The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-17

r'UH world uf anything Il,. nD Hm
.UHrH.f." Huu advancement IN Hua
nation which h1d demonstrated ils
capacity iur euII.roNDruwuut and Iu
ability Goo tHln u1ru uf Itself uuu"r most
trying circumstance.
'Tnn United -rutas haas repeatedly
enlarged IIs domains hg conquest and
hy treaty. 10 annexed th0 Republic OF
Texas. taking DO into the Union Us one
of the United states. but these HHUui-
sitiuus are not in point THE Republic
of Hawaii surrendered Independent MAJ
tiOuuitN and waited nearly two years
until Congress gave 90 20 new govern
ment 90 take the place of its old one.
This was boy contract ~ is incuncoiy-
able that either party tu the contract
intended that rich. civilized ANA eu-
lightoucd community should Doe left for
am indefinite period, bound hand and
foot, al the mercy of the criminal
classes. Here was "a little nation with
history, that considering it's recent
beginnings iu barbarism, can proudly
challenge comparison with Massachu-
sets or Virginia or Ohio or California
Its relations with the United States
had always been of the closest and
most friendly character. The govern
ment of the United States is the gov
eminent of a great and just people,
government utterly incapable of closing
. q
and leaving that enemy helpless to help
itself, exposed to murder lust and pill
lage. That the government of the
United States should have intended to
put friendly and contiding people i'm
that plight is beyond human belief.
Such conduct would be a breach of
trust. without parallel i'm the atrocities
committed by civilized nations. Such
intention cannot be imputed. such in
tention could not have entered into
the contract and the intent controls
When the American people carry their
flag to a foreign land, they do not
smite down the institutions that main
tain law, order, protection from crime,
They uphold them They must uphold
them until there is opportunity to
change them The broad and catholic
spirit of the Constitution of the United
States demand s it, Humanity demands
it. The elemental law which God has
put in mems hearts demands it, and
civilized people cannot shut up the
courts and put unofending men. wo-
/ men and children at the mercy of cut
] throats and robbers.
( The Hawaiian Islands We're not uu-
organized territory. They were not
. possessions acquired from a foreign
power by conquest or by treaty. For
about a hundred years they had been
/ recognized as one of the sovereign ma
tions of the earth. They We're a civilized
and progressive nation. and if commu-
nifty of religious ideas has any bear
ing upon international law, they were
a Christian nation. The principle is
the same whether their civilization was
eighty years old, or fifteen hundred
years old; whether they had one hun
dred and forty thousand citizens or
thirty millions. Suppose the United
States. instead of anneXing the Repub-
lie of Hawaii had annexed the Repub-
lie of France: had done away with the
old legal machinery, and, without sup
plying new, had prorogued the French
legislative assembly, thereby deprivng
the French people of the power to do
so, and had left France, for nearly two
years, practically without law. The
civilized world, with one voice would
have crieC, Impossiblel
IF the Fifth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States came to
the Hawaiian Islands with the flag,
then for nearly two years the courts
had no lawful authority to try any one
for crime; and what had been a sOver-
eign nation was suddenly relegated ia
the natural rights of self-protection
which exist where there is no law The
grand jury system had never beer
adopted. Indictments based on the
records of the committing magistrate
We're signed by the attorney general
or his deputy, and the presiding Judge
as thy are in several of the United
States. The biennial session of the
legislature had recently come to an end
If a special session had been called tC
provide for summOning and paying
grand jurors there would have been a
hiatus of months, and the result would
have been problematical Was a civil
lied community to be left without pro-
lection from criminals for three months
or even for one month";"