Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-21

q falr count fOr the daWa1lanS, whose
patrimony has been appropriated by
President Dole and his partners in the
oligarchy.
The annexation shouters claim that
| the Hawaiian names appended to the re-
m~onstrance are largely fictitious and
chiefly secured assigners under false
pretenses. We deny it. Issue is square
ly joined on an important matter of
fact. 1t can be settled by a vote of the
Hawaiian males owe 81. years Of age.
Who can deny that that is a fair test?
A Delusion and q Snare.
All the machinery of elections is In
the hands of the little coterie of oil
garchists They are able, resolute, am
bilious men. They can be relied upon
to see to it that every annexation voter
| votes and hat his vote is counted. They
can also be relied on to see to it that
not an unlawful vote is cast against the
scheme of annexation, for their fortunes
depend upon annexation. Can anything
be more clearly just? Is President Dole
afraid of the verdict of his own people:
I pause for a reply.
None of his friends answers, so I will
answer myself. He cannot be induced
to submit this scheme to a popular man
hood suffrage vote for the very good
reason that he knows that he and his
friends hold Office through usurpation
and that the vast majority of the Ha-
waiian people are bitterly opposed to
him and all his works. He the friend Of
liberty, is he? How does it happen,
then, that, while under the monarchy
ID, 600 persons were permitted to vote,
only $500 are given the elective fran
chise under the oligarchy?
Let it be remembered also that a
large percentage of these z, 800 voters
have been colonized in Hawaii by Dole
& Co. since they have been conducting
the government. What a misleading
misnomer is it to dignity this little
handful of close corporation oligarchists
with the name of a republic! What a
bu~rlesque upon truth, what a travesty
upon justice, what an affront to intelli-
genoe to assert that Dole and his gang
have any claims upon us OF upon any
other friends of representative govern
ment and human freedom!
ou, yes. UuJ We dI0 tOIu tiidt III ildl5
citizens of the Sandwich Islands can
vote who will swear that they will sup
port the present republic and the present
constitution of Hawaii. Now, at first
blush that seems perfectly fair, but it is
a delusion and a snare, as will readily
appear from this face: The constitution,
which the Hawaiian people never had
any hand in adopting, provides for this
very scheme of annexation, which the
Hawaiian people detest. That condition
for voting is a very skillful continuance.
1t exhausted human ingenuity to invent
it and is worthy Of Machiavelli himself.
In order to vote at all a citizen of the
Sandwich Islands must solemnly swear
to support a constitution which deprives
his country of its nationality. What
man who has any reputation to lose
will risk it by arising in his place here
and declaring that he Endorses such a
swindle on a feeble people? Under it
only about Z, 800 persons vote, and that
is about the number in favor of annexa-
tion.
Hawaiian Lobbyists.
The propaganda which has been car
ried on openly in this city for the last
five or six years by the agents of the
Hawaiian sugar kings in favor of an
nexation is a disgrace to this government
and has lowered us in the eyes of our
selves and the rest of the world. 1t has
no parallel in all history. Minister
Hatch has lobbied for it. Ex-Minister
Thurston has lobbied for it and has
written and sent q book in favor of it
broadcast over the land, which book the
senate committee on foreign affairs
made a part of its report. Other lesser
personages have iobbied for it. These
not succeeding, at last appeared Presi-
dent Sanford B. Dole in all his bewhis-
kered glory.
What other government on earth
government to come into its very CAPT
tai and openly interfere with its affairs?
Suppose when the arbitration treaty
with England was pending in the SEN
ate Queen Victoria had come to Wash
ington to lobby for its ratification. Such
a howl would have gone up as would
have startled the man in the moon, and
it would have been q howl of righteous
Indignation. If Sanford B. Dole was
not here to influence public opinion and
the action of congress, what was he
here for: Will we be told that he was
seeking health? Is it credible that a
man from the tropics would risk his life
in this climate in midwinter for pleas
ure? Did he want to see the country? If
SO, why not come at a more convenient
season? And why make his visit in
January, at the precise time that his
precious treaty of annexation was being
debated in the secret sessions of the SEN
ate, and was a few votes short Of the
necessary two thirds majority?
Have W. not always been extremely
jealous of foreign officials interfering
with our affairs-yes, always, till now,
and even now make an exc option only
in favor of the Hawaiian plctters?
Did not Washington drive the impu-
dent, meddling Genet, minister of the
French republic, out of the country at
the risk of a war with France when we
were a feeble folk?
Did not Mr.. Secretary of State Daniel
Webster's dark brow grow darker when
he thought of the brave Kossuth ha-
ranguing our people on our affairs?
Did not our government demand the
recall of Minister Sackville-W West for
his imprudent letter touching a presi-
DENTAL election, and did not his govern
ment, recognizing the justice of the de-
mand, instantly recall him?
Why have not Thurston, Hatch, Dole
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business and given plainly to understand
that we need no instruction from them
as to our duty or our interests!
Surely this is an amazing perform
ance.
H. &