The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-29

Mr.. EpIroE The royalists OF no
hala pretend great indignation at De-
ING held as enemies of the Republic
They are rs cIamorous about their 10y.
atty as they formerly were impudent
i'm their opposition. Their cause IL
championed by a man who kept care
fully on the fence till just before the
last election, and who is now equally
clamorous about being good cltlzen'
If there had been few more men IN
the country a. loyal as he, there never
would have been any Republic.
The date of his taking the oath OF
allegiance IL on file at tho Government
offices and is In itself sufficient COM
ment on his course.
Some of those who formerly re-
ioiced in the name Of royalists, are
now loud in their statements OF now
boldly they would have taken up arms
to defend the Republic, had occasion
REQUIRED. People are glad to hear IT,
but would have given more creoence
to their statements had they been
made before the hour of danger was
nasaed. Some of these new converts
ara now ardent advocates of annexa-
ton.
Every effort is being made to pre-
want the arrest of certain royalists
here. They have awakened to the dis
grace of their situation. And If these
neople are sincere in their conversion,
no oppositiun will be made to their
putting their allegiance In dennite
arrest will be refused the privilege of
making oath to his allegiance In pro-
per form.
the late enemies of the Republic by
the advent of a Government omclaI
who came by the Kihalant. But MS
business for the time being Is under
stood TO have been for the detention
of a resident of Hilo. There Is gen.
eraI hope and expectation that the
Authorities may see their way clear to
make arrests of those men in kohala
whose conduct justifies the general be-
lief of their having had knowledge
of the plot, and who are oelleVed 10
have endeavored for two years past 10
inflame the natives against the Pro-
visional Government AMI the Repub-
lie, notwithstanding the denials they
are now making.
AS to their general influence, 1t Is
believed there are persons here who
are Just as virtually accessory to the
crimes of riot and murder as were the
anarchists executed in Chicago.
In Kohala, there are three women
who have been and are now drawing
salaries from the public funds, who
have for two years past been, TO say
the least, unguarded in their denunci-
atoms of the Government whose paid
servants they are. Out of social con-
lor0olu hQaQnao thew
are women, this extraordinary condi-
ton of things has been tolerated. But
citizens are not in temper to tolerate
1t any longer.
The Government has from the first
been conciliatory to all such people in
the reasonable hope that luminosity
would cease in time. That hope has
not been justified. They do not seem
to understand the magnanimity of a
kindly Government which fed its enc
mics because they were weak ones.
The late enemies of the Republic
here prefers themselves wounded by
the expression OF public opinion as
regards them. Their lamentations
and denials are touching of course.
But men and women who urged the
natives to q course of resistance, and
abetted others in q course that has led
to riot and murder, and virtually asso-
eiated themselves with the anarch-
lists bomb, the assassin'S bullet, and
the incendiary's torch, have forfeited
every claim to the consideration. We
would gladly believe that most OF the
people lacked sufficient human intel
Hgence to realize fully what the awful
results would have been in every ISL
and Of this group, had the plot been
even temporarily successful. And we
are equally ready to believe that they
are Mortified at the awful picture as
they understand it. But that is q
poor excuse to offer for their blind
and vicious conduct.-@Yhe least that
common decency requires, is that
these people shall acknowledge their
fault, and give US definite reason to
believe in the sincerity Of their prom.
Uses for the future. We do not demand
that they shall become citizens. But
we do demand that they shall remain
quiet and peaceable, and let the ma
tlves alone.
II any one in Honolulu has any
doubt "a to the public feeling here,
they may enquire of prominent citi-
zen Of Honolulu who passed through
Kohala during our days Of anxiety.
It has been suggested that IL pub
lie meeting of citizens in Kohala were
called, at which . few Of the late lead
ing royAlists would publicly express
their adherence Of the late plot, and
their ardent desire to uphold the Re
public Ii might 60 q long way toward
wFIhf1o k0xward