The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-19
ACT I.

Scene: Street of Honolulu. Dramatis
Personae, First Citizen recently landed,
a nonresident applicant for public Of
flee, and a reader of the Bulletin. Sec
ond Citizen, an old resident who be-
lieves in Home Rule.
Curtain rises. They shake hands.
First CitiZen-What a weak, crying
and unpatriotic lot the Dole Govern
ment was in that neutrality business!
Breads from BulletinD The facts of
political history here will lead it's can
didate, President Dole, to eternal po-
lifical damnatiOn before the American
people. Thank God that one paper
advocated abandoning neutrality.
Thank God that it raised its patriotic
voice against the political damnation
OF proclaiming neutrality"
Second Citizen with file of Bulletins
under his arm)-Were you here on the
10th of May, when the Government
sent telegram to Washington aban-
doning neutrality?
First Citizen-No, but I'll bet you the
Bulletin brought the Government up to
the bull-ring, and forced it to abandon
neutrality. Just read it's ringing words
about Dole's cowardice at that time.
Second Citizen CLOSING his left eye)
My friend. here's file of the paper.
Let's look it over (They turn over the
pages slowly until date of May 10th is
reached). Read that my friend, (point-
ing to an editoriaD.
First Citizen, latter reading it,
That's not the Bulletin. 1t never pub
lished that stuff examines it close
ly). So it is.
Second Citizen-Do you see any arti-
Gle in the paper advocating the aban-
donment of neutrality?
First Citizen--No, not in words.
Guess something's wrong.
Second Citizen-On May 10th, the
day the Government abandoned neu-
trality, the Bulletin gave an account of
a bill that Thurston and Hatch had
sent from Washington, asking the Ha
waiian Legislature to pass an act in
stantly, so that the Republic of Hawaii
would come under the sovereignty of
the United States, during the war, and
that the Islands could be used for war
purposes.
First Citizen (interrupting) -Fine!
brave! splendid patriotism That's
good reading!
Second Citizen-Wait my friend a
moment This is what the editorial
of the Bulletin said on the day before
editorial aloud).
.'Viewed from the Hawaiian point OF
view, the proposition contained IN the
bill sent from Washington for action
by the Hawaiian Legislature looks de-
cidedly peculiar. UnaccOmpanled by a
pledge of actual protection when the
Islands should by the measure be
brought in into the actual sphere OF
war. it is asking our defenseleSs gov
ernment to assume a very grave re-
sponsibility. Such proposition should
indeed have been brought here by a
strong squadron that would stay by II
Then the government would and its
sunporters would no more than prove
their fidelity to the cause OF anneXa-
ton by casting the cOuntry's lot in the
time of trial with the great Republic
Audience roarS with laughter.
First Citizen-The Bulletin never
said that, That's dead against giving
mp neutrality. (Takes Bulletin and
reads it,. Yes, its all there. Great
Caesar, what impudence,
Second CitiZen-That's not all. (TakeS
paper and turns TO date of May 10TH
Friend, on this day the dispatch was
sent to Washington Offering the Isl
ands. But this coon-cat paper did not
know it was sent Listen to this about
neutrality (Reads):
1t is reassuring to find that the Gov
eminent is pursuing with the greatest
caution the quest of what is its proper
course in connection with the war be-
tween the United States and Spain.
The relations between the United
States and the Hawaiian Islands hiuh-
erto have been such as TO invest the
subject with no small difficulty
Messrs. Hatch and Thurston do no
credit to their judgment for their ac-
ton in promoting a scheme or lnlIla-
tive on the part of this Government,
which is quite liable to procure ire
trievable mischief, first, for this coun-
try at the present time, and, secondly,
for the cause of annexation after
peace has been restored. Those gen
tlemen must really have lost their
senses. AS a member of the Cabinet
is elsewhere reported as saying, Ha-
waii has done everything legitimately
within her powers to promote actual
nnion. Our destiny rests in the hands