Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 234, 2 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Monowai brought the ead new» of ihe untimely death of Mr. Robert J. Creighton who suddenly died in S-»u Franci«»co. The decea«ed was well-kn r, wn in Honolulu where he accepted the position as editor-in-cbief of the P. C Advertieer, and later appointed Minister of Foreign Affūr9 by the late Kinp Kalakaua. He rea gned this p<»eition upon the cabinet being defeated on the Engliali loan act, and Ieft the country Bhortly after, and has since reāid*d in San Francisco whtre he held the re9ponāihle poailion of private 9ecretary to Clau9 Sprecke'8, and also represented the New Zealand government of whieh for many years previously he had been one of the niost efficient administtators and le2islaturs Mr. Creighton was universally respected and well-liked for his raany sterling qualities. He was a brilliant journalist and possessed of the most tenacious energy, whieh enabled him to defend or attack any cause with ihe inost vigoroii8 results. Under his editorship the Advertiser reached an importance and inAuenee whieh it has never been able to boast of before or since. In San Francisco Mr. Creighton occasiona!ly contributed to the great dailies. mostly articles on vital and important commercial matters, and his opinion carried great weight in &11 iB9ues. The deceaBed leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss; his only aon is the prominent lawver, Mr- Cbarles Creightou of this city. “N’one knew him, but to love,” all miaa himaaone who had the iutere8ts of Hawaii at heart and whoee eounael and inAuenee will be muchmissedat the prtaent junctnre. The Advertiser wishes it to be uuderstood that the P. G. is perfectly solvent, that it haa never been so well equipped with hnaneial resources aa at the present time, and that the deraand by Spreckels for the payment of $95.0*0 due him did not worry them the least little bit. We would of course be awfally pleased ii we could be made to believe that the Advertiser is correct in painting *he condition of the trea9ury in such roseate hues, but unfortunately a glance of the annual finaneial statement of the minister of finance publ;shed in the samei99ue by authority tells a differeut tale. It shows how we got out of the first year of the hiennial perii>d. but it gives no indication of how we nre to meet the eipenaea of the coming year. The government begine thi9 huaneil year with a casb balance on haud of #70.239.93 while the trea9ury wa» in possession of $312,141.38 on April the lat 1892. That halanee, beaides all the revenue* and general receipta and money borrowed during the pait year, hae been expended witb the exception of the $70.239,98, whieh it is claimed was cash on hand on April lst 1893. The expenditures in tbe coming year will be at lea9t as large as thry #ere in thc paet, but it will be prepotterou* to elaim tbat tbe revenues and receipts will not be materially diminished. Th* general depre*siou io the value of propertj will reduce the uxea coo*iderabi/ and the depre»*ion in trade will lower tbe revenu* frum the Custom Houae. The Adrenia«r

*avs that the government bas had during the past year lo provide for 1500,000 to meet ihe unexpected demands of the depo9itore in the Pi>ital Savings Bank. If they have we see no aeeounl of that 1500,000. Omv $270,600 have been wnhdr.iwn aud paid and we would like to have the Advertiser explain how how it arrives at its very misleading figures. Under sectior II only $135,654,92 has heea expended aad we suppoee that no more money will be paid out under that section. There i* still a debt of $47,i>00 under Secti<>n II whieh will have to be paid. How the government now shall be abie to pay for the coming year the same expensea as in the past, beginning this vear with an amount of $241,901,40 less on haud than at the beginning of last year, and with a smaller general revenue, we fail to see, and the financial ability of the Advertiser-man will hardly be up to that occasion, ev e n if he Berves u« with fictitioua figures, like the half a million paid to Savings Bank’s depositors. There are several in9tancee whieh ehow that larger amountg will heeome due on certain Uema in the comiag year than there were in the past, as the case is in the it*m of Intere9t on Puhlie debts where $174,758,53 were paiii laet year while $235,241,47 hsve yet to be paid in the comingyear. If «eonoray is not exercised very 9everelly in several department8 the apnropriations granted by the appropriation hill wiil not be sufficient and will be exhauated before April the lat 1894. The Poliee department epent to March 31st of their appropriation for the Oahu Poliee &bout $50,000 out of $90.000 appropnated and tbe eupport of prisoners ha* cost the country $53,877,74 for the pa*t year leaving only $44,506,23 for the comineyear. Civilaud criminal incidentals have amounted to $15, 250.30 under the administration of the reform attorneygeneral. whieh ieaves him only $2,216.86 for next year. The true conditu>n of the treasury is lucidly illustrated by the publi9hed statemenl and if Mr Damon ean carry the government on to April the lst 1894 on the same lines as are now being followed he must be themost miraculous fiuancier ever born. The Advertiser is triuraphant because Sprecke's is not but is to be paid. We pointed out a few days ago, that we never doubted that he would be paid, but we