The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-28
Hail Columbia.
From the New York Nation.

Hawaiian matter deserved to be
framed and exhibited at the Worlds
Fair. They will find a place beside
the Silver-Purchase Act, the swind-
ling pension legislation, Porter's
bogus census, the Geary Chinese
Registration Act, and the broken
Treasury, as our national centennial
display for the admiration of man
kind, and by way of comparison with
the similar exhibit in 1876, which in
cludcd Babcock and the Whiskey
Ring, Blaine and the Mulligan let
tiers, Schenck and the Emma mine,
Belknap's impeachment, Buffers re-
adoption by the Republican party,
and the perversion Of the Alabama
award for the benefits of claimants
ruled out at Geneva. 1t was in 1876,
too, that the Executive and Senate
fastened upon reluctant country
the indefensible treaty with Hawaii,
which, in the name of reciprocity,
gave munificent bounty to hand
full of sugar planters; that, in the
name of bimetallism, the first move
was made by Senator Jones for a
bounty on silver mining; and that
Congress began its ondeavors to
rival the unconstitutional and abo-
minable laws Of California directed
against the Chinese, both resident
and immigrant.
On what theory of democracy,
self-government, or home rule has
the tender of the Hawaiian Islands
been made to this country and en-
tertained and recommended by the
Executive2 VIGOROUSLY, the "pleni-
potentiaries" represent the merest
fraction of the inhabitants, whose
wishes have not been manifested by
plebiscite or even consulted. The
natives, whose hereditary dynasty
has just been overthrow; the great
mass of the laboring population
Chinese and Japanese; the large
Portuguese contingent, and the rest
of the European colony, are to be
taken over without an opportunity
to be heard in their own behalf, and
without one word in the treaty tc
guarantee them if they wanted it
"the enjoyment of all the rights, ad
vantages, and immunities of citizen.
of the United States" and "the free
enjoyment of their liberty, property
and religion" as was done in the
case of Russia's subjects in Alaska
"the uncivilized tribes" excepted.
Was there anything-the parti
ton of Poland, or the successive an
nexations of Alsace-Lorraine tt
France and to Germany-more un
American than this?
We all know that the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitu
ton contemplated white men alon,
in their glittering generalities, anc
that it cost us a civil war to incor
porate black Americans among 9Th,
people,"
But that was a hundred years ago
and are we now to shut our eyes OF
all but little group of self-exilet
Americans who have effected a coul
d'etat, and to see no other people
in the archipelago?
Are we to do more, and worse, b,
stigmatizing in the very terms of tn
treaty, one large and indispensable
part of the Hawaiian population
the Chinese, namely-and through
no act of theirs, upon no consulta
ton, subjecting them to an oppres
sive statute which cannot be main
tanned i'll our courts, and whicl
is in fragrant disregard of our treat,
stipulations with China? 1t is &C
tually true that the United State
has been committed by its executive
with the approval of the Foreigl
Affairs Committee of the Senate, t,
the forcible seizure of kingdom
with the express intention to max
more intolerable the condition O
one specific class of the inhabitants
and that failing class introduce,
by the planters. This is one of tn
tender mercies of the wicked; and
it is to be carried out in the spirit G
our unchristian attitude towards tn
Chinese on this continent, the coolie
of Hawaii must be marched up be
fore the camera, as if for the rogue
gallery, registered and docketed, OF
falling that, or on loss of thei
"passports" be liable to be kidnal
ped and deproted to China.
Yet the Chinese are not an "ur
civilized tribe" like the Aleuts, an
they are superior, in hereditary civil
ization and in all that goes to max
the stuff of empires, to the Hawai-
ian aborigines; whom evangelizin
has but helped on to extinction.
Nevertheless, they will not b
allowed to become Americans, an,
in the most liberal measure of sell
government accorded to the Island
by any Congress we are likely 500
to have, they will be denied the sui
frage-the badge and defence O
freemen. Life, liberty and the pun
suit of happiness will, for them, b
wholly at the mercy of despots seat
ed either at Washington or at Hone
lulu. They have merited all this b.
their extraordinary pains to settle a
2OOO miles distance from our wester
coast and 5000 miles from our cap
tai, not knowing, poor heather
that the sphere of our inhuenc
NATURALLY" extends to them by re;
son of their geographical proxin
ity," while their brethren in Cub
AN island which is to the Unite
States continent what Long Islam
is to New York-are secure from an
such high handed oppression, thanl
to Spanish gunboats and similar aiC
to reflection and deliberation. I'll
Presidents precipitancy here, as
the case of Chill, has its spring
that spirit of caste which ought
find no refuge in the bosom of
Presbyterian elder, much less of IL