Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 149, 30 January 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

īh* 1 “Advert:ser" h.id an eJitorial thir m.»rning in whieh it siates that llie - i;>porter.' of the lat» government are c»-rtainly n*l t'» b« coneulte<i iu regarJ to the future orcli-r of thii in Ha.vaii nei. Ai the *!upp< rt<rs of the ra<>n«rchy include all the Hawaiiane and rnore than one-half< fthefore’gners in ihe country, the pr->ia'oition of the “Advertiser” to ignore thiō large majority indicates that it ie the inlenlion of the Fr visional Governinent to hold the reins of the government at all hazards and V) disfranchisp not alone the Hawauana. but if possible all who think otherwise ihan the Reform I Party does. The establishment ofan arrny, the eall f>r firearms in j>os•ession > f private persous, the eontmuance of the 'lartial Law, aud the armed Portuguese around the Alimlani Hale. all j>oint the same wav. We fully expect to see the Provieional Government declare this country an independent repuhiie ns soon as it receives news from the Thurston Commission that there is no show for annexation in any forrn. Such republic 1 will be established without any electoral authority being exercised by the people. and the present autocratic form of government will be c*outiuued ad infinitnm. Such j move might have been very feasible in ihe year 1693, but we hardly think that the little aeheme will work in 1893. The daya of disfranchising a nation of such a standi.ig in civilization as the Hawaiiane hoid are gone by and such a retrogade move would meet witli a deserved failure. Tlie “Advertiser” seems to despise the feelings or sentiments of the t ixpayers in the country districts, and sueers at Mr. C SneydKvunerslev'e letter in this morning’s issue. As the Reform Party aml the *‘Advertiser’ have been taught several times that they are in a hopeless minority in Honolulu. it is rather eool to inforui a prominenl planter in a prominent district that there are n*o mtentions j of consulting them as to how the country is to be governed. What if the j>eople finding that it is deprived of representatīon shou]d refuse taxation? It would be embarrassing. and we btlieve that the P. G. would find that the gallant colouels, maj>>rs, and tr«H>ps would drop their duty and gnns in very short order, if they find the tret.sury depleted and no pap forthooming. Wheu men like Kynnersley and Dr. Wight on Hawaii, Hugh Center on Maui. and the Gay-Sinclair family on Kauai. openly denounce the annexation eeheme and the aelion of the followers of the P. G. ihe “Advertiser” will find it a more* serious matter than ean be disposed off in a dosen linea of «ditoriai. Th« “Liberal” in it« Saturday ānue u pictonng the advantagee to us as a state into tbe Union. Bdore forther discufleing thi» #nbjeet we «oold like lo heve Mr. Aflhford etate plainly if he hooeetiy belterefl tLsi the aeheme le Aeeihle; if he reelly aeee eo moeh

advantage to the L nited Statee m annexing us that it will lead the great republic to break its established polit.c*l pnneiple», to eonquer and annex a country against the expressed wish of the people, to allow as Amenean citizens our select populalion of Chinese, Japaneae, and Portuguese coolies and las*. but not least. be sadd.ed wiih our deht. <>ur lcpers. and our missionaries Mr. A-hf)r>l describes in a lucid iriani'.er the disadvaut;-.ge' and dis- | aster' of a terrilorial governmeut, but he neverthele88 advocates that we shou!d toierate sucn governrnent for a period "1 say five years, if we therebv c>>uid be admitte<i ae a State. He suggest8 that we shouid make certain conditions in r> gard lo eueh territorial g.>vernment, and that seems to us to show the weakneaa of our cause in Washington. Wby in the name of furtune should the U. S. allow us to niase conditions when it ia we who eome as the petitioners. Whv sbould we be considered in a matter whieh the U. S. virtually has to settle by force and not by a voluntary concession on our part. What are the U. S. gaining by ho.sting their fiag over this country ? Revenue ? Certainly not as the whole revenue uf the country is not sufficient to pay our running expense. A naval station? They have got that now and in a mueh fairer and cheaper manner. Exlensiou of territory ? Hardly, as they have ample of that and to suare. What are then the inducements whieh should lead the States to make a special government for us and make coiicessious at the request of Meesrs Thurston * Co. who represent nobody except theraselves, and a very amail clique at that. Wiien Mr. Ashford will point nnt to us the possibity of the annexation soheme under the present circumstaiu’e3 a.id attitude of the nalion. theu we might be willing to assist him iu advocating tbe measure. The Boeton triiops are still ashore aud are to remain so. Hoea that indlcate lhat Mr. SteVens eonsider that there is any aotual danger f.>r the life and prouerty of American sahjpcts. and are the guards arouud the U. S. Legation and Consulate placed there. because so serious troubie ie anlieipated that these buildings are in need of protection ? lf so we would like to know why Mr. Stevens has u>>t offered to the diplom:»tic representatives of other nations, whoat pneenl have no men of w»r here, forces eufficient for the |>rotection of their !pgatioiie, coneulatee. and life and property ? Such i>ffer would be in order as a matter of diplomatic courtesy whereof «e cannot for one inetance. supp*«e that Mr. Stevene is ignorant. If we must draw the ccnclusion that no offer of a guard has been madetothecommissioners, because ther* w«s no earthly reason for it why does His Ameriean Excellency retain his marinee ashore, oeteat*tious)y protectīng Dr. Jaeger’s sanitary underclothing in Goldberg’s window and the Bishop Eatate property on King Streel. Mr. Ashford says that it is not the minion of tbe 0. 8. to r«ton monarchiee or moniehul governm«Dts In the workL Pirhepc not I But «• h «nbe the mlwon of the United SUtee to jpre««nre he flag un8allied ānd to rectify any