repeat our statement made at the same tiiue that if ihe government adopts the policy of having its supporters advance the taxe*for thecoming vear at a di*couut it is ou tne moet dangeroMs ground, and on the sure road to ruin. There is uo money to pay Spreckels wilhin the legitimate resource9 of the govenamenU There is no money within their lawful reach with whieh thev ean pay the depositors in the Postal Savings Bauk and uotwisting of figures or words ean alter the fact. What of it, if even the government could get somebody to take up exchequer notes on five or ten months? Where are tbere any prospects that five months henee the governraent will be in one iota better financial fix than they are to-day. What earthly u*e i* it to 9tave off the disagreeable mom*nt when it heeomea a nece«*ity to increase the revenue* by aome meam for the pnrpoee of paying th« debu of tbe country and the running expenses? lf Mr. Damon as mini*ter of finance intend9 to carry out a financial policy worthy of bein« ‘termed sound and he*lthr, and eon-fidence-inspiring, he will 8top »dopting the method* of the in*olvent

speca!ator—that of hoping —Ii*e Micawber. for 9->methiag to tarn up. aad plungingdeeper anddeeper into the mire «implv to aroid fj»cing the neoe«=irily unavoidib!e ieeae. If to-day taipayers do advance moKy enough to pay Sprecke;« ♦95X00 and the intere?t on the English ioan of $30,000, and what is o\*erdue to the dep< 5:t> rs of the Savings Bank. how will that 9ave the g >vernment from being ju3t a« sh >rt offund? in November or December, wben by right the taxes whieh are now being advauced should heeome due? M e don’t know of any more frivolous aud unbusinesā-like methods than the one whieh it is clear to us ia going to be adopted by Mr. Damon. We sh\ll aw.tit the next wetkly 8tatemeut with a great deal of interest to see if we h tve not beea correct m our ai:rmiss. We have altogether 1 st sight of the revenues from the crownlauds. We do not tind them on any of the 6tatements from thetreasury either the weekly or the annual, but we do not know il' that i'id:cate9 that they are not being used by the gov«rnmeut. or if they are being merged in the general receipts of the government. It would be ol mueh interest to the coramunity to be informed as to this rnatter. because, if thecrownland receipts are entered up and spent aa current revenue we would eall attentionto it that it wou ld be aa well to make a memorandura of the «mouots under the items represrnting the National Debt heeauee we are eonvinced lhat every cent co!lected from the crownlands will in due time hare to be paid back again. •nd where is the government then going to get that money from ? The Advertiser ia tickled, because “not a dollar of the reserve of 1312.000 has been touched.” Greet ScottI the Advertiser 8 ignorance aa to raatters pertaining to the finances of the governmeut beats the record, The reserve of eilver in the treasnry doe9n’t belong to the governraent at all, dear ehappie. It is mostly a deposit raade by the two hanke whenever . they haveincouveniently too mueh silver and fi>r whieh they hold treasnry certificates whieh geuerally are resting quietly in their vaults. Il a single dollar of it is snent tbe security given would become irreaeeraable and worthless, and it ia safe to presume that Mr. Daraon would get his silver out of the treasuryand back tothebank vault in doubla quick tirae. The Advertiser succeeded in getting out a sensational issue vesterday morning f*r foreign use. The pub!ication of the iinaneial statement of the government was not considered snfficienlly explosive sobumbs were fouud and an attack on the barracks was imagined to show people abroad in what untold dangers the heroic P. G’s are, not alone from Mr. SpreckeU’ financial Borabs, but also from real live dynaraite bombs. The Advertiser man evidently eonsidered the yarn ratber fishy and he didn’t make nearly as mueh ont of it as he couid have don« if the fake had beeu better managed, »nd the actors in tbe aflair had heen better schooled or bad a littie more intelligence. The Advertiser tella na that three homha were found in Washington Plaee, That Capt Klemme of the poliee force chaaed a man and fired a shot (in the air) to scare the man who

didn’t scare «t all it 3evms- at ’east we hear no more about him A • haek takes also a part in Act I but the astute poiiee eapuin evident!y uraitted t*> lake the number, i the a!leged conveyance drivt-9 out from ihe 9tage never lo «how up agaiu. An>>ther po'iee officer appears suddenly on the sceae like a deus ei maeiinn an>l t»ge{her they walk into the yard of Dr. MeKihhin where they immediately put lheir hands on a sack eonlaining three (3) b>imbs whieh they carry in triumph to the Poliee Station, wliiie the Advertiser man —always omniscient atul truthful states lhat the bombs were fouud iu \\ashington Plaee and that they were to be used during the night against the barracks. We , are unahle to take the malter ee- j riousiy, but if we did, we shou!d , c«rtainly elaim that U{>ou the very evidence of the Advertiser the bombs were to be used in an attack | on Washingt >n Plaee againet the j Queen, and if the b>mbs were . placed where it is claimed that they were found, we believe that there are iodications that some of the cranks who infest the annexation rauks really had attempted to carry out their threats <>f 1 committing s<>me dastardly vio- j lenee on the Queen