The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-15
DRILLING AT HONOLULU.
The Provisional Force. Well Armed and
Ready for Grim Service.

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sGv FRlScrsco Dec. 14-Gen. W. H. Dlmond.
ex-superintendent OF the San Francisco Mint
was passenger on the Oceanic from Ilonolu.
| la. Ho says there is intense feeling on the
| islands.
| Naturally" he said the military situation
| attracted my attention. l found the Provl-
| sionaI Government strongly intrenched. !
watched the Provisional forces drill under
| competent and efficient officers They ac-
quilted themselves in highly satisfactory
way. They are we'll armed with the latest and
best pattern Of Springfield rifles. with plenty
OF ammunition. and Calling guns and
other field pieces. Tho volunteers are
tho very best men on the islands
am credibly informed that the Prov-
slonal Government Is In power to place
l 800 men in tho field. thoroughly equipped.
That there will DO determined forcible resist
ance Is fact. | was further told that IL
marines are landed an attempt will be mado
to drive them back TO their ships An imprcs-
sion also prevails that even in the event OF
armed forces being landed and an order COM
handing them to fro given their pieces would
be fired into tho air. The moral support OF the
United States it is believed. will be with tho
annexation party.
Tho royalists are moro numerous than ia
generally supposed and are chiefly British
subjects. who arc confident that President
Cleveland will carry their policy through. and
bets are freely made. that the Queen will
Hawaiian Minister Thurston has taken pas
sage on the steamer Alameda, ane will sail for
PORTLAND. Me. Dec 14.-John / stevens.
Minister to Hawaii under President iarrlson's
Administration. addressed the Portland Club
last evening on Hawaii.
For more than sixty years. he said. our
great statesmen. without n single exception.
In nv int T.f eh..
Hawaiian Islands. The best OF the residents
are American In sympathies and in business
and are decreasing at the rate OF about 900 a
year. and at no distant day there will be none.
These that are now left should DO treated with
flicted on them than the restoration OF the
monarchy. The charge has been repeatedly
hoir and Claus Spreck els. that the missionaries
and teachers have taken unlawiully the lands
During my residence Of four years there
had n great chance to investigate and found
the Indictment most unjust. The native. are
very little OF Tomorrow. The Islands have
been fairly won by seventy years Of work OF
forced into foreign hands 1t is to be- hoped
that the american PEOPLE will be true to their
Is no fancy sketch. It is to he hoped that a Just
people will put an end to this wrong.
II is not pleasant for me TO be obliged to
Washington. Even had Blount been inn partial.
the time he allowed for his work was too short.
He confined himself to a limited field OF obser-
walton. He did make q brief iunketing trip
with Spfeekels TO spree oils a plantation. Oithe
large body OF influential men he cared not to
obtain information. He saw flt to ignore most
Of his countrymen. The policy In this m after
for the last nifty years has been the same with
the Wings Democrats Republicans. and also
OF the Cleveland Administration OF 1854 |
simply stand in line Of q Democratic Admins
tration with William !. Marcy. as Secretary Of
State In 1894. and think you will believe ma
In preierrinG tho statesmanship Of Jefferson.
land OF 81, who followed the star OF American
duty in lighting the way. to that Of Cleveland
and Gresham in 1893"