Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 249, 23 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Mr. McChesne_v h»s tnllowrd tbe examj»Ie of Mr. McCandle?«. and haa reeigned from the .Advis >ry Council. ilig career as a eouneilman hae nol heen very notew«»rlhy except that he in the begining ->f the provisional rtgime joined the rabid wing of the asserably whieh was a con»tant source of anxiet3' and ann>>yance to the hcads of the governraent. We exj>ect now that the vacancy cau«ed by his resign-i-tion will be filled by one of the intelligent and patriotic (sic.) natives who favor annexation and whom we in vaiii have waited to see trotted ont fi)r inspection by the puhlie. When Mr McCandless hied hiraself away to foreign and safer elimea. his seit was given to a Portuguese as an indication that the Porlugnese iraraigrants here are to lake urecedence >>f the Hawaiian in the government of the realm and Mr. Bolte No. 2 —beg pardon,Mr. Mendonca —was created a Legislator and a ruier. We are awaiting the appointraent of Mr. McChesney’s successor with a great deal of interest. Il is a pity that Mr. McChesney did not,bef>re he parts from puhlie life and cur hnepitable shores carry out h's promises raade in the eouneil to niake sorae wonderful disclosures in regard to some scandals whieh he claimed had taken plaee in the Board ol Health. and in whieh some high ofhcials were iraplicated. If we remeniber rightlv the President of the Board of Henllh wa* accust>d by this Queen street grt>cer and statesman of paying for feed that had heen delivered short of weight. and an investigation was to take plaee forthwith, and ali the alieged crooks were to be gibl)eted publicly. We presume th»t ihe investigation took plaee, and as Mr. McChesnev has kept mum since, we suppose that the investigation proved that he was — ahall we say raistaken (to go it mildly) in his aocusations. Ofcourse, our provisional stalesinen ought to know soraething al»ut short weights and wrong scales. We heard onee at least about a provisional raerchant who sells hides being in a d5suute with a provisional raerchant who buys hides about the weight of s»me provisional hides whieh had heen transferred frora on* sh»p to the other. According to Porter’s scale. the hide seller was out while the hide buyer was very mueh iu, and tbo result was that the scales fell frora the eyes of the provisional hide seller, and he sold no raore bides to be weighed on the scales of provisicnal hide buyer—Of course, we don’t believe such a fishy story about raerabersof the faithful flock, nordoeeex-councilraau Meeheene}:. The Star is jubilant,becau3e Mr. DoIe has given as hi§ npinion that reetoratioa of the Queen to tbe throne is “diplomatically impo«sible.’’ Poor Dole! He has to carry a sad load, and we don’t doubt that he many a time has wished himaeli haek to hia judicial chair, where hia doUx far nunii only was interrupted wheu brother Judd atirred him ap to write out a deci■ion on sorae ten year o!d (or youug) eaae. Now, to be accused daily of uttering the most drivelling rot whieh the patent non eom •

po$ raentis of the Star invents h mself, and tben saddles on to D?le ia really a hardship, and he has onr fallt-st sympathy. Cou!dn’t we get tbe Star to eiplain to us 1 why Mr. Do!e c«>r.siders restorution ••diploraaticalIy imp*)ss:ble. ! ’ W e are sure we can t get Dole to do it : him«elf —he never was an aathor- | it_v on diploraacy—but the omnioI eienl Starman may do it for him to our great arausement and »dificalion. We will teli tbe Star man a secret whieh he ean whisper to Mr. Doie aud that is that nothiug is irapossible for the United States. that is just, and that the U. S. dare not do anything that is right. And they don't consult Mr. Dole s or anybody else’s views or construction ou what is diploraalicai!\' possibie or not. We noliee late!