Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 180, 16 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Ar*- the rat? leaving the =inking ship ? • Mr. P. C. Jonet* has re«igned from his positi >n, a= M?nister of Finanee — ill health being rea=on given for thi= =tep. What doe= this re=ignation mein ? It is difficult 1 1 believe that the work of the two last months shoald have made =uch a havoc with the health of Mr. Jones, as t.> nece=sitate his resignation. When Mr. Jones went nto the Bro'vn Cabinet as Minister of Finance, there were no indications tliat hi= heallh wa= unpaired, and he was in fact very loath to leave the office when he was voted out. His re=ignation at the present moment and the appointment of his succes=or give good grounds for speculations as to the motor in the ‘’inner circle. Mr. Jones was never a penona nrcta. either to Mr. Clau= >preckels or to Mr. W. G. Ir" in, aml he has now been succeeded in the office as Minister of Finance by the bookkeeper of W. G. Irwin i Co. (Ld.) Mr. T. C. Porter. Does this indicate that the change has been made through the inlluenee of Mr. lr"in or has Mr. Porter simply been =elected as being considered the best man available for the office ? It is hardly reasonable that Mr. Porter should have given up his permanent, and well paid position with Irwin * Co. to assume an olhee whieh necessarily mnst he temporary. without hsving some assurance that his position with his f>rmer euiployers would l>e kept open for him. • If such be the ease it seems evident that it is the Spreckels inhuenee whieh has brought on the change of the peraonnel in the executive eouneil, and we are pleased to see a move made by the P. G. whieh will be so very unfavorable to their annexaticn schcmes. The suspicion in the United S?tates that the revolution and annexation propositions emanaled from Mr. Spreckels as a hnaneial speculation has done mueh to prevent the accomplishment of the plans, and such suspicions "i 11 naturally heeome stronger yet, whea an employee of Spreckels is placed iu the most responsible position in the g>vernment. In regard to Mr. Porter we bave very littie to say. He has played no role in the {H>litics or finanoes of lhis country and we are not aware of any qualifications in him whieh could justify the selection of him ptr »r. He did not even carry a musket or assist the insurgents in any wsy, except at the Wiltse hall. He is au excellent accouDtaot, but we do not consider the f*ct thal aman for many years has held a subordinate uosition as bookkeeper any good reason to believe him competent to fill the office of Minister of Finance during the most critic*J and difficult period—financially aud politically —known bere. The apt>oiutment of Mr. Porter has not strengthened the cabinet. The very mneh over-rated financier who now retires to private Iife waa not a remarkable success ae a minister, but he seemed to have heen an obedient and willing lool of the elamopoaa crew whieh at

present i= intimidating and running the government. The di=mi==al= of M- -=r=. Cha=. Clar< and H irry WeM> from the Cu=tom House. to make n> >m for =<>me of the alleged hero- w:thout consultine the Port aurveyor or Collector- ■ General. was one of his unexcusahle aclion= and the reappointment of Mr. C. A. Br >wn t > the office of Uix-a==es=>r in =pite of the fact= conne>:ted wiih that pers">n s former incurabency m ide it imr> -'-.hle f»r Mr. Jones to retain any of the c»nfidence of ihe taxpaying community. Hi= resignatiou wili be received with =atislaction and it i= t» l>e hoped that his succe=?or will bc independent enongh to run the departraent o i an honorable b;i-:= of fiirne=s, and refuse to be dictated to by any inner or outer circle. On the first day of next month the amemlmenl of the tax-Iaw goes into efi’ect as passed by the last Legislature. This amendment does away with the clause whieh prevented the tax-assess»rs from being disinissed except f»r certain reasona. and whieh virtually gave those officials a mortgage on . the office. With the experience of C. A. Brown bef<>re thera the Legislature wisely decided to knoek that sectlon of the law on the head | and the tax-assessors are now, like all other officials, resp»nsible to j their suj>eriors and ho!ding uffice ! during the pleasure of such superiors. We are pleased to leam that Mr. C. A. Brown will not be retained in , office after the end of this month, but will be aliowed t > resign as soon as the atuended law takes j effect. It is a pity that the gov- | ernment, whieh fully recognizes that j he has made himself impoeaihle as a government olheial, shou!d have assisted him and allowed him to satisfy his petty venomous spite hy dismissing Mr. Lloyd. a faithful and trusted officer of the govern- 1 ment. It i= to be hoped that Mr. | Brown’s successor