The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-12
ROYALIST NEUM4NN GIVES
THE PROVISIONAL COY
ERNMIsNT ADVICE.
He is Evidently Tired of Not Being
In 1t.

Hon. S. B. DOLE,
| DEAR SIR-The situation in the
Hawaiian islands is unsatisfactory
and complaints are loud on all sides
To the present uncertainty are at
tributed hard times, languishine
trade, and the wearing strain upon
the mind and patience of the PEG.
pie; anyhow, it is thought that re.
moving the existing uncertainty
of our condition will abolish those
evils.s
The people of the islands have
remained in conservative expectancy.
Even tnOse who are not wildly en-
| thusiastic in favor of annexation
willingly credit to the party at
whose head you stand an honest pur-
! pose to benefit all the people of
| this country by their policy. Why,
however, this delay in positive ac-
| ton?
This letter is addressed to you,
firstly, because you have assumed
all responsibility by assuming the
leadership of your party; secondly,
| because number of people, though
not content with the state of affairs,
yet give tacit support to the Pro
visional government because they
have confidence in your character,
disposition, integrity and ability.
But their faith in your strength
and in your courage to do what is
just and right is wavering.
Leaving aside certain objection
able acts of your party-Objection-
able because they Were certainly un-
! necessary and presumably impolitic
such AS the childish interference
with the band, the absurd military
bill and Others,-the people acqui-
esced i'll your leadership and in the
DIRECTION of public business by your
colleagues and by the advisory
council. Because the people confide
in your honesty nothing has been
done 10 impede your course of action
or to thwart your policy. Is, how
ever, the present condition to con-
tinue Indefinitely?
Do you, do your colleagues, does
the council, and do your partisans
believe that government established
under the circumstances under which
this government was created-a gov
eminent existing without, L will not
say against, the consent of the Ha-
waiian people, can be permanently
maintained? This, you know, is not
probable, it is not possible; an at
tempt to shape your action to accord
with such n belief may be fraught
with very serious, perhaps, danger
Gus results.
II is not necessary to advance the
proposition that annexation is entire
ly impossible; it is undeniably impos-
sible without an expression of the will
of Hawaiian people. The United
States would not, without such an eX
preston, annex this country in any
form or under any conditions.
1t is obvious that neither the previ-
Gus "elan" which inspired the annex
atiOnists last February, nor the propa-
ganda which small portion of the
American press aud the stereotyped
sermon of eX- Minister Stevens may
make will induce the American peo-
pie to garrote the Hawaiians and steal
the islands.
1t is strange that men of such intel
ligence and political experience as
some members and part sans of the
Provisional government are, could not
foresee the fact that the American ma
ton are not filibusters, and that iu-
stead of attempting to gain anneXa-
ton by legitimate efforts in the ISL
ands, you tried by foreign and unlaw-
full assistance to knock Mr.. Stevens
ripe pear off the Hawaiian tree. 1t
was a INSTRUCTED blow. The United
States did not spread the bag to re-
ceive the pear; it is hanging there yet
and nobody was struck, unless our re-
spected friend Mr.. Stevens, rs one
may fairly judge from the groans of
pain which he emitted in San Fran
cisco before the chamber of commerce.
In the end not even the resolutions of
the San Francisco chamber of COM
merce will help to annex the islands.
The point Is, what can, what should
be done, and what is your duty at this
time? All possible propositions lead
Int IN on md
ent conclusion. A plebescitum must
be held. Why wait until this neces-
sity is pointed out by the American
congress, to whom very probably the
president will submit the Hawaiian
question? Does anyone believe that
the indecency heretofore attempted
through false reports sent to Mr.. Har-
risOn and Mr. Foster can be repeated,
and that the Hawaiian people will be
robbed of their independence against
their expressed consent, or will have
the benefits of annexation conferred
upon them without their expressed
wish? Whoever believes that does
not know the United States of Amer
lea
If the qualified voters of the Hawai-
ian Islands ratify the actions of the
committee of safety and of the Pro-
visional government, you will need
no army 10 Strike terror INTO the
hearts of the malcontents. If they do
not endorse you, what right have you
to usurp the functions of government?
If the people ratify those acts and
approve your political existence as
rulers, every decent, intelligent and
we'll meaning resident, though no adj
herent of your party, will array him.
self upon your side and sustain your
actions and your policy. Then the
prayer for annexation can be made in
such proper, clean and justifiable
manner that our great and good friend
across the sea can, with propriety, give
heed to your request. Then he may
help US; if not by annexation, to his
own detriment, yet by assisting us to
maintain stable and decent govern
ment.
If a majority of representatives
elected by the qualified voters of the
country declare for a change of our
form of government, irrespective of
the possibility of future annexation,
they will be sustained by the tax
payers and reputable citizens of this
country, and no dissent will be heard
if the present government should be
placed lawfully and constitutionally
in power.
The people will not submit to Pre-
torianism or indefinite delay in settle