Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 76, 16 December 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

We reprint*(J yesterday froin the San Francisco Chronicle of the 28th of November an article he:ided Liliuokalani 8 statement and the ieference to t!ie ]>aper from wkieh we -»ok it \v;is inadvertentJy dropj>e«i »at, whereby an impression \ created that tbe articlew>> writien by us. We 'I»ublished it .» a fine sample of the tono of the jiug> press belonging to the republican party, wliieh is now asing the fair and honest :;ction of President Clcveland in restoring the Qaeeu as a grmind :of attack against ihe pres**nt a«l iduistration. Tho etfects of tln att-.cks are not felt by Pr rsidont Cleveland and bis cabim‘t. Ho has, and always wiH, acb d np to the reputation whieh h > wi-lom, justice, and bouesty lias cre ited for him—that of being tbe greatest and truest of Ameiie »ns living. We ca f n)t sufficiently and strongly euongh nrge onr friends to contiuii iu their |>eaceful and dignified attitnde adopted and preserved by iheiu during the woary months of suspense whieh have gone ; >y. and sorely tried the patien.- - f rdl loyal Hawaiians. 8inco the President’s niessago h is b>>«n inade known, there cani;ot heen any doubt in the roiuds of aaybody that the day is near. wheu llawaii will be released fr>m the hold of foreign filibusters, who either used that imheeile statesmen John L. Stevons as a tool or were used as tools bv him. «/ We «dvise every loyal citizen to quietly await tbe steps whieh Miuister Willis nudoubtedly is instrnoted to tuke. The insults aud outrages committed by such a class of inen as AttorneyGeneral .Siuith und Marsbal Hitchcock shou!d be quietly ig nored. lf simi1ar outrages as the one j>erpetrated hist night on a Jianxiiia n, Johu F. Colburn, are repeated ou any fore.gner, our »dvice is V» irumediately eall on tbe diplomatic representative of bis nutive Iand and request offieial assist inee iu getting redress. Wo eannoi prevent the authorities from making foo!s of themeelves. Tuoso whom the Gods desire to destroy, they generally make crazy. The ridicule with whieh Marshal Hitchcock has covere»l hims»-lf by taking the steps he did last night, and insulting peaceful Ux j»ayers, will only hurt him and his j»arty. ln spite of thc scvei>e lesson received sometime ago iu his “j>ef’ eon6piracy case against 8inciair, Crick, and Walker, it hasevident- % ly uot yet kad tke desired effect »nd he is ag«īn l;stening to ihe , irresjx>u.sible buramers who are beiug fetl by tbe Minister of Finance oot of tbe taxj>ayers, jnoney. That be will ron his head against a wall and be mulet < heavilv in daiuages for bis ! childish absord actions is j i oatural, andr%f ke thinks tbat he i

| will escape suck a pecaniar\‘ paoisbment, ke is veiy maek mistaken. Whv, may we ask, skooId the Queen s snpjK>rters and the people loyal to Hawaii arui themselves and secrete weapons and ammonition? Why in heaven’s name skonld tke Royalists eonspire or plot for the overthrow of the P. G. ? Has not President Cleveland oj>enly and officially stated th/it he has instructed the Atnerican Miuisterto Hawaii Mr. i A- S. Willis to restore the Hawaiian Governroent iu the status as it was prior to the 17tb day of Jannary? Has not the American Minister Mr A. Willis oj>enly declared that he will aliow no disturbances to take plaee. and that he will promj>tly eheek any breach of the peaee, and punish the perpetn»tors of such disturbance? Is it not evident that tbis government will have to surreuder, and tb»t Clevelaud’s declared policy will bo carried out. even if i'; takes every citizen in the United St»tes to do it? W hy then sbould tue Royalists, bother theraselves. i»nd plaee themselves m jeopardy? No, Mr. Marshal, there is no armiug going on in Honoluln or else\vhere araōng the loyal people. The P. G. has a porfect monopoly on the privia lege of makiug asses of themselves, and nobody except the the United Stutes will interfere witb them. A more absurd “cOnspiracy” as Marsbal Hictbcock calls, it bas not eome to our knowledge yet. A posse of j>olice officers snrround the house of Mr. Colburn at nigbt, wake him aml his family up and search his j>remises —and find nothing except a few rifles, whieh Mr. Colburn bas j>ossessed for years and whieh any man of bis means is ver>' likely to possess. Not a trace of *‘arms and ammunition” whieh some lying spy claimed to have seen being brougbt into tbe residēnce of Colburn. Not a scintiila of any evidence of any conspiracy or j>lot being batched, as far as Colburn is concerned. Rut lo, and behold, a haek drives out from the residence of Mr. A. P. Peterson late in the evening, and another of the M»rshars speci»l j>ets immediately smells treasou aud takes the haek and it8~occnpants toihestation house, \vhere of conrse no charge was brougbt agaiust anybody. The truth-telliug spy says, of conrse, that he saw a “box” in tbe h a e k and even gets it down to so fine a point that he knows the lengtb of it. Then the box disappears from sigbt and Mr. Cavenagh who isfonndiu tbe haek is looked at in a most suspicious manner by the marshai, and “ordered to report this morning at tbe station honse,” an “order” whieh we have no doubt was not complied witb. Mr. Peterson’s hoase was not searched probabty because be is »n Ameriean citizen, 6nt tbe plot deej>ens «ccording to tbe brilliant idea of marshal Hiieheoek, and he hears about a Iargo RoyaIist meeting at the residence of Jobu A. Cam m i ns : H i s spy tells him that “all ligbts were put out when his presence outside on the street was known’’ May be that the ligfats were pnt ont, but, what, becausē of the royalists? They were eridently

