Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 6, 4 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Fnm tKe DaOy of Feb. tnd. Tbe Editor of the u Bulletin” hm<i the honor ye«t«rday of being h*mnguefi before tbe Advisory Oouneil for pubiishing eotnethmg whieh evidently did not *gree with the digestion of that augu«*. body. Mr. C. W. Ashford ie now tbe only editor who ha? not been nuticed by the govcrnment, probab!y heeauae be ie too forinidable to Uekle and ean quote too n»any authorities on eedition Iaws. We are adhereute cf monarchical principlee and we booe#tly believe tbe monarcby to be the moet advantageouB form of government. Tc expect that we ebould change our principle» as we do our ciothes would be botb unfair and unreasonable. The political part)' of whieh thie journal is the organ is composed of a very large majority of the voterfi of ihe country, and we should sadly fail i.i our duty to our party and forfeit all elaim to raanbood and respect if we abandoned tbe principles of inde{iendence acd governmeut by the ueople as advocated and su9Uinēd at the polla all over the country at Ihe mere bidding of the ‘*Adverti9er, or through one, or a hundred, sedition laws. But of far more importance to ub than the monarchy or any other form of government #Und the equal righta of the people as long as the franehise is not tampered with we shall quietly adopt whatever the future has in store for U8, but the days when might is right or where the majority of a civilired people subraits to the minority are gone by and will never be reyived. Tbe Hawaiian electors are not alone entitkd to a francbise and ahle to use it, but we believe that even the ‘*Advertiser” will admit (howeve>* aisagretable the fact may be to it) that the average Hawniian makea a more inlelligent voter than is the *verage voter in America, Germany or Great BriUin. lf the Surs and Strlj>es are to tioat over these Ielands and we nre to heoome a part of that great nation let us then fully enjoy the blessings whieh that Hag ucce8sarily must bring, and foremest among them stands the great and truly liberal principle, one man, one vote. And when that day dawns upon Hawaii ‘*Where, O, where will Henry <k Company l>e” aud eeho answers “In ze houillon.” We have waded through the ‘*Brief History of the Revolution,” pubiished by the Hawaiian Company. It consist, moetly of clippings, from the ‘*Advertiser” with an addition of a eouple of pages of selfpraise and the general rubbing-each-others-back so natural to the Heform Party. The brief history is a most peculiar mixtureof lies, half-Iies, truths, and half-truths written by a man whoae vanity and self-importance ean be traced on eaeh page. It is very mueh in the Central Union etyle and coold fittingly be used by that institution for the time being, mstead of David's Psalms, from whieh the polilieal sermons recently delivered have been quoted. Taken as a whole the pamphlet is extremely harmless aud only injures the unfortunate geutlemen whoee photographs it is claimed have been reproduced. We don’t know how the gallant commander of the Bo«ion artiilery on shore lientcnant Young has ofiended the writer of the pamphlel, but his name will never go down to fame on tbe pages of history. nor will the third and fourth coming generations of little Youngs poini witb pride (o the valorous deeds during the Uawaiian Revolution of their forefather, because alaa, tbe brief history knows ■ him only by his Christian name «nd familiarly ealla him Lueien We think it is a d— ehame any how and a damage-suit would be in order. We regret tkat the publisher of ihe “Friend” ia aaddled with an «ditor like the so-called Heverend

I Seteno Bi«hop, heeauee we helieve I I thal Mr. Thrum would like his paper to be of historical value in ! tbe future. but for tbat porpose a | ! strict adbereoce to truth is neee? s*rily paramount. • Tbe fio-called Reverend s«renoj ) 1 Bishop pretendfc to be a Chnsti*n | and we h*ve upon enquiry four 11 I th*t a number of ration*l people bere in Honolulo bold him as such. If tbetissue of falsehoods,vulgar lies, foul slanders, and garbled slatements of facts whieh has heen printed in tbe “Fr;end” in its l«st 1 number is ihe fruits of Chris tlanity, «nd is the production of a Christian man —we nearly said gentleman, bat we don’t expect | tbat tbe ao-cai!ed Reverend person presumes to that appellation—then we draw tbe line and shall await j in palienee the arrival of the Mabommedan missionary A. R. Wehh who lately has started a propaganda in the United States, and we «hall make haste to heeome a prose!yte. I j We have neither the time nor the inelinalion to review the **Friend.” It is not a verv mueh read paper, and as it is supposed to be of a religious nature it will presumably only be used by tbe j so-called Revere*id Sereno Bishop’s alleged brethren in Christ, and if they are so constructed that they ean stomach the vileness of tbe issue I they are perfectly weleome to it. and their opinion of the recent j evente will be of no interest what ever to us or anybody else poa- | sessiug eooimon sense or fairness. The plea of second childhood or 1 lunacy whieh charitably inclined i i people always bring forward to i cover the blunders or sins of. elderly persons who at one time i have heen respectableand esteemed | does not go down with us. We 1 ean make lots of allowanee for age and gray heads, but lying is not j one of the instances in whieh we j make such allowanee. Mr. Ashford in the ‘*Liberal” is advocating an “educational eainpaign” and we think that this is al>out the wiseat and most intelligent suggestion made since the 1 revolution. The “Liheml” evidentIv does not beheve m a minority • ( acting without consulting the great majority, and if the people wishing for annexation