Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 251, 27 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

If tbe news are c<»rrect that Judge Sneed has been apuointr*d to be llie American Ministerto Hawaii, Mr. Blount will be ahle personal!y to ta«»e his report to Washington whieh of course will greatly facililate the wurk of the U. S. adn)inistration. NN e under§tand tnat there are some poisibilitv that Oolonel Spreckel» also will proce*d to WaBh)Dgton where he at present cou!d d‘> niure godd for the Hawaiian cause than he ean here. With Blount and 9preckels in Washington the usual lies and mis statement« of Mr. lhurston will heeome fruitless and the Hawaiiane ean feel confident that just:ce and fairness will be shown to them and their country. A {>eculiar feature as an ouleome of the recent revolution is the attack of swelling in the bead» among some of the leading insurgents. The apology for Judge Cooley by that ch®orful youth Judge (!) Carter is another instance of the e pr« ad ot big-headed-ness in the annexation eamp. We inustn’t mind what Judge Cooley writers say» this essence of intelligence, because the old man is in his dotage. Mr. Carter —who saye that he is one of Coolfey’s pupil» and his wami pereunal friend bas uudoubted!y very receutly left eehool, but we are yet under ths im{»ession that he haa heen a grown up b<>y for the last year or eo and not frequented any aehool for lhat space of time. It is to be presumed ther. that Judge C<xiley was in his dolage when the brainoverflowing 'Carter was his pupil and friend some years ago. Now about eighl or nine months ago that alleged doting Cooley wrote an article about the relations of the Federal government t-iward Lotteries. Thearticie whieh farfrom being regarded as coming from an iml>ec;ie whieh Mr. Cooley, accordng t ) Carter. is. wus quoted and repr- duced and re.id aiui reread allover the United Slates and the defeat of the Louisiana Lottery wa? generally credited to' that gauie artiole of Couley. The pretty youth, who so r*cently has heen ap pointed hy our paternal governiueet to disj!ense justioe i» by no means the ooly lawyer in towa who ean oliim to l>e a pupii of Cool*.y, but none of ihe others have consid«red themselves of suffioient imjH)rtance. or been iu possession of sufficient gsl! to eome forward »nd lry to “set poor old Cooley right before the Ilawaiian puhlie,” th«t feit w*s reserved for our philo£thiopian ex-Commissioner Mr. Hi«-father’s-»on Carter. There are A»hford, Peter»oa and Kinney and otbers who havestudied under Coo!ey, but who never were sufficiently impressed with his imheeility and feeble-mind so as to eome forward and tell us about it We tbought that the Attorney-G«n«r*l —learned in the law—alao was one

