Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 255, 3 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]
For the benefit of &11 th* loeal wonderful revolutionary Amerieana. we reprint the following from the yeveark Time» with the oniy eommenl that we did not even consider them a« important &» aNew Jereey moequito —to the persons whom they bite: The Hawaiian revolutionist« are a hopeful set. When they upaet the throne and §enta lot ofcommiesioners to Washington, they were hopeful of immediate reooguition, and that Mr. Harrieon would gobble up the plnm they had picked for him; but eomehow tbe republiean eenate w&e not in a hurry, and Mr. Cleveland upset tbat little programme. Then Mr. Bloont waa sent and he wae we!comed with upen arms and the hope that he would eee thc «itualion exactlj as they eaw it, but he disappointed them, and n(5w that Mr. Blount i» reported to have reeigned thej are eztrcmely hopefui that the next
» man who eomea will do better. The biggeat man on the 5aland is ; Claoa Spreckels; mnd he ia oppoeed to *nnexation. Why don*t the i revolutioniats »pply themselves to [ obtaining h*rmony at home and i let Tncle Sam alona #br a while? Tbe lateat new» from Hawaii i representa the provisional govern- . ment there as sUndine on its dig- [ nity, having very Iittle els« to stand on. It wanu «nnexation to this cmmtry or it wants notbiog. Lacking that, it wiil apply to the next best customer. meaning fcngland. They musl bave a protectorate. they say, but they do not say what else they could get trum Eugland or any other foreign eountry. and from Eng!and they would get the kind of protection that the cat gives the mouse. 0«r npinion ia that Presideut w;l! d>» I just what he thinks l»est for thN country and for that The r*»volutionists there are a!l American citizens, and if it is neceai«ary t*» take them in hand and spank them thoroughly, that will be done. What they want and what they won’t have is about of as mueh importance as the wishes of so many Jersey mosquitoes.