Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 7, 9 January 1894 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Advertiser with its usoal j ingennity b*s finally found the , cause fōr all the opposition among the Hawaiians to the P. : G., and to the annexation cause. It is all on account of Hawaii; Ponoi, our naiional nuthem, »nd the morning organette deman<ls, an imraodiately change in the words of that time-honored aong. The new version given by the Advertiser will hardly be udopted, and we therefore take the liberty to substitute some | wonls whieh we submit to the I kind consideration of all loyal ‘ HawaiianH who are to be for- ; bidden to sing tbe anthem of 1 tbeir native land. How is this brother Castle? HAWA.1I POXOI HOC. Pukaha Hawaii, Kipi i ka lahni, Na welo mikanele, Na Pi Gi. luo ka ia o, la Kolekaaka, Pule i ku naui, Me ka uahoa. The minister of finance eaunot say that we over have hesitatcd or refused in helping Jiim in his struggle to save the financial situatiou of tho countiy. We now give him an idea whieh we hope that he will immediately ael upon—not alone for tho benefit of the treasury ; but also for tho benefit of the general puhlie. The idea is not origiual, for we borrow itfrom Maukato (Kas.). If adopted hero what a field would be opened for the senior eaplaiu —if he is musical enough to know tho difforence botween “After the Ball” aud “The Maui Girl.” “Mankalo (Kas.). December 16. —The Cih- Council, to incroaso the depleted fuuds of the city treasury, last eveuing passed unanimouslv an oulinauoo making it a uuisauce for any pei*son, , man, woman or child, to hereafter whistle or sing “After the | Ball” between the hours of 6 a M. and 10 P. M. The otfeuse is punishable with a fiue of 50 cents for eaeh performance.” T. J. V. in last night’s Star has quite au interestiug article iu whieh ho describes a visit to a | oertain governmont institution in i Hawaii. lf he hadu’t specified the plaeo ho wect to we would lmve lieon intdined to believe that he had visited our learned ' legislative couuci!s and there ! fouud the well doveloped cases of i Magalomania and Dtjke eloquenee. I | M.nister Damou ought to be ! complimented on the fervor with ! whieh he carries out tho iustructions of tbe Advisory Councils in ! regurd to dismissal of ofticials ! whoso loyalty to the Provisional Governnient ts doubted. Mr. Damon ostensibly oppose<i the resolutiou. but he is nevertheless 1 the only miuister who has gone to work on it and “turuetl the rascn)<i out. Even the mesaenger of the Eiuanee office! was sacrificed by the ardeut financial, because he refusod to i oarry arms agaiust his own eonn- i try or against the United ijUtes. Mould it uot be iuteresting to have an investigatiou as lo the loyalty of the members of the j Execulivo Oouneil, and put the ■ same questious to them as they ' proposed to thoir subordiuates' t Let us ask Messrs DoIe, Damon, | and King if are ready to !, shouider a gun and fire ou the i SUrs and Stripes, if the Chief i Executive of the United SUtes , order his troops to proceed | under that g)orions banuer | «gaiust the meu who havo usurp- !, ed the goverumentpI Hawaii by imsusing thut fiag thoei soldiersf Oenllemon. iho anuexation clnb, the Secret the Eehuluen Verein the

profierr<*d citizens. and the army ■ are anxk>osly waiting for an ■nsirer. and it sht>nld be giTCn witbont delay «nd wilhoni besitat:on. If il is in the neg*tive the tbree gentlemen should be | made to step out and then plaeea given to W. G. Smith, Tim Mnr-; ray. and Klemme, all Americans who presomably are ready to fire on the flag of the conntay whieh they eall tbeir own. We forgot ; Attoroey-General Smith, but then we all know that he wonldn’t fire nnder uo circumstances. He and P. C. Jones aod the rest ( of that ilk will assist the government by prayers, and tbey have chosen tbe wiser part, and it shall not be deprived tnera. , 5 T > judg>- from a correspomlence ! irt this morniug’s Advertīser, l I>rael has fallen into the bands of the Pbilistines. Of course it ; is dep!orahle tbat Ismel s boots ; bave been kuocked about and tbat tbe weapons of Israel have been : seized, but tben we dou t think that any scieutific gentlemen from tbe Vaterlaud shou!d make too maeh eapihal out of a new years frolic of four young biirsehen We have a eommunication on the same subject whieh has been iu our Lauds a week ago and whieh gives a diflerent version of the new year’s eelebration in the regions of Pole, but we don t consider the aflair of sufficient momeni to devote auy more space to it. Tbe Sfnr repeats tbe aneieni chestuut of the rovolutionists being the owners of ? 23.000,000 out of $3-4.000,000 of Hawaiian property. It forgets to say that these $3-4 000,000 represeut simply the nomiual value of the shares iu Hawaiiau corporations chiefly sugar plautations. That they represent ueitber the actnal nor the assessed value of these shares. That all of them are below par at present. And finally that even of the $23,000,000 of sbares caleulated by Mr. T. G. Thrum as held by Americans not all, by a large margin, are held by either auue\atiouists or supporters of the Provisional Government. Possibly the tax-asses-sor might enlighten tham as to tbe actual valne of the shares and enquiries araongst these stocko\vuers \voald show what a very small percentage are actually beld by ihiek aad thin P. G. adhereuts. Dou’t elaim everytbing Ameneau as on your side? You havn’t found it so, so far.