The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-16


trials will he open and fair and the ac-
cused will get the assistance of counsel |
of their choosing who will be allowed |
all the usual codes. All convictions will |
be based on evidence. If there is any |
particular policy in which Hawaii has
erred il is in having been too lenient |
in dealing with those who have contin- |
uously schemed to overthrow, first by |
strategic diplomacy and then by force.
From it's inception the government has J
exhibited a leniency toward its enc !
mics that is unparalleled in history
This extreme leniency has been feat
ure of the administration of President
Dole, which has caused criticism from
many of his strongest supporters. l
will state a few facts in substantiation
of what | say. The penalty for treason .
in the constitution previous to the over
throw of the monarchy was death and
confiscation of all property. On the goth
of January 1898, three days after its
creation, the provisional government
passed an act providing an alternative
penalty for treason of fine and impris-
onment, and otherwise mitigating the
harshness of the former law.
WAS there ever before known a gov
eminent scarcely seated in power in
the multitudnous plans attendant up
on a reconstruction of the entire sys-
tenn of government devoting its first
moments to mitigating penalties which
might be visited upon its enemies If
they undertook to overthrow it?
COURTESY TO THE QUEEN.
Again, although the revolution of
1894 was caused by the attempt of the
queen to abrogate the constitution and
disfranchise nearly every person con-
nected with the new government, she
has since been treated with the utmost
consideration by that government. She
has been allowed to occupy her COM
Portable residence in Honolulu, within
a block of the executive building, in
peace and without moiestation, al
though she has increasingly, publicly
and privately, plotted for the over
throw of the government, and finally
made an arsenal in which were dis
covered 40 rifles two dynamite bombs,
pistols, swords and ammunition in
quantities.
Again, although LiliOukalani has
made no claim for compensation the
annexation commission, in the interest
of harmony and to avoid the appear
! ance of harshness, secured insertion in
J the proposed annexation treaty of
clause giving her an annual pension
of $40, 900, and until she began to openly
work for the overthrow Of the govern
ment the salary which she had re-
ceived as queen continued to be paid
to her by the provisional government,
and until Princess Kaiulani came to
Washington to work for restoration.
she also was continued her former al
! lOwance
THE ex-queen has twice applied to
the government for protection against
the supporters of the government, whom
she fears might do her harm. Upon
| both occasions a squad of police was de-
tailed to guard her for as long a period
as she desired them. Her only response
TO all this treatment has been the be-
heading proposition made to Minister
Willis and a continuous plotting to over
throw the government, eliminating in
last months insurrectiOn.
The rOyalists have been allowed and
have repeatedly awaited themselves of
the privilege to associate unmolested in
the public square in front of the execu-
tive building at Honolulu and unre-
strictedly to pass such resolutions as
they chose condemning the government,
protesting against annexation, against
the constitution and the republic and
declaring in favor of restoration of the
monarchy.
zone of the serious features of the
situation in Hawaii is that a number
of leading insurrectionists are what
may be called professional revolution
izers' The rank and file are the igno-
rant dupes. Wilcox. the military leader
in the last insurrectiOn, is mentioned as
one Of the leaders. Wilcox's doings on
the island in the past decade in which
he is put down as 'turn-coat,' ready at
any minute to support the side which
best suited his purposes, is cited as one
of such a class. This is a fair sample
Of the material Of which the leaders
and organizers of the late instruction
is composed. Most of them are foreign
ers. Their class and character is that
kind furnished in the commune in Paris
and the anarchist riot in Chicago"
What is the government of Hawaii
going to do? Is the government to con-
done every offense that can be commit
ted against a government and upon cap
turing the insurrectionists in the act of
shooting down it's citizens allow them
" 81 AA1O eNtooidis ~ ANPCeAI ~ ONtl again
at the first convenient opportunity
Amid hostile environment amid opposi-
ton, treachery and revolution at home
and depressing effects Of continuously
hostile influences from abroad, Presi-
dent Dole and his associates, to the best
Of their limited powers, and with all
the wisdom with which God has en-
dowed them, are making the outer
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