Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 240, 10 June 1893 Edition 02 — HONOLULU STOCK EXCHANGE. [ARTICLE]

HONOLULU STOCK EXCHANGE.

J i've 10th 185*1 ProVI«IONAL GoVERNMKNT RlVD9. Denu\nd. Sone. S>dd. .\onf. TheSur last Frid*y was l>eaniing allover withnyi? ofth.it brilliancy whieh ia U9U»iIy e mnecteil with the eheap circus or the dazzling fakir. lt aotually i>uhlished the Queeu’9 t>ower of atlorney *t» Mr. Paul Neunaann and derived fr»rn it through 9»me f.*lse italicised quotations the eonaolalion of a eoneluaion that the Queeu hae m elaim for interference on her behalf by the United States heeauae she 9urrendered to the Pr»vi9ional Government. The Star thereafter goe« into hysterics heeauaeshe in the said power of attorney simply makea the nece9sary stipulations for hereelfand her family and does not noenliona anything about the civil righle of her people or the honiesteada tor them. The logic of theStar-writer is eonepieuoua tothe laBt. The wonderful perspicacity of the imported idiot who is hired to write about things he knows nothing about is being painfullv pronounced day after day, but we still think that the remarcable hallueinalion whieh makea it possible f»r the Star editor to 9Uggest or mainuale thit the Queen, after she (according to his ow n statement) nad cea9ed to be a Queen, e'nould make conditions for the arrangements of the polilieal aflairs in her country beats the record. But it is hardly worth the while to Uke the Star au serieux. The publication of the power of attorney is another iustance of breach ofconfidenceinthe premises, and of honor in whieh those eonnected with the Star aeem to excel. The power «f attorney given by Queen LiliuokalaiA to Mr. Paul Neumann was never « public document. It was executed and signed by Liliuokalani in her private eapacity and was and is to this d:ite a private instruiuent. It is well known to the Queen that the d»cumenl was drafted by the assistance of Mr. A- S. Hartwell hitherto a respected and respectable attorney at law. It was acknowledged aud submitted to A. F. Judd the ehancellor of tbe kiagdom. a man who 90 far haa enjoyed sofficient oonfidence to be coneidered as trustworthy enough to b? tbe head of tbe highest tribunal of this country. U waa made out in tripiieaie—one copy for Mr. Neumann, one to be retained by the Queen, a»d one delivered sealed in totbe hand8<rfMr. S. B. Dole. on behalf pf tbe Proviaio oal Governmeni. Meaere Oole, H*rtweli aud Jodd ar« tb« only tbree peraons wbo have had aneeea lo tbe documeat whieh aooerdin« to ita tone and it» inteoi eo«Id oaly We eon- ****** an prtvate papw. aa .1 an mw .wuiiooea * e- v V r i . V r ;*, » ■ • rv ... , ‘ • ’ enwien! whieh 4ād oot hal—g to

