Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 22, 27 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

One of the m-st remarkab!e featurt'8 of the preeent etate of iffair? the wiy in whieh the exponente of the opiniona of the annexitioni«t party in print tack ind veer with every freeh correspondence whieh oome* from ihe coa«t. Having aa they thought eecured a preemptive ngbt on the American presa, it hae eimply paralyze<f tbem to find tbat eome of that prese ie not *o venal ae they thought it wae and that American newij>af>er were prepired t« s,»epd money in order to get a correct and honeel expre?aion of the state of affairs here whether that expreseion would hurt the cai.seof annexation or not. And that, further. tho»e eame journals regard Araerica ? s honor and reputation as l>eing of more value than the n.ateriai alleged advantages profferred hy the annexation party here. Knowing as they do that the American people as a whoie b«Iieve in doing right, and are je.ilous of their national fame and honor, their e >neternation over the fact that the truth is sought to be known is something immenae. Henee the»e ptious endeavora on the part of the pap-fed organs here to produce an impression that the views of the correspondents of the New York and other journals have taken, is X>repared solely by the Royalist side and is biassed and prejudiced. Mr. Xordhofl has shown at onee by his manly withdrawal of every thing that he cou!d nol jH>88ibly immfdialely prove that his one desire is to give the truth from both sides, and not froin one only. And that where he ha» been misled by in-correct informati4h from either side that he will at oncecorrect it as speedily and thoroughly as poeaihle. And it is from this very knowledge of hi» past world-wide reputation and his present character that the believers in the wisdom and ju»tice of the re«toration of the monarchy have wek*omed his advent here, in the character of an impartial and disinterested recorder of facts and events, knowing that the main portion of his statements would necessarily be such that the people and government of the United States would then leam, with all the weight • such an honest and impartial observer could give in t the Herald, how mueh nearer the absolute tiuth their side of the storj' was. And the Advertiser and tbe Star will never get away from that fact: for. as a distinguished religiou? writer puts it, ‘ , falsfhood may be po!ished up. refurbished, gilded, draped in a faBcinating sophistrv whieh inake? it aj>j>eiir tolerable, plausible, and even commendable in the eyes of the credu!ous and unreflectiug; it is falsehood hoWever, and all the while must remain falsehood U> the day of doom.” And that is where the shoe pinehee these partisan glosers of tbe untruthsof tbeir p«rty. They know that the truth will out and that it must prevail. And that is where the pppooenla of annexation have rt■ted their eaae-on ihe truth and juatioe of it as to the main is8ues And the Amenoan Government and people are now beginning to leem and reoogoiie that this ia tbe eaw. Tbe fuaa aod ezoitMMnt or«tod by tt m pohliealion in Ihe New York Herald of tbe oamea of aome prtiUt>iri

editor-in-chief of tbat p>aper. Dr J. 8. McGrew, placed his name on the j>etition fsvoring Ihe alleged nefarious scbeme. The DoctrT is a rabid and prominent annexationi«t. He ia known as the fatfier of annexation, and be is oonsidered a leader in the annexstion eluh. i He has ora!Iy. and through bis jwper, derided the Queen and ber administration to the disgust of 1 ev«ry d«*nt thinxing man, and he 1 is und >ubtediy one »f the pillars of the whole annexation eeheme. Ke signed the petition and his signature und >ubtedly brought on those of olbers who were easier mdoced lo luok with favor on a raove supj>orted by an influential man lue Mc<irew. Now. we elaim ihai the three gentlemm, who have t iken exceptions to Mr. Nnrdhufr8 st;»tement are offering a direct insuit to- Dr. Mcr»rew, and ■ we are at a loss to understand the D>Kt ir’s enthusiasm and svmj>athy with thetbreeallegcd victimsof Mr. NordhofTs error». All j>etitions to the Legislature, must be on fi!e somewhere and we have no doubt tbat they have been scrutinized and looked over bef>re Mr. Nordbuff received his inf >rma- , lion. The list handed to the i Herald corresj>ondent, was made, | out by Mr. J. J. Williams, the ' chief promoter of the lotterv hill. » • Mr. Williame declared himself ready to substantiate under oath, his statement that the names on the list produced by him were thnse of j>ersi>ns who signed the lottery-j>etition0. Tbere cou!d be no reson for Mr. Nordhoff to doubt the correctness of Mr. Williams word. Mr. Williams is a j»ronounced annexationist and it is not reas >nable that he wou!d do anything to injure the men l>elongmg to his party, in fact we do not believe that he fur a minute considered it an injury, or damaging to anybody to supj>ort a move, whieh has its supporters all »ver the world, Some of the peti- | tions are missing. We will not insinnate the ways and means through whieh they are missing and they may turn up yet, but we have seen aflidavits frora j>ersons who declare that they have signed a j>etit;on in favor of the lottery and whoee names are not to be found on the lists so far produced. Of courso we take Mr. Lansiug’s \vord for that he did not sign the petition, bnt will he deny that he spoke in favor of the me»sure and expressed hiinself to several people as favoring the movement “ as a measure whieh would rid the country cf ihe missionary snpremacy aad give a ehanee fi>r somebody else to go ahead.” We feel inelined to publish the whole lotlery j>etitiou «nd give the puhlie a ehanee to see who did, and who did n»t favor the hill. It will, among other 8tartling things. show the way in whieh men doing business as partners ean divide on such an important measre. We find one man singing the j>etition favoring the lottery and his partner singing the counter petition, and that is one of the reasonB why we eonnol grasp the violent indigualion of the wrongly mentioned gentlemen; f»r example why Mr. rtoogs sbnuld feel so bad by being «ccused «f a step whieh was iaken by one of his partnera, and why Mr. McCbesney’s heart should have heen made to bleed by having it inainuated that hesut>ported a measure in regard towhicb hiabruther ' and partoer placed hlmself oo reoord aa f*voring it The Advertmer i* alway» telling ua that tbe finanoee of the governmeni, are on * moct bealthy and aatief«ctory hana» and that *ny doabt enterlaiaed ta iefeid lo Ihe trulhaf eeeh eUtoe^tāMnm^y

' we pre9ume, Mr. Porter knows what he is Ulking about, then our hearts get filled with doobt as to the o>motnes9 of tbe postulates i of the P. C. A. and the treasury -eems to us to be far from he«lthy, but rather one of the s;ckest thing around. The last financial statement presēnted tothe connciis «h»ws ?he status of tbe treasury on the 2Uth day of May. The c«sh nn aaod on that date amounted tn besides an amount on n j».id in ihe Savings Bmk »f #1,6- : 96 94 or a total of #37,95<.49. I’nat is all the available mouey that the government |>>S8e8Sed on the 20th of this month. Tue gen- \ eral revenue for last week was #13,899.23 aud the general eipen«e« for the same j>eriod was #9,364.33 »r «n excess of the inI eome over the expenditure of | #4.534.90. Presuming that the proj>orlion bet\veen the revenue aud exj>enditures f»r the coming week wiil be about the same as it j was. the government will, in addi- | tion to the cash on hand of #37 j 957.49, have the sum of #4,534.90 or a total of #42,492.39 in the trea- ; sury at the eud of the month. With this sum, tbev are lo meet the monthiy expeiises of the government for salaries and incideutals, and besides be ready to meet the amounts whieh c»n be culled on at any time and whieh are figured by Mr. Porter as follows: Ontstanding indebtednesss #206.000 Overdue indebtedness #139.000 Due dej>»sitors