Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 231, 29 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

It with most thorough sincerity that we extend our surrowing eomiolenee to the widow and tamily of ihe late Hon. J. S. a!ker. For very many years Mr \\’alk.er h:is occupied the most prominent plaee in the autonomy of these Islands, as a member of the House of Nobles, as Finance Minister of the Crown, as Audit >r-General. as the chosen Nohle f r the lg!aud of Oahu, as the chosen President of the Legislature. He hasplayed his part manfully and well in the governmcnt of the country, and his conservatism, and thoroughly sound judgment, haveameliorated many a situation whieh otherwise woukl have brought serious trouble on this, his adopted laud. Of Scotchextraction, Amenean «-ducation, and Hawaiian life. the eompound resulted in the product of an honest upright whole-souled an-dtrue hearted gentleman of whom anyone-of any rank, and in any country cou!d be proud to be etyled the friend. His whole soul was notset ou self, but ou thegood of the nation and he has many times sacrificed his own personal and family interests to secure what he deemed to be the good of th« people. “A true patriot” is perhaps his best epitaph—The Kditor desiresto mingle hisown per aonal tears with those ofthefamily and nalion who now moum his untimely loss—and still more sad as oceurring at the present time. None mourn more—as will be seen byour Hawaiian columns-that the Ha'aaliaiih mouni the loss of so donghty and wise a ehampion as the late John S. Walker—may he receive the reward of his siugle heartedneas and devotion. That is our best aud strongest pr iyer for him and may God comfort the widow and orphans, and the orphan nation, in the hour of their afHictiou. We regret to announee the de:ith of Mr. James Gay, one of the best known kamaainaa in the country. Mr. Gay was born in Australia in 1S42, and was consequentlv 51 years of age at the time of his demiee. He was a surveyor by profession, and carried on business as such, until ill heahh interfered with the strain and exercise of •urveying, and he purchased a •heep ranch in the distriot of Waimea, Hawaii, where hē res'ded for several years. In 1?SS4, he sold out, and purchased shortly after the Mokuleia Haneh in the district of Waialua, on this Island, where he •iuee bas hved, and where he has been especially successful in the raising of fine horses, several of whieh are noted on the raoe-track. He was an expert on »11 raiichraatters and Ux>k great interest m the breeding of horses and cattle. Mr. Gay, who was well-known and tx>pular among Hawaiiane with whom he eame in contact, repre•ented the District of Waimea, Kauai, iu the Legislature in the session of 1876 in hia former davs. and he was an k ansuccessful candidate for the office of nohle for Oahu inthe election 1892. when be accepted a nominalion from the Liberal party. In 1876 he married Mary Ellen, eldest daugbter of tbe late Hon. Joho Richxrdson, Circuit Judge of Maui, who survitres him aud with whom he leaves inue.

The Advertieer publishes thi» morning a batch of news by the Irmgard. Tiiis is quite correct and is in the spirit «>f newspaper enterprise. We cordially congratulate our contemporury on it although it bas deprived it of it? usnal editonai attempt at r«>astiug us either personally or by anonymous proxy. We feel sorry, as it leaves us little to write about, but the general puhlie—we understand —feel so glad lhat th>-y are about to present a testimonial to the eaplain of the Irmgard and to offer a reward to any other eaplain who will manage to eome īn in time to prevent the Advertiser Editor’s brain-wearing effusions from eoming t>> the puhlie eye—with the efl’ect of tiring their brains in the vain effort to find out what on earth the inspired idiot is drivelling at. But all this is introductory. It simply is to say that we have found a most fulsome laudation of Thurston inserted in these alleged foreign news received by the lrmgarde. While everv other itera O V is classified as to its plaee of origin ai:d date, this alone has neither. l)are we suspect?- Dare we assert? That this pieee w»s manufactured in the Advertiser’s own bureau of information. and then set in ‘brevier’, and ins«-rted in the foreign news to persuade the puhlie, unacquainted with the details of fraud journalism and. unobservant possibly of the Advertiser tactics, that it was a genuine expression press sentimeut in the United States towards Thurston. We hesitate till we get some explanation. Possibly the Advertiser snake may wriggle into or out of his hole. Whieh? In Saturday’s Advertiser there appears a communication bysomebody who sign8 himself Oommon Decency and in whieh an attempt is made to criticise the Holomua edit»rial on Mr. Stevens. The communication, whieh has a kind of Y. M. C. A. secretarial stamp on it, obj?cts strenuously toouraeeertion that it is the duty of every diplomat to ingratiate himself into the peraonaI fav»>r of the sovereign to whom he is accredited. The Advertiser writer says that “the above does not describe Mr. Stevens conception of his duties” and that is where we fully agree with him. lf it had, he wou!d have heeu saved the hurailiation of bemg kicked out of office in the degrading msnner in whieh President Cleveland settled him, an action whieh demonstrates that the Clevelaud administration’a “eonception of the duties” of its diplomata agrees perfectly with our viewe. The specific charges against ihe Queeu will be attended to. when we know who prefera them, in a convincing and eonelusive manner. The charges have 6j far onlv heeu brought bv a inan whoee official position as Amenean Mimster protected him. and tney seem now to be endorsed only bv a man who bides hiraself under tbe nom-de-plumeof Common Decency—whieh, if he again should be allowed space in the Advertiser on this eubject we should iuggest to him to chauge inlo the mueh more appropriate tercu of Unenmmon Indeeency. The Star tacitly admits th« correctnesa of the statistics whieh w« pablished ia regard to the white populalion in Hawaii and proceeda then to aik us why this large majority does not go ahead and reetors the Queen, if the sentiments of the said majority are in favor oi such step. We will for the tleren hondredth time tell the St ar

