Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 226, 22 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Star is again raising the wimi in it? colutnns in n article Iast Friday, headtd High time to act and in whieh the immediate deportation of the Queen is urged. Tbis propoaition, aeem? to be the hobby-hnrse of the ancient numhekull, who ia respon«ible tor all the die£rurting rut whieh is being dished up for the benefit of the annexation club every evening. \\ e have taken very little uutice of the infaraous 8Uggeation to commit a violent act against the Queen, because we are aware, that the P. G. always have repudiated—and etill do eo—any utterances in the Star a- representing the sentiments of the government. We do not feel inclined to adopt the bragging and boaetful tone of the Star, whieh is being used aolely for the benefit of thegallery,by simplv telhug them to go ahead, and then see with what success, such a proposition would meet —but we ehall, for the benefit, of the sensible men of the community. who mayfora moment be inclined to consider the Star proposition. etate what the situation here is just now, not alone as we eee it, but as we have reasou to believe that the United States government sees it.

On th* I7th of January, the Queen surrendered the government of the country onder a proteat tn tbe Uniled S‘atea. —This pmteat, waa acknow!edged, and endorsed bv Mr. S. B. Dole representing the provisional government, and by eueh endoraement the nrotesi gained a legal and recognized eiistence. —TheStar man hasaeveral tiraes told us that the protest was not worded according to his ideas of what was uroper. and the Advertiser at the time told us that the protest would be ignored, and the commissioners of the Queen not received by the American Administration. In spite of such assuiances of the o:uniscient an-nexation-organs, the protest was received and acted upon. A eommissioner was sent to Hawaii to investigate. and one of the objeots of his investigations, according to his instructiona as published, are the reasons that cansed the dethronement of the Queen. These investigations are being carried on at present. The truth of the allegations indicated in the protest against the American minister ie at present the object of the examinalion and scrutiny of Mr. Blount, and to presume that the P. G.. while (htir case is yet pendiog before a court of enquiry. would be allowed to improve on their case by violence or to further eomplieale the aituation whieh hia been aubmitted voluntarily to the U. i?. gov*rnment by both *ides is an insult to ihe U. S. government Tbe U. S. to day are responaible for the pn.'eent eituation here. They have accepted the proteat of the Queen and areacting as arbitrators in settling the question at issue. For everv violence or further outrage committed against the Queen, the U.S. will stand reeponeihle, and we are conddent that these views are thoee of the government cf thal gr«at Republic, and that they wiil emphatioally and determinedly resent and cru*h any movement whieh would bring further eomplic*tions, yes, further dishonor, oa

the name of the Republic. It is a misfortune that ihe name of ihe Americsn eommonweahh has been | in danger of being dragged into the eutter by being unauthorized!y used for the commission of an outrageou3 crime against a friendly nation and a friendly sovereign, but the man who is now at the head of that great nation is both able and willing to wipe otf the stain plaeei on the saield of the Go!de=3 of Liberty, through the policy of an administration coudemned and defeated bv the American people. by disavowing the actions of its former repre' seutative and doing justice to the injured nalion and the injured sovereign. The Star ean howlandbarknobody will be hurt. Barking dogi do not bite! The Hawaiian Queen and the Hawaiian nalion are satisfied to leave their individualsafety as well as the aflairs of theircountrv in the hands of the United Stales and Minister Blount.

