Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-14
persuasive argument of ships of war and


 As soon as this manifesto is declared everyone suddenly realizes what a crime has been committed, and what a .hsue If is to our nation that the poor, dear oueen has been in ssolusion so long.
 My principal complaint, MT. Editor, Is not that this view should now be SO gene ral, but that 1t should be SO sudden, and should be so implicitly and unquestioning- ly the result of one mans report
 Now as to this report:
 A man, presumably fair and unbiased, was isent out to hear evidence on both sides and report which one of the two is right, and which one of the two is wrong. After long investigation he comes back and offers no middle ground, no intima- ton that both sides may be in part right, but declares that one element is all risht, and one is all wrong. Who are these two elemental One consists primarily of the natives, those who by relationship, politi- cal positicn, or inherited preference, would adhere to their queen, right or wrong. They may be in a squabble with her, or with each other, all the time, but when anything of race question comes up they naturally adhere together, a tendency which is augmented by the exertions of demsgogues of the worst tyye, who are ousily engaged in stirring up race preju- dice.
 To these native Royalists are added such of the whites as by intermsrrisgs or polit- ical preferment, or by a chance at the pickings, choose to cast in their lot with this element, and can give you my word, from personal knowledge, that they are mostly 6 bad lot. Add to these a few, 6 very few, of the influential English peo- pie, whose patriotism makes them natural ly anti-American, and you have the whole Royalist party In @ nutshell.
 What does the other party consist off Of the missionaries who raised Hawaii from the darkness of Psgsnism to place among the commercial nations of the world. Of their descendants, born and bred there, who have made and invested their property there, who have converted barren wastes of sand and lava into way ing cane fields, who have brought millions upon millions of dollars into the country. the product of land which would not for merly grow & cactus bush. Of merchants and shippers who have made Honolulu @ nity among cities, given the country rail roads, bsnks, custom houses, telephones and laws Such a community, with such tremendous commercial interests at stake, cannot exist, much less advance, without a stable government. That stable govern ment they did not have, repeated trial proved that they could not have ss long as the queen was on the throne, so they called her down. The men who did this are not adventurers or insurrectlonists. They are men whom I know. They are men who In Waterbury or in New York would repre- sent the board of trade, the manufactur- ing and commercial interests, the railroads and the press. They did not precipitAts or even undertake e revolution. The queen was in revolution. She had pub hely and boldly sbrogated the oonstitu- ton. Her cabinet, men of her own ere ation, had refused to stand by her and were running up aud down the street, wildly asking friend and foe what they should do. Anarchy wss rampant. The only element, the only party, which could possibly hang together quietly as- stunned the reins of government, and the queen and her rotten crew were simply laid one side.
 Mir. Stevens may not have been sufi- ciently impartial. It is possible that his personal views, although the only ones which high minded man could have held, may have swsyed his official acts too much. But the dethronement was not done by him, the United States troops did not in- timidste the Royslists, they were intimi- dated by their own helplessness and use- lessness and the realization that the con- trolling element of the city was in moral and intellectual command. Several times this same set of men had overpowered this same wre;ched crew, with no troops to back then, with no weapons, but the tre- mendons power of public sentiment They did it again last Jsnusry, without reliance on Stevens Or need of his troops They can, and will, do 1t again, ss sure as the monarchy is restored.
 The question of plebiscItum Is plaHsi- ble from an American and democratic point of view, but it is not a method that has been very prevalent in dealing with aboriginal races in other cAses. and ia not pertinent here. Our ancestors did not in- dulge in many pl-biscits In their early questions of government st 6 time when the American Indian was an important factor. Were 1t left to a plsbiscitum to- day the twelve hundred lep-rs on Moloksi would be turned looss to morrow.
 The native Hawaiian is sn Interesting, picturesque and lovAble character. Gene rons, hosp.tahie, psAosabls and musioAl-A very delightful chap Es he sits iE the sun. or swims, or fahes. or sings. Further than that, he is in the economy of exist. enee, absolutely no use He can, on a half asre tsro patch, raise enough of the national food, by lAboring two hours 6 week, to support himself, family, guests and neighbors the year around. What more should he vanti Nothing. Why should he work morei He won't. The vast plantations have been built up with American capital and Aslatic labor. The natives are not industrious enough to be relied upon as field hands, mill hands or house servants, so ihsse places have 10 be filled by Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese labor. There is not to-day in the city of Honolulu 6 mercantile house owned or conducted by natives. Portuguese, Chi nese and Japanese tTadesmsn abound and prosper, but the only field of the natives Is as cab drivers and fishermen. They have not even sold their birthright for ( mess of potsge-they have given it away, It would take several weeks to break In gangs of Portuguese or AsiAfice to man the inter-islsnd steamers and row ths landing boats from them. With this ex ception, say in all s0berness that l can not think of an industry that would be paralyzsd, or any commercial, agricultural or mercantile interest that would seriously suffer if the whole nahve population were to disappear tomorrow.
 MT. Editor, If it Is invariably true thsi one mans vote Is as good as snothers, ths these people are the real possessors of the land and must govern it, and that the few thousand whites there are to cut only such figure In the government as their propor- ton of votes would imply-then the men and families who represent the element which Messrs. Blount and Cleveland would suppress must leave their vast interests and lifelong associations, and emigrate to this enlightened country and begin anew, and leave the queen and her subjects to govern each other and sit in the sun. The Rev Dr. Beckwith, formerly of the Second church, is 8 devoted member of this party, and pr. Davenport would be if bs were there. Near relatives of D.