Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 118, 21 May 1894 — HaWaiian Oppression. [ARTICLE]

HaWaiian Oppression.

The rigbts of persou an 1 pro- i jK*rly īn H.i» iii are so plainly put in jeopardy by the pending proj.i'S.tions of the. Provi>i> nal Gov--rnment tb»t a'ann spread‘' ing thronghont the i>Ian.I~ p n The miiuimeniā of power have beeu seized by men who nse authority to destroy, and are not above enjoying the profit>of their pow-r to exempt threateued in tert>ts from calamity. for a eousidcrat‘on. The>o men being in po>sess:on of the ageucies of the AssociatoJ and L"uiteJ Pre-> have ustd their censor>hip to deceive the outs;de wor!d by sophisticating transmitted news and by this raeans have deprived tbe substautial iuterests of the couutry of a Learing in the L nited t5tates aud iu Europe. It is a fact that Ameiiean newspapers in aid of tliis conspir acv of blackraailcrs have recalled | correspondents who told facts as ; thev fonud thera, anel sent oUiera instructed to iuvent fictions that' woulel infiaence outside sentiraent against the majoiity of Hawaii aml in favor of the minority, whieh, backed by Stevens aml ; our navy, robbecl the people of their governraent. and uow \ | getting ready to rob tiiem of their ' | property. This is the situation ! as it is, without varnish or veneor. j Tbe public clebt of the islands i has been largely increasecl and ; the profits of privtite business have disappeared. The new constitution proposed b_v Hole j for the commonwealth of Hawaii establishes a military obligarchy, disfrauchi.>es tlie people who hokl actual citizenship by biithright or naturalizatiou and pnts the governmeut in control of a small minoritv of foreigners who 1 boust tbat Dole’s arrangement i ; pennits theiu to rule Hawaii, while they remain citizens or subjects’ <f the couutiies from whieh they eamel Such a proposition is so monstrons that it brings iuto hot focus thecrime of Stevens, whose infumous assistunce to a knot of traitors against the gover-nmeut to whieh he was accredited, has | led to this assassination of the ! eomnion rights of man. The , Liuitecl States cannot afiord such a responsibilitv. It is tlie cluty' of this government to see that i the power cnminally created by its ageuts is not permitted to destroy a people with whom it is ut peaee. These people have ; t at;ently waited for advioe and <lirection by our goveruraeiit, the responsīble uuthor of their dis-1 trcssing situutiou, and Congress shonld promptly relieve thoio of u strain whieh will break in carnage unless remuved by tlie power th.vt caused it. The tillibusterswboareorganized for cppre?sion and ’oiaekmail may soou cliscover that there are people in this conntry who so i value naiioual honor and iuternalional justice that they will. volunteer for the task of at one blow cleansing onr fiag of th» i stain put uj»on it by 8tevens. relieving our governmeut of publie responsibility for tbe eoniinuunoe or termination of an ol;ig.rchy of b!ackmailers, and rtstoriug the rights of person and property and sel{-government to the people of Hawaii.—H'iee.