Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 92, 20 April 1894 — No Republic. [ARTICLE]

No Republic.

Our esteemed but ruther iLim buoyantly Jingo couteraporarv the . Pbiladelphia Press. closes a declaration of principles fordealing with the Hawaiian raatter in tlie following wonls: “Friendshij> with the Hawaiian Republie!” Exactly. Friendship and even inuteri:il aid to the Hawaiian Republic— when there is one But it is Jifficult to see how even the most rampant of tue J;ngoes ean eall upon tbe natiou to show friendship for a repnblic tbat does uot exist. Ifthe Press has not vet learned what constilutes tbe essential characteristics of a republic, it woukl be discreet for it to study the fnnd..mentul docuraents tbat show the eonstitution of our own Goverument aud learn frora theiu what a repnblic really is. lf it should do so it raight find tliat a republicjn governraeiit requires, first, a constitution adopted by popu!ar aelion. It would also be likelv to discover that the republican dea uecessitates tbat the laws >hall be rai.de by representatives of the people. As a resnlt of these requireraents a republican government requires the election of both legislators and executive officifcls by the people. The republican standard set by this Government b th in the Declaration of Iudependence and bv the Iatest coustitutional aineiulmeut reqnires that the whole peoplo sba!l have the rigLt to participato b\- their votes in their owa governmeut. Wiien Hawaii hassncb a republie. it will be dnty of the Uaited States to show friendsbip for it. Bct so loug as the name of republie is libelled by a set of men who seized power and have kept it for a year without giving a sign of referring the power of goverument to tho people, aud who pass Iaws by edicts for tbe [ professed purpsse of enab’.ing the few to rule over tho many, the talk of the “Hawaiian Republic’' is a eheap and trans parent fraud,— Pittshur-jh Dl* '• paieh.