The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-19


a part as the royal authority
been abolished or even suspended
|'This single pOstulatum, the Vacah-
cy OF the throne, being once esiao-
Iished the rest that was then done
followed almost of courSe- FOR, II the
throne be at any time vacant lWnIch
NAV hapDen by other means besides
that of abdication, as If all the blood
royal should fail, without any success,
sor appointed by Parliamentj-h, l. /
say, vacancy, by any means what
sOever, should happen, the right Oh I
dispOsing of this vacancy seems nat
uraIIy to result TO the Lords and Com
mons, the trustees and representatives
OF the nation. For there are no other
hands in which it can 50 properly ne
intrusted; and there Is a necessity Oh
its being intrusted somewhere, else
the whole frame of government must
be dissolved and perish"
The principle on which this decision
| in regard to the abdication OF hlng
James III rests is still stronger when IL
| is applied TO persons who are cltlZeHs
| of the United States but VINO reside III
| Hawaii. and by the constitution anu
| laws of Hawaii are admitted INTO an
| active participation in the conduct Oh
government, both as officeholders ana
| as qualified electors. III they, In con-
| nection with the native or natural
lied subjects of the Kingdom OF Ha-
wall, unite in demanding the pres
| ervation of their constitutional 1ghtS,
there should be no cautious OF
technical objections taken 10 the as
sertion of that right, or to the manner
of its exercise.
! In reference to all citizens of the
| United States residing in Hawaii and
not actual members or officers OF that
Government, the spirit of our laws, In
accordance with the principles OF the
| Constitution and the traditions OF the
people, should be applied te their pro-
lection, when it is the duty or the
United States to protect them, ana
especially are they entitled to the fuiI
advantage of the protection that IS
afforded under that doctrine OF per-
sonal liberty and security which up
holds the authority of governments
de facto. When such government
arises out of alleged abuses and grew
ances and is set up in good faith by
the intelligent classes to succeed
monarchy in "a state that IS the only
monarchy in u sisterhood of many re-
Dublics, the rules governing its recog-
milton are not those that seem to con-
troll in cases where the state Is a sole
republic surrounded by an environ
ment of mOnarchles.
In Europe, where governmental
SUGGESTIONS have 10 relation 10 the
will of the people, every presumption
that can be made to support the reSsi
system is adopted and enforced with
: rigid care. The old conditions are
= presumed to exist in regal govern
ment until the new government mas
? accomplished complete revolution
{ and until nothing remains to be done
= to secure an uninterrupted and unem-
barrassed Installation of its authority.
2 Those presumptionS are all In favor
= of the crown and are easily applied IN
r practical use, as the crown is a poll
2 tical unit and acts with certainty III
( the assertion of its claims. When the
- rights asserted against the crown are
= set up by the people, or for the people
= the act is necessarily representative
Y act, and the authority of the alleged
= representative is severely questioned
Indeed, it is not considered as exist
# ing in European countries until
n through bloodshed or an overWheim
= ing exhibition of forces, its acknoWl
n ment is literally compelled. The re
: verse of this rule should obtain IN ina
# part of the world where 1t IS heId
= Universally, that the right to govern
= depends upon the consent of the gov
e erned and not upon the divine inner
e itance of power. In q controVerS,
:. like that in Hawaii the presumption
e is in favor of those who unite TO asSer
the constitutional rights of the people
e that they are acting in good 1altn
IT and that they are not seeking pei
,r sonaI ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but the good O
d the people. When such popula
q movement engages the evident sup
l. port of those whom the people hav
trusted for integrity to an extent Una
D inspires a Just confidence of success
D sufficient foundation exists, at least
IN for a government de facto; and it
p no more necessary to its validity tina
IN every possible obstacle to its 1na
lie success has been removed than
1t would be necessary, on the othe
of hand, to the permanency of the crow
he that every rebellious subject of tn
es Queen had been slain or banished an
ne their estates had been cOnfiscated.
at The supporters of Liliuokalani seel
a to be enforced into the attitude
o. claiming that it is no consequent
ne that she may have forfeited her rlgi
TIN to the crown ana had Placeu III u
at power of the people lawfully TO clall
to that this was an abdication, unle
o. the people had overcome and remove
ct every vestige of her power before the
by proclaimed the Provisional Cover
ed ment. Her known purpose to pre-
"a the absolute powers claimed oy her
VII the new constitution to the extent
b the Punishment or deatn Oh inc VIII
he population seems not TO be permitted.
excuse the action of the people in eli
mt placing her, if they had not captur
her small force of policemen and sc
,e- diers before the American minlst
ny had recognized the Provisional Go
gil eminent.
Ist Iiliuokalani did not seem to ia
,ty this narrow view of the revolution S
ny had inaugurated.
lat The Punishment or ueatn Oh
,ed white people and the conlscatlon
I'VE their estates was the final decree
ia corded in the Queens heart a
the mind, as she freely stated to Minis'
Willis, and until this cruel work b
ne, been accomplished she held that
policy of revolution would be ia
of ure. There is some ground Tor nc