Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-02-13

In their various expls1a-
ttons. not so much on facts as IN
the deduction from facts Cap
(; tain Wiitse. who commanded our
naval forces in January. 1898. Is.
indeed. dead; but the case can be
made up without needlessly as
sailing his memory; for the real
narrative Of revolutionary events
/ Is to to chiefly constructed from
matters OF written proof. of ad-
missions. of common knowledge
at Honolulu. and from the signed
statements of reputable witnesses
before the Commissioner. whom
no one has undertaken to
discredit.* Most of the residue
of this printed bulk may be used
or not. IN corroborate or throw
side light. And it ought to be
constantly kept in view by all
fair-minded men that, the reyo
lutionists having first sent their
commissioners to Washington TO
Influence our Administration :
action and to forestsll public
opinion by their own repr senta-
tons and arguments. the prime
object of Blount's M ission was TO
test such &C partc evidence by
local inquiries, giving necessari-
ly the deposed government and
its officials a chance to tell Their
own story. Minister Stevens, in
his latest printed explanations
embraces most leading opponents
of the revolution whom the com
missioner met in Honolulu IN
something like a wholesale bill of
attainder, from the late Queen
and her sever,l ministers down to
the assistant manager of the
hotel where Mr.. Blount boarded;
but reflection should convince US
that even immoral persons may
be creditable to some extent, and
especially ministers of state who
are backed by official doeu-
mentS.
1t was the Psalmist who declar-
ed that "all men are liars, but
he confessed that he said it in
his haste. | observe that a few
of our fellow-citizens who are
acquainted at Honolulu have
wondered that some men of bust
ness and capital there. whose
honor is well esteemed in this
country. were not called upon to
furnish affidavits; and so they
might have been, had time been
long, and the chief purpose of our
administration to discuss local
politics and policies, as to which
political parties have neyera greed,
and never will. A fair and free
expression of the Hawaiian
voter, under the Australian ballot,
such as has not yet been taken,
would solve the question of pre-
sent popular preference better
than tons of printed speculation;
and the main purpose of Bloun' IS
mission, properly considered, was
not to explore ours, but to ind
out whether in actual truth the
present government de facto, never
authoritatively sanctioned, was
bona fde established by local
revolution, or, on the other hand,
by fraud or at lest a misuse of
colorado protection under the
American flag, which neither the
law of nations nor a self respect
ing public neutrality can war
rant.
Tins, then, was acquired by
American sojourners, after less
than a three days conjoint
rebellion, and without the loss of
a single life or the firing of a gun,
what Mr.. Stevens, most loath to
lose it has lately described not
inaptly as territorial and
m rhine prize for the Ameri-
can people. Aud if his own
official dispatch which announced
the new situation veered rather
wide of the truth, the statement
of the FIVE Hawaiian commission
ers, who were next hurr ed off to
Washington to negotiate an ALI
ance treaty, must be pronounced
a positive falsehood Z The Har
risnn Administration had been
pl inly deceived in this whole de
facto business. as the statements
OF two at le1st of its Cabinet