honorable of the land. Tne use whioh Mr. Samuel Damon made of his contidential position as a banktr to tiy to obtain ihe alleged new con?titution froai ihe Queen is yet fresb in our minds. Tue use made of the Queen’s p>wer of attorney to Neumann bv ihe luminous lights above menti »ned was illu.«trated by ita nubiication in the Star ou Fr.day. But let us look a 1 ttle cl»ser at this j»ower of attorney frotn whieh theSt..rget» so mueh eheap juy. In the tirst piaee it is a fact —how sad it n»ay be f*»r the Sur —that the power of attorney was never nsed by Mr. Neumann. Paul is i n pretty longheaded man and he foresaw the laint p<'SSibility that . the provisional governmeut might have blinded the U. S. administration sufficiently to bave induced it to eloee ihb nefarious bargain and anuex the Hawaiian Is>ands before the truth, and Neumann, reached WashingU>n. That was the reason why Mr. Neumann desired a power of atlorney and it was after a eon* aultation with Mr. Hartwell who of course enlarged on the prospects of success for the Thurston mission that the document waa execoted. Neumann travelled and wasreceived iu Washingtonas Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary olQueen Liliuokalani. Hiscommission whieh was duly issued on the ordinary foreign office hlank was signed by Her Majesty and countersigned by Samuel Parker as Minister of Foreign Affairs — The value of that eommiaaion was never disputed and its title to be recognized was never doubted for a mmute. While the power of attorney whieh the Star now puh linhea rested safely in Mr. Neuinan’a trunk. his commission carried him through whereever his business deraanded his attendanee. If the Star writer ean read and is ahle to understand plain English. he will need no comments pn ihe following exlract from the power of atU»raey, “Ai*d no official con»ideration for myself or said Kqiulani *halL in the ooinion of my stud attorncy be oUainahle from the United States of Āmerica then and thereupon, and in such case to arrange and agree upon, dc. etc. But as the offirial considemtion was attainable right away the power of attorney heeame then as useless and void as it is to-day, filed in the archives in Washiugton Piaee where it was placed immediately on its revocation quite a while ag >. The Queen’s prolest cannot and haa never heen or m.sinterpreted. She surrendered to the pressure of the United States superior lorces, and her protest, in the spirit that it was made in, waa endorsed and rec >gnized by the Provision<il Governmeut, »nd laler on accepted and acted upon by the government of the United States of Amenea. Tbe attempt to make a documenl whieh waa executed to be used only uuder certain emergencies, but was never used and ia now out of force, ' appear of,sufficient importanee to aesist tbe annex»tion n»rty in their Btraggle is a good UIastration of tbeir uoapeakahie weuioeee and ihe final bopele»sne« of tbeir caose. » ' There is reelly 8omeihing ewfully remarkable about tboee ailver tea-pots wiih whieh Mr. 8tenm iatobe prewntcd. Tbe8terteUs os now that tbe poU are ordered !Tt IlUhe eome"£

dowD subecriptioD:> fr >tu the other lsiands ein-.il So»>tt! S> the Annexitiou C»ub with its ō.O) > members belonging to the weilthiest and m>>st »nlel!igent class of citizeus h.ive had d.fficuliy in scruping uu a paltry $1,0001*» p;*y for the p.>ts U> the s ivio«r of the p irty. W’e would like to glanc“e at ihe ]OX) i;a - n-9 whose owners have contributed one dollar eaeii f >r the patriotic inirp>-9e. Wc thought the 40) N. Gs would have burned f>>rward with their f»ur g >vernment quarters, but upon i;»quiry we g>>t a very surly answer telling us th »t Stevens eouhl b_* blowed f>rallthe N.G.cared. Asiongas their officers s >ld the Minkaāon «, I infamo* wuieh lhey hnd tosmok.eat j • such an outrageous high price, as \vas the case, tl»ere were no d >Uars 1 ū>r j_>ots or Stevens or any other lomfoolery. \Vhat we were g>mg to sav was nothing about the pots thoug!i, b it ab>)ut the inscrintion : whieh the Slar tell3 us is to be j engraved on the pots. That is t»> show Mr Steveus that th»-se pots were presented t > him by the re*idents of the Hawaiian Islands. That is \vhere \ve ohjeci. Some residents, or the Americans,or annexationists in Hawaii, may have gi ven it to poor old Stevens. but the residents did nothing of the kind and neither had nor have any intention of doing 8»>. May it please the Star to take up its ueual role and correct tbe propoeed inscriplion before it gots on the pots and stamns them with an easiiy proven and ever to be disputed lie. Ever and anon the supporters of . the P. G. eome to us and, say, “You will be on the tiptop ty-and by. Don’t forget that we went into this under a misapprehension. We are \vith you.” And then we smile and say, “Why, certaiuly, we.always knew you were with us. You are all right. It is only those other bl»K>rning idiots we are after. Rest assurcd when we are there we will not f»rget you. We have seen your actions and how you kicked the rooment those otherj started out on their f.x)lishness.” And we roean it. Every day eees further defectioas from ihe P. G. supporttT3. Every day secs some one who has been promptly sa,t on and kicked f<>r desiring a voice in the cooti»I of t!ie atr.iirs whieh are now being run by the f»milv eompact and its supp*«rters. It is simply 1887 over again. and the f»ssilized idiots whosought to conlroi , that move and ruined it bv their selfishness are at tneir old wurk. Bigotrv and selfishness were their ruin then and bigotry and seifishuess will be their ruin now. They i h# ven’t the first symj>torn of either , liberality »>r fairness, evervthing is done to suit their own pockets aud the:r own relatives and others are getting d : sgruntled. And sma!l hiame to them' I