The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

HONOLULU, Sept. 3-The impress sion Is gaining ground here that the Congressional form of government to be granted to Hawaii will be the ab- solute monarchy of a District of Co., lumbia arrangement, with the Presi- dent of the United States as king and his appointees his governing satellites. This will destroy all the political power of the family compact and the ruling ring and yet give us equal rfghts-in nothing of value-in payment of taxes and being governed without represent ation or trouble to ourselves.
 The local press has taken unto itself scare in this respect, and editors are tumbling over each other in their ear nestness to impress the Commissioners with the necessity of giving us a terri torial government with a liberal fran chise while the Commissioners hold their own council, smile benignly and blandly intimate non- -sufflciency at present of AmericaniZation in the iSl- andS.
 One feels almost Justified in saying that the appointment of this commis- sion to recommend legislation for the Hawaiian Islands was the greatest blum der the annexationistS ever permitted to be perpetrated. It has placed for midable weapon in the hands of those politicians who are opposed to granting us free and liberal and quasi-inde- pendent colonial form of government with a self-ruling franchise, for the longer the Commissioners remain with the people the better they become ac- quainted with the people and our con ditions, the more thoroughly will they I, hot hn Ar,na ri naOnlQ were deluded and deceived by the Ha- waiian anneXationists, and that the country was not ripe for annexation. It will require a republican pupilage of an- other twenty years before becoming worthy to enter the limits of the great Union. The Commissioners will see for themselves that annexation was for the few with injury and injustice to the many. AS a military outpost the affair is on an entirely different basis. The money that must necessarily be expended here will cover a multitude of sins, but the many difficulties to be encountered are already beginning to be faintly outlined in the trouble expe- rienced in finding camping grounds for few hundred troops
 The American people will have to wait only a few brief months before there will go back to the States from this land the wall of disappointment and dismay from many honest strand ed adventurerS. The outlook Is so gloomy for the newcomers that all the fraternal societies have communicated notes of warning to their kindred as- sociations all over the world. Already the treasuries of our relief societies are being pinched, and yet there are the thousands of letters sent home by the boys in blue recommending this place as Gods Eden, to be heard from. We hear of special steamers being char tered from the north and rates of pas sage being reduced, and the problem is what are we to do with these people when they come? There is no employ ment for even a small portion of them, unless they can induce the planters to take them at $15 or even $20 month, and it is not very likely that any such arrangement can be made. The wise ones, with money for investment or without, will bring a return passage ticket with them and treat the journey as picnic to the joyous islands of perpetual summer, created only for sugar planters, tourists and lotus eat CTS.
 For men of means we now have ample hotel accommodations, and for those who pay their way an ample well come; but restaurant men are begin ming to experience tired feeling as they see a fellow eat a square meal and then dodge for the door. Our passport law still being In existence debtor can prevent creditor from leaving the country until he has dis charged his debt, and while there is no imprisonment for debt per Sc there is