\’ that the diflVrent writers who hope agiinst hope that the United States will not restore the )awful govtrnraent in Hawaii. use the terra that the United State? will not declare war against the Proviiionai Governmeut for the purp<>se of restoring the Queen. No, dear, we don’t think that they will. The\' didn’t declare war when Mr. Stevens overthrew the lowful government, and lhere is no nece«sity to declare war to undo hia evil work. A short billet doux addressed to Mr. Dole will be sufficient, and will act like a magic word. and all will be haek in the old grooves. Don’t imagine that there is going to be any war or that any decidration of war is necessarj' to make the P. G. surrender everything, frora the sand-bags to the crown jewe!s. from the Comraaud-er-in-chief-with-the-rank-of-colonel to the piano and the Yankee-Doodle-Kodgers. There has never heen any doubt or hesitation on that score. The Advertiser tells us that the Atiorney-General aud the Marshal are not going to do an\’thing about the row on the wharf as thej’ ttrra the ovati>)n to Mr. Nordhoff. How awfully kind of thera. We were afraid that the\- raight have seut sorae raounted poliee after Miss Nordhoff, and have her arrested for sedition for waving a Hawaiian tiig to her Hawaiian friends —that wastheonly seditious act that we kuow of —and we will adrait that it raust have been a disagreeable spectac!e to behold for Sereno and other patriots (?) who were born under the Hawaiiau colors. lf our paternal government shou!d take upon theraselves the authontj’ to send out sorae repnraands as ihe Advertiser telis us we shall be pleasedtobe informed in regard to it. If the Attorne\'General and the >iarshal would devote a more of their tinie to ferret out who steals the crownjewels, and who spiils borabs around the t >wn. and pastes auarchistic placards instead of proposing to reprimand free citizens for their lawful actions. the\' will eonfer a favor on the taxpayers who pav īhem for doiug their duty, and noi for making fboIa of themselves. We *re painfully Burprised to noiiee a eommuniealion in last evening's Bulletin. signed by Father James Beissel of Paia Maui in whieh the writer commits a ■©- rious breach of that decorum whieh should be easential to a man of his calling. We were in hopea that ■omeone had forged the aignatur« of the good father, but upon investigition we find the letter to be

genuine and we think that the sentiraent exprr*?ed in it should cause the nead of the CathoIie Church to take the matter uu and eheek his sub«»rdinate t‘rora ia ihe future atterapting to discurd and hatred araons bis fl>wk not alone u>wardethe Hawaiian people, but a:9<> towards the e >urts of law and justice. iu this their ad>>pted j country. If a crirae was comraitt-d a= the father states against the voung girl, ihe criniinal should be punishcd and uod**ubtedly wou!d , be puni=hed if there waa snfficient evidence t * f i=ten the guilt on the , accuse<l. The pnweeulion and the ; deffiise presented their evidence ( before a lawful jury and a judge. j Father Beis'el was not present at the trial. and was consequently ! not in a position t-> jndge of the weight of the evidence uresented as were the jnry aud judge. aud he has therrfore no nght to elaiin tbat the verdict was contrary to j law and evidence. H*.s retlections on the .īudge shows ignorance. A judge has no more power to punieh I a man who is acmiiited by a jury | than has Futher Jaraes Beis»el hiraself. Upon a verdict of not guilty being given all the Judge ean do is to acquit the accused and thatendsthe matter. But the Rev. tather also takes oeeaeion to deliver a harangue against the Hawaiiane whieh is uncalled for in ihe extreme. If he will look over the calenders of cas-s at the diflerent courts, he will find that the majority of rape aml especial!y seduction cases are against Portuguese men and the corardaining witnesses Portugnese gir!s, and it would be well for the reverend gent!eman to purify his own tlock first bef>re he staraps the Hawaiians broad-cast as l>eing a Iicentions people. His final appeal to Ivnchlaw and tnob-violence, we will not deal with' A suggestion lise that as coming frora a priest of the Catholic faith ean only fill us with consternation and surprise, but ; reniembering Father Jaraes’s «rratic tendencies, we will in cbarity hope that he did not know of what he was speaking. The Star has 2iven ns a rest on tbe attempted Puukapu boom. The proraoters of that busines3 have suddenlv dropped it, and the Star man who was used simply as a hiol is not required to say raore about the matter. Another scheme of a similar feature is now on foot. and we fully expect the,Star to crop out again in the interestof the schemmg catt!e-thieves who desire to get hold of lands adjoining the large ranches for the