Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 2, 19 September 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

S >metime g • the Star j.ublishe<i »n a!ieg-d int*rvn*w wilh one «>f Mr. S*; recke!» employees. (nr<-ba-bly t!ie b>ttle washer on the Auetr.ili«.» in whieh it w;ie a s ?erted that the Col<-n»*l had (ir.>j>p**d out 0 f Hawaiian j«»litic8, thal he had seen h>t> mi«t «ke in ojijx»sii'g the V. G. t ai.d thatdj** had traneferred bis H iwaiian pr«>j>erty f>r fear of conti'Cation. We puhlieh to-day an interview whieh a repres>enta;ive • f the Siin Franci9CO Call had with the Ooi.mel, ai.d m whieh Mr. Spreckela ej>eak9 nl)out llawaiian %tluirs in the m -st unmistakable langUMge. The apjx>intmeut of Mr. Elli» Mil!s to be Consul-General here bas mad>: the Star man feel billious ,nd he requests the l’. G. to refuse to accej>t Mr. Mil:s, and promĪ8e3 to give reasons why such actiou should be t*»ken. The St ir editor reminds very forcibly «>f the frog whieh, at one time. «ttempted V> blow himself uj> t>> the «:ze of a buli>.ck. A few d..ys ag > the Star s.iid that the P. G shouid refuse to have an taken here, even jf the United States should dem«nd eiieli a measure; and now he wants the government t»> take the very nnueual step of refusiug to accej>t a Consul-General especially selected aml 8|>ji«>iiite.i «» the m>*st e it>ble raan f>r th«* |>h«ee. lt is f>rtunate f>>r the l’. G. that it has ,t its head so s.g icious a man as Mr. Hatch. If so.ne «>f tbe siualler fry. built «>1i the liues of the Star editor, w«*re holdīng th«- helm <>f the shij> of st:«te his ndvice might be listened to aiul actep npon, and then —well tlie frog burste«l.

Oar 8cLntillating eveu5ng eontemporary, the anoexation eluh mouth-pioce, has beeu liit h-nl iu a soft spot by the news uf tho determiniition of tbe l uiteil 5>t;itt s Government to hohl a plebiscite on the form «>f Gt)vernment for Haw>ii nei, and it thro»s down the gauntlet to Ihe Unitetl States, and annouuces th«t no vote ean be takeu without tbe consent of the provisional govern:nent. The fnct that president Cleveland and his advisers w >nt the expression of th€

popnlar voice in llawaii upon this snbject, oonclnsive1y sbows that they do not believe the oft and loud!v reiterated protestations of Th«rston aud his crowd <,1 satellites, that the people of Hawaii are largely in favor of «nuex»tion. The Star mnn. as well »s all the contributors to his veekly salarv know well tbat the tesult of sncb a enll for tbe pop«lar opinion, will l>e almost unannuouslv in f«vor of the reStorat»on uf the Queeu to the Ihnme fn>m whieh she was reKOV evl by a superannnated eipreacber. for the purvH>s© f>£ giving tbe eb>ct of the cbnrch an®tber gn«b at tbe tax-payers iooney.

As the »ppomtment of a new )finister aml Consul O«ner*l to Hauiiii ean b« construetl in no ctber vr.v tu»n an officwl n >tice

that annexation is dead, is it not time for the P. G. anl its moming and evening gas-bags to shut up shoj>. and grace{ul«> retue into obliviou m company with their patron saint, John L.. and his t«a-service' Private advices received yesterday from Wasbington by a prominent gentleman bere coulirm the Chwniele report in regar.l to the taking of a j>lebescite in Hawaii nnder American suj>ervision. That sach would be the ultimate result of the gituation here, we have alwavs fully believed, and when the H»n. Neumann in his «>pen letter to Mr. Dole urged the g>.vernment to voluntarily adopt the measure we wt-re wn vinced, that the d.«y waS coming neur when the P. G. would have t > Ewallow the bitter pill and appears in its true colors bef«jre the eyes of the world as being an uouruing g>ivernment supported by only a amall miuority Mr. Neumann is not iu the habit of wasting his time or his ink by rush;ng into print, and writii:g about something whieh he knows nothing about. And the implied jirophecy whieh was contained in his open letter was andersto«d and appreciated by the intelligeut porti>>n of the community, while >nly a few rabid annexationist8 led by their chief «>f Star fame, refused to beiieve thc lK>ssibilitv of the United States establishing in Hawaii through balh>ts a free government of the people by the people und f< r the j»eople. i They hoped against hope. and kept on dreaming about perm«nenl power and permanent g<>vern- ’ ment pap. The awakening is now ? to eome, and for t’.ieir ow.i s .kes we ? sliould advise them to take their ? medicine with good grace n<ther r than having it rammed down their r throats to the rausic of the eanJ nons on the York;owu, Charleston. 1 and Philadelphia, —and then we ■ should suggest that they get their l 7,000 voters from the annexation eluh ready to cast their ballots.