of Cooiey'= pupil=, but we find th»t he got his brilliancy and law by siuing at the feet of Gamaliel. Oamaiiel in this in=tance wa= A. SHanwell, a fact whieh without eommenl eiplaine Mr. \\. O. Smith’s leeal career. Tbere is something radically wrong in the manner iu whieh the Tax-Assessors and Collectors are appointed in the districts. lt is undoubtedly an error to give an office whieh besides demanding abilitv in the incumbent should be fi.led with fairnes? and impartiality to nien who are either themselves intere«ted in the estates whieh are t<> be as=essed or are in the emp!oy of land-.)wners. On Maui. Mr. C H. Uickey is the As-sessor-in-chief. This gentleman is brother-in-law ol Mr. H. P. Baidwin, who perhaps is the biggest landholder on Maui. Mr. Dickey wasappointedthrough theinfluence of Mr. Baldwin, and naturally will be as accommodatiug to his friend and re!ation as he conveninent!y ean When Mr. Dickey took office Mr Morton —a young Hawaiian — was the deputy assessor for Makawao, the district in whieh most of Mr. Baldwin’s property is situated. Morton, who,during the mcumbency of Mr.Treadway as assessor in chief had filled his possition in a fearless and impartial manner did not suit the Baldwin Dicky combination, and he was requested to resign. Political differences were of cour»« used as a weleome excuse to get rid of him and a »uitable —to Mr. Baldwm — succes8or was easily found in the person of Mr. Aiken the book-keeper of one of Baldwin’» concerns. This new official is a etranger here having only re*ided here one or two years. He is not a naturalized citizen, but our paternal government doesn’tstop at such tnfles and he is of cour»e emmently satisfactory to the Lord of Makawao. In Kohala we find as tai-asses8of the manager of a large ranch. It is safe to presurae that the cattle and ranch owners in that district are treated with due consideration in the matter of t xation. The system is bad all through. There ia sufficient moaey in the business to make it worth while for a competent man to take the office and devote all his time to the duties of it. The governraent should at onee put a stop to having officials who use the offices of the government as a matter of convenienc«, but of secondary eonsideration to their private business. Pa*sing by the Palae» a few days āgo we weie pleased by seeing the great military display of eannon» and sandhags around the building showing us how well prepared the government is to defend the rat-trap into whieh they have drawn themselves. The sandbags called to hfe memories of olden days when the very men who now are doing the sandbag act were »neering and ridiculing a similar performance then. While we were wondermg wby in ihe name of ali the eommander in ehiela tbe sand is doing around the Palaee & gust of wind hlew a pieee of paper off into our hands.lt was tho Advertiser yellow with age and of an unusual!y hilioua appearance. We glanced at tha crumpled sheet and lo! We beheld an editoriai headed Fortificatios of Saxd. And a» we read along our head began to swim and we thought that we were dresming. We lookad carefully at th« paper again and we were confirmed that it reallv and actually waa an Advertuer dated March 30th, 1892,

and nt>t a Holomna of to-day. \Vith inme verv soij.1 a.teratiou* obvious to anybody ihe art;cle fita ihe P. G. of to-djv 35 lf īt waa made speciaily f<>r them and in our shoj>. And thii i* what ihe Advertieer eaid: '*The pnoipl action of the authoritie« ehowa tnat we are as »afe in tneir care as au iufant aaleep iu ite m<>ther’i» anus. Thiufc of the 1 >resight, the watchfulnesc. above all the intelligence whion has pre5ided over our atfair5l While trivolou«, untbintcing Honolulu slepl. ali unconscious of daug»r, gallant Sam Nowleiu, Captnn «f tne Queen s Guards, was shi>veiliug sand inlo a wheeJbarr w, and that iuaster of events, the Marshul was "tatiug •acics of the stutf on his broad bacK. Afa! what palrioti8in was here! Whieh of us would have done it? \Vould you have siioVeled saud for your country’s g *od, geutle reader? \Va coufe»a with deep humility that we would not, not even with a special commissiou trom the Marsbal! But it wasdone by better patriots than any of us, and tue end has crowned ihe work. The dnveway is spoiied, but the couutry is saTed. \Vhat conaternation has not Mar•hal Wileou carried into the heart of the foe by thisone ma5ter-stroke? 1b there not confusiou in the little itle? Teresa and Robcrt, \V agner aud his ‘‘Sberma s,” Kiug Voiuey V. and his wiiule kith aud kin. are they nol amazed aud confounded by Marshal Wilaou’a uuexpected display of Band ?” “There are many other points about the Sand Bag Revolution whieh it might o'e mtereating to comment upon, but their cousideration must be deferred. \\ hat most persons will feel most deeply in thi« whole matter ie that it in a pity the powers that be ara constituted as they are. lt i» a pity that we ean.iol have pereonB to rol« over ub who«e wisdom and sound discretion would make themaelvea and the country respected, lt ia a pity that the inanity &nd imbecility of public cfficiai's should make ihemeeWee an objecl of ridicole, and the eountry a by-word. The assumption of those who st»rt at their own ehadows, and by their fooIi8h false alanus and their generalīy injudieioua zeal compromise the Throue whieh they profess to deteud, seems to be thut the Hawaiian monarohy exists only by sufferauee, while the force« whieh onee 8Mstatned it are vanished, and the foundations upou whieh it rcsted, are uudermined.”