Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 171, 3 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

A i*-tter a!legKi to be fn*ru .Mr. J. 1, Stevens to Secrvtary of State Foster, bas lK*en published in the j I'ullelin. We wouhi n->t bel:eve that ;t was genuine, h.it ae ihe ] Advert «er published il y'-'t -rd.»v, | our do;il»t? have b en set ut r-vt. ] We iv— tho ight it iiupo:?- j sible l' -r any gentleiu ii) diploiuat to (arrv on a c>>rrespondence with his hoine p >vernuient in -ueii t»ruis ind langu«ge as the ; letter is coucl»ed. but apparently j it is not - >. a- Mr. Stevens has done j it. The idea of a Minister pleni- j potentiary writing ab>ut h >»1lums, and l>ttery. an>I opium rings to a seoretary »f state is so unique as to be ammusmg. W e now for the tirst tirae fully understand whv Mr J. L. Stevens has always tnanaged to get in hot water in hie former diplomatic career. It is e.isv to see frotu wliom the inspiration of Mr. J. L. Stevens comes. S»ine of the Hawaiians mentioned by hiui as beiugthe very best and tu >st int-liigent Hawaiiuns are not ahle t» converse in English, and as he cannot converse in Hawaiian. he 1kis n»t arrived at his condusions from personal experience. Mr. Kauhane, we are aware is the modeI Hawaiian in the eyes of the iittle Norlh l*acific Institution clique represented by such men (?) as Frank Judd, Screno Bishop and Dr. Hyde. He is ohedient to them, has no tuind of his own. is perfectly ignorant, reads the Bible and the Kuokoa —virttually edited by Sereno Bishop—and furnishes the clique with all the little petty gossip from hia backwoods district, of whieh the mentiooed gentlemen are so extremelv fond. It ie indeed a pity for the missionaries that there are nol a few more Hawaiians like Kauhane. Then there would be no demand for self-govern-ment, no Citizen’s Rights League and everybodV would be 30 niee, and so goud. and firm in the belief J that the sun rises snd eets according to regulation8 issued from the pulpit of the Central Union Church. and the padded edit»rial chair of the Advertiser. Mr. J. W. Kalua is another pet of Mr. J. L. Stevens who stigraatizes him as being the most brillant Hawaiian lawyer. What Mr. Kalua has d me U» Mr. Stevens that he shouId reveuge hiraself on him m this wav, we d>m't know, but it is certainly unfortunate for Mr. Stevens th.it he hasn’t bad a law suit. and entrusted his case to this most brillaai legal luminary—he raight have modifie*I his views somewhat. If he received his mformation in regard to Kalua from Mr. Judd, this gentleman must have chunped his views cousiderabiy as he used to have a yery prouounced. »nd very mueh disaporoving. opiuion of the alleged brilliant lawyer. For further information on this unsavory subject, we shall refer Mr. J. L. Steveos—jf he really is in search of the unvarnished trutb—to the AttorneyGeneral W. R. Castle who ean give vivid iI!ustratious of tbe brilhancy of the iegal an nexationist from lao. Th« third penona grato to Mr. J. L. Stevens among tbe Hawaiian annexationist« is Mr. Kauhi, tke

repres- :, ntative from Ewa. Quot;r.p ihe Advertiser on a tormer oeea.-ion, we will draw tbe curlain to - w music. and consider it charitv to be snent —but we d) congratu!ate Mr. J. L. Stevea8 on his sjurces of information whieh have induced him to maie himse!f ndiculous by parading ihe names I of ?uch a trio as the above referred j t >. a:i<i thereby shiwiag, lo those wh > reai!y kn >w the meii he refers j t > in such g!oTĪng terms, that either Mr. Steveus is exact!y what 1 he so impolitely t-rms others or else a blatant as:nine gall. We are obliged t> Mr. Stevens for the informati>>n that R. W. i \Vilcox is noie an annexation;st. j lf this be soG iribaidi ha= kept the ! fact verv mueu to himself atid h >s n>>t express-d himself to such effect in his newspaper, but we shah await uis own aifiraiation of Mr. Steveiis’ ass-rti»n bef<>re we d:scuss Uie uirrits <>r demerits, 01 the member from Waialua. Mr. Stevens’ inf *rmers.in regard to wh > are annex >tionists and who are not,diave im<de the poor old man make sucniinis-statements that he will stand in a peculiar light when it is sh*>wn by an invest gation that there is more capital in the ranks of those against annexation tiian in those in favor <>f it. We mean of course at the time of Stevens writing his letter. Since the news <>f yesterday there was no eapilal at all in the annexation party. Bes:des all ihe Hawaiian property owners, whose eapilal reaches a very niee figure, there are opposed to annexation men likeSam Allen, Jas Cnnpbell, not to menlion the house of Theo. Davies <fc Co. There are the members of tne Robinson faraily in Honolulu, the Sinclairs. Gays, Robinsons on Kauai, Kynn°rsley, Wight. and Rickard on Hawaii, besides nunierousother wealthy Americans. Britishers and others who oppose anneialion in a most decided manner. That the Castles and Cookes, and Alex. Yonng are in favor of annexation we all know, but we certainly don’t know where the eapilal represented by them is. uor do their mortgagors, who sincerely wish they did. The Advisory Council has seen fit to deprive the Queen of the guard of honor whieh was granted to her. when she retired to Washington Plaee. The Provisional Government has made no friends by soch au exhibition of netty persecution, and the uncalled for step meets with nnaniuioua coudemnation. No reason f»r this slep has been given. The Advertiser says that the uCtion wns taken on a rej>ort of ihe Military Committee of whieh Mr. C. BoIte is the chairman. It is a pity thlt this report has not heen given to the public as it would be of v»st iuterest to learn the reasons whieh induced thss brave 0e rman t 0 advocate such an unusual action. Mr. Bolte has heretofore heen considered a pretty harmless lellow m the community, thougbt for th« last year or so, perhaps §uffering from a swelled head—as a natural consequence of a swelled pocket. But it waa hardly expected tbat he would have recommended the offer of a gratuitous insult to a woman—and that womao the Queen. It is tragic-comic to watch the inconsistent anliea of aome of tbese g**ntiemen from the great V»terl*nd. A few day* ago, they