Saviugs j Bank on tbe 20th of May> #18 500 throuirh notices matured ) Outstanding biils #47.000 Total #410.500 Allowing that the goverraent will I not be pressed to pay any of these elaima at the end ofthis month there still is the intereat on the Kng!ish loan of about #60,000 whieh falls due on June lst and whieh must be paid at all haz irds. How mueh jugghng the Advertiser or any other defender of the P. G. may do with these figures,we doubt that they ean «how that the assertions made against the financiai stability of the provisional government are only royalistic malieioua canards, and that »hs government is absuiutely solvent, and its finaueea in a healthy and satisfactory state of Hff.iirs. With #42,492.39, no man ean pay over half a million. If the Advert : ser can,we want to borrow its recipe just aa bad as the government wants to borrow Claus Spreckels sbeckels. After writing the above, we learn that Mr. Porter has resigned hia jx>sition as Miniater of Einanee, and consideringthef«cts we havealready «tated, we eannoi hlame him. But it doea look remarkable tbat anybody should resign an office as a minister of tbe state to return to tbe drudgery of an ordinary clerkship, when he has the assurances of the Star, ot the Advertiser, and of tbe Annex»tion Club, that hecouid hold his office fbr four, eight or twelve years. it is evident thal Mr. Porter considere the «orda of the mentioned factors noi of snfficient value u> plaee any impiieim faith in Ihem, and that be prefers to s*crifice his burning patriotist aod rabid annexation sentiments on the altor of Ciaus Spreckels’ ■nti-annezation dnUere» Mr. Portor lyie made e very good mioieter of finanoe. coosiderunder, and we must eomplimeol hlm upoohia iast graoeful aet io *eeaoving Ihe «bnoxtooe Brown lt le ohe»«ctori«tic of Ihe stebīlity eod »ttdity oTlAe P.G. Ihei II hee* eben<ed »islNr rf ftneecethrec I HEe, JceM >9MiKa«d w lbe 'elSMed Umm **: IH Aeellh end waa

The Aastnli« took «w*t firom these shores to-d»y the m»n who bv hia uubeard tboK of hi» power has ahown himself »s the worst euemy of Haw*iiand the Hawaiian ' aalion. the man whose n»me will be foond on tb« bl«ckest page of the Hawaiian history, John L. Stevens. A f*ilure in every plaee | in whien he haa served as a diplomat, this misgaīded «nd deladed man further emphazised by his career in Hawaii hisincompetency. and his misapprebension of his duties as the representative of « friendly nation. His laek of diplomalie tact was conspicuous to the Iast when he, in‘spite of the rebuke received froai his own government, stili indulged m political speeches directed against the policy and eetiun of President Clevelandand his , administration. He leaves, despised and execrated by every Hawaiiau, and everyone who befciends the Hawaiians, and he wiU spend the rest of his Iife in the obscurity t to whieh he should have been re- | ;egated ageneration ago. OnIy.three | ubscure Uawaiiane partook in tbe . reception given to him last night by the annexation club and none of the Hawaiians whom he has met | ofliciaIly or socially tendered him the usual courtesie«. The promised monster demonstration Iast night fell flat. On)y about 130 men turn ed out in a proces«ion. Nobody could be induced to make an ad dress to the departing hero, although there were calls for Di)ctor McGrew and others. The band played a few tnnes. Some roman candles were burned. Some hoodlums (of the geutlemanly club) yelled some insulting remarks aguinst Mr. NordboflF and ’fired some roman candles into bis cottnge and all was over, and Mr. Jobn L. Stevens was left alone t« answer to his conscience for the crime whieh he has committed against this peaceful and unoflfendmg people. The Advertiser says that the Attorney-generaI is going to have Mr. Nordhoflf pulled up before the Supreme court for criminal lihel. If the attorney-general contemplates such aelion he must be more obtuse then even we have ever imagined. If the Hawaiian government cannot