Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 213, 2 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The un«nim<*u= resp*ji hy «II H«w;iiians men ar<i women m ev*rv v:!lag' > . han»let tnd <1 =trict, «11 over the Ulands to the eall frnm ihe Patri"tic I.eaeue in H>■ nolulu shows l»eyond doubt the true sentiment *f the people. The people as one man rcfii8**8 to I<*se their rank as a nation on the bid iii z <»I h h«ndful of f>reigaers. Th* y deciine u* sell their country at t'.e cost of their independeoce and h**nor. Tiiey refuse to yield to «org -•he r ght to eonapire wiih ihe repr**eentative of a lbreig>i n«tion and f re:gu tr<x>[*§ l - j ■v • r i • raent *nd ahr <gate a m >narchy whieh was supjH)rted .honored, and f*ithfuliy helieved in by theni—the | le <>f Hawaii. The unanimoua stand laleen by the Hawaiianr dc8ervmg of great credit aa the annexationists have not hesitate«l in u?ing every meins—iemj>tatioiis and threats alike, to make ihem swerve from the path «f dutv *nd honor and heeome p«rluere in the heinoua crime of betraying tlieir country. lf a vote w«a laken fairly and squarely we do not believe tbat one-hundred H«waii«ns eouM be found willing to caet their vote in favor of annexation. Wo would like to see a tri«l raade. but of course the government would oppo«e such etep by all mean«. The few Hawaiian» o ( the Ptrij*e of J. W. Kalua of Wailuku, Maui, are a blot upon the nation; but wh*t nation is there whieh ha* not got a traitor in ils midst? If Kalua was worthy of our attention wecould fi!l a eouple of oolumna by reprints frora ihe Advertiser from 1S90 in whieh his j*edigree is pretty correct!y aired ■nd hi« measure as a mau and polilieiau publicly taken aud *imounced. But let him and his few niieguideti follower8be. When all hope for annexation ie finally *b*ndoned and thinp§ have eonie haek in their *>ld gr<xive§. as they will in the near future, we will find the *■ fire of Wailuku ’’ burning just as bright for the co:uf'>rt of those in p.>wer then ;*8 it d >es now for the powers that be. Shou ! d anybody take the trouble to play llie hoae on the Wailuku fire. he would he tot.i!ly extmguiehed, never to he resurrectcd The P. C. Advert!8cr eeeme to t«ke exception to the rtference freijuentiy made to the alleged herie acte of the revolntionary patriote <>n the 17th of Januarv. »s having heea j*erformed *‘under the gatling guii9 of the B<*?ton”—The «diu*r of the m»*rning eeneeh was prubably oot mueh around that dav. and is c.»ns*s)uently unaware th:it ti>e mentioned phr.tse*-xprcss-ee the actual faotsofthe «ituation ol lhat day. Tnew is ofcour«a a great inclination on the part of the annexationi8U to disc'.aim anv parlicipation iu the late revolt by the l.S. f >rcee whieh. if the Adverti»or couid be believed, siuiply lar i d j*eaoefuIly and j>ro;>erly ami m no way iut rterevl or adopted *ny h>*etile attitude towards • the iawful. Iegitiraate, atid ouiy recognited g>>vernment of Hawaii — Queen Liliuokalani’s —The facts d * t bear out these mild aasertroii8 of Sereno Bishop «ud Co, but ou the conUrary prove th*t the l*nding of the U. S. force* w*« illeg.il, unc*Iled for, *nd hc**t;l* to ihe Hawaiian governmeut, Taat if tb* United Sutee

appr ;*ve of such act>. >n on the parl ol their repretentativ-». diplomatic or navai, they w .uld as»ume the character cf buccan»-er5 and pirate« vrīth no reg>rd or respect for internal’onal laws or f*r n*tional h >nor and j istice On the 16lh of Januarv s >n.e m»<n e aiminp t»J be Amene ms calied on Miout(r Steveni ui:d m.*de & st.itement whieh in p'.ain w rds m-ant "we are going to eommil a crirae—a orime by whieh vour government will be b-nefited, but eannol, unass’6ted, carry out our enmioal and uaIawful aeheme. wheref >re we u»» v>u t<» g ve us y.*ar mor.il and | physical .ud. Miuist-r Steven* i who w.is perfectly prepared fortbe request, he having n;onthi prevj iouslv asked for ii.structions from Secretarv 1 *>ster t<> gu.de him under the p<>s»:ble event <>I "a peaeeful and orderly revolution.” im- | mediate!y promised the alleged Americana his support. Unfortunately f>r the schemers no appearanee of any contemplated disturbanee or danger to life or property could be gotten up. but they had to g * on although their plan* wer« aoiuewhal inodified. If Mr. Thurston’s original plan, whieh he laid d»wn in writing to Messrs Peterson and Colburn. had been carried out, the request to Minister Stevens for the landing of the troops would have eome from the two mentioned minister». and the action would theu have had a legal aspect, but upon the refusal of the two ministers tc turn traitors the plan hstd to be worked on another tack. The troops were landed contrary to the protest and expoetulations of the mini9try, they were marched up to a plaee in the immediate vicinity of the property of tne ilawaiian government. a plaee wbere there is no American property. 