The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-11
An Article Headed Wake Up
Here Reproduced.
WORDS BIZ 4 ROYALIST ORGAN.
Natives Urged to Take Up Sticks, stones,
bananas, ect,, and Fight in Other
Words, They Are Told to Butt
Their Heads Against stone Wall.
The following editorial, under
the caption "Wake up" appeared
the Holomua of October 4:

the caption Wake up" appeared
in'the Holomua of October 4
The present political situation is
highly Unsatisfactory to everybody.
The friends of Hawaii look with fore
bodings of i'll towards the action of the
different parties who, today, make OF
the paradise of the Pacific" "hell
on EARTH"
Let us look the issue of today
straight in the face. Let US drop for
once the political mask and the selfish
purposes of individuals. Let us speak
openly and truthful, and make up our
minds what to do, not in the interest
of a class, a clique, or a queen, but for
the good of the country to which we,
with May others, call :" home"
The policy advocated by this paper
and by the writer of this admonition
is to flight or vote"
The apathy displayed by the Ha-
waiians from the highest to the lowest
is discouraging, and 1t Is disastrous.
We believe that we are safe in using
language which, perhaps, under the
laws of the Republic could be con-
sidered seditious and criminal, but we
do it for the purpose of coming, If pos
sibly, to an understanding with the
people
Wlat Is the SlLuaLlOu IOudy
The men who call themselves the
Republic of Hawaii-nei have got full
charge of the government. How they
got il, and by what right is imma-
terial today.
We were all around, boys, on that
memorable day of the 18th of January,
1898. What could have be done, what
should have be done are matters OF
the past. Don't cry over the milk
that is split.
But they have got our government
and what are zoe doing? Sulking and
"chewing the rag" and dining, drink
ing and smoking.
Tell the truth, you brave royalists.
Is there among you a man who is
ready to take the initiative and start
a movement that might lead to the
recuperation of the situation which
now is past? No, no, not one Will
come forward and do a thing! They
will wait and wait, but they do moth
ing.
For four or five months we are to
wait for Mr.. Widemann to return from
his little mission to Paris, Siberia, or
somewhere else. When he returns we
- presume that somebody else will pro-
coed to Alaska or Tasmania, or any
other place, and in the meantime the
kanaka sits on his "soil" and waits.
Brother Armstrong of the ADvER-
User is always interviewing some
"old" and highly respectable" ma
tive. So do we. The "old' etc. kanaka
tells our esteemed contemporary one
thing and he tells US another.
The kanaka of today hates the haole
as much as did the kanaka of yester-
day. But he has been used to blood
less revolutions and believes in con-
tinuing them.
If there was true patriotism, true
enthusiasm, among the men who talk
and spout about ''aloha aina," why
do they hesitate, why do they wait for
arms and ammunition?
A stone, a coral rock. q broom stick,
a banana, or a fist, is all that is needed.
What weapons did the strikers in Chi
cago have? What weapons do the Sa-
means use? A bloodless revolution is
an absurdity Matched in the brains of
those Hawaiians whose Inheritance
from the haoles has been gin, syphilis
and missionaries
Goodbye then to the fight.
Let US admit that that part of the
programme is a failure, and let us look
at the other side.
Shall we "stay out" for the next
three years, simply because we don't
like the present crowd, the present
system OF the peTSOHcLte Oh the pIeseuI
rulers? Is IL not foolish for us to lie
back in our corner and gnash our teeth
and refuse to take hand in the game
which, some day, must "euchre +"
them? Why should the young men
growing up in this country, the
"solidn men living here be forced
through a chimerical idea to drop po-
litics, to be deprived of a voice in the
management of this country? 1t is
fallacious idea, and it is an idea which
will be cursed time and again in the
future.
Fight this government by all legiti-
mate means at your disposal. Don't
do the baby act and feel satisfied by
putting your thumb to your nose and
cry-AuICe! And so far that is all the
rOyalisfs are dOinpf