Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 178, 14 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

'lhe Advertieer is r.ttr»er off when it st--tt»Hl. last Saturday. that ' the ide» that President Cleveland ; favors the sending of a C<*mmitlee ( to the Is;ands before the Senate takes forther steps on the anneiation treaty. 5s based upon a paragraph in the San Francisoo Kulletin. The tnorning liar may be surprised, but it is yet a fact that other pe»»ole besides the P. G. receive from Washington and other oeople there than Thuret«*n «tCo.. are posted thr >ugh talke with ‘*prominent Senators” or even President Electe. We repeat. as published by ua ia?t Friday. lhat Cleveland, in his remarks relating to the Hawaiian incident in hia inaugural address, recommeuded that a Commission of inve«tigation and enquiry be eent to Hawuii before any definite action be taken by Congr*-8S. The precie of Mr. Neumann is acknowledged to be a masterly document and has carried great effect with puhlie opinon in the States. When Neumann saw that Secretary Foster was afraid to give it publicity and tried hi suppress its presentation to the Senate. he simply had it published in the Worid, whieh caused the moat aetonisbing effect among members of Congress who realized how near they had heen to falling in the snare set up by the defunct republic>.n administration. That the Advertiser doesn’t like the cont«ats of Neumaun’a brief does nol surprise ua. but tbe day has arrived that the likee and dielikes of the Reform organ are of very microscopic momeui indeed. We were looking in vain for aome comments in the Advertiser ou the infamous couduct of Thurston and W. R. Castle in attempting to vilify the Queen. But the organ ie dumb as an oyster. Thurston has always sported a democratic anti-royalistic attitude aud. as he has always beeu notorioua for his uneoulh aud ungentlemanly manners and actions in puhlie, his late disgraceful cmduct need cr ate no comroents. W. R. Castle on the other side, has been one of the most creepnig. flatt»*ring lickspittles around the Queen, wbose puree always had to be opened to support the hypocritical part played by the Chinese noteshaving shyster iu his ro!e as a Sunday School teacher or church deacon, or female serainary runner, or Chinese missionary in general. The loathing and contempt with whieh any man who eonsiders himseif a Man will look at this slimy lying slanderer of women ean never be expressed sufficiently strong!y to suit its object. The d smissal of Deputy taxS8seesor Leyd is a disgrace to tbe guvernmeut »nd especially to Mr. P. C. Jonee. It does not appear when Mr. C. A. Brown was re-ap-point«d U> the office of Utx assess )r in cbief *s such appointment has never been gmzetted. Mr. Brown has not taken poesession of tbe office dejure. heeauee tbe euit whieh he sUrted e§ainst C. N. Spenc«r for the nKx>very of the offioe was never deeided a final decisk>n hawiag ooi been given befbre the death of Mr. Spencer.

Mr. P. C Jones must then h*ve appoi.ited him to again fill an office whieh he loet through the m'«*t senous and 'nexcusable : faults. That the Pr *visional Gov»*rnmēnt ti*ie uuder their wings men of ēiioh a caliber is very . characterist'C, and all the enli»gy waste*i on the executive enuaeil’a i allegedintegrity.conservati8ra, and i high sense of honor is proven m:splacod beyond question. Tne idea of any Provisional G *vernraent actiug as the one w:th whieh we at present are saddled is preposterous. A Prqvisional Government whieh by its own procldmation ennply nolds cffice unlil a c!oser union with the United St«tes ean be obtained should cons:der it its duty t >. as far as possible, continueeverything in slatu quo. The timpering with the statutes of the country and with the civil service ia a breach of the authority placed iu them, and should be resented as such. They must be aware that whatever the future of the country is. their official existence will be very short indeed and they ean feel assured that when the reaction e >mes a very undesirably bitter and hostile feeling will make itself dommant. heeauue the executive allowa petty spite aud personal feelinge to take the plaee of justice, fairness, and decency. It is understo*>d that Mr. Jones told Mr. Lloyd that he conldn’t interfere on his behalf with Mr. Brown, and that it made no diflerenee anyhow, because at tbe end of the month “they were all going out.” If by theae “all” he meant all the tax as.sessors. or all government officials in general, or the Pr viaional Government, the etory does not tell, but we h<*pe he meant the as6es8ors, as among them we suppose that Mr. Brown is included. His continuance iu office would be a very dangerous precedent, and a had eiample to all officials who now believe that honesty and uprightness are essential virtues in order to serve the government. The way that the law is administered by our difl’erent judgcs is enough to make a stone image lo<*k surprised. Eaeh Judge seeras to follow his own peculiar ideas. whieh necessarily result8 in creating an impression among the unimtiated that iiersonal ends and feelings are the pf»wers whieh decide the fate of the accused rather thau fairness aiid justice. Here are eome eiamplea of how our Judiciary blockheada carry on thair business. A white soīdier deliberately draws a pistol in a aaloon and shoots a native police-officer who is executing his official duty. The learned Circnit Judge Mr. \Vhiting •vidently d -esn’t consider this a very hideous offeuse and sentences tbe culprit totwo monthsiraprisonment. A Native boatboy gets into trouble with a white police-officer as officious as any rooster on hts dunghill—who receivea a bUck eye. The learned Distnct Magis> trate Mr. Foater considers thia an awful ofi>nse and senteuces the boy to pay a fin« of $50.00 or b« imprisoned for three mooths. A mao on Kauai fiuds som* prowlers on his premise« after dark aod chaaes them away bj firing a pistol at them. hittiogone of them. Tbe alleged very learn«d Sopr*m« Judge Mr. Frear finda aueh an act