Mr. Arthur Johnstone, the editor of the P. C. Advertiser and the truthful correspondent for the Associated Press, calls the Hawaii Holomua an iutiAmerican joornal. and s<iy< that it will figbt Amerioais. We would now like to know if Mr. Johnstone of the P. C. Advertiser, etc., coosiders hiraself an Amenean? Since the receipt ol the newsby the China. aud the Star man gxowling, it is amusiug to nott that this is the first occasiou Mi. Joh ustono of tbo Advertiser hat sbown any sense—he has kepi his mooth shut.

Mr. Thur9toi»’s offer to tbe manaz**raept of tbe, Caiiforma Mid-wint*-r Fair to have the Hawaiīan Nalional Band give a >ribim anee” to-raorrow nighl for the beuetit of the Fair is a fresh pn»of of ihe impudence of th’e pet of the R«form Party. It is possible, of o>ur»e, lhat he siraply was imposed on by Mr. George 0. Beckley who, with his well-deve!oped fund of conceit. might have promised evervthing impossible and j>erhapf has made it appear as if hehadthe s!ightvst inAuenee «mong the Hawaiian» here, Mr. Thurston. who undoabt?d!y makes a firstclass adv*nce agent fur any traveling circus, will be disappointed;

but, 33 Mr. Ikeiley was to!d, it t~ raihtr Iate in the <iay f«'r th p»triot3 to show tbeīr love :■ r thr Hawaiians by getting tbe bar.*iboys on a j‘jnketit.g exptditiou tor the sole benefit of the p»»ciPts of the 8lcckbolders iti ihe rhuret<’!i dime iuuseum. Tne īhow by the way doesn't seem to be a great 3uccess. t’t course tve have heard a great deu. abv>ut a dividend cf 30 per c*-nt. being declared, bnt, although that S ound3 big. it is a very poor showing. People taking stocka in a eoaeem like the Cyclorama Company naturally de9ire to get their eom back besidt - 3 a profit, but when the show is over, the pro }«rly of the company isn’t worth anything, so all that the share hoiders will see will be ♦ 'O. (if it ever is paid) for eaeh #100 inveēted. lt may be good tinanc.ering (good for Thurston) and it may even be financiering on the Damonie plan, but we fear that the deludf*d men who took ?tock in Tburston, and his show will not rush into the show-bu8iness in a hurry again. In the meaulime, Mr. Thurston will draw his mimsteri ii salary. besides travelling expenses, and snap his fing«rs at the stockholders in all the differeat companies to wh'.oh he hasacted as promoter, and then he will sing with Heywood: Let the world glide, let the world ?o! A for care, »nd aHg for woe! lf 1 can't pay, why, I ean owe And death makee eqtial the high and low.

The news that cholera hafi bru'*en out on the Atlantic coast at Jersey city, is of more than ordinary momenl t<) Hawaii, owing to the comparatively short time rrqmeite for direc f communication between Uonolulu and the intected c tv. If cholera should ever gain a loothold in this country il would be far more deadly than either amall-poi or meaalea have proved to lre. and onee let it appear, the qutstion of anuexation or no annexation will fade away and bt merged into a plan of repopulatiug thcse fertMe isies. The Board oi Heallh shouid awake to thegravitj of the situation and take energeti( measures to prevent the glightcsi p >ssibuity of contagion. Assuredi\ liie life of the whole comrr.unity ii of roore moment than whether thi Port Pbysician shall be an annexa tionist or aroyalist—either wili do if )ie be a eompelen», energeti mtn. and noi an antidilu\i.u fossil.