Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 92, 20 April 1894 — TO AMERICANS CHIEFLY. [ARTICLE]

TO AMERICANS CHIEFLY.

What It Means To Be An Amenean. — We pnblii»h a letter that Mr. .lulian D. Hayne. a prominent American luwyer, wrote to the BulUtin last night Mr. Hayne has expressed sentiments in his letter that every American shonld | read and digest with advantage t» hirnself. The donble citizen- | ship has been a qnestion of great j imj>ortance. It was started iu j the Holomua, und wo shall eontinue to empbasize the risks tbat any foreigner takes by taking the i oath prescribed, but not t<tken by i tho P. G. Mr. Hayne speaks as follows: In view of tho extremely agitated manner in whieh the Amer- ! iean, so called, approaches the j plaee of registration, it is perhaps well that he shonld soe himself 1 from tho point of view occnpied i by tho roal Americau citizen. Technically, aud from a legal | standpoint, intention goes a long way in determining the stntus of an individual rosiding iu a foreign | country. lf ono, in good faith, absents himself from his uativo land, either on public or private j businoss, with the iutention. i formed before his departure, of; roturning when he sball have ooncluded his busincss, he will remaiu a citizen until he shall by overt act or change of iutention havo evidouce<l his desire to i change his citizenship. And in { all casos whore the individual j has acted in good faith, the , courts have had little trouble iu detcrmining the real merits of i his case. It is ouly iu those i oases where the individual plays I fast and looso with his citizen- ( ship; where his overt acts give | the lie to his eluim for protection | and of citizenship that there has ever been auy difficulty. Americaus should be disabused of the idoa tbat citizenship, like Sun- j day dothes and Sunday ieligion, I ean be changed at will. lf au Amenean citizen has: eomo to the Hawaiiau lslands i without anv business other than ; bettering his fortune, h«s joiued in every movement necessary to overthrow a subsisting governmeut, and in every undertaking necSKsary to form a new one, he need not wait for the ipae <iizii of tho Attornoy General of the Uuited States to inform him that he is no longer a citizen of the Unitod States. Whatever our mental reserva- ;, tion may be. the law aud goo<l ; seuse hold us responsible for the I consequences of our «ots. jf by I our acts we form a uew govern- i mont whieh, in goud murals and gooil faith, we are bouud to prolect. in spite of and instead of the goverument of tbe United States, we thereby sever our relatious as citizens of the United States. No right-thin(aug citizeu t of the American Iniion nee<i wait j for any iustruction predioated on j these premises; his conscience is t a safe guide. The American resideuts of the 1 Hawaiian islands should foliow t Ihe course poiuted out by the t United States Congress. *‘Let c Americans keep their hands off." a If Americaus joio witb the Ha- g waiians in buildiug op a new a government. )et ihem do it honestly «s Hawaiian citizens, v and not as foreignere. a Hone«tly make op your minds S

wbat yoa are wīiling to do and ihen act onl tbe part. no matter how bad tbe olay; when yoa are tbroneh let there be no wailings over disappcinted ambition, no regreta for the past acd no eom-1 plaints or criticismsagainst tboee who have acted with yoo. But remember always. brother Americans, whatever be the advent, tbe .Americans who act with Hawaiians in overthrowing the one government and in fonnding the new, while proclaiming him self a citizen of the United States, will find himself at onee an object of hatred for tbe p.ist, being a living monnment of uational independence, ignominionsh* sorrendered, and an object of jeal* j for the future, as one who has olready advertise himself as a fitting tool for the nltimate transfer of all national snpremacy. Nor isthis «11, you will fiud that when the folly of yonr j course is snmraed up, your friends at home will set youdown as a prototype of the Sontheru carj>et-bagger, & man, as the Nortbern paper give it, “\vitboot means, character, or occupation an udvcuturer, a eamp follo\ver, a bummer,’’ and who was in the South described as “a mau of ’ Northeru birtL, an ineamalion of Nortliern hate, envy, spleen. greed, hypocrisy, an-1 all uncleanness,” being an iudividual upon whom was poured out the vratb aud [conterapt of the conquered people as well as the discredit and conlumelv of the conquering power. F.ither i befish, tlesh or fowl. Do not ; endeavor to be that moustrositv | whieh has a little of everythiug, | and the certainty of uothing. Amoricans, if you intend to vote, east an bonest ballot and t thereby chango your citizensh : p. If you intend to remain Amer1 icans be assured and consoled by Ihe words of Hon. Rich«rd Guentber of Wisconsin, hiraself a Germau and a natnralized Araeriean citizeu: “We know as well as any other class of American citizens wuero on duties belong. We will \vork for country in tho time of peaee aml fight fir it in tirae of war, if time of war should ! ever eome; when I say onr eountry, 1 mean of cour.se onr sdoptcd country, I meau tho Uuited States of America. After pnss ing through the emeihle of naturalization; we are no longer Germans, \ve are Americans. Our ! attachment to Amen’ea cannot be ! measured by the lengtb of onr 1 residence here; we areAmericans from the moment \ve touch the Amenean shore, nntil \ve are iaid in American graves. We will fight for America wlienever j necessary, America first, last, and ; all the time, America agaiust 1 Germaoy, Atnerica against the world; America right or wrong; al\vays Americans. We are Americaus” —and do uot vote. Americans caunot owe, nor ean they pay, a divided alleginnee. Americans are needed at home where eaeh will find his task and its daugers; there thov 1 ean standside by side, shoulder to sboulder, not with the palsied fear that their acts may eompromise them, but working to- i gether. Leart. hand and head for the honor and greatness of our eommon conntry. The writer is an American who is forever paraphrasing two of fiuest couplets: “Where>r I iwiun. wh«t*>ver re«lms tosee, M v heart auinnuu»!ed fonJIy tnrns to thee; i Still to iuy eonnuy tnrns, with ceaseie«8 I pain, And drnp> st earh remore » lengthened ehain." Jtliax D. H.\yxe.