gatbereil tosether, and drank Mr. G!ade’s Cbampagne in ce!ebration of the German Kmperor' birth div. The Kaiser w>ald have lix>ked "ith ind 2nation and ?■ »rn at the congraiuiatione offered to him by a aet of men juāt sruiIty of the act whieh he. more thm any other tlar }>ecin m march, loilhee ni"re inten?eiy than anything —ihe act of treae..u «gainst a monarcb and «giinst the land whieh shelters lhe;u. Tne one-hun-dredth pirt of «hat they have I doae here would in the r own home have made ihem ripe f*r trie hempen rj e >r f-r Sp» diu. u:d a bull«*t. yet eeili ''«ey pr -iu t > take :u t e.r m • ith the n i.n- -f the man «li> elyles liīiii^e.f. >"t ouiy king by ihe Gr>cr fG d, but tbe execut r «>f God's « ill on the German liupenal i r >ne. If the guard <’f honor ln>d heen disbauded for econ<>mical rea8 >ns, . perhaps smne excuse cmld h»ve heen made, but ee >n >my is a w.>rd not to be found in the Pr>>visioual Government’s vocabulary (except economy of c»urtesy and fairness towards all but their iu»st fanatical »diitrents»; and along with the heavy military expenses whieh the c»untry now carries a . small addition wouUl hardly have heen felt. If nothing further is i said or done in the inatter, and no 1 eiplanalion for the step is ».ffered hv the governmei»t. «e will be obliged to plaee the worst eon* struction on the actiot>, and eonsider it thc resuit of a childish narrow-miuded bilious attack of spite whieh naturally was giveu fuller swmg as the victim of it was a woman. We are in c»nnection with this matter pleased, though, to hear that neither President Do!e nor VicePresident Damon approved of the step taken, but it is to be regretted that these two gentleinen seem to be in a hopeless mi.iority in all the government actions. The Queen sh»uld not be Ieft without a guard of honor under the present circumstances. As ihe government has failed in its duty in this regird, we think that it would only be proper for the American Admiral in p»rt to olfer a guard of marines for the residence of the Queen. If thisofficial is unwilling to do so, it woukl be in strict accord with international etiquette and comity for either the English or Japanese representatives to offer a guard froin their respective men-of-war or frqm them both joint!y. We reprint to-day a short, but pointed edit >rial fr»m ihe Sacremento Bee. It is so interes?ing to learn how other people see us. and in this instance h»w accurately theeditor of thal prominent paper hitsthe nail on the he;-d. ANOĪHEK ACT OF WROS«’., 1 5peci»l ne ' vs to the shows that the Hawaiīan ī?iands have heen virtualiy se:red on behalf of tbe United States. It may be tbat the step taken by Captain \Viltse haa been too pronounced to be now retracted. and that the Government may be called upon ■ to defend the act by force of armā. Nevertheless the Bee has no heei* tation in again reiterating its opinion that the annrxation of the Islands by the United States was nol asked for by the Hawaiian peopie, nor desired by them; that H waa a aeheme concocted by Ameriean adventurers in the intcreeta of

Ameriean capitalists. that the Pn>visional Governmvit : no ra re right in Hawaii * .tn an Au er an pn.>tectorate woold have in Briti-h Columbia; that the whole thing bas heen. snd ;- a j i>. t:irough aiul through. to use the p«>wer of this government, t > stiil turther disfranchise the jh,- i■ 1 e of Hawaii and to help along the inter<-t- ot wea tiiy scheiuers. The American people eannol aff >rd to d» a wrong t > ar."ther i>ev>pie. aiul th:s highhanded theft < f a nation fbllowiug o» ihe shameful di9franchisemeut of the rig‘itful owner- of the -»i! is a « r>» g that no patriotic - >phistri;S e i ever - xouse.