Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 221, 15 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Mr. G. Car?oii Kenyoa the re«ponsible editor of ihe Holomua was .irrested last Saturday on a warrant Bworn out by AttornevGeneral, \V, O. Smith, charging him with criminal lihel. Thepubliealion whieh it ia alleged eontnins a criuiinal lihel is a reproduced editonal whieh appeared in the Akron Indicator (Ohio) an Americhn journai whieh had the audacity to criticise the action in Hawaii of an Americau Govern- I xn«nt official to wit tlie United Ftatee minister resident to Hawaii. Tbe case will b« tried befire the Poliee Judge to-morrow ]Tu«?day] , at 1:30 p. m. We have written to the editor of the paper from whieh .ve copied | the alleged offensive article and | put him oti his guard in eaee the editor of the Kennehee Journal •houlā be comiug rouud his way • with a gon or a libel suit and also i to ask him to moderate his expre«sions in the fature so we eau reprint them withont getting Mr. W. O, Smith jumpiug dowaour throat i Mr. J. E. Bush the editor of the Ka Leo o ka Lahui waa alsoarre8led on acharge of criminal lihel by publi«bing «omething detrimental to the government’s credit [it must indeed havo been awfully bad] aud his case will also be heard to-morrow. Mr. Biib1i was charged with having pubUshed the i »Heged libelloi » article in the Ho- | lomoa, but this charge was altered i by putting the name of the Ka Leo instead of the Holomua in the j charg»*—it being presumed that we ' bave enough sins ofour own with- j out carrying Mr. Bush’s besides on . our shouldt-rs. As Ambrose Bierce from whom the Slar claims we steal our editoria!s also was arrested for criminal lihei & few weeks ago the lihel rage «eems to be epidemic and we aretold that even Dr. McGrew has a 8trongchance of ‘*catching it.” Our use froni memory of one of Ambrcse Bierce’s epithets has been so good as to draw from the Star the admission that we have been thereby enab!ed to construct & r«ther witty leuding article. M e live in hope that we shall be able ! to apply that adjective in course of time to our descriptions of the , Star's editorial9, for the one thing they have most cou9picuously | lacked heretofore, alter truth, de- . cency, and geut!eaianliness, has l>een wit ānd buroour. Every thing that could make their cause despised and forsjken has been in turn ased, in its futile efforts to baild up annexation and hrowbeat and bulldoie its opponents, but its writere have nrver thought appareotly of teliing the truth and seasouing it a little with wit —even if used from memory. Our financial review« of the aitnation of the Treasury have been . read with iatere«t from time to time by the members of the Coaneile apparently and now eomea the finance Committee of tbat aagust body, and the Attarney-General, and ezplain, mnd attack aaeh other nnd counter-«tUck eaeh other, in

the vain eff>rt to get the Treasury into a normally solvent condition so B6 to be enabled to sell iheir bonds wiihoul di«count. Even after throwing the Crown Landa revenues into the Treasary, contrary to so!emn agreerasnt, they have not been able to make b-)th end« meet in the way of revenue and expenditure. And they never will, till they cease their usele«s extr«vagance of a ridiculous aud unneces«ary military force, and the other extra ofl5cial« they employ at the expense of the tax-payers. Perbap« when the taxes will have to be raised from their alleged #30,000.000 of property they will then helhink them of their folly: in the mean time it seems to be useless to talk to tbem — One thing they seem to have forgotten isthat their Oommieeioners to the States offered that eountrv annexation at a cost limited to 13,250,000 of puhlie debt. Thi« was to a Republican administration, and the Demccrats, having refu?ed to ratify that agreement, are hardly likely to be ogreeable to having auother three-quarters ■ of a million clapped on to the already-exceeded first figures. Go «low 1 Gentlemen ! If yon really want annexation and exiat for no ; other reason according to your proclamation, why n’earth are you always doing things whieh render j the chances of its coming to pass | diramerevery day. Noonehasdone more harm to your cause than it« own supporter« and adherente. The Star-man has lately blo«somed out as a military writer and has of course again succeeded in emphazi«ing bis ignorance and asinine prochvitie«. The played out theory that the Hawaiian Islands have suddenly heeome an i iiidispensable necessity for the i United Statee as a strategic point for uaval operations we thought : had exploded by thi« tirae. But, 1 nn. the ex-war