The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-02-26

VIII De uO security, loT SeueTatlOn
to come. do not believe that any {
government, that does not make
show of being supported by the Ha-
waiian people, will receive recogni-
ton even from a Republican Admin
istration in the United States. They
will look suspiciously upon us for a
long time, and white mans gov
erument will not be allowed to re-
present the Hawaiian nation, simply
because he says so.
The American League recently
sent to- Congress tn" following state-
ment: "Wc are of the mass Of the
people who made q stand for law
and order. and constitutional right
sour ranks include only citizens OF
the greatest republic Of the earth"
That frank declaration had the
apparent appreciation of the Hawai-
| ian Ministers, aud it is sure to he
pigeon-hol at Washington, and
brought as evidence against us.
The point then is: Who compose
the Hawaiian nation? | think there |
is but one answer: The men who
have votes under the Constitution OF
1887. Whether they ought to have
had them is not the question. The
Constitution, broken and battered
as it is, is still the highest law, and
they, at any rate. have not violated
il. Therefore. no convention and no
constitution can he solid, that has
not the sanction of those men.
IL you do not get this sanction,
YOU will have to live on in unfriend-
illness, for as many years as you like
to pay for il. The Hawaiian people
are not dying out. aud their friends
ara not dying out. aud "the sympa-
thies of mankind will he with them
always"
Therefore, ! repeat that the sane
tion of the electorate is cce'sar,, to
the validity of any constitution.
How are we to get that sanction? |
can only think Of one way.
We certainly shall not get il, il
we leave the manipulation exclusive
I ly in the hands Of men who have
avowed their desire to subvert Ha.
waiiau nationality. We shall not
get il, unless W. show the Hawaiians
r that we accept the defeat of annex
alton manfully, aud mean to live
/, Loyalty beside them, as neighbors
r should live.
I am aware that this is the crucial
+. point, for many perhaps most an.
A ncxatiOnists do not intend to live
!. Loyalty beside the Hawaiians.
think those men had better leave
l.. the convention alone, and stick to
a the military drspotism, which IL the
only ALTERNATIVES.
r. There is, a. said, only one way
II in which the national sanction eau
% he obtained, aud it implies concilia.
n. tion and concession, aud the ques.
.. tiun may as we'll bc faced now. foI
n ON its settlement depends the other
n. question:, Of prosperity or ruin foi
Q. our commercial and agricultural
il life. Th" anneXatiunists have mad,
/, great fight, IN which they have
%. given no quarter, aud the iron has
q, been driven into th. soul Of the Ha
10 waiians. But there has been on,
NJ fatal mistake: the pat riotic ins,inc,
uf the Hawaiian has been left out al
., the reckoning. No man who regard,
as patriotism a. a sentiment, which ear
I, b. transferred from land to land
like gipsy's tent, has ever expert
a.: rncrd, or he has for ever lost, tn,
go inspiration of patriotism. II is no
Ia love, nor charity, nor justice, nor !,
n, IL either pride ar buster; il Is jus
ar the unqucnchable instinct tina
nj makes man prefer to perish in thu
ashes OF his home, rather than liv,
an To mourn its loss. Those of us VIII,
|, saw aud remember what took plac,
"a. when kalakaua was elected, whel
in thu women aud children were silent
il ly seut away, aud the indolent mel
hc became u frenzed mob, will not RI
ed quirc to be reminded Of the innu
id ence which national instinct cal
NO exercise over the Hawaiians.
by The patriotism of the Hawaiian
mt dominates the position to day, ant
tn they have the whole world for thei
Vi friends. That patriotism control
he the Hawaiian vote TO-DAY, aud with
III. out that vote there can be no soil,
ch consi tuition. no peace, uo prosperit
,r. for eth foreigner or native.
ep There is No Disgusting the fac
ed from any one but ourselves, that tn
movement for annexation has r,
A. suited IN q serious defeat, and tn
he only point for us to decide is, VIII,
he ther We will accept the verdict nov
40 or go through year Of wors
III, anxiety and possible riot, and the
Id accept it. TIL. elements of disordt
De-, are only too apparent even now, an
on with them We have to face intern'
disairection and external unfriendl
Die ness.
on The anti Hawaiian utterances I
sry the American league on one han'
ON and the uumistakabe tone Of til
Jus Chinese on the other hand, sho
es, that policy Of justice to all cam,
he he maintained by any governmel
rry that has not the loyal support Of /
the bulk Of the people,
ties Let mo recaptulatc:
!. The comparative simplicity
ion revolution was involved with Il
de compleXity Of annexation.
rty 2. Thereby, not only had Il
For Queen to fight for her throne, b
on the nation had To fight jointly wi
,sed her, for nat ional existence.
3. Annexation has been defeate
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