understand Minister Blount’s friendly hints »ud realize that they have got to leave NordhoflT alone, they deserve the fute whieh undoubtedly will overtake them if tbey persist in monkeying witb the representative of the United States. The bigheadedness whieh seema to have heeome a chronic disease with some of our little statesmen will prove fatal one of these days. Take a doctor’s advice, geutlemen, not Doct«r McGrew’s, tbough,and take your medicine Uke little men. It is always good to remember the proverba of the wise and this is what the Spaniard of old says: “ Pue» no podemos harbor aquello que queremot> qmramot aqueUo que podremo» ” whieh. translated for tbe apeeial benefit of tbe Hev. Mr. Emmeluih reads: “ Since. we cannot get what we hke, let n« Uke wbat we.ean get.” When th« “intelligent” and “be«t” Hawaiian, the reverend Kauhane went home by the “Hall,” he left Honolnlu in «11 hi« glory a« a leading annexationi«t. He had been aeveral times exhibited to Mini«ter BIonnt a« a «peoimen of Hawaiian intelligeoca, and he had heen furni«hed with a beantiful hlne annexation bsdge, and an exqninte Ameiiean flag hnUoo. The exnherant apurit of thia eleiieal annexationist b>*gan to oool off when he eaw Honolnlu disappearing behind hln in tbe hoeiaon, and be glanced oervooaly in th« direction of hla home, and then at hts anuwxalion decoratinoa. Saaaickne«a and qualin« of onn«Bi«Būs made hia anda« *tb«*honrt"^Aw^^h^an^ U>e āhone of Kao, hk beart began Bcovinft »M0 lt«xi *- -- -* ' V. ..

and took oflF his ribbon and his bntton. He gave them a parting gi«nce. end tben be banded them to an acquamtance on b<}ard the | steamer, »aying that he thought it wasju?t as well f>r him n«i to •port the sign «f treas«D among the loyal people «f Kan, and aski«g hia . «cq(iaint.uKe .o aeep. tbem as a bi»toru.-al memento of ao incident whieh made the reverend Kauhane I masqueraddasaR bired annexa;ionist in Honoluln. The button and ribbon are now in possessi«n of a prominent r«yalist. who, sorae day ' will donate them tc the Kameha» meha Museum as a proof that all tbe sophistry and bribesof the annexation leaders cannot cōntaminate to the core the loyal heart rf any Hawaiian, even if the habit of obedience tuwards the chief pastoral incubator and false promises rnay Iead them astray temporari!y. Onee upon a time the present | Att«rney-General was a member of the Legislature representmg Lihue and Koloa Kauai. Thia was long ago, long before the war. In fact four months have gone by sinoe he waa “ pror«gned. ” Yet what he did and said in his capacitv of a legislat«r is still fresh in the mind ' of some of our oldest citizens. One ' of these tells us with qu&vering voice that when the item providing for incidentils for the Poliee Departraent waa under discussion, Mr. Smith apoke with his uaual j eloquence and his wellknown display of logic ngainst an increase in the figure asked for. Mr. Cecil Brown- was the Attorney-General. He agreed witb Mr Smitb that we must be eeouomieal, but feared that the amount proposed by Sraith was bardly sufticient. Smith claimed it was and said that with a proper attorney-gener-al (presumabiy meaning himself) there were no reasons why any 1 more money should be expended than the amount propo«ed by him. Such is tbe aneieni history. Now the millenium has arrived- The proper AttorneyGeneral Mr.W. O. Smith holds the reins of that departrnent, but what do we see 7 We see a law passed by Mr. Smith’s present legislature in whieh a further sum of $5,000 ha« been voted for incidentals. This seems to Indicate that the original amount proposed and supported by Smith’s e!oqueuce and lo- 1 gic have been spent,and that thc very proper Attorney-General now wants am ther $5,000 to spend in addition to the original aum. Another : illustration that an object (more especially a ministerial portfolio) ‘ looke very different if looked on ■ £rom helow bv the out« ”or from *bove by the “ ina. ” Mow very « improperl Mr. proper Smith!l