The Liberal, Volume I, Number 46, 18 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

INFORMED.- It is a mistake to suppose that the American Government at Washington is not well informed about Hawaiian affairs. In all the published opinions of American statesmen, several things are taken for granted that they are not supposed to be informed of till the alist commission has been heard the capital. That the natives are reverse to annexation is accepted as a fact, and that American forces infered as a metter of course. personages have said frankly in the Hawaiian question Amerwould consider only her own rests; that they will annex the ntry first and consider the grieves of the kanakas afterwards, etc/ eticans are inclined to be candid in diplomacy. It looks as if administration at Washington for a long time been watching with a view to stepping in at favorable opportunity and takpossession of what they have all considered as an American ny, and virtually American property. It is almost certain the American Minister and American Government were in complete rapport ing the many months the subject been developing. It is even likely that foreign governments, particularly England, have sounded on the subject and something approaching an underding reached. The only reining responsibility of a hitch in proceedings is that the people politicians of the East may not approve of the course of the Gov-

ment. These same missionaries the Eastern States are in their country great sticklers for the rights of man. The niggers, lo, the prior Indian, and all other downtrodden and inferior races are special objects of solitude to the sentimentalists of New England. The spirit of philanthropy that made them abolitionists and caused them to send missionaries to Polynesia and every remote corner of the globe to spread the gospel light and save souls, will, if aroused, take a most stubborn stand against anything that would look like depriving the natives of their rights. The missionaries of New England might turn out to be the strongest enemies of the missionaries of Hawaii if for sentimental reasons they should insist on the consent of the Hawaiian people before annexation. Under some circumstances Hawaiians might seek annexation, but the action of the party of the Provisional Government has made them a unit against it. The people of the West are less afflicted with sentimentality and are of a mind to take the islands without superfluous ceremony. THE DISAFFECTED.-Many of the staunch supporters of the preadministration are freely expressing their dissatisfaction about the failure to bring about the reforms that have been the object of the political movements of the last two years. They say that the table of monarchy has not yet been cleansed. That the house is still controlled by the same corrupt crowd that manipulated Wilson for their own ends. They say that Kenyon, Dickie Davis, Captain Tripp, and the like are the constant companions and confidential advisors of the new Marshal. They say that the Marshal makes it a virtue not to discharge the men who rendered the Marshal's office to the public. They say that the native police of Wilson's appointment are ready to knife the new Government at the first opportunity, and that they encouraged English sailorsin what promised to be a serious . The spy and traitor Nawaakea has actually been under the new chief. They say that Mer is to be

made Deputy Marshal again by lodge influence. They say lodge and family influence are the only things that have or will be considered in making appointments. The Provisional Government is certainly cultivating a numerous crop of enemies, a part of which they are nursing in office, the rest that they are making out of their friends. The Drei Hundred are about the only class that are not kicking. I reluctantly accept the conclusion that the same old official class is to remain dominant under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. CONTEMPT OF COUNCIL. - The event of the week in interest to the public has been the arrest of the ostensible editor of the Holomua and the hearing on a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Frear of the Circuit Court. The majority of the Council were in favor of proceeding with him summarily while the hearing of the writ was pending, but the views of Smith, Damon and Dole finally prevailed and the court was allowed to have jurisdiction of the matter. The gentlemen named have an unmoderate respect for the forms of law, the utility of which they know by experience. But my sympathies are with the majority of the council who believed the implest way the best

