Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 23, 3 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Daily of J*tm 2lh, I8'*S. The Monowai brought the ead new§ of tbe untimely death of Mr. Rohert J. Creighton who euddenly i died |o f*an Franci*co. The deceased waa well-known in Hono- , lulu * herehe accepledthe pf>sition i aa editor-in-chicf of the P. C. Adverlieer, and later wa« appointed • Mini«ter of Foreign Affaire by the lale King Kalakaua. He re« gned thie position ujx>n the c»binet l>eing defeated on the Englisb ioan act, and left the country shoi"tly j afler, and haa since resided in San Frarcieoo whtre he held tbe ree|>onf>ible |K««ilion of private &ecre- j tary to Claue Sj)reckele, and also ( rcjirc«ented the New Z>aland gov- J ornment of whieh for many yeare ! previou?ly he bad been one of the most ef!icienl adroini8ttators and legialatore. Mr. Creighton was univ* really resj»ecte<l and well-liked for his many eterling qualities. He wa» a hrilliant journalist and jx>8sc«sed of the moet lenaeioue «nergy, whieh enabled him to defend or attack any cause with the most vig<»rous result8. Under his editorship the Advertiser reached an imj>ortanoe and inAuenee whieh it hae never heen ahle to boast of before or einee. In San Francieco Mr. Creighton occasionally contriboted to tbe great dailiee, mostly articles on vital and important commercial matterH, and his opinion carried great weight in all ieaue», The deceasetl leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss; liie only »on ie tho prominent lawver, Mr. Charlt*8 Creighton of thia city. “None knew him, but tc love,’’all miss him aeone who had the interests of Hawaii at heart and whoae eouneel and inlluenee will be muchmi8sed at the prtsent juncture. The Advertiser wishes it to b«; distiuctly understood that the P. G. is perfectly solvent, that it has never beon bo well equipjH.Hl with linaneial r«90urcc8 as at the present time, and that the deruand by Spreckel8 for the payment of 195,000 due him did not worry them the least little bit. We would of course be awfully j>leased ii we could be made to believe that the Advertiser is correct in painting ‘he condition of the treasury in eueh roaoate hues, but uufortunately a glance of the annual finaneial 8tatement of the minister of finanoe publiBhed iu the 8ameissue by authority tells a differeat tale. It show8 how we got out of the firet year of the hiennial period. but it gives no iudication of how we are to meet the exj>en8e8 of fhe coming ye«r. The government begine thie financil year with a cash halauoe on hand of 170.239,98 while the treaaury <ru in jx>sses8io'n of I3I2.141.3S on April tbe Ist 1892. That halanee, beeide« all tbe revenuea and geoer»l receipta and money borrowed duriug Ihe past year, hae beeo expended with the exoeplion of the $70,239,98, whieh it is claimed waa cash on hand on April l*t 1893. The expenditures in the coming ye*r will be at least aa large aa they were in the past, but it will be preposterous to that lbc revenuea and reoeipta wil) noi bo materi«lly diminished. The g*neral depre$aion in the value of prop«rty will reduce thetaxes oonaiderabiy and ihe depremion in trade will lower tbe revenue frum the Ouetom Hou?e. The Advertiser nya that Ihe government has had during the paet year to provide for $500,000 to meei the unexpected detB«nda of the depoeitors in tbe Poeial Savings Bank. lf they bave we see no eoeounl of tbat $500,000. Ouly $270,600 have been wiihdrawo and paid and «e would Hke to have the Advertiser explaia how bow H amwe? at ite very rais)e»d- ;»» k» nnder W * I Tbc«ia *liii * debt of $47.0001 M bo pt»id. How the goveram*at <x>raing jfMUt t he eame expea?« m i

1 be up to that oeeaaion. even j jf be ecrves us with fictitions lfigures, like the half a million jinid to Savings Bank’s dcpo- 1 sitore. There are sevcral instances whieh »how that larger am mnla will heeome due on ccrtain ; tems | io the oomi.»g year Ihan there were in the past. as the case is in the item of Intcrest on Pnhlie debts where ♦ 174,758.53 were paid I»»st year whiie ♦235.241,4 < have yet to be T, 4 paid in the eomme year. eoonomy i« nJt exercised very 5everelly : in scvcral dej>artroent« lbe aporoprialions granted by the appropri- ; ; iilion bill wiil not be 8ufficient and will be exhausted bef<>re A;*ri 1 the ; 1 st 1894. The Poliee department 3j>ent to March 31 st oftheir appr<>i priation for the Oahu Poliee about ♦00,00«!) out of ♦90.00«) appropnated and the «upport of j)risoners has cost the