The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-25
EARNEST PATRIOTS. "

the San Francisco Chronicle
Whose identity, and the identity
of those who furnish him with hot
inspiration it does not require a
search light to discover makes
some serious charges against Mr..
Dole and his Cabinet. He says:
I'm fact some earnest patriots have
even gone so far as to declare that the
Administration is luke-warm in it's eff
forts to secure annexation, and the
threat has been made openly by some
powerful political leaders, that in case
the present Congress fails to annex the
Islands, the Dole Administration must
step down and out, or take the conse-
quences."
"The men who form the present min
istry are not men whose private inter
ests would be affected by annexation"
when they learned that if the ISL
ands were annexed the political plums
would go to the friends of the men in
Washington, who are most earnestly
working for annexation, they suddenly
seemed to lose interest"
"Three more years of official life I'M
der the present form of government,
with a reciprocity with the United
States, would certainly be more to the
liking of those who now hold the high
places than immediate annexation and
a loss of fat salaries
a prominent citizen is then
quoted, as one who had dumped
on" one of the Ministers for advO-
eating AshfOrd's pardon. Presi-
dent Dole is said to be subject to
"unfavOrable. comment" by the
earnest patriots" for having en-
tertained Princess Kaiulani in his
opera box.
During the times when new
governments are getting on their
feet, some earnest patriots" are
sure to rise up and manifest st.
Vitus' dance of Indignation. II
some of these earnest patriots"
right here, ever read, and we
doubt if they ever did read, the
Revolutionary history of the
United States, they would see that
some earnest patriots" made
General Washington very weary
with their crazy charges of luke
warmness, and selfishness. And
a number of prominent earnest
patriots with Charles Henry Lee
among then, proposed to depOse
Washington from his command,
Just as these men here are limiting
that Mr.. Dole may be suppressed.
In the South American republics
the first symptom of new revOlu-
ton is the appearance of these
earnest patriots" who start out
their brass bands with the music
of "a luke-warm government" a
'selfish Cabinet" and so work
mischief.
The Advertiser is not in the
councils of the Government. ItdOes
not even have its confidence"
So we speak without pressure, in
saying that the present Govern
ment has stood from the begin
ming and now stands, sOlidly, I'M
fiinchingly and zealously for an
nexation. In its fixed purpose to
discharge its duty in that respect,
it has. on several occasions, sub
mitted to the humiliation of being
called before certain Priests of
the Annexation Faith. at their
Fort street alters and made to re-
peat the confession of faith.
The dominant party controlled
the last Legislature, but it utterly
failed to provide the Government
with means to maintain the Ha-
Waiian view of annexation. And.
at a time, when a thoroughly we'll
organized system for introducing
white labor here was the supreme
need of the hour. in order to pro-
feet our civilization, it failed to
suggest. ask. or demand from the
Legislature, one dollar for that
purpose.
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