The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-28

II the true character of Wills nis-
siOu had been known, President Dois
could have Fighttnlly shown him 10
the door.
The unwritten letters to the de-
thfoned queen were also, ia some
secret manner, delivered 10 her; the
queen cdUie to the Minister and
there learned from his mouth that the
Presidents condition Of her festora~
ton 90 her throne was amnesty 90 ali
who had aided in dethroDing her
This was drawing her faDgs TOO sud-
| denly. She had gloated on her re~
venge too long 10 be thwarted by
| such Il condition. mo" she cried,
81 will behead them and cOnfiscate
| their property. / accept no such con-
ditIon;" and she left cur Minister
| shrinking I'm horror from his masters
queen
Was there ever such condition in
all the complications Of nations?
Here was the President loaded with
a duty which, IL IL were one, he was
bound to perform, II at all, without
conditions. What business had he 10
say to the queen: "My duty II 10
restore you To your throne because
my Government put you Off IL; bat i
| won't do that duty unless upon condf-
tion that you will forego q large part
of your queenly powers 2" Thus keep
ing poor discrowned queen out Of
powers which her laws gave her as an
Independent sovereign, and Off of her
throne until she succumbed TO his die
tation as to what powers she shall not
use.
Understand, am merely discussing
the question OF the right Of a great
power that has wrongfully driven
queen from her throne, to refuse TO
restore her unless she will stipuIate
not to execute a part of the estab-
lished laws of the kingdom.
From the moment of her refusal, ii
was our President that was dethron-
ing the queen by his imposition of
conditions
In the light of common sense how
absurd this monstrous farce appears,
of our President undertaking to upset
or destroy foreign Government that
his predecessor and he had over and
over again recognized as an existing
power, to be treated with as an indie
pendent nation, and in its place TO set
up throne occupied by a queen who
lost it through her usurpations which
overturned the Constitution on which
it rested.
There is no warrant in the laws of
God or man to justify the President in
his course. Nor is there the slightest
reason why the Congress OF this great
nation should declare war to accom-
plish such purpose, or give any
sanction to the pastzor fntare inten-
tions of the President.
We do not want Hawaii at the cx-
pense of any war. Our relations TO
her and hers to US must be peaceful
and commercial; and while we can
not consent that any power of the
world, except her own, shall possess
or control her because of her peculiar
position on our Pacific Coast, we will
hold over her the perpetual shield of
our long established policy toward all
nations, known as ''The monroe Doc.
trine.n
We are neither "setters-upn nor
"putters-down" of kings or queens.
The Provisional Government of Ha-
waii under President Dole has shown
itself under circumstances of Sa-
prenle trial worthy of seat among
nations. Our plain duty is TO recog-
nize it by commercial and friendly
treaties that shall secure its indepen-
dence as nation, and to us an ally
that shall be perpetual safeguard OF
our western coasts.