hope for succcss, they should try to eoncihate the nation at large, and not try to ram their ideas and principles down the people’e throat with bayonets. We know thut Thurston is alwnys held up to us as a model worthy of imitation, but if he was pricked by bayonets frora behind, or muzzled in the front, the mule in him woukl be very conspicuous and that is tbe phase of his character whieh we at present will try to live up to. j And now comes oneof the “wise” Hawaiians who advoc*ate annexation to the great joy of the Re -i form Party, and explains everything in Mr. Kawainui’s paper. It’s (we cannot swear to the sex) name is Ahnir* Maluihiikeaoihiīanikapu Stone. Even Goliath got knocked out by a Stone. We are utterly crushed, but we wish to plaee it on record that it took nearly tbe whole Alphabet to do it. D. L. H. in the “Liberal” takes exception lo the indifference showu to the gentlemen known as th« “drei hundred” who undeniablv have rendered great ser- i vices during the present. revolt. A certain large class of our citi*ens are represented by the leaders of the *‘drei hundred,” and we should have thought that the government would have allotted one or two seate in the Advisory Oouneil to the representatives of the class referred to. The claims of the Liberal party seem not at all to be recogni*ed by the Reform Party exoept by the very eool and offhanded “thank you” in this morning’s “Advertiser”—but of course if the gentlemen in question are satisfied wiih this acknowledgeI ment in full of their servicee we have no reason to comment on the matter. We regret that the band boys have refused to listen to reason and have nol sgreed to sign the oatb of offiee. The “Advertiser" ie rm*infnrmed wheo it st«(ea that two-thirde of the boy» have aigni-

fied their willingne« to Uke the j oatk. We hope tbough. hef«re many d*ys th*t better counseis will prev*il and th*t the govern- ; ment tben will make no obst*cles to taking the bors haek again. | When tbere is t>w tide in Ihe, pock«*t Ihe human animal is more tractable and open to conviction , than when tbere is high tide. This, gentlemen of tbe pn>visional government, is not to be construed as an iodication th*t there is high- | tide m our poekeU. L Evidently Mr. Ashford does not : consider the monarchy one of “tbe deadc«t tfaingalive.” though he tries at least very hard to persoade him«elf *nd others that it is dead, and buried. and beyond resurrection. In bifi article in the Liberal on j this subject he is wroug in the pre- i mises fro'n the start. W hether i this is due to his aheenee from ; town during the revolution or if it | : is due to misiQformation we do not know, but the fact remains that | ; the people, neither a m*jority or a j minorīty, played«ny ro!e whatever ; in the temporary surrender of the , 1 governmeut to the provisionai government. No sane person e nver- i sant with ihe situation at tbe day of the proclamation of the proviaional government will for one moment assert that the move would have been possible in tle remotest degree without tbe active assistance of Mr. J. L. Stevens. The handful of armed men whieh gathered at the Goverument Building under the charged breechloaders j of the United States Navy stationed : outside the Gcvernment Building amounted to abso!utely nothing. ! The affair was an aggressive move i by the representative of the United States Government. If ne was so j i instructed well and good, let ns j j say no raore about the matter, i but let us by all means get rid of | j the coqfused ideas th.»t *‘the peo- j ple” had anything to do with the j suspension of the monarcby except that small clique whieh either acted as a tool tbr Mr. Stevens or whose tool that gentleman was. 0f course if Mr. Ashford had been Attorney-General things might have turned out differently, but “might is a poor horse to ride,” says the old adage, and we ehall C£rtainly not waste our inky tears over the spilt milk. We are not in the prophesying business, but in response to Mr. Ashford’s general chestnute about the Car of Progress, the universal burial of monarchical institutions, the spirit of the 19th century, we will only ask him to keep his eyes fixed on the great Republic of France and if he is spared to us, whieh we siucerely hope, till the end of the century; and not destroved bv the P. G., we feel assured that he will see a resurrected monarchy orempire in that highly civilized land, and if we are wvong ' we wiil promise» to—well eat a whole box of his liverpills. \ Tbe “Liberal” as represented by Mr. C. W. Ashford is deepiy intereste<l in seeing the Advisory Cou neil get p«ssession of some legal taler.t. As long as he isn’t in it. they will perpetually iaek the necessary amounl. Americans as well as all sensible people of other nationalities rejoice to see the Americau fiag fioating over us. as it puts a stop to a great portion of the inordinate expense our rulers have been forced to put up with, and isa gnarantee of peaee andjustice pending the settlement of affairs. Mr. Ashford -still wants to know what the ProvisionalGovernment’s embassy has heen sent to do. Well, we will bet him $8ō00 in Government bonds that the Executive Council are not going to tell him. “Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, ‘*Does plsy such tricks before High Heaveu “As make the angels weep.” Shakespeare must have known ahoui our advisory and executive Councils and tbeir appointees. Tbe Boycott is a double-edged weapon. It seems to us ihat the trade of this couotry ia mainly with the Haw&iian snpporters of the Monarchy and Constitution of ihe country. Maybe Meaan Waterbouse, Emmelulh, ae., would not iike tbe tables tnrned on themeelves. They h*d better remember shai “with what measure ye meet it ahall be uMaaored to you afaio.” >>%■ •