The enthusiasm exhibited by the Starwriter over the proposed division of the Crown Lands into horaesteads is rather amusing as it furnishes another instance of how dilHcult it is for a stranger to the country to write about loeal affairs without displaying hisdense ignoraneeall over the eolumna whieh he is paid to fill. Oolonel laukea, the Star man tells us, evidently with the froth of land-booming exuberance oozing from his lipa and pen, has left for Waimea, where he will divide the Puukapu land—part of the crown domain —intosuitable amall lots whieh will be offered to aspiring land-epecuiators and farmers. Trembling with excitement the goverumetil-fed Star proceede to roll up a tempting panorama for the young men employed in Honolulu, whoean nowmveettheir savings in a Puukapu lot, and while continuing ia employmeut in Honolulu the coffee and pineapplea with whieh they will cover the s.iid Puukapu wiil grow merri!y, only looked after for some years by a Japanese (who lives on rocks in the meanlime we presume) until the crops will eome in; and the fortune of the young man emoloyed in Honolulu (and that of the Jap, if indigestion hasn’t carried him away) is made. The director of this Puukapu panorama in the Star is either deliberately trying to swindle the young man etnployed etc. etc. or he is simply airing his general idiocy. Why, man alivel the only thing that Puukapu could be used for is a graveyard, and the reason that it hasn’t heen so used heretofore is that there was * nobody to bury—not eveu the proverbiai young man employed etc. or his Jap. Nothing in the world ean be raised in Puukapu except wind (in whieh it resembles the Star). Even the eheep look with scorn at Puukanu, heeauee the only thiug they ean obtam there would be a well developed case of la gripp< and even Waimea sheep can't live on that. DoctorI do send a man round and look at ths proposed homesteads, before you allow your oaper to be used as the promoter of a boomerang whieh ia. and must ba, a failure on the face of it. The fertile lands suitable for agricuitural purpoaea, and now held by the Iarge holders, the 8t*r man expects to see surrendered. He is slightly off on thal propo*ition and in making it h« prove* ihat he i* not the organ of the Crown-Commisaioner8, bec*use, far from buying in aueh leaae*, these

gentlemen are extending them for tbe benefit of the '.arge holders. Lanai seenis to be another spot on whioh the Star man casis hi» longing pink eye«. is he aware that Spreckels own< aboat -30,000 acr>rs ou Lanai. aud tbat Hayselden has a v«rv large acreage there in fee simple. Does he realize the extreme!y great obstac!eō for anybody to do emall farming surrounded on all side» by the Iands of one or two large ranch cwner». If he knew 3om-*thing of Hawaiian hist*)ry, he would rememb?r all about the troubles whieh the few nativee, at times, have had on Lanai with their water supply and firewood supply. Thurston epoke for hours about it in the spssion of 1886, but not even he snggested a eeheme to cut up the barren rocks, without water or shelter, whieh constitute ihe bigger part of the crown domain on Lanai, mto farms for small settlers. The price paid for the crowu-lands is not diflerent anywhere from similar prices paid for sirnilar kinds of lands to Qneen Emma’e estate, or to private parties, owning large tracts 011I7 fit for pasturage as an adjunct to othsr and richer lands, and we ean as»ure the Star that all thepro»pects of estabiishing horae-steads in the places so far rnentioned is an ab8tlute impossibility. By the way, we nutice that the Star takes cred;t for having puahed the P. G. to take the very original step of cutting Puukapu into such lots, The starry Doctor cannot get a patent for that idta. The Olaa homesteads, whieh the Doctor Bpeaks about were placed in the market by the mueh d«rided Queon Liliuokalani, and the idea was her own well considered plan. The experiment has onIy been partly 8uccessful, because of about 350 Iots, not one half have yet heen taken, and so far only the more fertile lands have been placed under cultivation, but the credit for the whole raove belongs to the Queen, and neither to the Star nor to the P. G.—whieh, moreover, is cutting a eake to whieh they have not proven ownership yet. That the confiscation of the Crown Lands will lead to a law-suit, is undoubted, and the re«ult ol such a suit is very doubtful indeed—except the Councils should constitute tbemeelves—as ou a former occasion. Judge, jury, and attorney. at one time. Then it would be pretty safe to bet on the decision. but as it is the game may not be quite as easy or as sure as the Star seems to believe. If we undersland the Advertiser correctly—and it is no easy job to get on to what that sphinx-like sheet mear.s —it takes exceptions to Mr. Spreokels statement in his interview with Mr. NordhufiT that Hawaii ean have slable government without annexation. It is evident tbat the Advertiser denies the soft impeaehmenl as have the provisionul comraissioners and the other anneiation-screamers done all a!ong. But hasn't that remarkably conducted «ubsidized legacy of Heu-nery used Iot? of space and lots of type to tell us and the rest of the world that irr /iarr now the most stable government that we ean wiah. Were we not informed that the8oper-ior contingent in the barracks—leave alone the German whieh the treasury is emptyirg ita coffers, procnred for us stable governmeat? And bave not daily as«ertion3 been rammed down our unwilling thro*ta that the P. G. is so stable tbat they m- , t«nd to remain in power —just aa