will make the proper amenities for the outrage committed by his predecessor. The Advertiser has found out that Harper’s Weekly is an im- j portant paper in the United States, | aiul we hope that the famous : journal will feel flattered over the aeknowledgment. The Advertiser j man cons»les himself over the , anti-annexation views of that pai>er by aaying that if George ! William Curtis had heen alive the paper w<>uld have sp»ken differently. The mind-reading and spiritualistic p»wers of ihe Chief Grinder of the Organ, are on!y exceeded by his conspicirous beauty. His assertion, though, that Harj>er‘s Weekly is advocatlng anything whieh might be c»nslrued as “ignoring and overriding īhe wishes of the Hawaiian residents in the matter’’ is an uoueual display of absurdity or mieeoneeption of facts. To judge by the way the nuraber of leading American journals are opposed to annexation, and . also from the result so far of tbe mission of Mr. Thurslion and co!leagues, there must be a good many of the Advertiser’s fnends who. like George William Curtis. bsve left this world, bnt would have spoken and acted very differently and mueh more to tbe aatisfaction of Henry if yet alive. Who are thoee Hawaiian residents who eall upon tbe United SUtes

to grant u= the ble-«iag of ?tible government i. e.. onnliaoanoe of the prcsent a'.Uocrat ; - oiig.m-hy ? Are there any Hawaiiane whojoin in that apoeal ? Decidedly not. Ta» appeal jitnply niade l*y a bandful of rc« dent? temporarily sojourning in th--?e Is;.mds : r ihe puri"-e - ecu’ation. and in search "i fortune. T!i”se hinie <>t i pa?'<ge, ch ■< • i in their tl<ght t >w.tr i- t . ■ g *1 of w>-allh bv ihe McKinley Ll ... an i depreaoi>n in the H.twaii m nation, and calmly try t > bartt-r iway t ;ie r giits. indei*eudence. liberty. a:nl c >untry o{ , a free peopie t hieh. wiih the m liberal h< jpit <;ity, tveicomed the ll tck nf adventurer< t > their laml. and in every tvay facilitut«d the j road to \veaith and prosperity of the strangers tvlu>. m return. in the co’irse of 70 years decimated the naiion. Now the moulhpieee of these very adventurer- dares to parade them a- Hawaiian residents entitled to voice or consideration in regard to the future of Hawaii nei. Go to I Mr. Advertiser man, the eyes of the American nation have heeu opened to who and what you and your ilk are. “We are tired of native rule’ are words quoted in American papers as c>»ming frotn Mr. C. R. Bishop. That he. of all men, should lae the one to express himself so, need surprise nob >dy. The seltishness, meanness, and greed of this man who owes everything whieh he possesses in this world to the native Hawaiian woman whose husband he heeame, is too well known to need any comment in this coramunity. Hut let us see what “native rule” has done in this country to make Mr. Bishop aud the other eap:talists “tired.” We elaim that more than nine tenths of the laws on the statute book of th:s country havo been made directly or indirectly for the finaneial benefit, and through the instrument ility of the capitalists of this country. It wastohe!pthe planters and the moneyed men that the treaty was made whieh gave them a boom unparalleiled in history; whieh enabled them to draw fr>>m 3U to 100 percent dividends on their sugar stock. and whieh rnore than tripled the value of the plantations. Every law made relating to duties and taxes was carefullv arranged to suit the planters. Everything appertaining to sugar mills or planting was admitted free. or as good as free of duty. The taxes were assessed on the first day of July, when all the sugir in the country was already exported, and any attempt to change such system was howled d>>wn as being injuri>*us to the planting interests. Laws were passed whieh e.iabled the planters to flood the country with pauper labor. Hordes of Chinese were let in. They eame here as a acourging plague—bringing with ihem no women,and no mcIinatioP9 or intentions for adomestic life, but all the vices under the sun. 20.000 male Chinese were • let lo»se among the population containing a total of about 15,000 women —whal comment are nee«led to show what a Hell haa been the result of such iniquity. But Mr. Bishop and his associates needed eheap labur, and the natives eommitud suicide by passing the laws giving it to them. And atill Mr. Bishop is “tir«d” of native rule! The Christian Church whieh the money grabbers bave defiled, by