correspoudent who | edits the Star, tells us to the effect that when theEnglish fiag ha«been driven away frora the American continent the American poesession of the Uawaiian Is!ands will make , the we8tern coast <*f thut continent impregnable to attick, heeauae an English navy wou!d only he ahle ! to get eoal either in Auetralia or I China. The wnter of course inakes Hawaii aa invincible fortress and plaeee a powerful American fleet in Pearl Harbor. That the fortification whieh he is going to dump on Hawaii would be of considerably more valneon different poinla oa the western co*»st and that the pKiwerful fleet could render a great I deal hetter service in the vicinity | of America proper has not entered iato the military mind of the writer. Landing of foreign troops from a ho«tile fleet on the American continent is an impossibilty as we presume the Star-man will admit. and il' the we«tern eoast ean boast of the powerful fort:fication3 and equally powerful fleet whieh it is j proposed to loek up 3000 miles away from S»n Francisco the c‘tie« I of Cahf<>rnia ought in all reason to be s*fe from any embarrassing block«de or attack. If the safety of the United States depend« on the poflsession ot the Hawaiian I«lands it is about time for that Great Hepuhhe to pat ap tbe shattera and go out of business as jan independeat aud firet elaaa power. The paral)el drawn by the Starman to He!igoUod i* full of bumor. lt woald have heen of advantage to tb« great «trategist if he had

taken the tre«ble to look at a map of Northern Germany before be gave the puhlie the benedt ot his ideae of where Heligoland and where Kiel is. How the deuce Heligoland ever couId be mad® ihe basis of oj>eration5 agaist Kiel whieh is on the Kast coa?t ot Holstein is beyond our comprehenaion. The two powers in Euroj>e whieh of late years. have ofl'ered p<>ssibilities cf a war with Germany are Russia and France. In case of a German —Russian war the Ru8sian fleet from Kronstadt would, if successful, blockade Kiel m three or four days alter leaving Kronstadt aud the possession of HeIigoland would be about ot as mueh importance to Germany as would the possession of Hawaii bo to the city of New York. In case of a war with France the imporlanee of Heligoland is equally insignificant, tha English pos»essiou of it would be preferable to Gerrnany. because the islaud would tnen be neutral territory, iustead of aneventual point of altack. France has got all the fortified noints for military operations on its west coast and it is safe to say that the attitude adopted b >th by the German and French fleet would be rather defensive that offensive. Any operation by the French fleet against Kiel is hardly within the range of possibi!ity. If ihe Star's funny man will consider the difficulties connected with passing any fleet through Storebelt where not lees than three of Germany’B most powerful war-vessels, were grounded the first time they left Kiel on a cruise. Stick to California and Meiieo, Mr. Star-strategist in your essay8 on military matters. You may (?) have made yourself very familiar with all noints suitable for filibustering and military operations in those two countries but give us a rest on Heligoland and Kiel, because you don’t know where or what they are. It is hard to take the expressions and opinions of the leading annexationists seriously, as bemg well matured and well considered eonelueione arrived at after a careful study of the situation, when we compare them with the written statementa made by them to a represeniative of the San Krancisco Eiaminer in Xoveraber 1892— exactly two months before the revolutiou in favor of annexation took plaee. It is not reasonable that serious and honest men holding high and responsible offices as represent»tives of tbe people should have answered the questions put to them by the Examiner correspondent in a carelesa or superficial manner, but it is to be presumed that they gave their opinions after a careful cousideration, and as honest and intelligent men, and in harmony with the sentiments of the people whoaleeled them to repre9ent tbem. We will reprint a few of the letters printed in the Examiner of November 21. 1892, to enahle every thinking man tojudge how mueh importance ean be given to the ?tatemenl3, figure§ and facta (?) whieh the Advertiser el&ima have heen produced by the annexationists in defen«e of their eauae by the very men who apoke so differently and furnisbed the Examiner with eo very different facts (?) atatements &nd figuree a few oioaiha ago. “I am oppo«ed to anneialion to the Uniled Statee, and ao are my con*titoenta.” Gxob6K P. Kamauoha, RepreeentaUve for Kohala Hawaii.

