Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 183, 21 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

• ! 1> L. Huntsman bas pas*ed*way —\i >th*r erratic stir from the briL” t finnament of geniu9 ba« Taoitb«d from our ken. Req»iet- ■. cat in i>nce. Thcn i9 to be an ai oez ition— I meeting to-night f>r the purpos* of | organizing an annei iliou c.ub. ! The community ean rest as~ured that whatever is done or not done bv tlie foreignera who favor annezation, 5t will have litt!e or no offect on the se(tlement of the Hawaiian inc;d -nt. W hen the American Comtnission cjtnes here to inve?tigate. it will not be fur the jiurpose of ascertaining the sentiments of the self-expatriated, renegade American plhiilers, and their -ubt>rdinate c!erks, but it will be to hear what the Hawaiian nation as a whole has got to say —anl there ean be no doubt of the answer. ' The anneialion eluh, or whatever the name will be, may make some progress in Honolulu by enli9ting the employees in the difl'erent firms, but it will have very small success on the otber Islauds whieh are entitled to an equal voice in the matter. Let them thercfore talk until theyand their audience are tired—“the United States will never take possession of this country against the will of its people,” so said lvOrrin Andrew Thurston in the Legislative Hall exactly five months ago, and who would doubt Thurston ? One reason for calling the meeting for to-night instead of waitingtill after the Australia’s arrival is that there is a fearful suspicion abroad iu the niinda of the missionaryeum -gilders-cum-Dutchb)X)dler-curo-gun-carrying party that two hours after th« 9teamer eomea in thero will not be an annexationist to be «een in town, esj)ecially after nightfall as then he would feel himself alone with his fears in the midst of a vaster desert than Sahara or a greater ghost show tban the catacombs of Rome. It is rather good for the Tug-of-war management aud the gentlemen who patronize it that the annezation meeting ts called for tonight, because the tougli8 and rowdies will all go where there is a free circua >n plaee of j>aying for a re*j>ectable object. At the end of this month we expect lo see printed the usual quarlerly stateraent by the treasury of the ineome and expenses. It would establish a very dangerous precedent and give good cause for grave suspicion, if the governraeut should ueelect to show the taxpayers exactly how the financtal status of the country is. The exhib:t will nol be very pleasant to bebold, because it wiil show that the P. G. has succeeded tbrough ita extravagauce in bopele8sly involving the government in a jjosilion from whieh it will be very difhcuit to extricate it. We kno* how mueh money there was in the lreasury on the djy of the revoiulion. We ean

pretty correct!v the eipen?*?s and the receipls of the P. (i.. ?ince they wenl 5nto office and . tbe calcalation will show lhat there .,ann' t be at th;> minute J suffii ient money iu the treasury to pty the mnnin? ezped9es of th’.s j mo:;th. >'■> taies will eome in f>r ; pevcral months yet while the receipts fr< m the Custom Housc are sadiy dimin;shed. How then, d,H.- the government pn>p-se to carrv on its ne.es«ary current h'i-ii.e-- during the raooths wh-eh j it y : m.y take b- f >re a seltlem t n . le? By bht ■ • ing of conrse! W’ho is froing to Iend the g >vernment uioney‘ > Trie two banks have b<*th siguified their approval of the revolution and their sympathy for the anneialion «eheme and they are about the only moneyed e ncerns in a p*sition to advance any money if they shou!d be wi;ling to do so. The government is coneiderably in debt both to Bishop «fc Co.. and Spreckels Co. These debts beeame overdue in February, but the banks may be induced not to press for their money as they have got apparently ample security in goverument bonds issued by the lawful and legitiraate government of the Queen. If the banks shouid be persuaded to advance more money the security offVred will be less tempting. Government bouds or exctiequer notes or I. O. U’s. issued by the Provisional Government may be very pretty looking and look superficially as solid as all bonds formerly issued. but what would they be worth if the Un*ted Statea Government after an iuvestigation should disapprove of this revolution, concocted and carried out as it was by its official representative, aud shou!d make the only reparation possible by making the government de jurt again the governmeut de factof They would simply not be w«rth the paper on whieh they were written. Mr. Irwin and Mr. Damon are two long headed and sbrewd business men. Thcy are heart and soul in with the iii8iirgent8 —one is Tice-president. and tbe other i* Minieter of Eiuanee by proxy. But we senou8ly doubt that either of them would plaee themselve« in a p*sition where they would risk losing one single dollar. Friendly f#elings, and sympathy, and full approval of actions and prospects of the now woru-out golden era, (to eome) and all ihe other chestnuts bave their impcrUnce, and are very good things 5n their way, but g>x*d hard solid g»ld eoin touchea the hearts of our two bankers in a far nearer and more eincere manner, and while th»-y will allow the P. G. to hang on lo «11 the fin« feelings abuve mentioned, they will contmue to hang on lo the eoin—and don’t you forg.-t it. Mr. Irwin and Mr. Damon may expect lhat in case of a eollapee of the revolutiouary government and the annexation eeheme. they wou!d have sufficient inllaeuee with any eveutual g»vernment to be reimbursed for advances made to the P. G. aud other aid granted to the usurper3. If they m..k« sach a calcu!fttion, they may fiud that th* y h*ve made an eipensive heeauae w« doubt that acy future government