using it- name ar.>i ;r.:: :on t> > obtain tbeir ends amcng the Hawaiiai'.-. ha- oeen pr >: te-i iid ’ a--isted ' y ill kind of law- ,\: i uieu-uiv' pr . - i Mr. B;-;. >. and ihe other "tired." men aad willingly granteti by the native rul*'rs. Roads ai 5 whanes. ai;>i - Wnefit of p<x*r nat:ve, whon horse c>*u!d mauage to {ei-? «>n any tra:l, or CRM) IOT stre :t to allow i the sugar-loeded carts. to bring > more and more sugar lo the coffer* of Mr. Bi-hop. — The segregat>on laws against the j lejK-rs were passed—not t > -ave > the remnants »f the dying race. bul to protect the foreigners hcre. | because the dread dise:<s>, alth»ugh seeming!v c»nfimng itseif to f:>p > >r naliw». might ? >me d.»y h ivrefused t>> rec»gnize as superior the clay of whieh the capitalists aiui their farailies are supposed t» be m;ule. l)o we realize what tbe segregation laws mean ? l>o \\e realize what agony it is f»r the husband to see hi- wife forcibly taken away from his h>*me, or f»r the mother to see her child being shipued to that living grave where v>ce aml sin dominate, and where all sacred tu-s are abruplly br»ken asunder? And h:\ve these -tringent laws helped to diminish the disease ? It has kept the disease out of sight, but the -aiue pr»portu*n of the people is attacked by it. and sufl’ering from it to-day as was 20ye<irs ago. and theyearly number of exiles to tbe God, (and hope) f»rsaken tomb, is the same now in proportion to the p»pulation at it was, when the first law was raade, But ihe capitalist- must be protccted and considered; uever raind if the hearts of the deserted Hawaiian husbands and wives ra iy break, or Mr. Bishop and friends might have reasons to be very tired indeed. That the constitution <>f 1887 was wholly made to suit the eapitalist, that all laws relating to corporations, and m>*rtgiges, and dehts have heen drafted by their paid attorneys, and passed willingly by the “native rulers.” is of sraall moment to the “•tired” eenllemen. That the Penal Code although apparenfly giving all people e<}uality before the law has heen stretched consider.ib!y whenever a capitalisl or his friend was in trouble, is f»rgotten by the tired raillionaire who, when he found that his advice could nol longer doratnate the “native rulers” who began to emancipate themselves from the yoke of the capitalists> evidently, in hia relation to the Hawaiians, has adop ted the North American maxim that a good Indian is a dead Indian,and who now scorns the “native rnlers” who ptcked him up a needy adventurer, and made him rich and prosperous. The Advertiser is extremelv anxi> us to see these Islands annexed. In its editonaI yesterday ii shows that annexation to America only has heen decided on, because it was considered the easiesl obtainahle—the Americans having the reputation of doing everything 5n a rush and thinking it overafterwards. The annexalion-organ threatens that if the United Statesdo not take us we wili have to ask England or Japan to gobb!e us up. It seems then that the so often reiterated statements of the great Iove for the Coited Sutea, whieh it has heen a*serted waa the pnme mover for tbe Americans in Hawmii to revolt, and ask for anneialion, is only auperficial; and that Iove for power.

c-iin. »nd wealih. i- the rea; m - *- tive whieh in?(>ires the<e aunoxa’.ion;-:? wh-> are willi •- *••> ’ 1 rt, ' r ,»wiy thi- cvxmtrv a:vi th - ; -"pio even l » ihe ch«ef of Timb’.ictoo. il he only will allow theoi t*> fein tio in olhi.'e ami prevent the Hawai’ans from ohuiinine sny civil righta in their own oountry. It is w, *ii that the Amerlcan nation should ful!y ;earn the trne teelinga of the.-e '>•'.{ ex;> itriateil adventurer* now e-iil on the Americ*n llepuhlie tl>r prolection and finanfial «uccor. In ita unan- aka’' e raeanno-s the Pr vi;ional Ctovernmeut refua-, - to (>av the volunteers of Me«:hanic gne No. ‘2 f<>r their h >rs“s. whieh wore }>reaentod t<> tho U>ys through a puhiie sal>scri(>tion. Tlie men who subs<nl»eil raoney for the purchaso of the h»rs >a, we have no doubt, wili gladiy -eo the volunteers ro.il’a lVw dollara. The volunteen» haved»ne good aml etficicnt service for hard!y any reeompenae. They have been sheive*l by the e-tablishment of a (>aid de(>artment, but we thiuk that the city and the gover n m e n t owea thera a debt of gratitude for the williugmsa »nd proraptnosa with whieh they for yeara have responded to every eall ofthe holla. inetead of rewar>ling Ihem by atteint>ting to rob thera ofthe private property of the eompaniea, even if this pro(>erty was obtain* <l lhrough the aasietance of th*> frien<l- and admirera of the tirae-honore<l departraent. Let us ho(>e that the Executive Oouneil will l>e honorable enough lo adjuatthis matter. A ruraor of an Allianee, with matriraony for its object. b<*tween a representative of the U. S. navy and a repre9entative of Hawaiiau Bociety ha9 reached u». Perhap9 the States will be sati9fied with this partial anneialion of the Hawaiian nation and abandon <īingo'9 doctrine of “whole hog or nothing.” We regret to learn of the illiu>9s of Hon. P. P. Kanoa. The oId gentleraan arrived here from Kauai last Sunday intending to return to hie home thie week when he on Tuesday wa9 struck down with paralyei9.