The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-18

curious fact, which can be easily
proved here, that weeks before he
landed the troops Captain Wiltse, of
the Boston, said on several occasions
to several Hawaiian citizens:
"What would you say if some day
should land my forces and take
possession of your townp
1t should not be forgotten that
the Hawaiian government did not
ask Mr.. Stevens to interfere. Upon
the contrary, they notified him they
we're amply able to preserve the
peace and maintain order if that was
threatened, and this was true, for
the government had men, arms,
artillery and Calling guns.
When Mr.. Stevens ordered the
troops ashore the place was entirely
quiet and orderly. l am not de-
Tending the Queen, but showing the
gross misconduct of the American
Minister. 1t ought in fairness to be
said of the Queen that in proposing
to issue a new constitution in the
manner she had she was only follow
ing the evil example of the planter
party when they, in 1887, in the
same unconstitutional way, forced the
then King to accept and proclaim a
constitution which the planters had
prepared, and which, in some parts,
fundamentally changed the old
order, without consulting the peo-
pie on matters which, by very long
custom, were sacred to them, and
which, | will add, had worked we'll
during all the years previous to the
treaty which so enriched the plan
ters.
The Queens constitution con-
tanned one bad provision-that
which limited the judicial term to
six years instead of for life or good
behavior-but even in this it was
modelled on the constitutions of
most of our States.
ORDERLY GOVERNMENT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
1t is asserted here by the annexa-
tionists that orderly government has
become impossible in these islands.
The plain fact that there is not the
least disorder here now with an oil
garchy holding power which pro-
claims its determination to exist
only for the purpose Of securing the
extinction of the State, to which
purpose the very great majority of
voters are strongly opposed, is suffi-
Gent answer to that absurd claim.
To annex these islands would be
to do violence to the strong sense of
nationality of the great mass of the
people in order to benefit handful
of spectators who want annexation
because they believe there are mil
lions in it," and who openly regard
it as the way to get new boom in
place of the sugar boom which was
such big thing there for SO many
years.
RIGID NoN-INTERFERENCE NEEDED.
The longer | look about me here
on the ground the more clearly |
see that what is needed is rigid non
interference by foreign Powers, such
as can, suppose, be easily and GER
tainly secured by an agreement to
neutralize the islands, such as has
been proposed IN tia Herald Such
an international agreement between
the United States and the great Eu-
ropean Powers would dispel the idle
dream of spectators here about an,
nexation and oblige he leading
men in the community to take the
small trouble required to secure
permanent and just government on
these islands.
A protectorate such as is talked
of here by those who begin to des
pair of annexation would be a:
, purely mischievous as annexation
; 1t would mean only that the hand
full of whites here should be reliev
: ed of all responsibility and enabled
to call upon the United States when
ever their own misconduct or mis-
management brought them into
) trouble or even caused their selfsl
l policy to be thwarted for the mo
} ment. CHARLES NoRDHoFF.