not “put out’’ b*tcaose ire do not hear of any body learir.g the darkened premises? AUhough we have a very poor opiuion of the intelligence of Mr. Hitchcock. we ean harvlly imagine that even he believes it possible that royalists- -wicked as they are ean mount a broomstick and sail ont through the chimney. And so far tbe royalists haven't eome yet frora Cammins honse. Then as a further proof of the hideous conspiraoy whieh act as a night mare on the marshal and hia spies, Parker, Peterson and Wilson, were seen in serious conversation on Kaahnmanu street yesterday. and whenever a spy passed by, they didn t talk anv state secrels. Now that looks bad, we will admit. What business those gtntlemen bave to speak tog<-ther at all, we do not understand, but for them not to speak up when the inarshal s spies pass by is rearfly mean. Of oourse anv sane persou would expect Messrs Parker, Petersuu i und Wilson to select a pnblic street for plotting. and planning conspiracies. That they would adjonrn to a private house aud do their talking there woukl not be reasonable to believe. In the future we trust that these geutlemen will aet with more consideration for the Marshal’s nerves, and lelephone to hiiu whenever they have some private business to talk over. And this is all the bonspiracy whieh there has been, aud the morning organ congratulates the Marshal for having “nipped it in the bnd” while that astnte offieial full of pride says that he determined to stop all such p!ots. The whole business looks like an attempt of the government to create a row. Let us warn them that if they succeed as far as the loyal citizens are concerned, that they run an erainent risk of butting against the tlags whieh float over the great vessels lying iu our port. The business of laet night was a pnt-up job. Since the puhlication of Juen's affidavit in regard to«the other conspiracy, the truth of whieh has never been denied, the city is prepared for anything as far as Marshal Hitcbcock is concerned. An official wbo will connivo at such u dastartlly aflair will not hesitate in going fnrther in his eflbrts at damaging and iujuring his poliiieal opponents. The foetid Sraellfangus who currently contributes the editoriai mush in the columns of that ephemeral, decrepit, and proximately evanescent relic of bust-ed-up San Diego jonroalism known as the Star cails somebudy' whom he appears to believe edits this paper a “jail-bird book-keeper.” Of course tuis is a malicious lie, as neither the present, nor the former editor, 1 uor as far as we know any eonductor of this paper. has had at 1 anv tirae auy eiaim to tbe oppro- 1 brious epitbet now couferred on J ns by the imported thing, we • cannot say geutleman, even in sarcasm, as no one wonld know whom we referred to, who rnns the evening disgrace to journ- . aiism referred to. bnt we imagine tbat when penning his little 1 screeds, be must hare been thinking abont his friends of the * P. G. army and ihe annexation

clnb, and unconscioosly transferred their description to the person he was writing about. But as with singular felicity ho has 5nvariable damr.ed his own s:de eternally, notwith faint praise. but with hi» extraordinary f<*culty ol giving everytbing ita wrong name, and publi9hiiig faise slanders or damagsng information to his pavty at exactly the momenl whea it would do them the moat hartn, we congratulate ourselves on knowing that eve;i bis own side have now >*uch remari£able faith in his prescience that they at onee elevate to a pedest.il of honor any one lhat he atucks. and believe ex »ctly ihe opposite of any inf>rmation that he prints. We ahall not thercfore ret»liate by descnbing his own status bul will simply nsk him toconvcrse with twoof the lcading Vice-Presidents of his favorite association and ask them why anvthing that they are eonuected with shonldn’t style anvbody (even if intruthfully) jailbirds for fear of gettiug the usual annexatiouist reply of “You ’re another” flnug in their teeth. Good-bye, dear! A raule’s ex piring spnsms are as eflective as your flannel-mouthed vocabulary ou decent people.