The sun., 1895-02-08
The Last Act of the Hawaiian Drama

fifth week of service.
The Last Act of the Hawaiian Drama.
The abdcation of Mrs DoMINIs should
put an end to the attempts OF Englshmen,
Cuckoos, and half-breeds to upset the recog-
nized Government Of the Hawaiian Islands
The renunciation, however, OF the pre-
tensions to which only the underhand
support Of Messrs CLEVELAND and
GRESHAM gave a faint semblance of
validity, should not exempt her from
trial on the charge of fomenting the re-
cent conspiracy, and II she is found guilty,
she should be sentenced to deportation.
Should she find her resources in exile some
what straitened we have no doubt that Mr..
CLEVELAND will pay her out Of his own
resources a sum equivalent to the stipend
which was offered her two years ago, and
| Of which he deprived her The so-called
princess KAIULAN1' also has a moral
claim on Mr.. CLEVELAND, which, as a man of
honor, he will most probably acknowledge.
Among the arrested agents of the con-
spiracy and rebellion, of which LILIUoKA-
LAM is known to have been the prime
mover, some now profess to be British sub
jects and few proclaim themselves Ameri-
can citizens Of the Cuckoo species. Such
men deserve no mercy on the score of ma
tionality. They should have a fair trial,
and, if found guilty, condign punishment
in the exact sense of the word. English
men and Americans have no more right to
levy war against the established republican
Government in Honolulu, than they would
have in Paris; and il they commit the
crime Of treason they must expect to suffer
the same penalty in the former place that
they would suffer in the latter. President
DOLE and his colleagues in authority owe it
to themselves to hold the instigators of in
surrection to a stern account. They would
betray the cause which they personify, If
they did otherwise Justice, and lots of it,
is what the janissaries Of Mrs DoMINIs
should have dealt out to them, no matter
what nationality they have disgraced
Not the slightest attention should be paid
by the Honolulu Government to any repre-
sentations on the part Of Minister WILLIS
or Of the British Consul, the aim Of which
is to secure for alleged Americans or Eng
lishmen different treatment from that
given to their native accomplices in crime
l. any Englishmen or Americans were
caught in overt rebellion, after martial law
hou DSOh PioSnhiiCA, ohty may 10 lawfully
tried by courts martial; if they were ar
rested under other circumstances, they will
doubtless be arraigned before the regu-
lar tribunals, to which the Hawaiian
Constitution gives jurisdiction in cases
Of high treason. The American peo-
pie will tolerate no diplomatic in
reference on behalf of those who have been |
encouraged by the shuffiing and dishonest
course of our Executive to plot the over
throw of a friendly power. If any Ameri- |
cans shall be proved to have been base
enough to try with powder and shot and |
dynamite to carry out Mr.. CLEvELAND's |
wishes, their blood will be upon his head. |
Our hands are clear of it, and we have no |
pity to waste upon Mr.. CLEvELANDs vic
tins. Our sympathies are reserved for the
gallant, upright, and high minded men of
sterling American descent, who have sue
ceeded in planting free institutions in Ha-
wall, and in maintaining against great odds
a just and orderly administration
1t Is to be hoped, In the interest of the
little Hawaiian republic, that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND will be forced by financial exigencies
to convoke the new Congress soon after the
4th of March. Experience has shown that
he cannot be safely left in the uncontrolled
exercise of executive authority. 1t was in
a recess Of Congress that his agent, WILLIS,
made the infamous demand that President
DOLE, the head of a Government recognized
by the United States, should abdicate in
favor of the bloodthirsty LILIUoKALANI. 1t
was during another recess that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND recalled the American war ship sta
toned at Honolulu, and simultaneously at
Washington addressed the emissaries of Mrs.
DoMINIs as Commissioners; excused
himself on the score of i'll health from
granting them the interview which he had
promised assured them that his convic-
tion of the righteousness of their cause
was unshaken and expressed regret at the
failure Of his plans to seat their dusky mis-
tress on throne Evidently a man who
could do these things, is Lot fit to be trusted
with the powers of Chief Magistrate, ex-
cept under the rigorous and incessant SUI
pervision of Congress 1t is because he
would like for some months to have free
hand in Hawaii and elsewhere that Mr..
CLEVELAND deplores the impending neces-
sty of convoking a legislature which
comes in great part fresh from the people,
and represents their indignant disapproval
Of his course throughout his second term.
But however unpleasant he may find it to
face the new Congress at an early date, it
looks as If he will have no alternative.
Gold Ronha from. Naxu Vn.L