People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — TREASON IN HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

TREASON IN HAWAII.

THE IGNORANT NATIVES OBJECT TO BEING ROBBED. They Do Not Appreciate the American Style of Civilization Which Makes It a Crime to Resist Wholesale Robbery. We haven’t yet got sense enough to comprehend that the morals and conduct of those who represent a nation ought to be rather better, Instead of worse, than the morals and conduct of a decent, private individual. Should we ever arrive at that creditable point of perception, the first thing we shall do will be to hang our heads in shame ever the Hawaiian business. Some years ago the Hawaiians were simple, happy children of nature. They were in splendid physical health, had abundance of food —without working ten hours a day—and got on beautifully without the nuisance of clothes. Their

morals would stand a tolerably fair examination even among people of our superlative excellence. They had no almshouses, because they had no paupers. They had no jails, because— I everybody having enough to eat aud : drink and needing nothing to wear—nobody stole or killed anybody to get their possessions. In an evil hour, one American, the forerunner of the modern serpent, landed in that paradise. And the serpents that came after him were a great host, j The simple natives, unfamiliar with Christian politics, recc. ed these serpents kindly. They gave them food and drink and a little land, then rnoie land, and then yet more land, and we e J quite overcome with delight at the wonderful visitors who proposed to teach them United States civilization

and pure ethics. They even put cn clothes, as a concession to the lofty j morality of the good sernents from tlus great and gloriou rountr'. And , mealtime, the serpents were busily grabbing land; buying over natives to t’peir service; poisoning the minds of the people | against their own form of self-gover 11 ment, and intriguing at Washington to prepare a strong backing for their grand coup d’etat of stealing Hawaii. They adopted a truly serpentine method for inducing the United States to ' countenance their steal —slandering the character of the natives a.id traducing their queen—and finally suc--1 ceeded in triumphantly installing themselves as owners and rulers of poor Hawaii. " We good people felt a ; trifle uneasy over the job for a little while, and were doubtful about recognizing the robbers as equals of decent folks; but, when we heard how' shocked the robbers had been about the improp- | er conduct of the queen, our doubt wos at an end. Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Carlisle, and the rest of our representaj tives, couldn’t he expected to object to j stealing from a lady whose reputation j was in question.

| So we have sent a national greeting to our snakely brothers in Hawaii, who ; are now keeping house in great style with their stolen goods. They are rehabilitated, and are now received | among the elect sovereigns of this I amusing world. But the natives are be- ! having very badly. They, with their ! queen, have actually tried to get back i what belonged to them! It is pleasant | to learn, by cablegram, that the rob—--1 leg pardon! the new government, has shot three of the insurgents for high treason, and has arrested the queen tor \ complicity with the traitors. (Insu:- | gents, treason and complicity are very | effective words —on occasions).