country $53 877,74 f«>r the past vear leaving only $44,506,28 f>r 1 the comineyear. Civil and criminal ! incidentals have araounted to $15, [ 250.30 under the “proper' admini--tration of the reforra attorneygencral. whieh Ieaves him on!y $2,216.36 for ncxt year. The true condition of the treasury is lucidly ilIu-trHtc4j by the published statement and if Mr l)amon ean carry the government on to April the lst 181VJ «>n the same lines as are now followed he must be themost miraculous financier ever born. The Advcrtiser is triumphant beeauee .Sjjreckels is not but is to be l>aid. We jK)inted out a fcw days ago, that we never doubted that he wouki be paid. but we repeat our statement made at the same timc that if the government adopte tbe policy of having its supportcrs advance thetaxes for thecoming year <»t a discount it is on tne most dangerons ground, and on the sure road to ruin, 1 here is no mone}" to j>ay Spreckels wiihin the legitimate resources of the governmeut. There : .s no money within their lawful reaoh with whieh they ean j>ay the deposit«rs in the postal Savings Hank and notwisting of figures or wonls ean alter the fact. What of it, if even the gov- | ernment eoukl get somebody to take up cxchequer notes on five or ten months? Where are there any | prospccts that live months henee the government will be in one iota better Unaneial fix than they are to-day. What earthly use is it to stave off the disagreeable momenl 1 wnen it becoraes a neccssity to increase the revenuesby some means for tbe purposeof paying the debts of the country and the mnnine expenses? Jf Mr. Damon as ministcr of finance intends to carry out a financial j)olicy worthy of beim; , termed sound and heaithv, and eon-fidence-inspiring, he will stop adopt- ; ing the methods of the insolvent speculator—that of hoping—like Micawber. for something to turn up, and plungingdeej)er anddee;>er into the mire siraply to avoid facing the necessarily unavoid.ible issue. lf to-day some taxpayers i do advance raoney enough to pay , Spreckeis $95,000 and the intercst on the English loan of $30,000, and what is ovtrdue to the depositors oftheSavings Hank, how will tbat »ave the government from being just a9 short of funds in November or Deceml>er. when by right the , taxes whieh are now being advanced ahould heeome due? We don’t know of any more frivolous and unbusiness-like methods than the one whieh it is clear to us is going to be adopted by Mr. I)amon. We ehall await the next wetkly statement with a great deal of 1 interest to see if we have not heen j uorrect m our 8urmise. We have altogether loat aight of the revenue« from the crownlands. We do uot find thero on any of Ihe statement* from tbe treasury either the weekly or tbe annual, but we do not know if tbat indīc*tee that they are not being osed by the government. or iftheyare being merged in tbe gen«r*l receipts of th« govwrnroent. It would beof mueh intereat to tbe oommaoity to be ioi)rt»ed «• to tbk,matUr, bec*o«, if tbe crown)and reoaipto an «ntend op and Rpent m corr«ot it that it wonld be «e well to make ia memorandum of kba amouel* I under tbe itotn repre*«tiag 0» I .1 . ilna

Scott! the Advertiser s ignorancc a« to mavter« pertaining to the finances of ihe government bcats tbe record, The rescrve of sslver in the lre*sury d->esn't be!or»g to the govcrnraent at all. dcar ehappie. Il Ī9 mostiy a deposit made bvtlietwo h*nks whenever they have inconvenientIy too mueh silver and f r whieh they b»ld trea«ury certificatcs whieh gcnerally are resting quietly m their vau!t?. It a «ingle dollar of it is 9o«nt the security given would heeome rredeera ib!e and worthless, and it i« safc to presume that Mr. Da non would get hi* silvcr out of the treasurv and back tot’riebauk vault in double quick time. The Advertis a r succeeded in getting out a sensational iesue v<r«terday morning f»r foreign use. Ti.e publication of the financial -tatement of the goverument was n»t considcred sufficiently explosive sob )mbs were found and an attack on the barracks was imugined to show j)€ople abroad in what untold dangers the heroic P. G s arc, not alone from Mr. Spreckels' fiuanciai b)inbs, but also from real live dynamite bombs. The Advertiser man evidently eonsidere<J the yarn rather fishy and he didn’t make nearly as mueh out of it as he eoukl have done if the fakc had heen bctter managed, and tbe artors in the affair had becu scliGoled or had a little more intelligence. The Advcrtiser teils us that three bombs were found in Washington