(exc«pt the P. G wouId f'r ooe momeiu e;.d- r?>* the srmy ripeni:tjres, or commif?iou and □egotiatioae ext>en~v« of the P. G. 1 | 1 In c i«e of annexation the Unil-l ites ia t;;e treaty pre«en- j ted tothe Senat« af?«iu «thedfl*ti»f j Hawaii t » a cert iin tigure of three J and a q’iart«r mil. ns- In th:t is ! n>>t inoi :ded th« debt« now d ie to the b»nk' n*r ean any f;irther advancee be t ver dby it. If such ■ x - lion the pre> ;:t governav--ni sm p!y :s carryiug >n tiie ruin>*iis p—licy, heret >fore always e ndemned by them!»-ives. of living b*-yond it? means and b>>rrowing from Peter to pay Paul. We ehall await with intere*t : the quarterly nnaueial statement : of ihe governmeut, and we should advise the raeeting to-night to discuss the ug!y-looking reality of the countrv’s situation to-day rather than loae the wind and time of the speakers and the audience by building castles i.i the air and discussing the exceediugly problematic annexation eeheme. The Attorney-General and the memhers of tbe Government who have ordered the Japanese pris>mers to be retained within the jail walle, and not set to hard labor on the roads as usual, have not perhaps committed a violation of the letter of our lawa. They certain!y have. though, vi<»Iated their epirit. And for whatreason? Because they are afraid that iheae prisoners will also escape on board the Japanese war-veesel, In other words the country is to be put to extra expense in keeping a lot of idle crimiuals, for fear tho«e eame worthless scoundrels may rid the country of their presence, and the expense of maintaining thein, at the same time. If the government had any sense, thev would be glad to let them go, and would eveu, as the Egyptians did tothe l8raelites, persuade them to go—lest a greater evil befall. All the fools are not dead yet. Tbose unhung idiuts who blather about the highhandedness of the Japanese commander and Commissioner9 iu not retoraing the escaped convict who sought protection on board the Naniwa have pr>bably forgotten something; ihat is if they ever knew anything. U. S. Minister Mizner at tbe end of the Guatemala revolt about two years ago ordered the eaplain of & U. S. mail ste*mer —not & warve6«el, to deliver up to the authoritiea on shore an escaped crirainal —General Barrundiae. Heobeyed; and in rnaking the arrest Barrundiaswa9 shot. Minister Mizner was dismis9ed the service. In the Venezuelan revolution of laat year. a murderer and eaUle thief escaped and got on board an American mail steamer. H.s return was demanded. The CapUin refused to give him up. The U. S. Governmeol backed him up and sent a war-vessel at onee to prevent any • rmed interference from »hore with American vesse!s. Many tnore inst inces might be cited, but we fear the*e blethering nineompoops haven’t either education euough to read, or sen«e to understand if tney do read. The shootiog of Mr. D. L. Huntsman, accentu*tes the fact so oflen bronght forward by u» that there is 9omething radical!y wrong in ihe way thal the govern-