grue*om« and aenlenen? the offender to two yean imprĪ3«»nment. And thie is ir idt is cjūlrd equ»lity betore the lawl Jadge Whilin? deservrs serere censure f»r his len:ency «hown toward3 the s»ldier Stone who shot the p.oHceman on d ity. An example abould hare been tnade, whieh would h tve taught the hired ti*ugiis under > 'per'9 banner, that they cannot w:th 'inpun;ty run thi« t«>wn, and that thiā city d >->3 not. »t tht? ag . propos? t*» kKmne like h west*'rn min; i ea u» «>f >>ld ■ at the niercy <>f *> y i>a idit« who carry arm? coiitr iry t» nll law and order. Judge Foster must have changed his former ideas of the serionsnes8 of assaults on police-officers. It was a standing eomplainl in the force that Mr Foster always showed great leniency t»wards any body assaulting the officers, thereby discouraging tbem from perform!ng their duties. We are loath to believe that Mr. F>'ster’s aeverity in the Iast inetance is caused by the fact that it was a white officer and a native assailant while in forraer cases it has generaily been vice versa. The sentence of Judge Frear lnoks perfectly out *>f propurtion to the oflense as it has heen renorted to us. We ahall defer further comments as we understand that the case will be re-opened again. Profpssor Brigham is a brick. His letter in regard to the clamor for spoils in the Advertiser hits the nail on the head. It is ahont time that all this blustering and bragging ab»ut risk of iife eome to an end. If the Boston men had nol protected the reform warnors. they would have heen very mueh out of sight and never crawled outofiheir holea at all. If the offices are to be given as rewards f>r the heroic services in the revolution, let the Boston men have them. They did the work —a!though they ran no risks except being killed by moaquitoes—and it is no more than fair that the reward shouid take some more substantial form than Champagne and Puneh to old Gingo at the Opera House. In acknowledgment of Profesaor Brigham's courage in expre«sion of hie eensible andcorrect sentiment«, we will take up a subscription and present the Museum with a handsome glass case to contain all tbe relica from t*»e title of the mauder-in-chief-with-the-rank-of-Co!onel to a pieee of Willie Hall'e army pie (fossilized and imported for whalers| of what in hist»ry in the future will be known as tne Steven9episode in Hawaiii. There ia a beautiful photograph of the departing Austraha with Wiltse in the foreground in tbe window of the Hawaiian Newa Co. 0!d Gingo looki like a decorated hulloek ready for a b*rbecue and thie featureof tbe scene ie made atill more significant by tbe appropnate preeence of a member of a certain undertaker's flrm standing nezt to Giago, while the Bulietin Kditor with a sardonic emile ia t»ken down the iast beliowing of the (aa Homer would eay) fleebUdeo ox.

The Advertiser yeslerday morn- | ing is, 83 usual. lrying t> deceiv« , ita readers by stating that nearly 1 ihe whole press in ihe United ; St ites is in fav r of the annexati<>n | treaty, and thit only s >me in8ignincant j >nrna!s are in »pp -iiion. We have f>>r sotne time published articles on ihe Hawaiian questi»a J fn>m a number >»f the leading pa- 1 pers in ihe St:itt s « hieh have expressed them«elves decid-dlv ag iinst annex ilioii in the f*»rtn pr>>p' s*h1. and against the manner in «hieh the que3tion has be<Mi brought forward. 0f course if the Advertiser oalla paper? like the New Vork WorId, ihe New Y >rk Merald, the Nati*>o. Frank Lealie’a Weekly. aml HHrpers Weekly, unimp*»rtant j»nrna!s, we have g>>t nothing t > say except t>» admit our ignorunce *>f ihe staudard relative t«> im}»>rtance bv whieh the Advertider jndges the L’. S. press. We would like to know where the “Tiser" woukl eoiue in aueh classification. We reprint to-day an editorial from the New Y>>rk World of February 2ōth. We 9pecially eall the attention of our readers to the closing sentence wher>> it says : “If ihe 8tatements of Mr. Neumann are true the treaty »'Ught not to l>e confirmed at ail, and Minister Stevens should be dismissed in disgrace fr>m the dipl»matic service.” The statements made in Neumann’e precis are absolute * * true as everyb>>dy here familiar with the occurrences in January will know. The Advertiser aecuses Neumann of having euppressed, garbled, and mis-stated in his precis, but it fails to point out a singie inelanee where it c>>uld prove its assertion.