Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-04-05
RULING BY FORCE.
The P. G.. Neither Repre-
sentative Nor Popular.

lNe news from IlaNHIi iuuicdtcS
clearly enough that the gang of
buccaneers who have seized the
government Of that country are
beginning to realize the difiicnl-
ties q their position; and that
these d ficulties Will grow with
time IS truism which all
thoughtful men must realize.
The outcIy which came by the
last mail 10 the eject that from
fifty 10 enc hundred men, who
had money enough to pay their
first week S boards bill without
securing job the moment after
landing. bad arrived there recent
" aud had so disturbed the
mental repose of the Provisional
Government that it bad not only
"legislated' to prevent any fur
ther landings of tAat sort, but
had also passed laws" COMPEL
ing str myers who have already
arrived to go through the same
operation that tramps ale obliged
to submit to in this country when
they are arrested for V grancy,
ought to excite amusement every
where. The present authority
Of Hawaii are doEbtless unduly
and unnecessarily alarmed, and
their alarm has created spectres
who, from n numerical point of
view, grow like Falstaff's men
in buckram;" it may be that
guilty conscience makes than
inclined to say to these newly
arrived reformers of government:
Shake not thy CORY locks at me,
thou cansi not say | did it." Be
that as it may the position of the
Provisional Government is in THIS
respect somewhat peculiar one;
it can scarcely says that it has been
called to administer the govern
mental affairs of tue Hawaiian
Islands ny the voice of the Hawa-
iian people, or by the voice ofthe
people whom the Hawaiian peo-
pie allowed to settle in their midst;
rs matter of trnth it is some
what notorious that the present
Provisional Government of Ha-
wall holds office in opposition to
the Jcisies of the people of Ha-
waii or the people whom the peo-
pie of Hawaii allowed to settle
in Hawaii. As Mr.. Thnrston.
who was the leader of the alleg-
ed revolution, said in a letter to
Mr.. Antoine Rosa: "It is gov
ernment of force" The Provi-
sional Government is not a dy-
nasty nor is it an outgrowth of
popular feeling. At q liberal
estimate there are probably not
more than two thousand of the
seventy thousand people on the
Islands who are in favor Of it,
and Of those two thousand there
are not more than FIVE hundred
who would raise a finger to save
it from destruction. The Provi-
sional Government, as matter
Of fact. was established by the
United States marines, and has
practically been maintained since
those marines were ordered on
board their ship. by the presence
of American vessels in the harbor
and the general understanding,
based upon the declaration of
American officials. that the usurp
ers should not be disturbed
pending a decisionof theircase' at
Washington" where the "black
queen" Of savage descent thought
that she could get justice. That
decision has been rendered but
not executed, and-well. one of
the American vessels has been
ordered of to the Behring sea
and the other may be told to take
q cruise at any moment. In that
case who will protect the poor
Provisional Government This
Is query which naturally creates
alarm at the headquarters of Mr..
Dole and his associates and
makes the gentlemen who are I'M