Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 34, 9 February 1894 Edition 02 — The Hawaiian Question. [ARTICLE]

The Hawaiian Question.

The Hawaiian policy of the administration. whieh has been’ i temporari!v obscnred bv the proposed taritf bill, will be prompt!yi revived bv the sen»te. We may l prepare onrselves for a variety of j speeches, the principa1 feature of ; all of whieh will be the dizzy| j dight of the Ainerican eagle. If, we are not mistaken, we shall l»e treated during the next few weeks to more ti'ihdub in this line than i :we have had in many raoons. Kings aud Queens and Princes' | will be haudled without gloves : and at a safe distauce. AVe have not been uuaware of j the superficial unpopuIanty of I the po!icy recommended by the : administration in regard to Ha ; waii, and her now ex-queen. It has aroused the annexationists. | stirred up the natnral enemies of 1 the adnnnistration, and let loose the prettiest lot of eheap demagognes the world ever saw. Not oue of them has confincd liimself ! to the single proposition laid | down by the Secretary of Sbite, wliieh carefully avoided commit ! ting the administration to a fixed policy as to the ultimate relation of the two governraents. We i hnve followed theattack upon the I administration with grent care, ; beiug one of the very few journals !of the conutry to support it. The 1 great majority of its opponents have to the administrai tion purposes for whieh there has ! beeo no foundation, or else hnvo , deliberately, and without a pro- ! per examination of all the facts, condemned as nntrnstworthy the iuformation whieh thereis nothiug to show was not carefully aml sincerely obtained by it. There has uot been a bit of evidence on whieh to base their conclusions ! and their predictions and they ! stand today, where they were at first, as critics who do not know what tbey are criticising; cntics who lacked faitb in the Americanism and justice of their own goverument. We shall now see what we shall see, when the senate bears froro President Cleveland and has the papers in the case l>efore it. lt inay or may not believe Mr. Blount that the old government ; of Hawaii was overthrown by American interference. lt may ,or it may not follow Mr. Cleveland's advice in the raatter. What it will do cannot be fore seen, but we believe as we have always believed, and as we think the majority will soon aeknowledge, th»t from the first the administrat!on h»s been moved iby the loftiest and pnrest of motives to riglit a great wrong, and that the principies of internationaI justice for whieh it h»s been contend:ug will be approved. — Xeu' Huien Register.