Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-02

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world
What do we see to day in Ha-
vaiil A provisional government
composed Of merchants and mis-
sionaries. Of land-grabbers and
spectators. Men who gained their
power-ss admitted BY America
the threatening attitude
of American soldiers and through
the moral support Of the officially
recognized representative Of a
friendly power. America has
admitted her wrong and vet the
party known as the Republican
party, for the sake of exculpating
and white washing their last ad-
attempt to bolster
up an oIigarchy IN Hawaii. and
waste their breath and voeabula
ry in praising aud doing the
screaming eagle business over a
government which exist on the
bayonets of hired adveturers and
through the support of It's infam
Gus laws and willing courts of
justice.
1t is surprising that the world
should see the day come when the
men who preached liberty aud
boosted of their glorious free insti-
tutions and their respect for the
equal rights of a people indepen-
dent of color, race, and creed.
should be found enlisted on the
side of an oligarchy like the Ha-
waiian provisional government
which. to its shame be it said has
enacted laws against freedom of
speech freedom of the press and
against the liberty of men. The
latest act proposed by W. o.
Smith, the Attorney General
which provides for the deporta-
ton of men not in accord with
the government would do
credit to Russia or to
Germany. When Bismark
invented the word uaisiiebig"
and applied it to everybody who
criticized him and his govern
ment, the civilized world stood
paralyzed Cor a short while But
a wave of Indignation arose and
swept the word and the principle
represented by it, not alone from
Germany's statute books, but
from the German language. Mr..
W. 0. Smith is not Bismark
and any attempt to initiate the
Iron Chancellor will most likely
be disastrous to him if he does
not desist in time. The Western
Civilization does not approve of
the laws which interfere with the
right of every man in a communi-
ty to express his thought and
work for form of government
which according to his idea is the
most beneficial to the country at
at large and not to any single
clique or class In the meantime
the people of Hawaii will preserve
their peaceful dignity aud await
patiently the answer from Cleve-
land which he must give some
day. The answer so far given
refuses to grant the petition of
the so-called provisional govern
ment for annexation to the United
States. That government which
according to its own proclamation
was formed for the purpose of
obtaining annexation only las
failed in its object and it has
neither a moral or legal right to
be recognized as the government
of Hawaii 1t has proven
failure. 1t has been requested
to disappear by the President
of the United States;
further recognition of it by his
would be an impos-
sibility and an absurdity. If the
United States refuse to correct
the wrong which it is admitted
was done to the Hawaiian people
and state so in plain aud definite
language. ether means will be
found and other measures viii be
provided which viii bring Hawa-
ian affairs into proper and just
grooves If any trouble arises
through the inactivity or through
lie refusal the United States to
10 what is right, the blame VIII
all on the President of that