Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 119, 22 May 1894 — He Wakes Up. [ARTICLE]

He Wakes Up.

Mr. Alf-ed S. H.»rlw*,ll has pnl»1r<he<! i letter in the morniup “Bojier-l'ater’‘ in whieh he t«‘lis tbe word es|>eciallT tbe Hawuiian planters that he is in| f.»vor of innexat.ua, and tliat j evenbo<ly else with soraethiiij:! in tbe enu »<» , and poekei» (more »1 stinctiy Ihe l »tter( ought t > b*of the aame opiuion as he is. Mr. Hartvell has taken his timej in eominp oat one way or an othcr. Siuce the 17th of Janu«ry la93, l.e has kept a prudent j silencc. at d nobody reallv knew where lie vas. Now as annexation is u isolutely and totally duad, he braves puhlie opiuion aud publicly declares himself an annex«tionist, aud ready to s.»erifice tl»e inlependence of a eountry in whi<-h he has found profit, hospitalitv and a home. Mr. Alfred H. Hartwell does n"t appeai to the sentiiuent.s of the sons o: the soil. He doesn’t address hi;uself to the Americans who are struggling a!ong as clerks, mechanics or working meu. No, Mr. Alfred S. Hartwell doesu t know these different cl«sses—they couldn’t pay him a fee—and ho therefore pens his advice to Ihe capitalists and the planters. *'e tells that sugar interests will be way up if we get anne\ed. Ho adraits that the penal contrnct labor isbad, very bad, \nd tkat it has to be abandoned if Hawaii becomes a state or a terri(orv in the Union. He doe.sn t say one word about his paying (325. a share for Hai ku sngar •>tock, and ho doesn’t ieli us that he is anxions to uu load biraseif of those shares and invest his money in American railro«d l ouds. The planters will coincide with Mr. Hartwell. Most of tbem are vorv partial to jH3nal contract labor, and raost of them wero exoeediogly amused, when the ex judge and ex «ttorney goneral speouIated in Baldwin’s stock. The Chinese and Jap anese Iabor here is necessarynnd that necessity kills all hojies of annexation for goo»l uiul ever. in commenting on Mr Hartwell's letter,the A lvertiser st.»tes that the jilaaters inust have astable governmen , and that an in lependent repu‘}lic in Hawaii nevor will bj stible. This is truly en cour »giug as commg from an official j>ajw wliieh has fatbeied nnd j>rorao ed the convention tliat is tofraaudand forra an independcnt re inhlie forthis conutrv. Mr. C. R. Bishop, besides manv im rabers o the present governmtrat, and .» nuraber of our leading merchnnts have solemnlv t«ld the Araeriosn m-wspHj»ers that a rci;ublic was au impossibilitv in Hawaii. They have given their re.»sons —and most of them were very sōund aud sensible. Thev are now endorsed by the Advertisur aud by thegreat legal luminary Mr. Al‘red S. H »rtwell. He tells them tbat s ilvation is only be fuun«. in «nnexation, aml he ! fts )»Is warning voice against an indej>endent repub!ic subjeot to aminal rcvolntions, to act ons of tillibnsters, ami to eternal intern »1 strife and disorder. The ex ju»lge, e\-general, ex-Attorney Oeneiai doesn’t want a republic here. He will rather go to W«shingtou (with « saiary) and | work foran iexation. He is not« ! very pronotmced fool, and in this | instance hi knows what be is taiking about Bat he does not realize that annexation is «n impossibility is long as the Hawaii«ns will i.ot sanction it or approve of it and tho Hawaiians witb tbeir frieods wili never join iu a scheme thatdeprives tbem ofi their indepeQdeuce and of self-| goverumeat. With mll due res-! pect to tfae planters and to Mr. ; H«rtwell, we believe that the stn-

timents, tbe will and the d«»irr* of tbe Hawaii«ns most be eons I- ! ered more than even tbose of Mr Haiiwell. whose only elaim to: recognition that he in a weak moment paid $325, fof a sogar stock of whieh $100 was par. If the independent re; nhlie is di n-. gerons tn tbe planters. and eaieiei thera, the Advertiser and Mr. Al fred S. Uartwell unoasine«s, wby don t they join the sensible p-ir-1 tion of the coramanity and resU rc the Monarchy, nnder whieh the planters l>ecaiue raillionaires. the Advertiser owners bapj>y and }Ir Alfred S. Hartweil, a judge (w tl. $5.000 a year), an Attoruey-G**n-eral fwith $5,000 a year),and tbe j prond owner of Haiku stock at ! $325 a sh;<re.