Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 233, 1 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The with<Jra»al by Mr. Si<reckt-Is of ihe iuoney due him from ihe government seems to have fil!ed the anneiition narty with indignation. It is so every time wilh those gentlemen. lf the:r opponents adopt any of th*-ir own tacti< ® and measures against them es thev have us»-d and :uaugurated themselves, they howl, and cotnplain, and feel extremely injured. Bovcotting and persecution, ae a method ot forcing people to join the rauks of the annexationigts was a melh<>d adopted by the anneialion party, and has been carried on constantly since the beginning of the campaigu. Now Mr. Si>recke!s, we understand, intends to give the annexationists a little of their own medicine aud his demand on the governraent is eimply the opning of tbe ball. Mr. Spreokels’ eentiraents ont he eubject, are that thosein favorofannexation, are working agiinst his interests —if they are in hia employ, they will have to quit, and if they owe him money, they will have to pay or go to the wall. M hen Mr. Spreckels begina to draw in money due him by annexatiomets the are that there will be a nuraber of collapse9, and there certainly will be eoine reason for gnaBhing of teeth and wailing when Claus Sprecke*9 declares war. The goveruraent indebtedness mav be settled or fixed in tome way or other. but who ia to put up for the private individuals who as plautera or raerchants have got on the debkt side of Claus Spreckela’ ledger. We have been opposed to the policy of boycotting for polilieal reasons from the start, and although such step would have been a forraidable weapou in the hands of the Hawaiian eaah trade, we have always refused to advocate or sanction it in our columii9, but the rabid persisteucy wilh whieh the annexation party has carried on war oa bu9inees men and private citizens. who opjH)9ed thera has made evcry etep agaiii9t them ju9tifiable, and we ehall be pleased to see Mr. Sprcckels carry out such a policy. The annexation campaign has heen carried on with the most unparalleled j>er9onalities and hostilitv — friendshijis have heen broken off —busme«8 connections susj»end—a tnbu placed on social associations with royalists, and in every way haa life iu Hawaii been changed from the plea9ent friendly indoleat dolre far uirnte to the raving hell of a iow political ward in an American metropoli3. The ones who are to hlame for thie un hapj>y state of affairs are the annexationist8. and it is only right that an era of retaliatiou should be oj>ened. The Advertiser tries to ridicule the British citizena who desire to retain a British man-of-war in the port. lf there ie any doubt in the minds of the Britishers as to the abeolute safety of the eituation in Hawaii under the present regime, seems the reqaest quite nataral and justified by the very tone adopted by the annexation organs, more esj>ecially the Star. That j>aj)er is always breathing my8terious tbreats and throwing out hints of something terrible whieh ie going to hapj>en, aod it is alwaya propheeying and advocating violence aud violent meaaurea, ao we eon-

sider it j>erfectly natural that the British taxpayers sbou!d have taken a step whieh may assure them of protection and safety if it shouid be needed. The Star c!aims lo be the organ of the P. G.. and if the tonc ol that paj>er realiy represents the sentiments of the governmeut. then we e >nsider the British request to their mmister well-ad-vised and timely. Tht Star pub'ishes 8omething whieh it pretends is a reiM)rt of Mr. Jas. A. Ix>w to the Pinanoe Oommillee of the Iast Legislature, and whieh is presumed to show business melhods of the monarchy. Mr. Low was emploved by the Finauee eommiUee to expert the b<K)ks of the difft-rent departmeuts and to report wrtatever facts he might find, whieh would be of interest tothe Legislature. Mr. L-ow evidently did not confine hiraself totheduties with whieh he was charged, but made himself very numerous by suggesting reforms in eaeh and every departraeut and by commenting on the way in whieh the books of thegovernment were kept. If the Finance Committee had payed any attention to Mr. Low’s statements, whieh were never substantiated, and jf they had given any credence to his report, we suppose that they would have embodied all Mr. Low’s statements in their report, and caused an extended and thorough investiga tion in all the branches of the government, whieh were being eondemned by the alleged expert. The Pinanee Committee had heen appointed mainly from the leading members of the Reform Party. The chairman wae Mr. H. P. Baldwin, and Mr. L. A. Thurston was the eecond member in importance on the committee, but not even these anti-monarcbical gentlemen, who later on have shown their true colors dared preseut a report to the Legislature based on Mr. Jas. A. Low’e