Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-15
TRUTH FOR ONCE.
Some P. G. Lies Nailed
To the Editor of The Tribune.

foilow Its chosen leader. or eae
Individual be governed by b :
own interest or his conscience
But those who are not basel ty
relations to the points at issre
have right at least to know tie
truth, or that statement of az
parent truth which any sincere
person would make with knowl-
edge of the matters in confess.
Now. for over year the Ane. :
lean people have been purpcsely
and wilfully kept from any KNOW
edge of things as they are in TIE
island kingdom Of Hawaii. l &C
not propose to ask space to dis
cnss those matters; l simply ass
consideration to this brief sat-
ment of facts: About the 18th of
January, 1893. five men sttrtei
for Washington with avowe3
purpose of ceding the Hawaiia
nation to the United States II W; Is
published throughout the land
that the former people desired
union with the latter. As fac,
the voters of Hawaii-14 900 by
registry-had expressed no opir-
ion at all for or against annexa-
ton, and even had the American
element commissioned those five
individuals. it would have been
trife less than 5 per cent. of tie
above number-653, to be exact.
Within month your OWE
columns have alluded to tn
embassy as whether we woulo
accede to the wish of the Hawai-
ian people If they have such
wish it has ever been expressed
Theodore II. Davies, British
citizen. passed through the Uni
ed States recently, returning &c
his home at Liverpool. His trip
had absolutely no political sig-
nifcance, yet his presence here
was made the text for conspic,,-
Gus articles on the influence of
England on our politics, and dis
patches ingeniously prepared ,c
foster such a view were sent fror
Honolulu to be reprinted in every
newspaper in the country. Is
fact, Great Britain has shown
more than her usual conservatism
in dealing with Hawaiian ques-.
tons, aud all that has been sa. c
on that subject proceeds, nIs
from her, but from the nineteen
self-appointed men who now hoo
tie reins of government. / ha' {
it directly from their own moutls
that they propose to do this
e., excite the fears of the present
Administration that an alliance
will be made by them with Gre; t
Britain; that thus, to avoid Il
stigma OF having played into tie
hands of a rival power, President
Cleveland will be forced to sero
to Congress special message
recommending United States ST..
premacy of some sort at Hawaii.
In the first place. by the Treaty
of 1913, Great Britain cannos
even accept a protectorate oval'
any portion of the Hawaiian isl
ands; in the second place, if 81 {.
should desire it. she will take /
through the only sovereign sic
has acknowledged = namelv
Qneen Liliuokalani.
Yet, show me one American
citizen who knows that the Bri.
ish Minister addresses Sanford
B. Dole IS Minister of Foreign.
Affairs" that no Power save Ru y
STA has ever acknowledged Il 6.
Provisional Government, thas Il
French Minister arriving within
three months at Honolulu Is q,
credited to the Queens Cour.
that no national vessel save til L.
of the United States has ever
accorded Mr.. Dole President 5,
salute, and that at his Official re-
ception even american naval at
ficers were ordered not to appe- j,
In uniform.
| Again. it is sedulously circ llst.
ed by the party in power th /.
America has vast interests %
protect In the Hawaiian Islands
Either we have millions there y.
not a cent. Which is itl Il tie
former let rs hasten and colle,
our taxes. not only for the PRISE d
year. but for. say. twenty .ysarl
past Sarely we cannot slltv
such q large amount to esca j
taxation, it is fraud on these j
us who pay for the support d
our armies and nayies. those win,