The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-12
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speedy reconstruction displayed by |
the foreign politicians since the
PRONUNCIATION of the Republic of
Hawaii should he sufficient to
cause both the Government and
taxpayers to pause and very fully
and carefully consider such politi-
cal overtures before too much or
even any encouragement is held
out. The wisdom of such a course
will fully appear when a backward
glance is taken at the political
history of these leaders from about
the year 1887 to the present time.
The proposition often heard to
let by-gones be by-gones is all well
enough as far as the native Ha-
waiians are concerned, and as a
matter of fact it should be a first
duty OF the Republic to hold out
welcoming hand to these people;
but to extend the same
political welcome to the hand
full of anti-republican, anti
American, anti-pure- government,
pro-saloon and pro-boodling
political Adventures under a mis-
taken idea of more speedily recon-
structing the much more desirable
native element, would be poor
political Judgment and worse
political charity.
The men who are at
the first opportunity masquer-
aiding in the role Of willin'
Barkises and are already preparing
political organizations for the pur-
pose of handing the reconstructed
Hawaiian vote are those largely
responsible for the present political
pass in which the natives now find
themselves. And while their pres
ent condition emphasizes the we'll
known fact that the natives are
practically incapable of self-govern-
me 1t under the usual unscrupu-
lou5 political management to which
they have, since Gibsons time,
been subj ected, it will generally be
admitted that under better inhu-
ences and more upright political
policy they are capable of becom-
ing respected and worthy citizens.
The tactics and policy Of "the
protestants" against a republican
form of government are weak i'm
itation of the Gibsonian method
without the inspiration of his versa
tile ability. The end reached in both
cases, however, has been the same,
viz: revolution and overthrow.
The chief difference between the
present compact of political cads
and the patriarch of Lanai is, that
his political inlitators are willing to
sell their cause out for a mess of
political pottage, where the nobler
Gibson, surely iguoble enough,
would have turned for a last stand.
Mr.. Gibson might have accepted a
compromise, but he never would
have offered one. This is the dis
tinction between a manly politician
and the unmanly royalist leaders
who are now again ready to throw
away alleged principle to regain
political standing, and continue by
any means possible their political
influence over certain classes of the
natives.
The STAR was exactly right a
few days before the stampede be-
gan, when ''bluster and blood"
were threatened, in the forecast that
the foreign misleaders of the natives
and the alleged royalist cause would
submit with "growl and whine"
to the Republic, as soon as all
chances of familiar Doodle were re-
moved from the reach of their poll
teal fingers. The wherewithall
for reviving the reigning of King
Doodle now lies within the Repub-
lie and the present overtures of
compromise and attempts to organ
ize political factions in out of the
wet" are but i'll concealed attempts
to secure political camping ground
in The immediate neighborhood of
possible Doodle.
The position already taken up,
by the leaders and politicians men
toned, in opposition to the Ameri-
can League, which largely repre-
sents Americanism in Hawaii, is
certainly suggestive that it is not
popular representation, as de-
manded by that body, that the roy
alist and sorehead politicians want.
The fact is further suggestive that
the attempts now being made to
organize new factions in the name
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