Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 38, 1 November 1894 — A CONUNDRUM SOLVED. [ARTICLE]

A CONUNDRUM SOLVED.

I “ ♦ I We heve in cnr la«t ifcsaes t-ikeu oociMtion t<» m**ntion the of Mr. Thaisl«>n who at the eipenH»» of the t«x-payers is , in iL;;.g a bii»lal toiir of Europe. j Tbe comraonity bas been some- j wbat pux7.1ed as to the trne reason I for tbis remarkable citravap;ance of a goTernment. whieh is nearly i bankrnpt, aml many gnesseshaTe j i heen ma»io in regard to tbe ! | ‘ whya” and ‘•when^o^ea’’ It basbeen soggestod that Mr. rhnrston was not a prr$ona gra(a | I in iVashington. and tbat it wonld be impoliiie to send him back to bis post. It has been insinnated that he j was too dict itorial and too offi cious to get a!ong in Hawaii as a Cabinet minister, *nd that the «drainistnttion w.is only t»JO glad to get rid of him. lt has been ra;nored, that he like Mr. Dole has ,, got’em and that his gigantic brains needed rest nnd nnder all circamstances it was understootl, that he is a pensioner of the Hawaiian I treasory because, he convonieutly got anotber attack of pneumonia wheu the heroes laid down their lives and bled for the cause, aud was abseut when the irrepressiblo ‘‘Americans-' in Ilawaii were ready to stand on the wbarf aml prevent blue-jackets from landing {ufter tho govern* meut had been officially notified that uo lauding would take plaee.) All theso suppositions, sug gestions, rnmors and insinuations nre wrong. The conandrum is solved in a mueh easier raanner. TLe Minister plenipotoutiary and envoy extraordinary fdccidedly so‘) and special labor eomraissioner travols with his wife to London for a purpose of his own. The Cyclorama is there! Ves, fellow-citizens, the dime museum is in London aud has on!y waited to ba opeued until the ahow-man lurns up. Tbe Hawawaiian Govornmeut, tbe immaeulate meu who eall thcmselves a cabinet havo 8anotioned the departure of an employee whodraws tho biggest salary iu the country under circumstances whieh plaee them and him in a most peculiar light. Tho labor qnestion is rot. Tho ministers knowas well as we do that there wasn't a ghost of a show for Thurstou to get laborers from England. And no one knows better than tho miuister of fiuanco that, if Portuguese laborers were to bo obtained Abraham Hofiuung is the on!y man in England, who ean get tbem. The government whieh is unable to bnild bridges and wharves, whieh hnrdly kuows whoro to go to borrow sufficient money to pay its hirelings, its soldiers and its spies. Whieh leavos tho conntry districts iu a most disgraceful. Whieh needs overy cent that the uuwilling tax-payers o«n dig up iu these hard times. That goverument, wo say. deiiberately sponds a large sum of money to allow Mr. L. A. Thurston and his wife io go to Loudon to run a show at whieh he wili be tbe mauager and she the cashier —«8 before. How long will soch iniqnities be t»derated? Can men like Hatch. King. Smith aud Damon look their follow-citizens in the face and dofond sucb inf.imous squaodering of tho hanl o .rued money of the people? Can m n like Jones aml C oko aud Murray aud other capitalists go on the rostrum and excose or defend sach ao outrage? We doubt it very mneh’ If tbere is any honor and any conscience left among the men who nm tbe republic let them notify Mr. Thnrston that he eitber mast earn his salary in Washiugton do:ng the dutv for whieh he is paid ot he mast resign and devotehis whole time to his dime mosenm or any otber private enterprise into whieh he feela inolined to go. lf he is allowed to stay at goverament expense in London runuing his cyclorama the govcrnment hcre becomes his aeceesory and if there is one honest man in the coming Legislatoro his voice wil! be he«rd iu denoonciog tho eomipi and iuiamooa condnct of the minuien wko sppear to be only toadiea to that mueh overrated “diplomat,” L. A. Thomon.