Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-02-06
Mr.. Dole's Blunder.

90 yerEmeDt organs attempting TO
defend, excuse and explain the
highly undiplomatic letter which
Mr.. Dole has seen fit to send TO
Minister Willis, and which may
cost our country much annoy
anee If nothing worse. Tue
letter was uncalled for in the
highest degree. and the state
ments and insinuations made in
it are TO say the least incorrect.
Minister Willis asked for specif-
cations of the charges against
him and it would be of inter st
if he will furnish some
proofs for the statements which
he unblushingly makes. When
has this city been in a state of
terror and when have the loyal
lists conspired! If alarming
rumors were spread, will Mr..
Dole deny that they were origin
ated, and manufactured by the
hired spies of his own govern
ment! What unprotected women
have ask ed the japanese
minister for protection and
who have been living in con-
STINT anxiety and making Great
ScottD bandaqes! If rumors ever
took the shape of truth, or rather
possibilities were they not of the
kind which were started say
when Spreckels' gate was pla-
carded and dynamite found next
to the Queens premises? And
who perpetrated these acts Mr..
Dole! Where it not done by
men IN thy service-and yet
employed by Mr.. Dole's worthy
marshal Mr.. Hitchcock? Indeed
it would be of interest to be
furnished with some specifica-
tions and some proofs. but of
course Mr.. Dole will retract> his
letter and apologize
The Advertiser considers a
demand for a retraction of the
impudent letter an extreme mea
sure, but it can rest assured that
Mr.. Cleveland will make it, and
that he will be backed in so
doing by the whole American
people. The Indignation felt
against him for his "appeal from
the American President to the
American people is we'll
expressed in the following extract
from that powerful journal
Hdrper's Weekly which says:
President Cleveland has
rendered the country the inestim
able service of killing the annex
alton project. at least, for the
period of his Presidential term.
But while we are disposed to let
the Hawaiians. and their govern
ment alone, their minister of
foreign affairs, IL diplomatic
document addressed to the
Minister of the Unit e d
States. gives us notice
that his government does not
mean to let us alone. He says.
While we, the Hawaiian provi-
sional government accept the de
cision of the President of the
United States declining further
to consider the annexation pro-
position as the final conclusion of
the present administration, we do
not feel inclined to regard it as
the last word of the American
Government upon this subject.
In other words. the Provisional
Government of Hawaii enters an
appeal from the President to the
American people. The cool i'm
pudence of the announcement is
Characteristic of the notions
which those men have cultivated
among themselves, and which
they seek to cultivate among the
people of this country. They
seem to have actually made
themselves believe that since
American missionaries have civil
Iized the natives of the Hawaiian
Islands until only small frac-
hon Of their population is left.
and until the bulk of the
valuable real estatn hiss passed