The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-11-24
THE GOOD NEWS.


British Columbia this morning. The
all-engrossing intelligence is, how
ever, only confirmation of what
the opposition press here confident
ly predicted all along, only to be
strenuously denied with odious re-
marks by the organs of the Provi-
sional Government and the Annex
alton Club. 1t was in the implicit
confidence that the United States
Government would adopt the policy
now divulged, when it had gained
all the facts it took especial pains to
obtain on the ground, that the Ha-
waiian people from the first con-
Quoted themselves with the utmost
complacency and decorum. Prob
ably when all the evidence gathered
by Commissioner Blount has been
made public, it will be found that
this very peaceable and patient de-
meanor on the part of the Hawai-
ians and their foreign friends has
had, in large measure, much to do
with the thoroughness with which
President Cleveland's administration
has decided to undo the results of
Minister Stevens high handed in-
reference with the affairs of this
realm.
1t is pity that our annexationist
contemporaries do not accept the
decree of American justice and fair
play with more grace than they do,
in the extra editions that they in
common with the BULLETIN issued
this forenoon. The never pent-up
fountain of vulgarity possessed by
the Star only breaks out in a
blacker- blooded flow, when it 50 far
transgresses decency and good man
ners as to call the late United States
Minister, in display headline, "a
liar" Little more Prospecting
than its evening ally does the Adver-
tiser show itself. In one paragraph
it counsels the community to keep
cool, and in Others explodes with
the clustering threats of violence
aud murder with which the filibust-
ering regime has made the commun-
ity only too familiar. These papers
surely had not taken time to reflect
on the bases given by Secretary
Gresham for his recommendations.
If they had done SO, they should
have seen that, for nearly every fact
cited to the discredit of the so-called
revolution, the clearest evidence is
furnished by official documents and
oral testimony from the hands and
mouths of the Provisional Govern
ment and Minister Stevens them
selves. There is not one particle
OF assertion given as coming from
Mr.. Blount's investigation, which is
not backed by the most uuimpeach
able evidence.
What object the organs of the lost
cause have in clustering is ilnpossi
BILE to conjecture even by giving
fancy its widest flight. Ministe
Willis had intimated, some days be
fore the arrival of the news, that th'
United States Government held it
self responsible for the preservation
of peace until our affairs were per
manently settled Any attempt OF
the part of either side to incite com
motion, the Minister assured tn
community, no matter from wha
quarter it proceeded would b
promptly suppressed. The infam
matory language of the annexation
papers is, in the face of the Uuite
States Minister'S declaration, sue
gestiye of desire to see the mac
ness committed of declaring wa
against the United States. Our con
temporaries and their whole part
might we'll at this time take a lea
out of the admirable record Of tn
Hawaiians during all these tryin
months, by preserving composur
and dignity with resignation
whatever kind Providence has i
store for themselves and tn
country. Rawaiiaus and foreigr
ers have lived in peace, an
earned common prosperity witt
out mutual dislike of serious degre
these fifty years, and all that is Re
auired to send them along peace
fully together for the next half Gel
tury is the establishment once MOI
of the reign of equal rights an
Justice to all, under the benign an
friendly counsel and support of HI
waits greatest friend and neare
neighbor, the United States of Anne