[The Advertiaer’s Kuhala correspondent tells ua that Mr. Kamauoha haa *igned the annexation roll, but not hie conatituenta.] “I do not want anu«xatiou with America or to any other govenimenl. Such are the riew§ of my corstitueut3.’ J. K. Josbpa, Repre§entative f**r Hana, Maui. (Mr. J. K- Joe*p* i* the “inlelligent” and ”best" Hawaiian whom the anuexatiou eluh parades before commissioner Blount as a true-blooded Hawaiian aunexationist, and bas alio b*en hired by the native anneiUion paper. tue Kuokoa, as its editor.) “I do not want annexation. J. H. WaipiulanI; Representalive for Kona, Hawaii. (The author of that short and pithv §entence is another of the Iately d«veloped annexationists — when in Honolulu. ln his hoiue among hia constitueuts he takes off hia annexation coat and puts on bis uniform as a true and staunch patriot and royaliat.) “The queation as to whether annexation by the United States of the Hawaiian I#lands wouldinsure the prosperity aud is desirable by the inhabitant* of tbe Kingdom both native and toreign is one whieh if put to a vote would be answered by an overwhelming majority against any »uch proposition.” JoSEPH MaB8DEN, Nohle for Hawaii. [The above is the opening of a lengthy answer to the Examin9r’s questions under the heading’ *4unexation woiUā work more hnnn than good by the di3tinguished blight—extinguishing statesraan who a few months after writing the »bove went to the Uuited States as a provisional eonuniasioner, nd told the U. S. governraent, ihe U. S. press, and the U. S. people that the people of Hawaii demauded annexition and that annexation wouM be of untold benefit both to Hawaii and America ! —-*We a1w a y » did think that somersault» eame uaturally to Joe, but it ia a long time einee he did his acrobatic perfonuaueee so conspicuou3lv. We now recommend him to use some of his own wash for his blighted hope».] The Hawaiians cannot as yet see that it [annexation] wouM be of benefit to them. They have a great love for their own country, and lo>»k upon annexation assomfthing that is going to rob thein of it.” W. C. WlLDER, Representative Honolulu, Ward 1. [The above is «rt extract fr«>m Mr. Wilder’s answer. Mr. Wilder is another provisional commi3sioner who lately has propagated the idea iu the United States that he and hia colIeague9 represented Hawaii and the Hawaiian nation in their request for annexation.] “So long as the present form of goverment [the monarchical] ean be maintained and we ean have friendly relationi with the United States. I do not desire annexation of Hawaii to th» United State», and Iam certain that my constituent9 are of the lame opinion.” Alexandeb Yocno, Nohle for Hawaii. [The aboye is an extract from nohle Young’s answer. Mr. Young bas forgotten hia own deeire and the desire of hi» coa»tituents, and heeame, two monlha after the above wa» written, one of the mo»t rabid annexationi»ta in >he eommunity and one of tbe mo»t inlolerant memhen of the provi»ional

government called int -> cx j:eu :e .,j procur« »nn*xation.] •‘Amoug «oni* foreig . ers tnnrx.»tion has been J the change is ci»s red I res : - 4 fi>r th«ir pers>nal «ggrundiieni e;;; I balievt» I utt**r th« #e:;t .■ the Hawaiian people wheu I MT that ani.«xation > n>; We wouhl rather be p.v>r »: J ;ū pendent than rich under a t r< .. nation. Annexati>m w;»h t CT oountrv is out of the qufsti»ewhile acomm#rcial trea;y « f eai; . ble if it will give us a better 1«. ket for our pro»luct5.” J»hn Kna, Nohle l' >r Oanu, [John is righl every tim* lr .d hae tolil the truth in the a't>'v» eI . tract from hiaans\vert>>the Em.i er but h<iw is it that he now hs» ed the annexationiets ani <0 d«> nied the truth of all whnt he jaid in November? —I>.ire we presaa« that he now desires the chai.*< hia personal aggrAiulizeuit‘ut'’; There have been e«verai atteai;;i by some of the correipoDdenfc> i San Francisco papers who r*C'‘atIr were in Honolulu to represeut ;;» Queeu U >wuger a» l)eing in ū • of annexation. The S(ar ia*t Fri* day also contained a pangnph in tbe eame strain. Such ii.emuatione have been very aunoyici ;i the Queen Dowager wh >. of > ourw. never has given the slight«i; conrso foreuch a malignant *nduafounded doubt as t» thepatrmii?a of Kalakaua’a wid»w. Tbe firs; name on tbe list oftha Hawauw women’a Patriotic League ii liai of Queen Dowager Kapiolani.