i menl tolerate< ami orerk»k? the t pt>?5» «'ion and di«play firearm? ‘ bv that certain clique to whieh ! AnffOSt Herrini and ?imiiar a?heloiu:, iml wni.-h i? 'm- : m*»nly known hem a? the drei | handred. The idiotic lenienoy ! ghoirn bv Judge W hiting lo>vard- | the < > i;> r >: I hel|»*‘»i to encourage ihe uae o{ ’ j.;<t»l<, at;-i il the re?t of ihe ’ .i.iiciarv -hould follov\ in the fbot.'tei'S Iof the mentioned judge. we ean exi>ect that sho»>t:ng and bhx dshed ' will heeoine an every-day occur- | renoe. It is ab >ut time for the p».5ce authorities to do s»>mething t» ~pf>r« —» th> polilic.il f.ioti n <»f , meroenaries imbued with soc:alistio, anarchistic, and nihilistic doct-r;:if-s aml sy:npath >aitli :gh. it is hardly t * l»e exj»ected that any stej>s will be taken as l>»ng as the Marshal has to recrnit h> f >rce from the very rank< >>f this disorderiy element. 1 When on ele< tion day Mr. August Herring was found carrying a pistol be was <luly arrested by the ’‘n:inion8” of the Ex-Mar- I shal C. B. Wilson, and on being fined for carrving a concealed . woapon, the weajn>n was c>>i>fiscated by Mr. Wilson and hehl in j the Poliee Station. Many times Mr. Herring made demand f<»r its return. hul was invariably refus»d a? from their knowledge of his disposition they feared some mischief would arise frora his regaining possession of the deadlv weapon. lmmediately on the late overturn he redemanded it from the new Dutch-P. G.. poliee aud got it. Saturday night’s work waa the result, The padded reporter of the moming screech is again after the poliee deparlment with horns, hide, claws and all that he ean eall into the service. Andwhy? Because that palladium of the personal liberty of the citizen is denied him—e. g. —the inspection by him of the record-book of arrests, so that he ean feed his foully lihelloua and petty s!anderous disposition at •omebody else’s expeuse. It cerlainly redounds to the credit of the new control that they, no raore than the former heads of the Bureau, consent to gratifv the taete for garbage on the part of the Advertiser. ite writers, and •upporters. The Advertiser and its gang of office 9eekers, b<x)dle-hunter8, an d slander disseminator9 used eontinually to howl ab<out the *‘power behind the throne." *c. t *c. How is it we never hear anything now ahoul the “power’’ behind the President and Councils —that §ecret Pretorian railitary clique—whieh orders them. and in the wnrds of Pinafore, “and they obey.” No denunciation, Mr. Advertiser —we had almost written man, but ahall •imply write —sneak, for these counterjumping-bookkeeping, cashcounting. uneducat«d lot of obstinate place-hunter? who are simply there for what there is 1n it ? N*o! None! Ycu are too afraid, eh ? A petition in favor ofannexation is being circulated arouud whieh doubtiees has some honest 8ignalures to it. But when the hulldozing tactics are use<i of inf >rming a man that if he doesn’t sign it, he will be black-li#ted or boycotted it seems to us that il Uinla \ the whole tbing with grave suspieion. Many of the men now in power, and lheir agents and para-

woiilil. it aeema to u?, have gracd the tribunaN f lhfSpai ?h Inquisition or the Frencl\ Reign of Terror wilh s new fer<vty &nl more varied crueity. We >l<>n't wish lo be cruel ourseives. bjl we might remin»l th wh.) 9:gn, >ind particular’y ;ts pn>m <ters. that in the event ofeert*io hnppeoing9 quite wilhin reuoh of human credulity, that ainoe <1 wnnent iu:ght a!so become u hlaek li>t or & b yci>tt if the other »: le ch-v se to be aā brut.»l and d: ib.»lical tho Ihts >n? referred too. The Minist t of īrterior, Mr. J. A. Kirg ordt-re»i ,n the By Authority eolumn of tbe A iverti«er th.it all Government olhctS thr»ughout thf A t i : ; !’ >;?> siiould l>e eloeeil on Marcb l7th. Ii i.< urobably out of court» sy to himself that Hia Excelleucv dtsin s to re- • tain the appellalion of Kingtlom to ' ■ sq lhrough a presentionent that llie Kingdoui is not qnite effete yet, and we are ioclined to beli«ve that he is right for onee in thut.