wild and unreliable assertions. If Mr. Low’s typewritten copy of bis report was worthy of notice. why in the name of eommon seuse did not Messrs Baldwin a«id Thurston reproduce it—after having had it grammatically revised —and useittosmite the cabiuet of the monarchy, to whom thev were so bitterly opjx>sed? —Mr. Low speaks in very harsh terms ab >ut the methods in the office of the store-keeper in the Custom House, whieh office was then held by Mr. F. McStocker the present Deouty Collector. It would be :nteresting to know if Mr. McStocker whose ‘*system of keeping books was found to be so. that fraud could readily be carried out hy collusion between the store keeper and the merchants ” has used his new jx)sition to change the system eonderaued by Mr. Jas. A. Low and has accepted humbly the lesson in book-keeping admimstered by that aileged exj)ert. or if in the Post Office, his suggestions have been adopted in regard to the “ balances of the accounts whieh are contrary to tbe first principles of hook-keen-ing.” Thecharges made against the Poliee Deuartment had the carefullest attentiou of Mr. Baldwin’s Committee, and a portion of it was used in their report, but as a whole the statements made were found misleading and incorrect and were eliminated from ihe report presented to the House. The statements about outstanding accounts whieh were ** uuearthed ” in the Custom House were not used by Mr. Baldwin, because he ,upon an investigation, learned—what Mr. Jas. A. Low should have foand out—that the outstanding aeeoonla, u that

of G. W. McFarIaoe Jc Co. t were outfitand:ng. sin3Dlv heeauae they had not heeome dce. The trulh of Mr Low'a exj>erting was that he wae anxious to drag the job out, as loug ag he c>jnvenient’.y could. afi he was paid bv the day and a!so that he waā vtry anxioUfi to gain notorietv as an exi*vrt and therebv » probab!y be appo:uted t * ?otne office (fiay st >rv-keeper ia the Custotn House) to enahle him to show the admirir.g community ‘’how it should be done.” He did not inspire Me?srs. Ba!dwin or Tnurston with any visibie degree >-f confidenoe or admiration aad he neither got the notoriety nor the olhee. The funeral of the late Hon. John 5. Walker wa~ largely attended. The ahaenee of the provisional ministry in teto is eha- ! racteristic of the spirit of hostility and bitier;i with whieh the administnition treat their opponents. Mr. Walker was at the time of his de:uh President of ihe Hawaiian Legis;ature and as such e ntitled to all the honors whieh his dignified position couldensure him. The prominent career ol the deceased was also such. tbat men of such prominence as D imon and Do!e shoukl have considered it a duty to recognize the merits of the late citizen by their presence at his tomb. The amall min ledness exhibited in this instance is noteworthy. The Star contained on the 29th inst. an item of a peculiarly insultiug character against Mr. Xorrie representing him as having participated in a row in a down town saloon last Saturday‘—There was not a scintilla of truth in or reason for the item whieh was “stutfed” into the Star reporter by a soldier in the government army.—Mr. Norrie gave the editor of the Star every possible ehanee to retract the lie and admit, that he had been misinfirmcd. but he refused to avail himself of theopportunity to make an am<rncfe honomhle, and Dr J. S. McGrew was consequently arrested on a warrant issued by District Magifitrate Luther WiIcox. The Doctor wae released on his own recognisan ee. whieh is another glaring exatnple of the discrimination eho'wn in the Attorney-Gene-ral’s department, whieh a short while ago caused the arrest of Messrs Kenyou. and Bueb on a similar cbarge to the one on whieh McGrew was arrested, and in whieh inatauces baiis of 1500 for eaeh was demauded. and Mr. Kenyon was locked in a eell for 15 or 20 min: utes until his counsel had the hail bond signed. As the case is under advisemeut by Judge Foster, we ,shall refrain from further eomments to-day, but eimply eall the attention of tbe British Miniater especial!y ani the Hawaiian people generally to the fact, that as far as "the P. G. is concerned, theold adage that “what is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander’’ neither holds good, or is apphed here. What is jnstice and right m the case of a K yaiist Britisher, is not justice and right in the case of an annexationisl Amen'oan. The case eame up bef>re Judge Foster this mornīng, when JMr. Hartwell on heuall" of the defendant raised a demurrer against the charge, claiming that the artitle in question was not libellous. In his argument he made the remarkable statement that a eaae of lihel depended very moeh on, who the libellor was and who the lihellee, from whieh rather unlenahle poeition, thoogh, he tried later on to crawfish awxy. Jndge Foeter will give hia roling on the demurrer on Saturday.