The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-11
DEPORT'ED.
Continued from First Page.

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On the Goth of January, 1893, three days
after its creation, the Provisional Govern
ment passed an act providing an alterna-
tive penalty for treason of fine and inn
prisonment, and otherwise mitigating the
harshness of the former law.
'Was there ever known Government,
scarce seated in power, in the midst of
enemies, involved in all the multitudinous
plans attendant upon reconstruction OF
the entire system of government, devoting
its first moments to mitigating the penal
ties which might be visited upon its enc
mics if they undertook to overthrow it?
Again although the revolution of 1893
was caused by the attempt of the Queen to
abrogate the constitution and disfranchise
nearly every person connected with the
new Government, she has since been treat
ed with the utmost consideration by the
Government. She has been allowed to
occupy her comfortable residence in Homo
lulu, within block of the executive build
ing, in peace and without molestation,
although she has increasingly, publicly and
privately, plotted for the overthrow of the
Government and finally made an arsenal,
in which were discovered forty rifles, two
dynamite bombs, pistols, swords and am
munition in quantities.
again, although Liliuokalani has made
no claim for compensation, the annexation
commission, in the interest of harmony
and to avoid even the appearance of harsh
ness, secured the insertion in the proposed
annexation treaty of clause giving her an
annual pension of $4,000, and until she
began to openly work for the overthrow of
the Government the salary which she had
received as Queen continued to be paid to
her by the Provisional Government; and
until Princess Kaiulani came to Washing
ton to work for restoration she also con-
tinued to receive her former allowance.
1.-THE ex-Queen has twice applied to the
Government for protection against sup
porters of the Government whom she
feared might do her harm, one of the times
being when she was in the act of negotiat-
ing with Mr.. Willis for her restoration and
the overthrow of the Provisional Govern
ment Upon both occasions squad of
police was detailed to guard her from
harm for as long a period as she desired
them.
Her only response to all this treatment
has been the beheading proposition made
to Minister Willis, and continuous plot
ting to overthrow the Government, cul-
minating in last months instruction The
Royalists have been allowed and have re-
peatedly availed themselves of the privi-
lege to associate unmolested in the public
square in front of the executive building
at Honolulu, and unrestrictedly to pass
such resolutions as they chose condemn
ing the Government protesting against
annexation, against the constitution and
the republic, and declaring in favor of the
restoration of the monarchy.
lone of the serious features of the situa-
ton in Hawaii is that number OF lead
ing insurrectionists are what may be called
professional revolutionists. The rank and
file are ignorant dupes. Wilcox, the mill
tary leader in the last instruction, is men
toned as one of the leaders. Wilcox's
doings on the island in the past decade,
in which he is put down as a turncoat,
ready, at any minute to support the side
which best suited his purposes, is cited as
one of such class. This is a fair sample
of the material of which the leaders and
organizers OF the late insurrection are
composed. Most of them are foreigners.
Their class and character is that kind
which composed the commune in Paris
and the anarchist riot in Chicago.
''What is the. Government of Hawaii to
do? Is the Government to condone every
offense that can be committed against
Government, and upon capturing insurrec-
tionists in the act of shooting down its
citizens, allow them to again go free to re-
peat the operation at the first convenient
opportunity?
Amid hostile environment, amid oppo-
sition, treachery and revolution at home
and depressing effects of continuously hos
tile influences from abroad, President
Dole and his associates, to the best of their
limited powers and with all the wisdom
with which God had endowed them, main
tanning their outer breastw orks of civiliza-
ton in the Pacific, with a reserve con-
sisting of a handful of professional and
business men, mechanics and clerks, the
problem that has forced upon President
Dole and which he and his advisers are
now forced unaided and in the presence
of hostile influences to solve, is one which
would prove a task too great for men. The
policy was not how to achieve revenge. 1t
is how to prevent Hawaii gravitating into
the catalogue of chronic revolution.
"How the Government of the republic
will solve the problem / do not know. The
gospel of forgiveness and forbearance has
been practiced. Whatever measures are
taken the white men who organized the
late Instruction and furnished the arms
therefor but had the adroitness to keep out
of sight when there was fighting to be
done, will be held to an equal degree of
responsibility with their native companions
who had at least the manliness and courage
to attempt to carry out their ill-conceiyed
plan, and, further, [ know that Abraham
Lincoln did not possess a more patient,
loving, kindly disposition than does San
ford B. Dole; that there does not exist in
the United States to-day more generous
spirited, peace-loving, forgiving and I'M
revengeful community than that residing
in Honolulu and furnishing the leaders of
the present Government.
God forgive those who would impute
sanguinary lust for blood to as brave, gen.
erous, disinterested, liberty loving and true
band of patriots as ever honored Chris
tan civilization, or add to their already