Plaee. That Caj>t. Klemme of the poliee force chased a man and fired a shot (in the air) to scare the man who didn’t scare at all it secms. at least we hear no more about him A haek takcs also a part in Act I but the astute poliee captain evidently omitted to take the number, so the alleged conveyance drives out from thc stage never to show up again. Another j>olice officer appears suddenly on the scene like a deu* ex maehina and together they walk 5nto the yard of J)r. McKibbin where they iramediately put their hands on a sack containing thrce (3) bombs whieh they carry in triumj)h to the Poliee Station, while the Advertiser man —always omniscient and truthfui states that the borabs were found in Washington Plaee and that tliey were to be used during the night against the barracks. We are unahle to take the matter seriously, but if we did, we should certainly elaim that uj)on the very evidence of the Advertiser the bombs were to be used in an attack on Washington Plaee against the Queen, and if the bombs were placed where it is claimed that they wcre found, we believe that there are indications that some of the cranks who infest the annexation ranks really had attempted to carry out their threats of committing some dastardly violenee on the Queen before the U. S. have a ehanee to finally settle Hawaiian affairs. But we do not desire to view the matter from sucb a point whieh would necessitate the Queen calling Minister Blount’s attention to the fact that she was in j>ersonal danger, l>ccause we think that the whole affair was & put up job to encourage the heroes in fbe barracks, who are in need of some sensationaI (?) stimulant, and if jx)S8ible hurry up the eventual aelion to be taken by the CleveIand administration. The facts as representcd by the Advertiser, were that eapUio Klemme saw two men talking together on the corner of Beretania and Miller Sts. That « haek drove up and a man jumped off where*fter they «11 acattered withont Mr. Klemme recognixing «ojbody «nd a man with « p*pk«ge started running and dis*ppeared among aome hoahee .(buh« not located) «1thongh Kiemme called to him to etop «nd fired (in tke air). As tbe mau waa in the bnsbe« «nd not in the *ir, he waa pre«um«bly not hit n thm m nothing Ieft fbr the capt«m— oow re-enforced by Capt. Ju«n—th«n lo cntor Doctor MaeKibh4n f «y«ni «nd > withoat further dei«y piek up tho «aek with Uw bombe ui»od c*rry them off. We bop* ikot M«(iM «leheoek «111 sift thM’m«ltor toUw boltom «nd oo whieh ean . . . . [u»»g >***•«* i * e H - 9

nse of tho8€ bomb8 —»nd perh*ps , could give him aome information, that might open hia eyes and c*use an exp!osion in bis department. ; and whiie he w«s investigating he j migbt also enmine ilr. Herring j ! now in jail for the shooting of Huntsman and also ”detective \Vagner. When the Marshal has ' learned all that he ean from the three parties mentioned, we beIieve that he will be in a p-osition to assure the military forces that they needn’t be scared at all—there was no ro\*alist plot in it at ail, but only a too-f»r-carried practical joke concooted for some purpi>se3 by some of their own confreres. | But while he will be enabled to ; sooth Ihe shaken nerves of the military. who is there to g;ve the j same assurance of saf“ty to the Queen? What guarautee has sbe that s)me daiunable plot is not being concocted againet her life ? : Has not tbeStaradv< cated violent- ; 1 v reckless me&8ures against her? Don’t we daily hear men sporting Ihehlue annexa,tion ribbon swearing that they will take her Iife be- \ fore any power will ever be allowed to replace her on the throue and that they are prepared to carry out their threats? The finding of ; bombs in the yard adjoining her j 1 residence would be sulticient reason ! for the American Minister to adopt | special measures for her safety, and we believe that the only way in whieh that ean be done is to plaee j U. S. troops as a guard of safearouud \Vashinston Plaee. Until the United States have answered, one way or other, the Queen’s pro- j test to the American Governraent. she is in all justice and fairuess under the protection of the Stars aud Stripes. As long as her elaim that she is in her present helpless condition through the unlawful aeliou of the representative of the U. S. and theirforces stands, that great Republic is respoii9ible for her life aud ber safety, and if they should neglect such responsibility, tbe judgement of history would be disgraceful, to President Cleveland and his administration.