tbev are for four or eight or twelve vears or whenever it may ple-««e Providence and the American peop!e to elect an &dminislration whieh will Iavor &nnexation of Hawaii. And on top of all this comes the P. G.'s defendir.g organ and denies any possibility "t -tab!e g>vernment for Hawaii without annex.itiou. We admit that ;t is unpleasanl for our morning eonj temporarv to realize that the largest taxp»yer of the oountry predicts a g ivernment for Hawaii whieh wiil be stable and whioh wiil satisfactory to the responsible part of the community, more est»ecially to himself, and it ;s decidedly a drawback for the annexaiion cause to -ee Claus SpreckeU finally eome out and denounce the ■ whole scheme in decide*l terms and plaee himself in opp*.>sition to ' the present g>vernment to whieh his financial uower always will be a menaee. but tbe poor Advertiser man is paid to stand on the walls of the aanexation f >rtrt-3s. and although -he fee!s them crumbhng away pieee by oieee, and day after day, uuder his feet. raust he st ind tbere staring vacantly at the very premature 45th slar in the Ameriean banner, whieh like a meteor ie vanis!ung in the horizon while he, hopina agaiust ho}>e. and with faltering voice, cries to ihe little, flock of boodle and office seekers behind him Moeh i*t Polen nicht r erloren! And we will leave him crying there. “They (the royali«ts) must need take their eue from a foreigner, who with a machiavelian turn of mind and a Bourbon cast of eoneeienee, is vamly attempting to make the plain historic facta of the revolution appear as no facts etc.” The above is the Advertiser’s Iatt*at on Mr. Charles Nordhoff. After his first letter to the Herald had b»*en read out here, the Adverti«er daraned him by hinting that eith<r Nordhofl' was the editorof the Holomi'a or he took his eue from our paper. but that is such a tame insinuation in comparison to all that Mr. Nordhoff is now alleged to be in his new role as the Ieader of the royalist party. We don’t know what a Bourbon eonscience is, but we know that the Advertiser-man knows all about Bourbon (01d, Fine, and Finest) and should he an expert on all the stages of conscience, whieh ean be derived from a familiarity with ( Bourbon. But couldn’t we induce the morning ediP)r to tell us where Mr. Nordhoff has made any misstatement or suppressed historical facts, instead of simply howimg, it is a lie, it is a lie. because it is alie.” The Advertiser shouid remember that the situation in Hawaii is at pre»rnt beiug investigited that there are p->ssibilitie3 that the U. S. comraissioner who conducts the iovestigation may believe Mr. Nordhoff, and Mr. NordhofTs sources of information, and eome to exactly the same eonclusions as has the HeraId-corres-pondent and to prevent aueh a disaster. it would be wise for the annexationists to point out the liea etc. whieh tbey have the impudence to elaim are being propagated by Mr. Nordhoff on bchalf of tho royalist party. We believe tbat everything pertaimng to the Hawaiian investigation i« now in the hands of the commi8sioner, but there may yet be time for the Advertiser lo tear asunder the fabric whieh it is alleged haa been manufactured by the royalist8—under Nordhoff*s manag«ment —and ao »top the rerdict whieh ia hanging

orer ihe defendsnt3 in the eaae of rec;n» rs. Amerioa *nd otheri. But there iā no lime to be Ios:. ■*.> eall on Thnr?ton'9 partner. aud .et him help voo lo ivpudiAle aud deny the piain hi9t<>rical tacta whieh have been laid before Mini=-ier BK>nnt and ihe A:ueric.m government by the Haw.uian people and before the world by Char!e* Nordhoff. £x-extraordinarj envoy Steven» i? to have a 3ilver service from his admi r i n g fellow-annexationieU whieh istocost #1.000, andthissnm is to l>e eolleeiei! by amall subecrjption». Li?ts are elill open for those anxious t« show t heir gratitude to the ex-plenipotentiary, beciuse remarkable t-> say it seems ditficult to raise the paltry sum. even for so noble an object. To help our friends on the other side out »e wouKI supgest that they assess eaeh meraber of the annexation club to the tune of lō cents. As the club is stated to have 6,000 members —it is worth #5.000 in damages to any man to disbelieve this »tupendou» atatement — the sum ot #1000 ean easily be raised. And when we remember that all the weallh, intelligence, and respectability are concentrated in the annexation club an assessment of only 15 cents a head is nearly msulting and derogatory to the dignity of the l’. G. adjunct as S. M. Damon ealle the club.