Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 21, 20 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

From thf Daily of 3/ny lSth, 1893. We are inforraed that there are negi>tiations pending between the Mayor of San Franci9CO, and Mr. [)ole with the object of having ilawaii used as the Pesthouse for California, and a receiving st ition for the lei>ers in that State. Our informant states lhat Mayor Ellert claims that Mr. I)ole is looking favorably towards such arrangeraent. We cannot |K»ssibly believe this to be a fact. Hawaii iscursed with the plague whieh has str’cken this unfortunate people w>thout adding to it the lepers of other lands. The leprogy has been the blot on the fair name of our Paradise. but why weshould furthcr advertise that skeleton in nur closet by being known as the San Francisco pestbouse. No city and no county in C»lifornia is willing to allow theestablishmentof a pesthouse, because such arrangement would be injur:ous to the nroperty holders aud other residents, and we understand that both the California residents and newspapers consider the ingemous scheme of Mayor Ellert and Mr. Dole wiih a great deal of favor and we find it i>erfecily natural tbat they shou!d do so. Tbere are about 100 leper» at present in CaIiforuia aad the prospects- are that there will bean increase in tbat number. It would of ooone be very handy to qm Hawaii a« • dmuptng groond for these nnfortunates. but < we sb«!I moe* aoimnDljr pr toet agaicst tbe of aoeh ao < H th» ia to MoM where ar» wn i to»tep? The 8oath wanto toget M* ** ****** W «P i '' a < '5 ■ , ■ .

of Provideiice here. and finally Xew York will want lo be rid j 1 of its crinainals. and why should not the«e obliging lslands be used as a plaoe for deporLition of crimi* ; na!s as well a? a segregating plaee f»r Caiif >rnia !epers, or adnmping plaee for Southern n:ggers? Let u« stop while it is tiroe. We have en»»ugh to look after in oar own afl>irs withont b>irrowmg troub!es and plsgues from May. r 1.1lert or any one else acrogs tbe sea. The St;«r comes out jubi!ant and l enumer.ites "what the tax-payers have n»t g >t to pay f >r in the i future" whieh are the immediale expenses connected with the mo ( narchical form of government. The Star does not tell ue though what the Ux-payers —if willing—will have to pay for in the line of immediate expenses connected by j the provisional government . 1 While the sum whieh the Star claims is to be saved amounts to about $ 130.000 for the two years. the expense of the provisional j army (!) alone whieh the Star does not mention is 1240.000 for two years. That is the estimated figure, but it was shown that the $lU,000allowed foreach month was exceeded bv $9,000 for the month of April whieh would mean if such proportion was kept up that tbe sum of $456,000 would be necessary to keep the forces in trim for two years. We have said nothing ab‘»ut the other provisional expenses, such as the mueh increased poliee force, provisional spies, poliee guards to watch the Custom house guards, subsidized newspapers, commissioners to W ashing- . ton, and other expenses whieh are left to the imagination or guesswork of the tax-payers who are neither consulted, nor kept informed as to the actions of the government. The goyernmenl-subsidized o- jans also forget that the $130000 i for the expenses of the monarchy wnspaidby and with full consent of ihe tax-payers through their j representatives, while the money belonging to the country now is being squandered without permission of. and without accounting to the people. The tax-nayers at the ballot box declared their willingncss to pay the $130,000 for the supt>ort of the monarcby but give them a ehan'ee to exprcss their opinion of the ridiculous expenses for the P. G., and a unanimous refusal will he given to the continued drain necessary to keep up the ! military force. The Advertiser excuses the existence of ihe army i by saying that that body insures stable g >vernment 1 Shades of 1 Hen-nery. have we got a stable : government to daj*? Is a govern- | ment whieh according to ils own pnielamalion, its own cuntinued declarations, and its title even, is a temporary affair called into existence for a specific purpose to bt called atable? Where did we ever hear about a non-representative governraent, & government against ; the people, being considered stable and worthy of credit and faith ? : Have we uot heard the same argul ment used in the Legislative Hall ; year in, and year out, that there was no neod f>r any appropriation for a royal guard, “because the strong bulwark of any government is built on the Iove and resnect *of the people not on bayonets.” Hasn’t that diplomatic freak who now runs a dimemuseum iu Chicago and a legation in Washington talked bimself hoaree, and his audience tired. in proving that uo government has a rigbt to exist whieh cannot receive the free aud voluntary supoort of the people, *nd didn’t he rehasb his aiale and tiresome principles aboot fcovernment for,%y. and of tbe peopie, ad nauseavt and are now his ūoeile fuilowere and sapporters. whom b« ha» !eft bebind him in cbargeof Mr. Dole to go back on all tbueefineand oorrect principlee, aud ehiim UMi migfct makee rigbt and i

