Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 75, 15 December 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Star of yesterday evening contains an assertion tbat the Provisional Government has prepared an n1timatum to be handed to the C. S. representative in case he annonnces that Lis government insists on replacing government atfairs here in the alaiuH qno ante Janaary 17th 1893. This uUimHlum it is asserted will defy tlie L T uited States aud its forces. and anuonnces the unaUenhle determination of the P. G. to stick to its guns—and its salaries. Can any ono imagine auyihiug raore idiotically bombastic than this anuouncement? Fancy! Eighteen shopkeepers, attorneys, and graziers, announee that they and their 150 men in buckram hired from amongst the lowest scaliawags in the floating scum of the Paeilie wiil boldly stand up behind their saud bags uuder the direction of the valiant Col. Soper of bricks attd straw notoriety, and the Southeru California land speculating Attorney General (leamed iu tlie law) W. O. Smith, aud dofy the military and naval forces of tho greatest llepuhlie or eartb. \e Gods!! Ajax defviug the lightuing isu't a circumstauce to it. Just picture to yourselves the gallant (if thickheaded and acquisitive) Colonel, aml the iutelligent (if unsuccessful) AN. O. boldly secreted behind a double pile of sand bags and yelling “go on, my brave meu, we, your gallant leaders will remain behind these bags aml plan how to escape if you are unsuccessfui in annihilating unele Sam’s troops. We will pray for your success and so will the other old women of the

party. Remember you are getting $40 ‘i monih and grub, to get shot at. and go and get shot. We stay here.” Our most brilliant tiights of fancy fail to carry as any farther except to imagine the only Stellar, and his ‘•proiuiuent physician” embracing eaeh other as closely as their protuberances will allow and w©epingly confessing that $40 a month on sach terms woald be too great a reward even for their oowardice to accept. Yah.'” tbe picture is sickeniug. The Advertiser states this iaorning that tbe friends of the P. G. must “stand by it” aud “meet the crisis.” Oue of them yesteirday whose mone\-raising schemes tho revolution defeated declared “he was sick of it. no more for him.” Auother who had his traveling expenses paid by it said ‘that settled him, no more annexation tothe United 8tates for him.” Many more of tbem are of the same mtnd Their hired men are willing draw tbeir pay, wear out their clothes, and eat their grnb, but that is ail. Life is sweeter than the memory iu auother world of ; haviug drawn $40 a month and !

getting shot by the U. S. forces for not surrendering on demand. The only friends (if you ean eall tbem so) that the P. G. has : are those who realize that while “dressed in a little brief autbor- , itv” they have behaved them»elves so as to feel in their own minds ineapahle of ever being ! pardoned by the victims of their cowardly spite and babyish tyranny. We always admire newspaper I enterprise, and we have certainly [ nothing to say against the Star for securing the papers whieh contained the message of the President from the Revenue Cutter Corwin; but we are inelined to think that a very irregular course was adopted by someone on board the e itter in allowing a paper to be given to a poliiieal loeal journal, and at the same time refusing any inforraation or any puper to be handed to the loeal jouruals of an opposite poliiieal stripe. The paper from whieh the Star printed the President’s message was dispatched in a private boat from the Corwin to the Philadelphia by a sailor on board the Cutter and was then taken to the Star oflice. A special dispatch-boat should not be a mail carrier—but we have no doubt that the Admiral will investigate and properly punish those connected with this matter. — Mr. J. L. Stevens the dilapidated journalist from tue hamlet called Keunebec who, because he was a schoolmate of Mr. Elaine, was rewarded by politically oflices, and succeeded in raakiug a frightful mess of eveiything is out iu print in a feeble attempt at answering Blount. It is a great pity that the Star does not take courage, and print in £ull the evidence of Mr. J. L. Stevens whieh is to prove the “disreputable character” of J. F. CoIburn, C. L. Hopkins, A. P. Peterson and Dr. Trousseau. We pray the annexation organ to eome out with everything whieh tho old dutfer has said against the men mentioned, aud we are prepared to guarantee to the organette all immunity

from libel suits or arrest from any of the persons slandered by the man who has proven himself a failure when he represented America in Buenos Ayres, a fool and a ignoramus when he held the same office in Stockholm, Sweden, and an unimitigated scoundrel when he got a ehanee to get in his deadly work on Hawaii nei. And for eaeh word whieh he may say against the men referred to in comparison with the three paragons Dole, Thnrston, and Waterhonse, we shall bring forward snfficient evidence to eternally damage fhem, and show what they are. An esteemed correspondent has a few lines in this issue whieh ! ean be read and we hope digested with some advantage by W. O. and others.