Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-02-03
A REVOLUTION.
Not BY the People.

Secretary Gresham has made
public all the correspondence be-
tween the Secretary of State and
james II. Blonnt. late minister
to the Hawaiian Islands under
Cleveland On May 4, Mr.. Blount
touching the matters involved,
wrote:
AT this time the indications
are unmistakable that large
majority of the people of the is
lands are utterly opposed to au-
nexatiou. 30 not look for any
change from this situation
through future information.
There Is a strong disposition on
the part Of the annexation element
to suppress expressions against
annexation by social or business
hostility
This is exactly what the Citi-
zen contendcd when the matter
WAS first talked of. In an edit
orial on this subject Feb. 8 last
we said:
The proposition to annex Ha-
waii to the United States is alb
surd. In the first place we have
all the territory we need and all
we want, and the attempt to make
believe that the seizure of the
island by this government would
be as splendid an acquisition and
as righteous an undertaking as
the Louisiana purchase is the ar
gnment of the plunderer and
robber. The territory embraced
IN the Louisiana purchase was a
natural part of our country, and
Its possession was desirable. So
Jefferson purchased the territory
from Napoleon l. and thus acquir-
ed a magnificent domain in a
manner authorized by our consti-
tuition and approved by the pub
lie conscience. An attempt to
encourage u gang of spectators
and American renegades in their
course of rebellion and plumber
by attempting to annex the island
to this government is violation
OF the essential principles of our
institutions and an outrage upon
the Hawaiian people, whose in
terests have not been consulted
or welfare considered. The re-
volution was not rebellion of
the Queens native subjects, but
an assault upon the reigning po-
wers by the American Party.
composed of sugar spectators
and money hunters whose selfish
ness and sordidness have embold-
ened them in all the prosecutions
of their iniquitous schemes. The
excuse rendered for their rebel.
lion against the rule of the Queen
whose voluntary subjects these
revolutlonIsts are, is that she alb
rogated the old constitution in
favor of a new one which confer
red upon her more absolute pow
er. This, like the reported pro
test of the English Government,
is a wicked lie, circulated to gain
pnblic sympathy whereby this
rebellious gang of thieves and
lawbreakers may succeed in their
unhoiy attempt to persuade this
government TO become party to
one of the darkest crimes of the
age. OF course American rights
should be protected and the Unit
ed States should prevent the
seizure of the island by any TO-
reign power. This is the extent
of our duty and to this extent
alone ought this government to
so.
In 1883 the population of Ha-
wall was S6.647. Ofthese %. 997
were Chinese. l9-l0,6lS were of
or American descent.
thus leaving native population
Of A. 93l. In 1884 the popula- |
ton was S0.57s. composed of |
1904 natives. 4.2lS half casts, |
10 white born on the island. |
IL $50 Chinese. 9,377 Portuguese, !
, .096 Americans. l 600 Germans.
.2S2 English. 7S7 Polynesians.
92 French. l26 Japanese. sos
scattering. The Americans. it
gill be observed. constituted less
han 8 per cent. of this hete-
'ogeneous mass of citizen. and
his overthrow of the government
~ the superior cunning and