Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 230, 26 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Mr. Hastingā will leave by the Oaelie as Hawaiian oharge d’atfair3 to the United States and it ia under5t»>ivl that he is to carry with him a propo«ed treatv in whieh the provisional gover.iment again otfer these Islands to the United States. This treaty has not heen iaid before the people nor even been pub!ished and the governraent issimply repeating its formererror in approachmg theUnited States ai- a non-representative government. whieh has not the support nor the co-operation of the Hawaiian nalion in this most importaot step. When the first treaty wai rushed over to W«shington the American papers whieh favored annexation regretted tbat time had not allowed a vote to be takeu in Hawaii so as to show lhat the proposed movement emanated from the t>eople, and thatthe provisional government and their commissioners represeiited the people. The ahnonnal and revolutionary situation, in Hawaii was used as the excuse why a vote had not been taken on the question of annexation and the American people and adminisiration were invited totake the unsupported word of the eommissioners that they were the mes»engers of the Hawaiian nation, and fully represented the peopl® «nd their wi»hea. Now there has heen ample tirae for the P. G. to have called for a plebiecite and ao prove their assertion that they represented the ]>eople, but their failure to do so, together with the opposition of all Hawaiian* to annexation, whieh, by this time. ia fully known and has been amply demonstrated to the American Government and people, will at onee cut them cft’ from all negotialions in regard to th« propo»ed treaty. The provisional eommiaeioners are etanding to-day in a a rather unenviable and verv peeuliar light before the American Government and people, whieh eannol help realizing that they have been impoeed on aud that the eommiaeioners have been s.iiling under fal»e colors.and they*were not what they represented themselves to be, the authorized represeutatives of tbe Hawaiian people—The failure to»ubinitthe question of annexation to a popular vote places the P. G. in exactly the same positiou bnt they will find that thanks to the wisdom rf President Cleveland in eendmg Minister Blount here to invest .gate. they will be unahle to carry on a second imposition and a renewed atteinpt to ;>ersonate the people of Hawaii will prove futile and will be rej>elled. And so the great anuexation club of 6.000 members has dwlndled down to 150 raembers all toid. What an exposure of the way the annexation sertiment bas dwindled on these islands. When Capt. Wiltse went away the demonstration to him waa attended by fully 600 people, «lthough the eluh’a roll then contained less tban 1.000 names, ereu on their own»howmg. Wb«tever the reason must be—whetuer the inAuenee of ihe club—the fatuous and infantile eoune of the governraent—or the too evident injury th«t i» now being perceived annex«tion will bnng to the huaineea «nd working eommunity—it ia oerUln th«t even the

most rabid annexationist must admit the depressing effect oi the procession on Tuesday niehl. No entbusiasm, oo members, no sympathy from the small crowd of onlookers —like the doorhed g!adiat>rs marchin2 mto the Koman Arena C(ū' ir, t< morituri salutan t, or a Zulu impi raarching past its chiefto certain destruction under the Bocefs’ guns, and giving its firewell shout of Byte , the sorrowful wail that went up from those manly throats resembled nothing so mueh as good bve, old ehappie, good bye ! We’ve eome to see the last of you and annexation too.” And then they wenl in out of the rain. And, on their arrival in the eluh r.x>ms out of the rain. when ihe about-to-depart Rev. W. B. 01eson who is renowned for carrying a gun to enforce his mission of “peaee on earth and g >od will towards men ” had heen unwillingly hoisted on a dry-goods box in the window of the Club head-quarters, he addressed the small assemblage of the P. G. band and the Royalists helow with telling effect — against himself. After quoting Mr. Nordhoff to prove (by a copy of that gentleman’s work entitled “ Poliliea for Young Americans ” whieh he alleged he had found arcidentally by continuous seareh) that that gentleman had consistently urged since 1875 that Hawaii ought not to be annexed. he proceded to remark that the as■imilahle population of these islanda consisted firet of Portuguese and secondly of Americans. (This latter is a remarkable statement coming from an alleged Amenean). He then remarked that there was roora here for 1,000,000 Americans to make this country prosperous. And in view of the fact that he being the first of those figures is about to depart—so as to make room for the remainder of the digits—the unsvmpathetic listeners allowed that he was probably correct f<>r ouee. But when he »iid that “there was ro>m for thousands of American mtchanics and lah >rers to eome”—his reraarks were very audibly and unexpectedly supplemented by a tborough annexationiet amongst his Iisteners with the following—“and get left.” Then crowd roared, and the