The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-31
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1893.
THE ELECTION SCHEME.
The Washington Star" Does
Not Believe In IT For
Hawaii.

If the intimations that are find
ing their way to the public ear
through the medium of administra-
ton organs are approximately ac-
curate it can reasonably be con-
cluded that the president disap-
proves of good government in the
only section of the earth outside of
the United States where his disap-
proval is of much moment. For
many months the people Of the
Hawaiian islands and other people
whose material interests are de-
pendant to Il considerable extent
upon political conditions in the
one time Pacific kingdom, have
waited for an opinion from the ex-
ecutive branch of the forces that
rule the United States, but up to
the present time no word has been
vouchsafed and as a natural conse-
quence conditions in Hawaii are far
from tranquil. But, even as gas
escapes from imperceptible orifices,
the rumor comes from what seems
to be an authoritative source that
President Cleveland will urge nom
action on the part of this country
until the inhabitants of Hawaii
white, brown and yellow, learned |
and unlearned, clean and filthy, |
civilized and barbarian, bond and |
free-express their preferences at |
the polls. This decision is probably |
in accord with that reached by Min
lister Blount and recorded in the re-
port which Mr.. Blount and Mr.. Chas.
Nordhoff of the New York Herald
went to Hawaii for the purpose of
making. Speciously presented to
unthinking people, the general
election scheme seems reasonable,
but under the circumstances it is
nothing more nor less than the
only way in which the United
States government can place the
American-hating Liliuokalani on
the throne; and that is what the
administration seems bent upon
doing. It is estimated that there
are about 5000 native voters on the
the foreign vote is more
than 5000. Only 1923 voters are
but this minority, in
terested in a modern form of gov
owns much more than 60
per cent. of the property and does /
over so per cent. of the business. {
The immediate conse-
luences of a return to power of ,
Queen Liliuokalani would be most
iemoralizing. For many years {
some of the most devoted religious I
workers the world has ever known 7
have labored for the salvation of q
he Hawaiian people, and their S
efforts have resulted in an eleva-
ion of the moral tone as pleas
ng to decent people as it has been
to the leprous-miuded
lorde that has ever surrounded the :,
jo-called royalty which once |
eigned ct Honolulu. A relapse q
nto the condition of barbarian n
monarchy could not fail to bring a
With it such a lowering of the .
moral tone as would prove to be >
nuch more of burden than Presi- u
Ient Cleveland could well bear. l.
WOuiu USCOII6 lIlO AcdO-
uarters of the great lottery COM q
any that so nearly succeeded in N
citing possession through the aid
f the late queen. The opium
the gamblers and thou
ands of other equally undesirable OF
ersons, who have steadily tried to
reak down the missionary inhu- s.
nee, would come into control. "
Wholesale degradation of the ma
yes would surely follow and, to bt
I'M up the almost certain posi-
ilities in a sentence, the civilizing 60
lfuence of generations of mission ST
~ effort would be wiped out in
antly. Surely it is not President pc
ieveland's purpose to aid those tn
nprincipled wretches who would
eight in the ruin of thousands
ecause the generalization and sn
would bring to the ed
sstroyers great financial profit ch
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