purpose of haviug a plaee on whieh to «tock their stoien cattle. Cattle-st«aling is a crirae whieh every ranch-owner ’ui this country has had ample rea»on to eomplain of. The manner in whieh it «o far has been carried out made il diflicult for the victira= to eall upon the authorities to iuterfere, and the small scale on whieh it wa* eonducted didn’t make the loea suffi ciently felt to justify the cattle owners adopting heroic measure«. When the noble profeasion of c?ttle-thieving ia to b* carried out on a tnore 3ystematic plan and plea of cultivating home•teads i« to be ueed to obtain crown lands by person« owning ncitber eallle nor money to even «tart any kind of caltivation, it i§ aboct time that something w»s doae. When & pieee of pa»tur« land belonging to the crown »nd eUuated among two or three large r»nches is desired by » eouple of

impecunious fellows who owing to the:r plaeee ot residence and th«ir posii! *ns have ample opp>rtunity to brand their neighb>*rs’ cattle it i? proper to supp> se liiat s,!ch j laml is aot wanteti f>r any lawfnl «>r legitiraate purj>«>ses even if the * Sur-man ean be hire-l >r otherw>s« induced to write the regular b*om ! j »rtic’.es about c >flee, pioeapplee. bon:esteuls and r>t. If the g >verument should itself be iuclined to i give its coutiten;iiice l«> such schemes either for c< rtiin political I p';r[H.so= or thr«*ugn ig:i >rance of ( the tr ie st tte ol affairs, it is ab*ut : time f«*r the ranchers to join t<>- | gether and adopl me.is!ires whieh j will frustr.ite all such piratical ! plans and prevent a sing:e c>*w oj a pair of steers to suddenlv appe .r as the i>r «gen«t >r> t all the whv from to 1,000 young heuJ o.‘ cattie as hist>ry teils h«s b« en th« j case in certain d;stric:s I.er°. The ] i «ttempt to estah ! ish homesteads j I for legitimate purp s-« is g*od enough and praiseworthy, but it has been and wil! be an ulter | ftilure as long as the raarket« and eheap means of transport ar« denied t«> the small pn>ducer. For the bem-fit of cattle-thieves, there 1 seems to be no reas«>n why the gf»vernment should be put to any expense or trouble. We find that the Star states that the “annexationists are no more dismayed” “at Judge Cooley’s Foruvi argument than they were at Ciaus 8preckels’ demaud for his |95,(X)0.” Considenng the panie stricken search forold stockings all over town whieh this cansed withoutanyone being fouod who would take the P. G.’s acknowIedgments of indebtdness, and the fact that it was only when some financial genins struck the idea of simply transferring the Queen’s g«>vernment’s securities to Spreckels to the new owuers that the deal waa efl’ected. we are glad to bear that the annexationists are no more **di»mayed” (“1 thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word”) this time over Cooley than before over Spreckels. With his usual illogical inconsistency the hurrn proce«ds to spread his asinine fatuosi»y over two-thirds of a eol’imn toshow thsl C»oley was quite right, and any* how the P. G. »hoald endeavor to fo»low hia advice to the eye —though not to the spirit and forthwith *‘by a turn of tbe wri»t” (he doesn’t say whose) proclaim itseif pennanent and a repubIic,notwithstanding the fact that the U. S. govrrnment has not yet decided wheth«r it is {*ermanent or noL But htt!e things like that do not trouble the Starry crank with the e!ongated »ural appendagea. He proce«ds to dish up his usual allowanee of displayed ignorance and lies when dealing with foreign conteraporary history and mangl«?s that of the recent struggle in Chi!i as he di«l that of Nicaragua the day before, out of all recognizable ahape. and deduces from this queer c.mglomeration that it ean now advocate the establishraenl of a rvpublic here witfaout being accused of inconsistency. although it previously denounced (by order of the P. G. and its members) ali idea of advocating an mdependent republic bere even for an instant, »nd denounced tbe idea as cranky. and the man and men who started and npheld it as being worthy of the most cond)gn punishment whieh even the crazy brain-box of tbe Star idiot cou!d invent. Well may President Dole and tbe other repolably quiet and sensible members of the P. G. exclaim eaeh night (with one exception that of the>.*th inst) on reading the Star, “Save ua from our l‘rien<i«, O Lord.”