Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-02-14
BREAKERS AHEAD.
MISSIONARIES IN THE
SMOKE.


DO nothing except lie quietly
back and amuse themselves by
taking in the circus which is be
ing performed between the League
the club and the government.
The poor missionaries are not In
it. They have sown the wind
and they are reaping the whirl-
wind. The American league
Is constituted and composed of
goodness know who has swamped
the conservative annexation club
totally and has forced upon the
government, man who certain
" has no affinities with the missi-
onary element. The league
which represents radical crowd
Of more or less strangers led by a
few demagogues and professional
ward-politicians is dominant and
the moneyed interests with their
representatives have met snow
storm. The respectable god
fearing church goingreform party
has had to sit still at meeting
listening to such sentiments as
the following from the lips of
stranger, one ". G. Smith: Il
hope it will be impressed on all
our friends who dissent from us.
that in this era, the
radical movement must, and shall
and will have it ways. The
ideal government of the reform
party We have always been told
was the Wilcox, Brown cabinet.
The ideals of the radical party
which "shall" must and will
have its way are evidently Smith
the shoeman, Smith the writer,
Murray the-well what Is he?
The reform party Is dead
and we have no tears
to shed over the corpse
but for the good of this country
we think that something should
be done to check a move which
will lead us some day to the abyss
of anarchy and riot. Who are the
members of the American Lea
que who presume to dictate to
the country? We are told that there
are about 500 members of that
organization and we are also in
formed that more than 200 of
them have not resided in this
country for one year Is it to
saeh that the control of the
government is to be giyenl Where
are the Germans, the British aud
the Portuguese citizens? Are
they going to sit tamely by and
see mob grab the reins of the
government and run the country
to ruin at the bidding
of man like Tim Murray and bis
supporters? We hardly believe
it possible and we hardly believe
in spite of Mr.. Frank Hatch S
assurances that there is only har-
mony, love and fraternal feelings
among the men who support the
2. G.. Mr.. Samuel Damon In
his unfortunate bat Unborn desi
re for popularity has opened the
dams and let loose the flood of
mob rule. He will find that it
is much easier to let it loose than
ever to stem it again, and if not
checked now it will carry him
and his interests with it to the
deep and bottomless sea. The
American League appears now
In its true colors. The members
are all members of the Annexa-
tion Club, but dissatisfied with
the brotherho d OF the other nati-
Qualities represented there
they have isolated themselves
AMI by their actions depri-
vel the other members OF
the annexation club of all voice In
the government. If it was I that
We deeply feel the danger which
threatens the welfare of the comm
unity and of the country. We should
only rejoice to sea the men vii
concocted and helped in the late
revolution, hoisted by their own
petards and politically shelyed by
a lot of foreign adventures and
filibusters. Of course the councils
will lack the moral courage 10
refuse a seat to Mr.. d. B. Smith,
and select in his place a man who,
can, as far as the real annexation
lists are concerned, can be called
representative and satisfactory. That