The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-02-21
AFFAIRS IN HONOLULU.

Appologise.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. g. Advices
from Honolulu to local paper say
that unless Secretary Olney apologies
for recent actions of Minister Willis,
that official may be given his pass
port-soon The trouble grew out of
an invitation issued by the Hawaiian
foreign Office to the diplomatic corps
to participate in the national holiday
January IL, the anniversary of the
overthrow of monarchy. Minister
Willis refused to take part on the
ground that Presidend Cleveland had
not approved the manner in which the
monarchy was overthrown.
The United States was not the only
nation whose diplomatic representa-
tives refused to take part. England,
Japan and France sent unfavorable
replies, saying tnat as their govern
ments had never recognized the pro-
visional government and as the holi-
day was given in celebration of the
formation of that government, they
did not feel it incumbent upon them
to in any way participate.
Julian D. Hayne editor of the Ha-
waiian, monthly magazine published
IN Honolulu, arrived on the steamship
Australia yesterday He takes
pessimistic view of the Government of
Hawaii and says that the Japan
ese are becoming so numerous
there and so firmly established
that the islands are in danger of be-
coming mere outposts of Japan.
THE thirty men, who IN 1898, stood
as godfathers to the infant republic,
and who find themselves at the begin
ming of 1896 the only support of
Hawaii's provisional government are
uneasy. | say provisional govern
nent,' because that is all it is as yet.
The failure of the effort to reconcile
the native Hawaiian's to disfranchise-
ment, the sudden aggressive action of
the Japanese residents and the inde-
pendent stand taken by Chinese agri-
culturists, renders the situation any
thing but comfortable for them.
''The government is like business
house threatened by bankruptcy. The
crisis may be delayed but not for
long. There is a monthly deficit of
$4,000 and the people are rapidly
losing faith in the power of the men
at the helm" .
DR.. Hayne has not been much i'm
pressed by the mercy of President
!. Dole and his associates. "The news
paper accounts in Europe aud the
United States show a grave misappre-
hension of the facts as to the mag
nanlmity ofethe ruler of Hawaii" he
observed. THE so-called release and
pardon Of political prisoners, for in
stance. The truth is no pardons have
been granted. Something similar to
the British ticket-of-leave system has
been brought into play. All of the
political prisoners are at large, having
been discharged in four squads, the
first getting out on July i, 1895, and
the last January /, 1896. But the
oligarchy informed a prisoner at the
time os his release he might, without
warrant or request, be arrested at the
pleasure of the executive.
81 consider the case of the Queen a
similar one. She. too. was 'pardoned,
but she is, nevertheless, as much a
prisoner at her home as she was be-
fore. And to indicate the spirit that
anilnates the thirty tyrants, it should
be added that they have made Wilson
her custodian-the man who they
slanderously claimed was her para
mour in the days Of her power and
have spared no pains to have circulat-
! ed throughout the world that. having
obtained her full liberty of action, she
Immediately and voluntarily relapsed
into her old-time shameful practices. >
The Chinese-Japanese question. the
editor declares, is Of the gravest char.
acter.
"It things keep on as they are go.
ing he said, there can be but one
ending-absorbtion Of the islands by
Japan.