'Vhat may we ask. were the U. S. troops. landed s >lely for the protection of Ameriean property, as it i»claimed, doing alongside the Hawaiian government building firaw.ayfr.jra the Ara rican i>roperty whieh was to be pr*>tected. The troops were alIowtd t<* rest at the \non Hall on the night of the lGth with the understanding thatthey wereto move on the morniug of the 17th, but nevertl eless when the 17th eame thev remained and refused to leave the plaee from whieh their guns commanded both the Palaee »nd Ihe government buildings. The Arion Hall is ihe property of an Englishman. The Opera Hou«e adjoining it is the proj>erty of an Englishman. and in fact lhere i9 no American property in that vicinity. The troops held the Arion Hall by f>rce —Mr. \Valler the ! l«ssee, wrote to Mr. McChe«ney. a raember of the s >-called «afetyj cimmittee, at whose request the j tr»x>p9 o8tentatiousIy landed. and who had {>r»cured the perrais«ion for the occup.ancy of the Hall f >r , the n:ght. on the m>rning of the l l7th. and req'.iest<jd theremova! of the 9oldiers. but t > no avail. Mr. Waller then wr *te to Mr. Stevens reque9ting a removal, but was an9wered with an offer of a g»od rent for the plaee. Mr \Vailer then called on the American C >nsulGeneral, and was answered ihat the iroops were there lo stay aa long 88 tdey rerrained ashore. In the meanlime, Mr. Steven« bad written to Mr. J. S. Walker ihe Agent of the proprielor of the premises, «sking his interf«reno« ou behalf of th« troop«. «nd had be«n referred to Mr. Wall«r, who now, wiien he saw that it w«s th«

inu?ntioQ to hold th« Hall »gainrt h'3 will. nrde to th« Brit:sh w Mini«ter Re«;Jent, !.»y:nc the matter bef-.re hini and aeking hie inlfrfereace f>r the protection of h:s propertr. When Mr. Doie and hii tbirteen 2 »a >ciatee weni inlo ti:e Government Buiiding to pr>claiin the Pr *vis. »nai G >vernj rnent, the trx>p3 *f th a i nit<**3 5tatc3 »-re iuarcn-rd up “r -s<iy 1 <r ; actiou" — the n-n with aharpload- 1 ed arme, t';.e ofliccrs with dr.<<vn s>v >rd« —and t ierr rctained m ih it i tx.<«ition, although tnere wa« not ! ! the very elighteftt atlempt or tbreat of any disturbance—e*p«cial- 1 iy not in thit vicinitv. Au hour after —whiie the lawfui govi rnm I 1 f rces werc uuder anu» aud eiceeding the few supporters of the ' | socalled provisional government : by a large majority —Mr. ?tevens ! the man accredited to th« g >verni mentof Liliuokalani by the United ‘ States of Araerica —recognized the | provisonal gnvernment in writing to the Queen’s Ministen and informed these that he stia>d ready to support sueh provisional g >vernment. Compare these facts with Mr. Stevens letters to his home-govern-ment, whieh we publifthed a few weeks ago and with Mr. Thurston’s a9surances of the 8upport of the U. S. forcesto’Minister Colburn and Peterson. and then eee if the late rev*)lution ean be called a eponlaneous out-burst of the people or a well-laid. well-prepared eeheme to obtain annexation, originated in in the American foreign office, fostered in the Ameniean Legation and brought to a head by a few diegruntled ambitioiis finaacially ruined politicians out of powei, out of poekel, and in fact out of sight. No, we shall eonlinue to epeak about the late revolution, a« happening •* under the gatUng guus etc. of the Boston.” Why doesn’t thegovernment publish a quarterly st.\tement of receipts, and expenditures as has always been the custom. We have patientlv waited f>r it for a whole month. but as nothiug has appeared yet. we begin to suspect that the government prefers to keep the people in the dark as to where the taxpayers, moneygoes. As a large number <>f Hawaiians have had confidence enongh 111 the honesty of the government to allow their savings to reraain on deposit in the Postal Savings Bank, we shou!d thiuk that they should be entitled to know exactly h«>w the goverumeni stands, how mueh it spends, and how good a security the deuositors have—If thegovernment should refase to make a publie accounting of its expenditures, we do not see how the Hawaiiana ean retain confidence in it and stili consider it advisable to allow their money to reintin in ihe Savings Bank —They m »yas take their money out andd *p-)sit it with C.aus Sj>peoK:‘’is. He may n >t have a gatling guus in front of his sxrong box. but «e believe it stfer for the emall capitahsts toseetheir money &i his unprotecteti hank than s*e it , squandered in paying f»r the 432 i doien »ggs whieh the bnve henea in ihe army have consume*i in April, presumably f>r the purpose ef keeping their sniriu up sufficiently to fight sp<x>ks and uncanny noises in the palaee yard, and to pDtect what ia left of the crown? from the governraent spooks who appear iuside the palaee at nights. 432 dosen of eggs with a 115.00 a week chief-cook and |t),00 a week *econd eook to «erve them in the stvle moet palatsble to the fastidioua Ualee of the resurrected sybar-

