Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 238, 8 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The remarkable congloraeratioo in the Advertieer’s edit»rial eolomn- yesterday was undoubted- ; lv f«r>duce<i for th« purp«»8e of telling Mr. Spreckels th»t he mast not hnve a voice in Hawriian politics anv longer and that if he ghould insist in protecting hia interests here he will be cr'ished by the Advertiser ciique. For the mogl superiative idiocy comraend us to the Advertiser in its abortive essav on the Hawaiian situation. So neither Mr. Spreckels’ advice or mone\- are want-d any longer by the Hawaiian gov« rnment? It will be pleasing lo Mr. Spreckels to learn that hia money (nwer mind his advice) is not \vanted either any longer by the private individua!s §o closelv connected with and allied to the Adverliser clique, and we exjiect that the repayment of the funds advanced will take plaoe immediatelv. Is the Advertiser aware that several very iraportant leaders of the Heform Party have heen saved from total and hopeless ruin bv this very «ame Claus Spreckels who is now toid in « more or less pointed manner to get out from here. < Does the drivelling idiot who makea up the steamer issues of the Advertiser know that one-fourth of &11 the t&xes of the countrt is paid every year through the hands of Claus Spreckels who is now told that he is out of Hawaiian politics.” Can the cliqu« whieh inspires the Advertiser article get into their skulls that if Claus Spreckels declares war on the Reforra Party and the supporters of the Provisional Government he will bankrupt the individuals of that party beyond saring. if they hare any business sense in them. they will know that any man with the capital at his disposition that Spreckele has ean ruin and erabarrass a sraall mercantile coramunity like this at a very auiall sacrifice, aud we feel that Claus Spreckels will be perfectly justified in using all means to crowd the meu to the wall who ere represented by the P. C. Advertiser. The Advertiser tells us whal the situation is in Hawaii to day. The ignorance whieh has been added to its general tissue of liea ig astonishii«g. The transfer of the government departmeuts from the building heretofore used for thera into the Palaee has barelv missed creating a strong feeling of disgust and hatred t»wards the g»vernmenl whieh did n»t even have the deceucy to wait in taking tbat step until the protest of the Queen to the United States endorsed and recognired by the Provisional Government and accepted by the United States has been finalty settied. Doe« the Advertiser or the government believe that the Hawaiiana deiight in seeing Mr. S. B. EK>le Uke the seat aacred to Hawaiian royalty Uking it anasked and nnbidden and uneupported by the sotere;gn power—the will of the people? That every tbing is quiet and peacefal is simply because the Queeo and ber people with tbe utmost confidence await the momeni when tbe U. S. administration will be ready to recctify the grcat wrong done in their name and restore ererythiog Janu«ry 1S93, previoos to the unas it was on the 16th day of

lawful land;ng of theL.S, forces and prcviou? loiheopen participation of thc minister of the U. S., J. L. Stevens. in ihe conspiracv and and c»nseqaenl revolution. because ihe Hawaiians knoie ’that such will be the o>urse of President CleveLmd they look with indjjferenee at the ehi disb des-?cration of the royal Palaee. Because they ( knoie that the on!v ngical outcome i of the polil : cal situati»ns lies in the restoration of the g>veroment in stotu quo ther«-f»re they ean afi»rd to sinile at \lr. D>les usurpation of the royal dais and the playing of Vankee Dood!eon the royal piano by that tactful and gentlemanly American (?) specimeti the Surgeon General and Advis ry Secretary R <dgers. But while Mr. Dole rests nis weary head uuder ihe royal Canop\- and the paws of R»dgers besmirch the royal piano the web is being steadily and surelv unravelled, and Ihe truth in all its nakedaess appears bef»fe the world and proves the wickedness and crime whieh have heen committed in Hawan in the name of the greutest Hepuhlie of the world. The financial situation has not improved at all. Spreckeis has heen paid but the governraent refuses to state how the money was jtn>curcd. The change of creditors does not change the insolvency of < the Treasury. Spreckels still holds the halanee of financial power in his hand and ha will eome out the winner in the fiuancial tug-of-war proposed to him by tha smaller fry of less renown, as he has every ume that the small men here, who laek his brain and his money, attempted to huek him. The firms > nd individuale who have accepted the paper signed by the P. G. stand a good ehanee of losing every cent advanced by them. Wiih restoration and the turniug haek of the hands of time’s eloek to January the ldth, comes repudiation of eaeh and every action done by the pri>visional government and to wh«>m are the doluded men who believed in the possibility of the United States setting their seal of approval on a glaring injustice and an unholy crime to look f»r redress? We have in f»rmer issues pointed out the impossibility of the treasury carrying on the expeuses whieh are now bring incurred. but still we noliee no s;gn of any radical reduction. It is true that some soldiers have heen discharged. It is stated that the nuraber of telephones heretofore subscribed for has heen somewhat reduced, but the insatiable drigon so proj>er‘.y differentiated as the N. G. elill swallows the hulk ofthe revenue and will frustrate every honest attempt at economy and retrenchment. The town was full of rumors yesterday, tending to show that there was a move on loot to commit sorae oj>en outrage against the Queea. Theee rumors &t one time took tangible shape and it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that tbe infamous proposition had heen dtscussed at least in the presence of some high military officials of the P. G. Since the distardly plot to hlow up Washingtou Plaee was bungled op a few nights ago, there have been indications that the deaperate vagr&nts who bang on to the tail of the government’s military forcea propoeed > to raise eome trouble whereby tbeir existeuce could be further neeeaeitated and ju«tified, and they thereby be ahle to eonlinue their halcyon dayt of unlimitod pie and