licensed Christian sharpshooter retired, considerably broken up. and no amount of per•uaeion could induce any other member of the eluh—willingly or unwillingly—to be hoisted on to that dry-goi>d3 box and make another such exhibition of himself. And these be thy Gods, O Israel.” And yet to read to the ever-Iying Star reporters account of the nrooeedings one would imagine all waa peaee and harmony, and that thousands listened with approva! to the Reverend Military boy- j soanker and endorsed his wild i efforts to make an apparent suc- I cess out of an nnmitigated failure. | But aa, iu a moment of temporary forgetfulness. caused by his exasperation at the absurd anti-cli-max thrown into his speech. the Gospel gan-carrier said before retiring — “the truth wili out, and we ehall insist ou the truth- We ean get along with the statements made by our enemiea, but we want «nd ahall insiat on them telling the And to further quote but to oppo»itely apply, tl We ahall conquer for ve have the iruth on aur »ide.” Again. farewell! How »«d to »ay farewell to »uch an exhibition of mingled impudence «nd idiocy 1 And no paa»age money voted «s yet

The ingenious StAr*writer has got Puatapu on the br.iin. and hassucceeded in adding his usual display of malieioua lying to his well demonstrated iguorance in speaking about the lands menlioned. His accusations and inainuations against Mr. Parker are simply puerile when it is known that Mr. Parker’s leaseof the Puukapu lands has elevan (11 i years yet to run, and that it is perfectly volnntarily on his part that he tias surrendered 1,000 acres of the lands to Ihe government to allow them toexj>eriment with homesteads. lt would be an additional ineome to Mr. Parker if a number of settlers would take up the lands. They would be b-»und to eat beef, and they would Buy that from the Parker ranch. but in our crit’.cism of the prospected homestead lots, we were not considering the interests of Mr. Parker. or any other iudividual, but we simply lifted a warning voice to the young maa employed in Honolulu and his Jap, whom the Star tried to delude into investing their savings in Puukapu. The Star man, of course, c»insidered it a glorious opportunity to get in a slap at Mr. Parker, and therefore printed its malicious and wilfully lying statement against him. lf the Star pretended to be an honest journaI it could easily have learned the true state of affairs from theCrown Commissioners, and then it would have fo\jnd out that Mr. Parker, for years has considered the advisab’hty of cutting several of his large' lands into lots suitable for settlers. We simply protested against the selection of Puukapu for such purpose sitnply because theland isabsolutoly unfit for cultivation, and we believe that we know more about those apeeial lands than doe» Doctor McGrew. or ihe Star.or even Professor Alexander. The portion of the la.ids wnieh it is proposed to cut up into homesteads has never been used to ‘*fatten cattle” on and no cattle ever got fat on it During drives, cattle have been driven outo it as a resting plaee for a uight or so, but as it is covered with the coarsest and largest kind of manienie grass unfit for food and overrun with kikania , tnat is sufficient reason to keep the cattle off. If Professor Alex.mder really has eaid that the land is fit for ihe cultivstion of coffee he must have been dreamiog or talking through his headgear. We always thought that shelter was an indispensable necessity for the success of the coflee-trees, but where the Professor ean find any shelter whatever on the 1000 acres now ofiVred we would like to know. Coffeecan grow . and does grow in o*her parts of Waimea but it will never grow in Puukapu. Twogentlemen well know n to the kamaainas here tried onee to grow eane on that very spot of Puukapu where D.ictor McGrew now invites the young men in Houolulu to sink their savings, aud after the eane had grown for about three years :t wasnT high enougb to hide the prostrated Doctor if he sbould have sought shelter there—say from a tongue Iash'mg and scorcning from Claus Spreckeli. Professor Alexander may be an autbority on all malters pertaming to the snrvey of these Islands, but as a practical farmer or an experienced cultivator, he is not in it, and his opinion goes for naught. % ' pinanee Minisler S. M. Damon ia quoted by ihe Star on W edneeday nigbt as outlining his poi!cy financially for the puhlie aa followa:

