Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 153, 2 July 1894 — A SOLEMN PROTEST. [ARTICLE]

A SOLEMN PROTEST.

The People of Ha'waii protest against the New Constitntion and Mr. Dole's Repnblic. This afternoon at five o’eloek Ihe loyal citizens of Hawaii will meet on Palaee Sqoare, and enter a solemn and earnest protest against the infaraous outrage, whieh it is propose<l to perpetrato on Wednesday—the prool«iming of a repnblic of filibustar«, the proclamation of a oonstitution framed by aliens and for the sole benefit of certain cl«sses. The temporary power invested in the provisional governraent was obtained throngh a most conteroptible conspiracy, and lhrongh underhanded tricks. The revolt of January 1893 was not the ouleome of a spontaneous outl>urst of the popular will. It was the raost contemptible act on record in history. The hired brigand John L. Stevens used his brief atlthority to fnrther this aeheme. The conntry whieh he represented disavowed his actions and thougbt that the honor of the United Statos was saved by dismissing him, and in six lines in a messageto congressrebuking bira. Tbe world thinks ditierently, and there are no reasons to believe that President Cleveland will allow hiraself. and his administration to be covered with infamj T by leaving au adraitted wrong unrepaired. In this, theyin de sieclc, the bloody ravage of war and revolutiou is out of fashion and arbitration has taken the plaee of force. But, it is necessary to ahow to tbe world that the Hawniian People are not participating in the revolutionary movement of the oath-breaking ex-Judge, who now maskerades as a president of a republic. The People of Hawaii believe in self-government and, by the Heavens, they will have ik The people shall rule. The will of tho people shall be the force whieh makes the government. When, this afternoon, Hawaiians and foreigners be the AngloSaxons, Portuguese or Chinese, sbrnd sholder to shoulder and 6sten to J O Carter, Hawaii’s best citizen. reading tho protest of Hawaii against the usuri>ers the loyal men thoy ean rest assured that theirprotest will be heard «nd echoed all ovor the civilized world. «nd that tho unrelenting «nd sotid opposition to tbe jnnta, now c*lling themselves a repohlie, will be ,snpported and admired by every power that knows tbe existenc|e of these fair isles. Let therefore every man, woman and •hild of every r«ee, natiooality &nd birtb be present on Palaoe Square, and by their preaence testify to the troe desire of the people of Hawaii, and quietly, orderly and pe*celally prove to Ihe wor)d tbat the new government ifl nnpopol*r, deteeted, and created «g*inst the will of the Hawaiian naiion.