The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-16
A RASCALLY SCHEME.
Japan to Restore Mrs. Dominis by
Force.

The latest news from Hawaii
should be perused by the Govern
ment of these islands with atten-
ton and interest, for it is manifest
that the rare and noble opportu-
nifty which Japan has of restoring
the queen to her throne has not
yet passed away forever, and no
such favorable chance for this
country to creditably distinguish
itself in the cause of right, may
ever occur again.
The elevated and statesman-like
message from the President of the
United States, read by the Ameri-
can Minister at Honolulu to the
confederates there, reflects the
greatest credit upon Mr.. Cleveland
and his Cabinet. Queen Liliuoka-
lani has accepted the conditions
dictated to her by the authorities
at Washington precedent to her
restoration to sovereignty, but the
usurping Government refuse to step
down and out as required to do by
the President, and state their in
tention to hang on to the posts
which they have flched for them
selves. In this contumacious course
it is to be presumed that they are
placing reliance on annexationists
and Republicans who regardless of
right and most other respectable
considerations, are carrying on an
excited and unconscientious oppo-
sition to the Presidents views in
several of the Republican journals,
and even the pulpit is in some
measure relied on, in aid of the
dishonest course taken by the revo-
lutjonists in carrying out their
nefarious design.
In spite of all obstacles, it will
be incumbent on the President now
that he has put his hand to the
plough, to 60 through with this
business the House of Representa-
tives have already approved of his
action, and we apprehend the SEN
ate also will affirm it, for it can
not surely be tolerated that the
hand of conspirators, principally
American, who have seized on the
government of an independent
kingdom at peace with, and friend
Iy to the United States, shall be
allowed to continue in possession,
being without so much as a shred
of legitimate authority from the
Hawaiians themselves.
There is, however, nothing to pre-
vent the Japanese Government
from exercising the power of inter-
vention to dispossess the usurpers,
and restore the rightful ruler to her
throne, an act by which Japan
would gain an immense amount of
credit in the estimation of the
world. What is there to hinder her
from setting about the achievement?
We apprehend nothing of any con-
sequence whatever. Possessed of
ships of war with nothing whatever
to do, with men and arms in abund-
ance, and the certainty of success
browning the effort, the adoption of
a spirited policy in Hawaii, such as
that which is recommended, would
be regarded with widespread appro-
baton, except of course by the few
who have created the present situa-
ton for their own advantage, and
whose conduct is entirely in oppo-
sition to the answering and time
honored foreign policy of the United
States.
We see it stated amongst the Ha-
waiian news, that what is dreaded
by the usurping Government is an
apprehended interference on the
part of Japan, which it is thought
that the royalists will be likely to
invite if disappointed in President
CLEVELAND. -JaDan Herald.