The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-19

| the United States which are engaged
in the whale fishery in those seas.
The number of vessels of all sorts and
the amount of property owned by citi-
zens of the United States which are
found in those islands in the course of
a year are stated probably with suffi-
cient accuracy in the letter of the
agents.
''Just emerging from a state of bar
barism, the Government of the islands
is as yet feeble; but its dispositions
appear to be just and pacific, and it
seems anxious to improve the condi-
tions of its people by the introduction
of knowledge. of religious and moral
institutions, means of education, and
the arts of civilized life."
In the House of Representatives this
subject was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, and lion. John q.
Adams, in concluding his report upon
the subject, says:
cit is subject of cheering contem-
platiOn to the friends of human inn
provement and virtue that, by the
mild and gentle influence of Christian
charity, dispensed by humble mission
aries OF the gospel, unarmed with sec
ular power, within the last quarter OF
century the people of this group of
islands have been converted from the
lowest debasement of idolotry to the
blessings of the Christian gospel;
united under one balanced govern
ment; rallied to the fold of civilization
by written language and constitu-
ton, providing security for the rights
OF persons, property, and mind, and
invested with all the elements of right
and power which can entitle them to
be acknowledged by their brethren of
the human race as separate and in
dependent community. To the con-
summation of their acknowledgment
the people of the North American
Union are urged by an interest of their
own deeper than that of any other
portion of the inhabitants of the earth
by virtual right of conquest, not
over the freedom of their brother man
by the brutal arm of physical power,
but over the mind and heart by the
celestial panoply of the gospel of peace
and love-"
1t can not be other than proud re-
Election of the American people that
the free institutions of the United
States gave origin and impulsive zeal,
as well as guidance, to the good men
who laid these foundations of civil
government in Hawaii upon written
constitutions supported by the oaths
of those in authority and loyalty sus-
tanned by those of the people who are
yirtuous and intelligent. Nor can the
American people condemn the firm
adhesion of those whose rights are
guaranteed by constitutional law in
Hawaii to the demand that is now
made for The maintenance of it's per-
manent integrity. If nothing but a
decent respect for our hational exam
pie was in question, if there was no
question in Hawaii That concerned
the people OF the United States except
that OF a relapse of that Government
into absolute monarchy, if there was
no degradation of society involved in
this falling away, no obstruction Of
property and liberty in contemplation,
there would still be enough in the
conditions now presented there 10 ex-
cite the most anxious interest of our
people. Citizens of the United States
with wisdom, charity, Christian faith
and a love OF constitutional govern
ment, have patiently, laboriously, and
honestly built up Hawaii into q civ
iliZed power under q written constitu-
ton, and they can justly claim the
sympathy and assistance of all civ
iliZed people in resisting it's destruc-
ton, either to crafty a wanton lust
Of absolute power on the part of the
Queen, or the abuse of it's authority in
Ostering vice and rewarding crime.
The facts of recent history present
broadly and distinctly the question
an absolute and corrupt
in Hawaii, and a govern
nent in which the rights and liberties
guaranteed by written constitution
shall be respected and preserved. The
acts do not show that the people who
quilt up this constitutional system
IND have based upon il wholesome
avs and Il well balanced and well
guarded plan of administration have
lad any desire TO abrogate the organic
avs, corrupt the statute laws, or to
lethrOne the Queen. In every phase
# their dealings with these questions
heir course has been conservative,
md the defense of their lives, liberty
nd property, and the honest admin
stratiOu of tue government has been
he real motive of their actions. They
re not, therefore, 20 be justly Classed
5 cOnspirators against the Govern
nent. That they turn their thoughts
oward the United States aud desire
to this country could not
e denied without imputing to them
he loss Of the sentiment of love and