way. The punishment for comtempt is necessarily summary. Of the justice expediency of efforts to restrict the liberty of the press I have grave doubts. It is certainly exasperating to be nagged and by persons who skulk behind a wretched straw man. But speech and thought are no more to be controlled than the wind, and it is futile to attempt to check them by authority. The Government and Council can be brought into contempet and disrepute only by their own acts. They fungoid press does not express and is powerless to modify public opinion. PROTECTORATES - The word protectorate was first used in polities when Cornwell was High Lord Protector of England. Later it was applied to cases where a nation or alliance of nations undertook protect a weaker country from its external enemies. The latter is its legitimate meaning at the present time. But it has also been applied to cases where a foreign power undertakes to protect and sustain any particular king, prince, or government in power. This kind of protectorate in an invention of the British Government. It is a mode of operation used to serve and paliate the unbounded greed of English and the highwayman among nations. A number of native princes in India and elsewhere are "protected," not out of pure benevolence as they would have us believe, but for the profit of English shopkeepers and placemen. A protectorate in such cases means that British "Resident" resides at the capital, and dictates to the nominal head of the government in all matters whatsoever. The English representative will say who are to be ministers, who are to be appointed to the various posts, what the laws are to be and how the revenues are to be raised and used. The Prince or Governor becomes an ornate automaton, the strings of which are manipulated by the foreign minister. Of course a garrison of British troops is maintained in a protected country for the security of life and property. A protextorate of this description seems inconsistent with the spirit of American institutions. THE SHOOTING. - The man who shot a policeman while resisting an assault with a club is entirely justifiable. The use of a club to assault an innocent man is sufficient provocation to justify him in defending

himself as best he may. No charge should he made against him. The native policeman is a menace to public tranquility. A FRIEND OF THE CAUSE - A gentlemen who signs himself "FRIEND" in this morning's Advertiser gives the new Marshal some sound and pertinent advice. It is not a fine and independent thing to keep in Wilson's minions and sycophants as Kenyon and the rest would have the Marshal believe, but just vulgar meaness tinged with treachery to the men who have worked and taken risks for the sake of reform. They are only a few good men on the force now, to wit, Capt. Klemme and the night patrol recently appointed. They know their duty and do it. But Kenyon steps in and receives recognition as being more creditable that a trusted officer. The patrol cleared the streets of a dense and riotous mob that the native police were powerless to disperse, and arrested one man for interfering with an officer in discharge of his duty. Mr. Marshal at the instance of Kenyon. Tripp, Dickie Davis, etc. sets himself up

as a Judge to try the case. Kenyon appears as an advocate of disorder against an officer because the officer used to be the political opponent of the station house gang in Wilson's time. The man was discharged, which was in effect a reprimand and insult to an officer for doing his duty when prompt and courageous action was required. Marshal Ashley and his new found satellites could do nothing with the threatening mob on King street. They didn't know what to do. Captain Klemme stepped in and disposed of the difficulty in short order. Being more competent than his superiors will not recommend him to their favor. The time has passed when the Marshal may try or hear any charge. That is the function of a magistrate, and when a man is duly charged with an offence, the only thing for the Marshal to do is to take him before the Police Court. Any other course is illegal and a breach of duty. Wilder yesterday called on Hopkins to make an arrest though there were plenty of good men of the Provisional Government near. We hear of exDeputy Marshal Mehrtens making an arrest at the door of the Station House. When men of that class are discharged, even by a revolution, they seem to be in it just the same -Barnacles! A Charmer. Her smile is full of grace. And loveliness Nor charms alone of face Does she possess For such an ankle men May seldom view She stoops to conquer She ties her shoe. Philander Hannah's Way. She has a kind of a sort of a way. A sort of a kind of a manner, A kind of a sort of an every day, Yet a pooty way has Hannah The way she tangles and tosses her head An her bangles out, While her mouth puts on a a smile an a pout No other girl i'd rather have, No other girl I'd rather On account, an because or things SortAn' one thing an' another She has a sort of a kind of a way. A sort of a kind of a manner. A sort of a way that you can't say. But a way yon cats feel has Hannah. An' her laugh is so sweet, an her eyes is so bright. An' her ways an her talk so cute. An' she has such a way that you can't say, But a kind of a way to suit. I hain't got no flow er langwidge to tell Hat she beats ev'ry girl-ev'ry otherOn account, an' because er things sort, An' one thing an' another. -Sam Walter F the Yan Jig-dancing music is the kind that reaches the sole. -Yenders Statesman.