The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-10
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr.. Marques Says HawaiianS Are
Trampled Upon.

Nix. EDToR:-In the journal OF
The PoIynesian Society, published at
Wellington, y. H., in the number I0r
december, 1898, there is an article oy
MARQUES, who was once an haoltC@
= ,be naIace in kalakaua's time, but
~ late has been living in retirement
IN this city. Speaking OF the Ha
waiians ne says, y. 269:
Their civil rights and aHtoh'
otuv ought not TO De allo"e"
20 be trampled sic down 70
nit the ambition and lust TOT
mower of a faction OF white adNehIur-
ers- Annexation 10 America can III
no way excuse the usurpatloh' oe
,.snse annexation would be OF no pos
.ible benefit 70 the Hawallans-ohIy
1strimental-and because America,
the land of liberty for the "hIUe
race, has nothing TO De proud OF III
r. treatment of the weak or INFERIOR
aces within it's own borders, who are
crushed, not helped, as the MaoflS are
;n New Zealand; and annexation
AGAINST the free will OF the aooFiSlneS
and their heirs would be an IndeloIe
stain on the hitherto pure escuIcheon
of the American repuolc. an, ite
.+ .ba head of its officers the name oI
-. SspafroD Her Majesty Lil1uokalanl,
Snaao of Hawaii The people III
%eyV Zealand are either una" are VI
1nmipdful Of some events Oh recent
5istorv As there has not oeeh iOI
over a wear any such personaSe as Tue
one named as the patron OF Ihis Wv
Zealand society, 1t wouIu loOH niot .S
in keeping with the IacIs, 80
should be an OMISSION VI r. haad
Of the defunct parsonage al th0 90 go.
- its officials. Some members Oh our
TaTvaiian Historical Society put upon
- This same lei ALI but in the Hono
min notification it has as fresluenO
Cleveland phrases 1t, fallen lnIo III
nOcuouS desueJude." II;
II yUouId be as well also for the eol
tor of the Journal to see 10 IL enao
some correction should De lhstO'e Vi O'Ae
ssveroiage'' of Mr.. Marques D.
The official recognition Oh Tne -
,,;Sio1aI government last January
was not the recognition of " usurpa-
tioDD Nor should a Journal thaI
FISHES TO be considered as having any
-esneet for historical accuracy aIlo"
rba officers of the Provisional Govern
T1ept to be stigmatiZed as =" aoVeu-
turers- ~ when L. :. Minister w ms
who has so courteously asked Iheuh y, -
stem out from the positions wnere ne ne
alleges that U. ;. Minister Stevens !,
put them. endorses them as men Vi
iutelligenee and prObity, having coT.
troll OF great financial interests
was family, social, natlonal lnleIe st t
of oId-time residents and clLlZeus III !,
periIled by the queens usurpatIotnt
OF arbitrary power that led up 70 Ine
revolution. Nor can this New Eea-
land journal benIoan the Ha"aIIa L
as sftrampled down." nor, as natoI ii
of fact. put in contrast VIII SUI
lament. the claim that the Maorls Ia !; &c
been from first to last - helped Go
autonomy and independence oy Ine
English acOIonists," not adVentu It
who have settled" not annexed, NeM
Zealand. When Hawaiian anne 9a IIo y
to the United States is aeeomplIsnieu, =
will have been arranged on suen terms
as will receive the approval OF ever
uatriotic Hawaiian, as the consCaueIy
increasing re gister OF the anheA1.1L 10,
cIubs il now showing. surely Int
PoIynesian Society will make LIE
1znende honorable for this Instapcs
of want of editorial oversight or lore
Thought. Surely there can be no sucI
Ioualiv TO the Queen of Hawaii, or az
rT1irauts for her as its honored paIro,u
"a To make the society disloyal TO TIE
NJ. 2. :.