ites of the I7th of January. Ye G'.xl9 .t:;d litt’e fishesl :s it a wonder tr.at thes j eggf d her nerve» zel so high?trutsg that t h ir gucs g.i off ai a!i hours and tuuts of the uight and that the e matant tempo 1 of the music >f the»imihr n mrished bandboys is all-egg-r )! !uamaterial of what the character of the muaie is? And y >u. w10 have | hitherto resisted the temj>talion of i wearing the blue un f>nus 0 f the P. G. (sī:ght!y >lam.ig-d) do not resist any longer. Brc >n. *aP. G. j s>>Idier at onee if youcaanot be- | eouie a P. G. c>)ok — the Hawaiian taxpayers will p>y w,t h >villiugne3s anil j >y f>r the needj 0 f these I heroic, milit.iry, weli d sciplined imi>- sing egg-plants » aieh are n>>>» growing in the barracks of the : KamehamehtS. The .Star is s > happy because, the Altorney-General has found «ome old fossihzed law—whieh by th« >vay we understand is repealed —in Queensland whieh will enahle him, s>) he believes —t > interfere with the treedora of the press. eonlrary to the Constitntioii9 both of thi§ country and tlie Umted States. We fail though to understand Dr J. Sally McGr«w - 9 grewsome horror exhib;ted «gain§t auonymous writing when we remember how unmercifully he a 9hort while ago roaftted ” the lecturer Dr. Harrison in one of our contemporarie9 and §imply—probably as a matter of convenience——9igned his infamous spiteful communic«tion9 wilh two stara. Colon«l Spreckeli l«av«ft for Maui to-day where it ia under•tood he finally will ooneummaie the amalgamation of the 3preckelaville plantation witb th« Haiku «nd Paia nlantations, whieh eombmation will create an immenae and unparallelled augar-eatat«. The eolonel will return in about Iwoweeke and remain m Honolulu until the oountry obtaii»ft a 9tabl« government, an occurrenc« whieh we hope is not very f>r away. The mud-slmging of the Star against Dr. W. 3. Bowen isperfectly in style with the uaual cowardly tone of that paper. A« long as the Doctor wa9 here he waa a prr*ona grata with Dr. McGrew and his gang, and as soon a« hi« haek is turned, and he has left thecountry, they immediately heap inaulu aud slanders against the departed visitor. this be a warning t>» »>ther vi«it)rs here to give Doctor McGrew and his chque as wide a birth *8 poesibie, and let them confine themftelvea t > the companv of gentlemen. Tnerear« yet iom« to be found in Honolulu. The Mohiean ieft yesterday taking away as a gtnst on board Mr. C. \\’etm'>re of the Chicago Tribune who narrowly escaped t’ne infunat&d Luning. Mr. Wetm»re had Mr. Ltming ptlled up for persjnating Mr. Castle of the Cu?l )m House Judge F >ster eaw no reserablance and discharged Mr. Luning wh» e»nsidered himse'.f damaged to the tune of #5,000 for being suppo«ed to have f>ersonated one of the Castlefl. Mr. Lunning doesn’t say that he objecta to personHing f>e<»ple in the abfltract, bul he draws the line at all and everv Castl« in the P)wn-whom he wouidn’t be mi«taken for, no, not fur #5,000. As Mr. \Vetmore had g»ne on board the Mohiean before Lumng got his deadly work 5n the pr>Tflpects of his getting the lo,0U0. whieh were not very g!orious in the nrst instar.ee. vanished in the thin air. but woe to the oext reporter who falls into the now extra aharpened elawa of orni;horynchufl.

Mr. H. N. Caatle of Adv*rt;Mr fame, has hung up hi* *c;M>rf aud hande<i hi* paste-pol over to Mr. Arlhur Johnstone wh.ie he u»m a well-«*rned racation. " e hop« tha; Mr. Castle —whom we under- * »tand will Tīsit in the ?Ute« —will retura again perfectly normal and well. He looks rather aiek jue; now.and w* admit that he haa good reasona to do e«,t. Hia j ■'umai —iale»y a*sieted by ihe SUr —ha* undoubtetlly done m ra h.irm to the eauae of annexation lūan all the blunder? of iho governmenl and their comuus«ioner* o>>mb;ned. Thia fact has been rea’.;itd und we fear that poor Uen-nery haa not dan«ed on ro«es of late. It no joke to have to w rite to pleaae a government con§;«ting of eight«en differently conetructed aud differently lhinking faction§ and if poaaihle avoid §tepping on the eomi of any of them. tio in peaee. wa will look after th« 1*. G. during your aheenee—and if vou meel Bill Nye or Mark Twain or any other celebrated American of the profe8*ion, tell them that you ar« doing your beet to reach them in tfa« line of strong!y develo{>ed imagination, but that you sadly laek in humor. Au revoir I