before the U. S. i have a ehanee to finally settle Hawaiian aflairs. But we do not deaire to view the matter from aueh a point whieh would neeeesitate tbe Queen calling Minister Blount's attention to the fact lhat •he was in peraonal danger, because we think that the whole affair was a put up jub to encourage the heroe* xn the barracks, who are in need of •omesensational (?) stimulant, and if poeaihle hurry up the eventual action to be taken by the Cleveland administration. The facts as represented by the Advertiser, were that captain Klemme saw two men talking together on the corner of Beretama and Miller Sts. That a haek drove up and a man jumped off whereafter they ail scattered withont Mr. Klemme recognizmg anybody and a man with a package started running and disappeared among some bushes (bushes not located) although Klemme c.ilied to hirn to > etop and fired (in the air). As the man was in the bushes and not iu : the air, he was pre9umab’y not hit 6o there waa nothing left for ihe captain —now re-enforced by Capt. I Juen —than to enter Doctor MaeKibbin’s yard and without further delay piek up the sack with the bornbs in and carry them off. We hope that Marshal Hitchcock will eift this raatter to the bottora and ende;>vor to get all the ioformation on the subject whieh ean be obtained. We should suggest to him to have a talk about tx>rabs with Mr. R.\V. Wilcox who knows someth>ng about the exis(euce and whereabouts of certain borabs , whieh were manufactured a ytar : ago by the late Huutsman —we needn't rake up now the intended use of those bombs—and perbaps could give him some ioformation, that might open his eyes and eauae •n explosion in his department. and while he was investigatiog be migbt also examine Mr. Uerrtng now in jail for tbe shooting of Huntsmau and also Wagner. When tbe Marshal has Iearned ail that he ean from the three parties mentioned, we believe that be will be in » poailion to &ssure the military forcea that they needn’t be scared at all—there was no roya!ist plot in it at ail, but on!y a too-far-carried practical joke concocted for some parpoeea by »ome of their own confrere».

But while wi!l be enabled to •ooth the 5hasea nervee of the miIit,irT, who is there to g;ve the ume aso>urance ot *atrty to the Qjeea? \Vh»t guan»utee haa »he that skime damnablo plot is not being coccocted aga5ast her life ? Has not the 5tar adv catcd vio!ently reckl«9« mea«ure5 aguinst ber? Don’t we daily hear nien sporting ihe b!ue annexation ribbon sweariiig that they will tak»* her Iife befi>re any j.>ower will ever be allowj e»I to repUce heron the lhrone and i that they are prepared tocarry out ! tueir threats? Ti>e fiuding of 1 bomba iu ihe y.ird adjoining her residance would be safli ient rea5ott for the American Minister to adopt epeeial measureafor her satVty. and we believe tbat the only way in whieh th.it ean be done to plaee U. S. W" »ops as a guard of safety around Waahington Plaee. Until the United States have anāwered, one way or other, the Queen’a prote»t to the Aunerican Govemmeat. she 13 in all ju?tice aud fairnesa under the protection of the Star« aud Stripes. As long as her elaim that she is m her present helpleee coudition through the unlawful aoliou oAhe repreaent itive of tho U. S. and theirforces atands, thal great Republic is reapou3ible for her life and her safety, and if they shouId neglect aueh reaponsibility, the judgement of history wouhi b« disgraceful, to President Cleveland and bis adminiatration. We hear qmte often above a certain e«tate of Anneke Jans in New York whieh is apoken of as repre9e.iting untold wealth and to whieh there js everywhere to be found some elaimanu. Here in Honolulu are a!so to be found one or two of the heirs presumptive of Anneke Jan» who are revelling in dreams of immense fortunes and who ar« making their fnends die with enry uver the luek of these fortunate pets of the gods. In the New Yori Sun of May 17 appears a short paragraph iu its correspondence eoiumn whieh seems to thrnw cold water on the promising future prospectB, and daehe8 to the ground the hopea of Moule Christo wealth. bec*use this is what that well-informed paper says: “Anneke Jans eame to this cily (N.Y.)with her huaband in and obtaineii a grant of sixty-two acres on Manbatt*n island; in 1637, the bueband died. In 1638. Anneke marrietl Ilominie Bogardus. She died in 1663, leaving the land to her children and grandchildren. In 1664, ihe Britiah (iovernmeat confirmed the grant of 1&I6. In 167l,fiveofth* heir8transferred the land to Col. I>»velace, theGovernor of the pnmnee of New York. and in 1705, the Government gavethe farm tben known as tbe K:ng’« Farm, lo the corporation of Trinity Church. lnT750, one of the heirs of the ori« : nal sixth heir of 1671 brougbt suitagainst Trinity, elaiming that ihe tran»fer to Ix>velace was incomplete, as hisanc»utor had not jnined in il; but the eaee waa decided against him on the ground that, even if tbe original lille h*d been bad, the church had obtained a clear litlfe by lapse of time —by adverse posaession the legal name is. Similar suits were brought in 1760, 1807. 1830. 1834 *nd 1847, and the church waa victorious every time. Now tbere certainly are beirs of Anneke Jans, but there is nothing for them to ioberit eo the heirship ia of no v*lue. There i« no pending iiligatioo. The value of the property is several millioD9. There «re nomerons d«scendants of the prolific Jan» i family.”