Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 152, 2 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The K«iitor ot' the •‘Bulletin‘’ bad the houor yesterday of boing bar,tngue<l bel >re tiie Advisory Council f»r jii;b'ii?h»ng something whioh evident!y did not agree with the d ; of t!iat aogust body. Mr. C. \V. .V.f>rd is now the only ed;t >r a. - ! i.- not been noticed by lne govern:nent, probably because he is t*x> formidab!e to tackle and ean quote 1<jo Uiauy aathorities ou sediti"ii iaws. We rre adhcre:.ts of monarchical principlee and we honestiy believe the monarchy to be the most advantageous forni of government. Tc exuect that we should chunge our j>rinciples as we do our cIotbes would be both unfair and unreasonable. The p>olitical party of whieh this journal is the organ is composed of a verv large majority of the voters of the country, and we should sadly fad i.i our duty to our party and forfeit all elaim to tuanhoo<i and respect if we abandoned tbe principles of indej>eiideuce and government by the ueoj)le as advocated and sustained at the polle all over the country at the mtre bidding of the ‘*Advertiser, or through one, or a hundred, sedition laws. But of far raore importance to us than the monarchy or any other form of governnient stand the equal rights of the people and as long as the franchise is not tam|>ered with we shall quietly adopt whatever the future has in store for us, but the days when might is right or where the raajority of a civilized people submits to the minority are gone by and will never be revived. Tbe Hawaiian electors are uot alone entitled to a franchise and ahle to use it. but we believe that even the ‘■Advertiser’’ will admit (however aisagreeable the fact may be to itl that the average Hawaiian makes a more intelligent voter than is the average voter in Aiuerica, Gcrmany or Great Britain. if the Stars and Strlpes *re to lioai over these Islands and we are to heeome a part of that great nation Iet us theu fully enjoy the blessings whieh that tlag necessarily raust bring. and forem*st among them st inds the great and truly liberal principle, one man, one vote. And when that day da»ns uj>on Hawaii ‘ - Where, O, where will Henry Company be” and eeho answers *Tn ze houillon.” We have waded through the **Brief History of the Revolution,” publishcd by the Hawaiian Gazctte Comj>any. It coosist. mostly of clippings, from the ‘*Advertiser” with an addition of a eouple of pages of selfprais9 and the general rubbing-each-others-back so natural to the Ref»rm Party. The brief • hisU>ry is a moet peculiar mixtur«of lies, half-lies, truths, and half-truths written by a man whose vanity and self-importance ean be traced on eaeh page. It is ▼ery moeh in tbe Central Union *tyle and conld fittingly be used by (hat lnstUatim for tbe time being, ma(ead of Darid’« Paalma, from whieh the polhioal sermons recently delivered have heen

qnoted. Taken as a whole the pampblet is extremely harm’ess and only injures the unfortunate genliemen whose photographs it is claimed have heen reprodnced. We don’t know how the gallant commander of the Boston artiilery on shore lieutenant Young bas oflfended the wriler of the pamphiet, but his uame will never go dowu to fame on the pages of history. nor will the third and fourth coming of little Youngs point with pride to tiie j valorous deeds duringthe Hawaiia:i i Keeoiuli ;i > f t!ieir for *fit'ier. be- \ cav;se ala=. the briet h : st>>rv Knowi him only by his Chr>stisn r in. - ! and familisriy calls him Lueien We think it is ad— shame anyaow and a damage-suit wonld be in order. ' We regret that the pnblisher of the •*Friend” is saddled wiih au ' editor like the so-cal!ed Reverend Sereno Bishop, because we believe that Mr. Thrum would iise his paj>er to be of historical value in the future, but for that purj)ose a strict adherence to truth is necesi sarily paramount. The so-calle<l Reverend Sereno * Bishoj> jiretends to be a Christian and we have uj>on enquiry'found that a number of ration»l people here in Honolulu hold him as such. If the tissue of falsehoods,vulgar lies, l’oul slunders, and garbled statements of facts whieh has been printed in the ‘‘Friend” in its last number is the fruits of Christlanity, and is the production of a Christian man—we nearly said gentleraan, but we don’t expect that the so-called Reverend person presumes to that appellation—then we draw tbe line and ahall await in patience the arrival of the Mahommedan missionary A. R. Wehh who lately has started a propaganda in the United States, and we shall make haste to heeome a proselyte. We have neither the time nor the inclination to review the “Friend.” It is not a very mueh read paper, and as it is supposed to be of a religious nature it will presumably only be used by the so-called Reverend Sereno Bishop’s alleged brethren in Christ, aud if they are so constructed t hat they ean stomach the vileness of the issue they are perfectly weleome to it, and their upinion of the recent events will be of no interest what ever to us or anybody else possessing eommon sense- or fairness. The plea of second childhood or lunacy whieh charitably inclined people always bring forward to cover the blunders or sins of elderly persons who at one time have been respectable and esteemed does not go down with us. We ean make lots of allowanee for age and gray heads. but lying is not one of the instances in whieh we make such allowanee. Mr. Ashford in the ‘*Liberal” is advocating an “educational eampaign” and we Ihink that tbis ia about the wisest and most inlelligent suggestion made sioce the revolutlon. The ‘*Liberal” evidentIy does not believe in a minority acting without consulting the great majority. and if tbe people wishing for anneialion hope for succes3, they should try to eoncili*te the nalion at large, and not try to ram their ideas and prineiplee down the people’e throat with bayonets. We know that Tharste>n i» alw«js beld np to ns