unjuot and unaulhorized action comm:tte*i br iU represenUtives under ita nanie in any part of the world. The Captain of the B«>««t*>n is reported to have critic;zed the Queen’s Government, becau?e it | was blnffed (sic!) by the U. S. | forces to surrender lo the Provisional (iovernment, claiming lbat hi« instruction« were n t t*> hre a shot t r part;cipate in any eventual trouble. If it - tne mission of the Umted States through it.- niw and Min'ster- lo go ar -uml and •‘b’.uff'‘ the governiuent of friendiy nations we s!i«iuld dnd that one m«>re good 1 cau«f f r not wishirg t > be maile a part «>f thc great Republic. But we are lain to believe that such t bluffgame i- played withthe know- ; ledge and »pproval of the home | government. If not it is certainly very mueh contrary tothe publicly avowed sentiments of all Americans and derogatorv to tlie dig.iity of the Stars and Strii>es. — We notice that the liawaiian coat of arms ha« been removed from olheial docuraents and aunouncements. lt is now suggested that the national anthem, als«i be discarded and that Prof. Berger be instructed to compose a provisional »nthem whieh very appropriately could be made up from the “Dessauer March,” the I\>rtuguese anthem and that Classical song about ‘*Johnny get Your Gun. ,; It is reported that Queen Street will be turned into Dole Street, (\Vaterhouse and Bolte dissentiu«) while King Street will be allowed to retain its name out of eoiupiiment to the act>ng rainister of Intenor. All revolutioniets and anti-royalists since I789cantake lessons from our provisional operabouffe crowd. Mr. Hayeeiden has been sumraarily removed from his office as sheriff of Maui by the acting Marshal Mr. Ashley. We do not believe that Mr. Ashley has eommitted this very unjust act of his own aeeonl, but we are rather surprised that Mr. W. 0. Sniitli has Iend himself to such an exhibition of petty spiteand persecutiTHi. Mr. Hayselden has made himself very popular during his short ineumbency »nd shown himself to l>e an efficient officer and his dismissal without any eau-e whatever being given has created a great deal of ill-feeling on Maui. We are wihing to bet and to give odds that if the office of sheriff was electiw Mr. Hayselden wonkl be returned with a vote of ten to one * over the whole Island. If the P. G. insists in ignoring and treating with contempt the taxpayers on the other Islands it will find that it i» making a mistake whieh will be difficult to remedy. Mr. John W. Kalua is mentioned aa the successor of Mr. Hayselden as Sheriff of Maui. Next to the distoissal of Hayselden the P. G. cou!d hardly conceive of any action more apt to briug it into odium on Maui, than by appointing Mr. Kalua. No one more than the eiecutive Couucil kuowa the reasons why Mr. Kalua should not be »ppointed lo that responsible poeitionand wbatever services the P.G. might have been made to believe that he could render it, it will find that eneh services at tbe pre»ent momeot are nil. Th« iapaoeee oorvet* the Kongo arrived in port laat 8atord»y at aboot 10 a.m. A mluie wm exchsnged in the afternoon betwcen