that the Hawaiiana don’t want, and uever intend. to interlere w;ta the busiae?s ol the l nited States of America. Don't be itnpatient, D*.*ctor. tne Amerioiu governmeut will move in thie matter soouer than you expect or desire. And uow comes the ever—«hining Star and leads us ouee more iuto the domain of rumor with the tale of a RoyaIist meeting for Mooday night. Blessings on thy head. O Star of Calomel! Tuou furniehcsl mueh fo-H.i. uot for thought, but for the tired editorial scnbe, weary of ureeentiug lacts to uroduce indigestiou amoiigst your supporler6. Ttiy Kx;al and wor.d—wide ignorance of everything past, 1 resent, and to eonie, gives iuany a a reat to the tired braiu of t he writer and no doubt causes thy readers lo exclaim in union, “Give us a restl One eolumn or thereabouts to abuse and vilify the natural sentiment of tho country ie the Star's ordinary allowanee. And it has not exceeded it lhis time. But let us l<x)k at what it says. or rather, astheiditor [with his tongue in his cheekj asserts that he says: He cites variouS countries, in some •f whieh freedom of speech ia eonstitutionally guaranteed, and in others of whieh it is not. Ennee, America, England, Russia are his mentally conjured up examples. And by his remarks we ean see — thoae of us whohavesome personal and practical acquaintance with the modes of government and the rulere of those countriee—th at he knows uothiug ahoul hia subject, but is simply trying to bluff his inexperienced readera into believing that his intimacy with President Carnot, Czar Alexander, Mayor Carter Harrison, and Queen Victoria. is aueh that he is enabled to speak autaoriiative)y on their behalf as to what they would do lf a puhiie meeting was called, lo be held on Emma Square, or Palaee Square in Honolulu. Go to, thou nervy fraud! Taou hast not yet heeome preaident of the Lower Caiifornian, ot any other repubiicand thou never wilt. What dost thou know concerning France, Russia, England or America? Or their modes of governing? Or their modes nf regulating free speech? —Or anythiug else? Tbou hast proved by thine own words how little—how absolutely Zeroic —thy knowledge is. Listen tnd learn ! Thou mountain of obese and adipose fatuosity ! France never had a revolution that denied the right of suffrage to its citizens. Russia d>>ea uot forbid free speech, except it|advocates the overthrow of its existing instituiions. England does not forbid publie meetiugs. to speak on any eubject, unless there happeus to be 'a disturbance of the peaee at the meeting. America allowe all eueh meetings unless there be a distinct incitement to riot at such meeting 1 And evsn little Hawaii, undar the Queen’s government, allowed the celebrated puhiie meeting cal[ed by the committee of «afety on Jan. 16th, bacause it was peaceful and orderly. Ay ! And Iisten onee more, O thou egregious elongalede&mi aainine individual whoee oorporo«ity 'exeeds the weight of the grey matter of thy cerebrum and cerebellum combined, the Con«titution of Haw&ii (whi«h ihe learned and sapient Attorney— General, learned in thelaw—«ay« is still in axietence) guaranteee the rigbt of all persoos to meet without arms, and paaoaably di«11 euu whatever matt«n th#y deeire,

aud resolve what to do under the circumstauces. But none ol the foreign countries before mentioned (as quotc*d by the Star), presvnt the anomaloua lact of a naiion being wrested from its nationality by a handful of foreig iers. All of the:n, h>)wever govcrned, however ruled and carried on. are controlled bythoseof theirown uationality. It rema : .n- lor the St.ir to quote thein in supj>ort of a Miuonty of foreigners, temporurily ruling a uation of another race, until th« protest of that rac« g >es to headquarters—tothe U. S. Government. —Never has the Star so far forgotten (if he ever knew it) bis history of tlie world as in the present mstince. It siraply shows to \\liat lenelh the unscrupulous and mediaevally tyrannical St ir crowd would go if they had the oportunity. Faugh ! the very idea that they wou!d get their way makes evei their strongest su[>porters havo an att.ick of mil de-mtr ! But there is no meeting nevertheless. Yet. thv>u fath»aded firebrand learn to curb lhy desire to see thy blood and intestines spilt in a factionaI riot caused by thine own endeavors to stir up bad blood, and eauae a riot, by deuving to others. what thou exercisest free!y thyself —the right of saying what is in thy mind or rather a;>oli)gy for a miud. Go, shave thy head! Thou mayest thereby relieve thine oeeipul of some of the weight whieh now oppresseth it. Go ? We have said! What was the close conferenee this morning helween the Chief Judiciary and the Star reporter of Oregou fame. It couldn’t possibly be politics, because the Chief never dabbles in that as we all know, but perhaps a perusal of the Star eolumna may di9close wbat that remarkable combination meant.