Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-08-27
ARE THEY HONEST ?

AS We uaft statEn III AOl tncA
issues, the Hawaiian political
situation of today is SO. that 1t
will necessitate the people to de-
eide what is to be done and
make themselves recognized as
the motor power Of their country.
The spectacle of people lying
quietly on their backs, and, Ike
Micawber. waiting for something
to turn up, is a most disgusting
= sight to any man who believes
in the prosperity of his country
and the right Of q nation. We
-advisedly We say los-are IN
in the majority. Whatever the
causes were. that brought
on the revolution and the
present situation; whoever was
or is 10 blame, who are the
sufferers in the past or in the
future are matters Of no import
ance today. The question is not
what we could have said or done.
the question is what now can be
said and done to further the pros
perity OF the country and OF
every soluble it embodied IN
brown, black, yellow or
white shell-who today calls this
fair land his home. Mr. Bush
say that he doesn't know what
we mean by the praying -
and waiting business. He is
remarkable obtuse in this in
stance. We mean that the
golden opportunity has gone by
in which the royalists should,
and could have made successful
move whereby their prestige in
this country would have been
assured. We predicted the failure
of the royalist commission to
Washington, because they went
there representing an individual
and not q party or people.
Our prediction has come out
right. The existence of letters
from the commissioners received
by the Arawa may yet be used as
a means Of deluding the natives
who raid Mr.. Bush's paper, but
we can state on the very best
authority that no letter was re-
ceived in any quarters from Bere.
tania street to the Plain.
However, we do not desire to
quarrel with the Kd Leo or the
narrow minded or ignorant fol-
lowers of Bush. We want to talk
business to the Advertiser the
official organ of the republic. In
this mornings issue it has one of
its very nice feline editorials in
which it extends its paw osten-
sibly clothed in velvet, but, like
the principle of the paper, very
cheap velvet through which the
point of the claws is felt. Our
E. c. says:
The Advertiser earnestly hopes
that all good and honorable men
among the royalist faction will
hasten TO accept the Republic, to
accept it frankly and without re-
serve, and that they will join
with the party which created the
Republic, in the effort to promote
the welfare Of Hawaii. The
vale of a Constitutional opposi-
tion is all that remains to the
royalists, who are also patriots.
To remain longer without, is to
prefer factiousness and sedition
to the common good.
We fully agree with the Official
organ and we have no doubt that
Hawaiians aud foreigners more
especially the kamaainss = viii
be willing to accept the repub-
lie, frankly and without reserve
and join the party in the
effort to promote the welfare of
Hawaii"
That has been our main object |
SO far although our ideas of the
welfare of Hawaii do differ from |
those of the official organ. The
following paragraph in the Ad-
Ueriissr proves to us that the
party represented by it is not
sincere or honest but that it has
got down from its lofty pedestal
of alleged honor. and built on
republican principles and now
takes its refuge in trickery and
political ambiguity. 1t says:
The vale Of constitutional op-
position is all that remains to
the royalists who are also pat
riots