history of race or country. 1t
was only when all the higher inter
ests, both moral and industrial, were
threatened with destruction by Poly
nesian ignorance and kalakauaism
that resort was had to force to rescue
them.
FORCE USED TWICE.
"Force has been used twice, once in |
1887, when the indignant people de-
Inanded q new constitution of Kala-
kaua, and again in 1895, when twenty |
wears of bittei experience had taught |