The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-05
CHANGE OF BASE.

to crawtish ont of its original policy
of DISTINGUISHING the Hawaiians, and
not only them but all other residents
of the islands. 1t was freely givCu
out in the United States after the
Provisional Government Commits
sioners went over, as well as beng
common talk among tho annexation
lists in Honolulu. that the form of
government desired for these islands
under the American flag was to be
similar to that of the District of
Columbia--vi2., by Commission re-
sponsible only to the Government
of the United States. This form of
government, it was explained, was
only to be maintained a few years,
or until the islands should have at
tanned position qualifying them
for admission as a State. Directors
were asked if they ought not to be
willing to forego most of the privi-
leges of citizenship temporarily for
the sake of the advantages to be de-
rived Immediately from annexation.
The reason advanced for not seek
ing even the privileges of territorial
home rule was that, so far as affairs
were under popular control in a
Territory of the Union, the native
vote would overwhelm the foreign
vote and could not be trusted. In
plain language, the idea was that
the native Hawaiian vote was to be
got out of the way at any sacrifice
Until the foreign vote became
strong enough to overshadow the
uative vote, nobody was going
to have a vote at all. If the
plan or policy described was not
that of the Government, it is
strange that disclaimer of it was
left to the new organ started the
other day. How is it that the ole
organ only comes in at the heel o.
the hunt, creeping in at the bacl
door, as it were, with bouquet o.
praise for its rival party apologist
as reward for expressing a denia
that would have been timely for the
old organ to make a month previ
ously? The Civil Rights League
was started, with well-known annex
ationists among its leading members
to agitatc for the securing of equa
popular privileges Under the United
States flag to those enjoyed under
the Hawaiian flag. How was it anC
its cause received by the Advertiser
which now supports the Stars de
nial of any intention to deprive any
body of civil rights? 1t was received
by the morning organ with deliber
ate misrepresentation of its motives
and held up to reprObation as tlyins
the black flag" of piracy. There
was no disclaimer then, on the par
of the Advertiser, such as th
secondhand one it employs to-day
The morning organ was then con
scious that the piracy was all on it
own side, and the black flag lloatin:
at its own peak. Now that tn
evening organ has discovered for i
that the piratical scheme would no
work, it lowers the black flag an'
; hoists the proper standard O
; equal rights. The Advertiser dis
plays its usual tactics in its retrea
when it impudently charges its OF
ponents with the authorship of i;
own hitherto ill-concealed sent
ments, as it does in these word
: "As a matter of fact the statemer
; that the natives were to be deprive
1 of the franchise is simply a fiction {
the Governments enemies, inveutc
: to make it and its cause odious
y the native population" 1t woul
J have been the simple truths strana
Il TO the Advertiser-to have said thi
the canvass among Hawaiians fC
+ recruits to the Annexation Club, t.
4! gether with the unmistakable att
e tude of President Cleveland. hi
o convinced the friends of the Go
5 ernment that their original polio
o was an egregious blunder and thi
u it was necessary to make chans