Show TAKING IT ALL BACK 4 commissioner blount is a good deal a of a statesman he confide his hie business to every tom dick and harry that cornea comes along but goes t quietly to those concerned lad and states his bis case without waste of time or words it did not take him long att after or reaching honolulu to determine exactly what to do and it was done with out fuss or flurry having decided that there was waa not sufficient ife authority or justification for UI the stars and stripes as aa a signal of our protection he had the flag lowered and the one which the majority of the people undoubtedly desi desired replaced this we take it is the end of the annexation sob scheme eme for the present at least it must not be understood that timidity or irresolution on the part of our oar government d representative had atly any thing to do with nis nig action far front from it As an evidence of this he notified tle the powers that be that no inter interference ferenc irom other sources would be tolerated besides he does not come of a timid timi 41 I 1 race the flag was hauled down dowa because as previously suggested it h baxt D no right to be there and thus thug bronett brought our government into disrepute A A great nation cannot afford to either bully or force itself upon au an inferior 4 one and to hoist our flag upon tho the hawaiian government building when the natives did not ask for it was un dignified to say flay the least we hardly think the islands win relapse into a monarchy because it t would be going backward for on one 6 thing and in a nation conta lullis ls no more people than there are in salt bait lake city would be an absurdity however it to la their aft affair and it if they so will it we ure are at a ia lota i to see how bow this or any other nation on rightfully say them nay |