In virtnous indignation they ! condemn the German Emper«>r and prophesy all evils to him for f rampling on the sacred rights of the people, and defying r oi popnli, whieh of course is r ox d«i, and so on wi:h all the hackneyed phrases ad nam«am, but in Hawaii, where thev ompose to play the role of Wilhelm. they bravely stifle their 6ne 9eatiments, and exclaim "damn the people, bang on, boys, to tbe pelf, the p»-*wer, and the treasury. as Ioug as weean hire slrangers | to 6ght for us!” We eomphment our contemporaries on their | lofly and dig iifled sentimeuts, but we shouīd like to hear them enj dorsed openly, by Messrs Do!e and Damon, before we believe that they are authorized to speak on behalf i of the provisioual government. Do our eyes deceive us or do we , actually see that Patriot McCandless is bookcd to leave our hospitable shores and hie himself away i to foreign lands. Are the rats i deserting the sinking ship or does the Patriot simply, like Cato of old, retire to the plough or well, after haviug served his country and re- . fused (?) all rewards for his patri- ; otism ? But how grand the Hawaiian ex-Patriot will feel when, as in vision we see him. he in the eool eveaings in Vancouver will hang around the grocery store and tell the boys about his military exploits in Hawaii when he and S<iper conquered the country (behind the U. S, troops) and how he will brag and blow about all ; that he and his brother statesman, ; the Emmeluth, were going to do, and didn’t do. And how near he was to heeome a big, big marshal, only he didn’t get there, and then a Postmaster General, but wasn’t in it, and then a Collector General, only Jim got it, but 6nally became a tax-assessor and collector in chief of all the taxes whieh the annexationists do nrt pay, but wouldn’t have the office because he hated to hurt the feelings of his friends b\ r assessing them for the full value of their property, so he faAed to qualify r and remained uutil his departure a plain, eommon, every day, ordinary Patriot without a handle to his name or a salary to his pocket, May weeping Hawaii recover from the Ioss of his society, whieh she would more quickly do if the other Patriots would only fo!low in the Mac’s footsteps. Dr. McGrew has been invited by the Pan-American congress whieh is to meet in Washington to read a paper before them on Marine Hygiene, and the Star say r s that its editor-in chief will absent himself and comply with the request. The paper will undoubtedly r be of great interest especi»lly if the Doctor would include it his experience iu the managing of Marine Hospitals. He will be able to give the Pan-American medical men some Magni(n)ficent pointers especially in relation to the eeonomieal departments of such Hospitals. We presume that the paper will be issued in pampblet furm and we shou!d suggest as a proper title for it. “How to manage a Marine Hospital or The sure road to wealth;” and by Christ(ie) tbe pamphlet will have an unparalleled aueeeae. Mr. F. M. Hatch bas returned from Calhforn : a and tells the Star that tbe peopie there are all in favur of annexatioa even if the newspaper don’t say so. Of course we are used tp the Star’s reporto and know how mueh faith to plaoe in tbem and Mr. H«tch’s sanity or eommon sensd have nerer been doubted here *ufficiently io give anybody nuan io believe tbat be ever told 'enoh rot to the Stor reoorter- Senator 8tonford a short while ago in an interview with an ftnniiMrrttate apoke emphaUcally agaiost anoezstioo snd we don 5 t know of aoy oon representative nun in C«laioraia than Stanford. Oongrawmn Geary has from the stortopponsd anoex«tion and it is not ttkaiy that lh« ’two astondiBj| in oppoaiMoo to and of their nr ■■lttnsnli. Ws hsves sod Iklwa prnny w frsH«oi bylbe - ‘ . I ■ '■'-av 1 s <

! town a revolution was adopted dis- . missing tbe pastor the revereud A. ; Pali, and a notice of 30 days given to him to quit the parsonage. The members of the Church dec- j lare that they cannot continue to ■ look with the confidence towards a man who haa heen foand willing lo betray his coantry atid even went so far as going lo coramissioner Blount as a representative nattve favoring auneialion. \\ e ! predicted what the fate of the mis- , led foolish pers»ns wonld be, and have m»re pity than anger for them. The parties to blame are the bosses of tbe North Pacific Pastoral Incubator who induces the aimple country preachere to interfere in politics and lo be used as willing tools of the Chief Juddiciarv Missionary in Honolulu. ~ Some new members for the P. G. , band arrived by the Australia from San Francisco. The eeonom- • ieal P. G. government see no reason to save money anywhere and we are surprised that they only imported 5 or 6 men instead of getting the full band of Strauss or ; Gilmore. The way the government shows its economy, we are told is by ltHlging the new *‘artists” in Fowler’s vard, but wheth*>r the : i “artists” will be satisfied with that I hotel has to be seen. It must ; i be something astonishing to people ! I in America to see the P. G. of Ha- ; wii-nei imp»rting foreigners to , blow its horns while arrange I ments are being made for a Hawaiian band to make a tour through the ; principal cities in the L"nited i States. Such an action must plaee the P. G. in a remarkable light ( abroad, but it is only a furtber I sign of the hostility of the tempo- | rary administration towards Ha1 waiians for whieh the Star already has vouched several times. The attentions paid to Mrs. 61ount and party. during her recent visit to //awaii, are a pleasing sign of the confidence and faith whieh the Hawaiians. all over the country, plaee in the United State5 government and their representative here. It is charactenstic that none of the annexation papers mase any mention of the enthusiasm and festivities with whieh the commissioner’s wife was received in ffilo—perhaps the correspondenis of the two papers were ‘ not in it” and consequent!y feel sore. The military editor of the Star is not now going to dump any expensive fortification on Hawaii. but is simply going to dig a hole in the ground and plant the guns there. We ean assure the Star’s hy-draulic ass that he will get into a hole sufficiently quick withoot hia bothering about having new holes dug. By the way we are etill waiting to be informed how Heligoland ean be used as a basis of operations against KieK Perbaps the Emperor forgot to telltbe Star strategist about it when he told him that he indeed Heligoland for the eomplelion of hie coast-defenses.