as a model worthr of imitation. but if he wa«> pricked by bayonets fn>m behin<1. or muzzled in ltie front, ihe mule in him would be very con«picuoū- ami lhat i.« the pha»e of his character whieh we at preāent will try to hve up to. And now eomee oneol' the ”w’>e" Hawaiian? who advocate annexation t > the great joy of the Reform Party. and ezp!ains everything in Mr. Kawainui’? pai>er. It’s (we canin>t -wear t-> t’e -ex) ; name is Ahnira MaJuihīike;ioihilanikapu Stone. Even 'liath got knocked out by a St >ue. We are utter;y crut'heti, but we wi#h to plaee it ou record that it took nearly the whole Alphabet to do it. D. L. H. in the • I Liberal” takes exception to the indifference showu to the gentiemen known as the “drei hundred” wfao undeniablv have rendcred services during the preseut revolt. A certain large class of our citi*eus are represented bv the leaders of the *‘drei hundred,” aud we should bave thought that tne government would have a!lotted one or two seats in the Advisory Council to the representatives of the class referred to. The claims of the Liberal party seem not at all to be recognized by the Reform Party except by the very cix»l aud ollnanded '‘ihank you” in this morning’s -‘Advertiser'’ —but of course if the gentlemen in question are satistied with this acisnowledgement in full of their services we have no reasou to comment on the matter. We regret that the band boys have refused to listen to reason and have not agreed to sign the oath of office. The “Advertiser” is misinforraed when it states that two-thirds of the boys have signified their willingness to take the oath. We hope though. before many days that better counsels will prevail and that the goverument then will make no obstacles to taking the boys haek again. When there is iow-tide in the pocket the human animal is more tractable and oj>en to conviction than wlien there is high tide. This, geutlemen of the provisional government, is not to be construed as an indication that there is hightide in our pockets. Evidently Mr. Ashford does not consider the monarch\’ one of “the deadest thingalive.” though he tries at least very hard to persuade himself and others that it is dead.and buried, and beyond resurrection. In bis article in the Liberal on this subject he is wrong in the premises from the start. \\ hether this is due to his absence from town during tbe revolution or if it is due to misinformation we do not know, but the fact remains that the people, neither a majority or a minority, played any role whatever in the temporary surrender of the government to the provisionai government. No sane person e nversant with ihe situation *t the day of the proclamation of the pn>viaional governraent will for one moment assert thst the roove would have been poeeihle in tle remotest degree without the active assistance of Mr. J. L. Stevens. The handful of armed men whieh gathered at the Governmcnt Buildingunder the charged breechIo»ders ofthc United States Navy sUtimed ontside the Gcvernmeot Building amonnted to abeolately nothing. The affair waa an aggrettive move

bv the representative of the L nited Government. If ne was so in?tructed well -and g »od. let us sav no raore ab>ut the matter. but lei us by al’. meaoe get rid of the confused id< - th.«ī "the people” had anyt.‘.īnsr to <1» with the suspeasio»> of the moaarchy ex<.*ept that Sinall cli«|ae w hieh e;ther acted as :i ; .f r Mr. >tevens or whose tooI that genlieman was. Of course if Mr. A;hf«*rd ha«l been Attorney-General things mieiil have turned out d fferent’y, but : ‘‘raight a p>- T h>>r~ ' t<» r;Je. s.ivs t:ie oid tdij> > . and we shall certainly not waste our inky tears over the sp;it miik. We are n >t in the prophesying business, bul in respoi>e to Mr. Ashford s general < ; < -t uits ai»out the Car of Progre—. t!ie universal burial of monamiiieal institutions, the spirit of the lOth century, we will only ask him to ke- p his eyes fixod on the gre.<t Kepuhlie of Franee and if he is spared to us, whieh we sincere!y hope. till ihe end of the century; and not <les- ! troyed bv the P. G., we feel assuro»l that he will see a resurrecte«.l monarchy or emptre in that highly civilized land, and if we are wrong we wiil promise to —well eat a whole hox of his liverpills. The “Liberal” as represented hy Mr. C. W. Ashf<>rd is deeply interested in seeing the Advisory Cou neil get possession of some legal talent. As long as he isu t in it. they will t»eri»etually laek the necessarv amount. Americans as well as all sensil»le people of other nationalities rejoice to see the Americau tlag tloating over us, as it puts a stop to a great portion of the inordinate expense our rulers have been furced to p«t up with, an<l isa g»iarantee of {»eace and justice pending the settlement of affairs. Mr. Ashf<*r<l still wants to know what the Provisional Governraent’s embassy has been sent to do. Well, we will bet him $8ō00 in Government bonds that the Executive Council are not going to tell him. j “Man, proud man. <lresse«l in a Iittle brief authonty, “Does play sueh tricks l»efore High Heaven “As uiake the angels weep ” Shakespeare have known | about our advisory an<l executive CounciIs and their appointees. The Boycolt is a double-edged weap>on. It seems lo us that the trade of this country is mainly with the Hawaiian 8uoporters of the Monarchy and Constitution ol the country. Maybe Messrs Waterhouse, Emmelulh, *c., wou!d not like the tables turned on them9elves. Thev had better remember * that “with what measure ye meet it j shall be measured to you again.”