(We have fiUed in the outlines with a commentary in parentheses from our know!edge ot what the financial condition really is): Mr. Damon loquitur: ‘‘ It is my inlention to create a reserve fund 80 that there shall be a halanee iu the Treasury ” (by not payi.ig on demaud tbe lawlul elaima against it, unless there is some moiie\ lell in :t afier meeling the elaim) “ beyond the actual needs of the day.” (What are the needs? Only what you eau’l help paying ou being pressed). “This may entail a lillle hardship at times" (No donbt it will on those who want their money. lawfully due them. and can’t get it) “ but in the end it will strengthen the pos!tion of the Government (to be known fiuancially aa a ‘ bad pay’) “and convince the bondholders (they are backed upby English warships that’s why they have first elaim) “and depositors in the Postal Savings Pank” (who play second Violin to the English Loan) “ that their righls and interests will be protected in the first instance” (that is to say everybody «Ise niust go unuaid till the bond iuterest and the Postal Savings Bauk claims are met. Poor governmeut servants, army, contractors, and creditors, you’re to get left). “The Puhlie credit is the key to the whole situation ” (Good for you, Sammy, You’re a bully boy with a glass eye for looking alter the capitalist). “ The Hawaiian government has always raet its engagements” (Yes, as long as it was a Monarchy) “ though tbere hav« heeu delavs” (and apparently there are going to be more) “ from unavoidable causes ” (chief of whieh is absolute laek of funds) “at different times” (but especially now ); “ but in tbe end no one has ever suffered from the refusal of the government to meet its just debts” (No ! No one, except the poor who have had to diacount their clairas against it, and apparently will agam. But surely, You are not going to refuse to meet the just debts of the government, the chief and first of whieh by the law 1 of master and servant are those due to its employees). “ I shall consider it my first duty to perpetuate the tradition.” (lf we only knew what tradition your enigmatic and Delphic Pythonesian oracular utterances had reference to. whether to payment, or refusal to pay; we should know whether to applaud you or uphold you to’ scorn, but until you eiplain in clear, unmistakeable language what you mean, we ahall not do so. Hurry up now and explain; else the publ;c will lose confidence in your Ananeial stability, or ability, or both, and that will bad for the plutocratic bondholders and other holders of Ilawaiian Government financial securities ) The A<lvertiser wants the royalist organs to tnke un the filth, whieh Mr. J. L. Stevens intends to stuff into the American puhlie, aeriously. andrefute his statements. No dear. the momenl for doing so is past. The laek of credence placed in Mr. Stevens’ statements by the U. S. Government has been fully proven bv his diahonorab’ie diacharge from the service, whieh waa done in such a humiliating manner lhat very few aimilar inalaneeā ean be mentioned in the diplomatic departmenta of any coantry. Mimater Blount is inform ed tbat hia eommiaaion is to be dated kaek from the 9th, and be is inatructed to take the oath of office before Mr Stevens’ subordinate, ihe consul-general and simply to

notify Stevena to t'irn over ;h» Leealion forthwith. laste*d Mr. Stevens iutnduchg c . oessor aiui thereatter tak ■ z .. - oongee frotn the Hawaiian o vernaioiu. he is totally ign >mi ,ir.d minister Blout appear> alone and introduces himself. The dtiM:oh ,to minister l>lount wa? the ?;ro: est and most emphatic repu.i. »t\>n of Mr. Stevens aiui all h - aot. . here, and furnishes the U ,--t proof of that all his further mi'?utements and further lies and vilinoatiou will have no more eflV-ct in the Uniteii Siates or on t'ne j . President Cleveland, than will the piteous whining of the rat caught in a trap on the steel-h.irs u;.i the springs of the trap. The Star has been very silent in regard to Colonel Spreckels latt>. It is said that the Oolonel otl red to asaist creation, by amending a certai:i portion ot Dr. Mcvirew < aiiatomy, aiul this kind ofl’er «eenii to have sbut the oUl marine h> •;>:• tal expert up like a elam. 0f course he continuesto ahuee Nordhoff whom he blames for having been consistent in his views of annexation of Hawaii for the last ‘3 1 years, whioh show of consi8tencv he, in his usual logical >tyle tlerides in an article headed Xordhotf vs. Nordhofl’. The Advertiser ii folIowiug the Doctor’s eiampla and leaves Mr. Spreckels severelv alone. therebv hoping to eoneiliale ihe real creditor of the goverument whose due bills seem to have a paralvzing eff«ct on the gorero> ment and their siibsidized orgau*. Mr. Spreckels nuist feel plea?«d lo noliee the esteem, regard, and love with wieh the P. G. ia treating him—In spite of the foaming article in the Star against Frank Pratt this gentleman still hoM» sway as Cousul General in Saa Francisco, and in spite of Wilder» petition lor Wilder that young gentleman ia still sludying dipiomacy in Honolulu only and as far from ihe coveted olliee in San Francisco to-day as he was Ufore the P. G. was born, The it>»vernment uound in Waikapu whi> u was abo!ished at the instigation of the Attorney-General t*> get a ?iap iu at M. Cornwell is r®-€3tabliihe>i. The slap hit Spreckels instead ol Oomwell, aud it has been com;dereJ wise to eaneel the alap. Ol course the Star to!d us that no mau could make the powerful g>»vernment cut and run like a tU»ck ot anlelopea or any nther long-legi. , e': quadruped by waving a ftw do«* bills. but it seetns that the ti'KS »t ante!opes has heen caught. ai>J- :4r frora being allowed to cut and run. are being carefully trained to u their little trioks in the Sprecke;* circus to the vast amusemeut >- the audience and <lecided satit:a.tion of ringmaster Ulau.-.