Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 257, 6 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The other day we startled the puhlie by announcing from our varied source9 of information. of whieh we have the most numerou* and correct of any jourual in Honolulu, that the P. G. had already commenced to negotiate annexation with England without waiting for «ither the re8ult of Commi98ioner Elounl’e report, or the answer to their own projected treaty now in the hand« of Mr. Thurston. We had suppcsed that thia impolitic step would al onee have been denied by the annexationist rag9 whieh now do the job of furnishiug liee and vilification for the delection of the salacious bloodhounds who 8iipport them in plunging the country into ruin. But no! Not a wnrd from the moming prevaricator, while the afternoon slanderer comes boldly out yesterday and states that America raust not let the Monroe doctrine stand in the way of these self-apj ointed masUre of the destinie* of the country, when they now desire to hand it over to Great Britain’s gent!e care as Unele Sam does not seem desirous of endorsing their highhanded act of robbery. The hsrmonicon whine* tearfully that America must not be ao hard as to preventtheseexact fac-similes of the tyranis of ancient Greecs from giving away tbe people’i property to other nations if that great republic will not permit itself to occupy the position of a roceiver of stolen goods. And as usual veere to every point of the compass "with every blast lhat blows.” But yet we cannot flnd words strong enough or upaee large enough to express our amazement at thi* 9altatory teat of tergivereation when we read the following admiaaion of the real condition of the country: ‘*It is too small and undefended to mainlain itself as an and representative government.” M e commend thi* statement to President CleveJand and Minister Blount, who but a shorl time ago were assured by this vereatile mountebank that it didn’t matter if they didn’t give us annexation the P. G. was strong enough and would mainUin it*elt for the next three yeare, and louger if necessary, until the Republican party swept Mes8rs. Cleveland and Blount off tbe face of the polilieal earth. and reiegated them to that poeition from whieh they nev«r wouid have been drawn if the Star and the Uonolulu annexationists could have their wiehe*. “Alaa! poor Yorick,” said Hami leL But Yorick wa* dead *nd tfais was merely a tribnt« to his i fiaithfutneas and consist«ncy. Th« Star man is alive, and y«t, w« aay » to him, “alaal poor Star,” to haTW i to jamp so qnickly and so imm«di- . ately the rererse of all previous » poeitions, and to have,to do thi* l not onee, but aix time* a week.

with foar week« and lome odd dava to th« month, at tbe bidding of * Mt of imheeile gapmg gawks of of tmkers. «oap-maken. Iedger-de-facers, pill-compounden>. law-l*ck-ing buIlocK-drivers. cattle-duffer» and otbers of that ilk whoee idea*_ of 8tate8manship are uot even as valuable of those of the thr«e taiiore of Tooley Street and whuee general behavi<»r pute one in mind of the wiee men of Gotham or Tyll Eulen8piegel. ‘‘Alaa! poor Star ” ‘*ConBistencj thy name, is woman,” a poet 33V3, but we think he would nowadays award the palm to the differentiated Smith (or perhaus to th« pen wnieh writes the Smith) who started out so bravely to run thii couutry to suit his idea8. but apparently has to get a new set every day. Yes, Starry Smith is back again at his editoriai de«k. We noticed it immediately wheu we read his paper last night and saw that he again had lo«t his gnpi>e —his grip on ge<igraphy. When he talka about Veueruela, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Cuba and such other sm ill countri«s whieh he in aize classifie8 with Hawaii, we don’t know if we should rather credit such classification to his formerly illiistrated ignorance of geography or to the ewelled head whieh seems to be •ueh a natural appendīx for any blatant, fullfledged Engli8h-born Auierican on tlie day following the fourth of July—a head whieh makea a country like Venezuela (of the size of the whole United States’ Pacific cost) look to him say hke Maui or Nicaragua (of the size of California) like Lanai. When he in auother eolumn, sings Ta-ra-ra-da-boom-da-a}* .in Sierra on the East coetof Africa, he simply repeats his old trick from the time when he shifted Kiel and Heligoland around and placed theai in a most my8terionsly impossible juxtaposition. Take no more quiniue and Kentucky, old man: plain soda with geography is your medicine now.