The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-28
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trOuS cpiue lie INTO the country; a
street riot, which elsewhere could
have been quelled by dozen de-
termined policeman, maguiied into
bloody revolution, wherein the
carnage was largely a result OF the
struggle by he rank and file to
secure their photographs as great
and bold warriors; the deaf ear or
else iusolent rejoinders to the just
demands OF the outer districts for
much needed improvements and a
decentralization OF local affairs; the
best throw of the gamblers dice in
the working up Of an anti-Jspanese
agitation, got up for the galleries
and thrown out as bait which the
American people we're expected to
swallow; these are but few of the
factors that have forced the many
streams of tendency into one broad
deep channel OF intense disgust and
hostility against the present absurd
methods Of Government.
And that is the situation as it ex.
lists on Hawaii to-day, apathy, dis.
gust and hostility.
Now, how long shall this intoler-
able condition be permitted to con-
tinue, after this-what? That is the
question which we in Hawaii are
asking one another. There is no
standard around which to rally.
Men will caate under injustice, but
the human mind is so constituted
that it would rather remain passive
even undo gross injustice and
strong provocation so long as the
remedy proposed remains merely an
abstract force. Give their longings
and aspirations concrete form,
send for your Kaiulani, let her after
reasonable sojouru among the
American people, during which
they may discover for themselves
her true worth, her fitness for the
exalted position of Queen over the
Hawaiian people, return here to the
land OF her birth, once moro to take
up her residence among you-not to
agitate, or to conspire, or to make
deals and combinations with this
faction or that, but to quietly and
confidently bide the time when the
indignant protests Of all right
minded, self-respecting citizens
against this misrule and travesty,
called republic, shall have swept
it out Of existence. 1t is not and
never has been question of Repub-
lie versus Monarchy. 1t is now as
much Annexation or Monarchy as
ever Even did not evils exist as
they have shown to exist under the
present form, an oligarchy could
still not be digni6ed into a Repub.
lie, the Acknowledgement OF the sons
OF the soil would forever prove the
bar to its growth. 1t require no
oath before the man born on Am
erican soil may exercise his rights
and privileges of citizen OF the
United States, and the surrounding
and hedging in OF obstacles to tho
requirement of citizenship in
Hawaii by the trainers OF the So
called constitution, who never did
represent the people and Of which q
majority were self-appointed, must
more than anything emphasize the
determination of these men that no
majority rule should hold for this
country, for they knew full we'll
they and their immediate followers,
the office-holders, the untenable
status on which they stood.
have been and still am as devout
believer in the benefits OF annex
alton to the masses and classes Of
this country as ever. believe, that,
with this country an integral part
of the United States, under the same
laws which for rich and poor alike
have made of it glorious union of
seventy million people, whore brains
is the ruling power and with it the
children OF the lowliest can attain
to the same eminence with those OF