ihe «»rvelte and the shore-battery. It is ?tsted th»t the J ipneee Comuiissioner w.ll eau-e tr> t>s to he Ianded frora the K «"-pi thereby following the eiampie «>f Mr. | Sicvers. Such '.io.i would ol | i\>urse ’oe e ;ii:i‘ t y ; r >per. Af>r eaeh A.nerici:. *•!!■! ct in the Islands t iere;ir>- > > t ?wenty J;\panese. it niīanl th >• -h- re; resentative ol’t ■:••• :n r- »m. .;- to protect the !•:.• .u»l ] >p rtv «<f his i > intry«u«- w:• « • >ri:ng , t,> Mr 3ten ns in in - oe mjsle ri'>!.;« daoger. Vs n . sh n I of-war ean i>e exp- ct- l in p>rt every «lay, we -p •— -hat K ' 1 sh tro>p- a - > w .. >>*icd :in>i t l the t >wti wii' a!t« r « w n!e ! ->< aj being in a-t «!•■ ■! ->_• •. Me«1 * ! hoj>“ that the G. wi l g»>t it» army wa-hed up ;>■ •! d«-cently l dressed -> we ci:i «r • :<>• a pr<>p- r j appeamnee among th- t reign tr«><>ps —at t>r -ent n imber of our guar«l- lo k as if th« y nee«le«l j waiching ratner t««au watching I <>thers. Mr. H. K. C»>per is raentioned as the succe«-or of Judge Doie on the Suprerae Ben« h. e have heen unahle t > fin«l out who the geptlemen nientioned is. and what his title aml qualification f«>r tlie nffice may be. he wa- the chairman of the -o-«'alle«l satety c>>mniittee »nd was the person who read the proclamation al the Government Building. A- lar as we know he does n«>t own one cent s worth of property in this country and has hardly resided here one vear. His appearance on the safetv conunittc« >va- we think i 11advise«.l, aud deprived that b»ly of the patriotic stamp whieh it was intended to give it. His eventual appearance «n the Suprerae Bench wiil meet with a nniversnl disopp*>sition. It is rumorod that a d«>cument purp«'>rt : .ng to be a new const:tution is in the hands of the printer-> in a certain printing e«tahlTshment in town and the snppositinn is that the inter«>sting article in qnestlon will he sprung on tho country in a few days. We feel c«nfident that our predictions in reg«nl to the <listnnchising of many vot»rs will eome true. but we shall be anxious to see if Mr St>reckel«‘ s'.ihjects here and the British reii«ienti will also be <lisfranch : se<l. The ‘*Advertiser’’ of Saturday contained one of its usual lying yarns in whieh a cowardly attempt wa? made to ndicule the Queen. Bv the doctrines nf the P. G. organ the Queen is a private individual now, and only a c«jr would use a journal for the purpo«e of attaeking or ridiculing a lonely sorrowing woman. The Editor «>f the ‘*Advertiser’’ is by oo means the only one who in these days ehow their ill breeding and laek of delicacy and tact. Our attentioo was called to a purseworahipp'ng puppy and ill-bred whipper-snapper of a bank clerk wbo falsely pret«nds to have some claims to be considered aa an English gentleman and who during a eall whieh he made at tbe bou»e of a pmminenl and wealthy Hawaiian ladr took oeeaaion to vilify »nd slander the Qneen and the royal family to tha grest di»guat of hu hoatee« who falt e*tremely raliavad opon kia deptrton, The aiampla of soch daspicable oeodoct i» of ooone giren by the »ainta of Ceo-

tr*l l’aioa Charch wh<ere we b*li«v? thou«h that furthor aba»o of tho Queon ha« beo’i pn>h:bited. throuph the influenco<>f the fo .v true gmtl<nwn an«l ’a<i:e;s hel <ug::• jJ to thiit congt>'gat;<>n >uch <*hu«r* wili only tend to nukf the brsnk between the n*tiv«s aml t re!goers wider snd further incr-'*?tf the nee-halmi whieh oug it t<> he *o deeply hurio1 that :t vcr oan be rc*urrvcteil again. — - — — ‘ ~~