poisoued peaa. The temporary ahaenee of Minbter Biouul «enii to have been <Mnsidered an cxceilent occasion for creating a diaturbanee aud tbe plans f>»r * uiove on the Qaeen’s residence were fair!y well conc »cted—and if tried would have been m»re thau fairly weli froalraled. We have as a rule not mentioued or laken notice of rumors such as generally fly around town, but we believe when that the eime has eome it becomes an error to simply pasa by the opeu thre-ats and the freely mentioned pr«'posala agiinst the safety of the Queen. lf tbe Pr«»visioual Government sh>>uld besitate io showing a plain determinalion not alone to defead the Queen, but alao tu diaavow and rebuke any utterancea of its officials against her safety, it then heeomea the duty of the represeutatives c»f tl>e foreiga powers to step in aml furnish the physically guarantee and safe-guaxd for the safety of Hawaii’s liueeu whieh they mora ly and lawfully oweher—wedo not doubt f«>r a momenl that the represeutatives of the United States are perfectly ready to perform their duty towards the sovereign whoee case has been accepted by them for arbitration. but we thinit it is jnst as well that they should understaud that the puhlie 8eniimenls are that the threats have passed the status of empty boasting and silly talk. aud that there is sotne reasonable possibdity of attempts to carry them into effect. The P. G. shou!d be able and ready to furnish the sufficient guarantees and thereby raakeforeign interference unneeeesary —if they are williug is adifferent matter altogether, and that 'S for the foreign ministers to ascertain. We believe it wae Brons«m Howard who in an interview in San Francisco upon his retuni from Honolulu a while ago, said that the most peculiar feature in the Hawaiian revolution was the relalion helween the “gentlemen of the prov;sional governraent” and the gentlemen on the other aide. The talented visitor likened those relations to those of opposing attorneys or editors and expressed surprise over the facility with whieh the opposing factiona could exuress in one moment their desire to make a carvmg operation on eaeh otber’s throats and thereafter enjoy a friendly eoeklail together. The truth of this aBsertiou was f«»rc;bly iliustrated last Tue»dav upon the departure of the Claudine. Minister Blount and Mrs. Blount took passage on tne Claudine for Maui wherethey are to visit the Hon. W. H. Cornwell, aud a number of people were at wharf to bid g«x«dbye to His Exceliency —It must have sadly puzzled the minister to see Messrs Dole and Parker exchanging eompliments and smiles be!onging to the stock-in-trade of premier« and thoroughbred diplomats. or to see Messrs CcrnweII an«i King shake eaeh other by their manly right hands and smilingly discours9 on the profits ofthe government pound m Waikapu while Mr. Spreckels facetiouslypoked W. O. Smith in the riba and beamed benevolently on the rbeumatic featurea of that at-torney-general while advising him to make an a«sessm9nt on the •harea io Uie Reciprocity Piantation. Yes, pdeed, the mmi*ter must have been surprised to noliee the apparent cordiality when he remembered that he U told daily tbat it tak«s eannone and guna to protect Mr. Dole again«t Mr. Par-

ker, aud that Mr. Cornwe,l. sleepiag and waking. is o *ncoctiug plans to get a hand whieh eau beat King high, and thal the attoruey general iearned m the law isemptying bottle« of uaiukiller to get suffictent strength to devise a new law to deport Spreckels and confiscate hi« properly —more eepecially his plant «ti>»n advanoes. But such are the plain facts in lhis Paradise of the Pacific. The polilieal dnims and the polilieal cymbals and ihe pohlieal tom-toms are there. but except the greal noise whieh lhey mase there is nothing in them exeepl wind —and wind —and wind. Tbeessay in theStar«»a German politics w.»uld b>> of no special intarest were is not that the tacl is fresh in raind thai th>* man who has just assistrd the provisi»>nal governmentout «*f its financial pilikin is the representative of the sovereign whieh the Stir hopes will be crushed by the popular w;ll in Germany. Thearticle in question is insulting and coutumelious against His Majes ty the EmperorofGetmany, aud it heeomea his plain duty under interuational laws for Mr. H. F. Glade to eall upou the provisional government, and demand that they take tbe nec«-ssary steps to prevent a loeal newspaper. more e»pecially a semi-«>fficial paper, to publish iusultmg itemsagainst the ruier of a friendly nation. Shonld the P. G. refuse to iisten to the just demand of the Imperial Royal Consul ht ean wave his due bill under their nose and thereby scare thein into ob«?dience. It is rather arauaing to noliee a newspaper like the Star plaee itself on the dem«x:ratic platform and defend the eauae of the people—in Germany-while it at ihe sarae time advgcates and supporta a most ol*jectionabIe military uligarchy in Hawaii. and aa a rule damns the people here. What is sauce for the Germans ia not sance f«*r the Hawaiiana according to the Star cook-book, bat then we think that that culinary work is out of date, as it is certaioly is out of demand long ago. The Star «*f retracling notoriety haa never forgiven our trpose of numerical feebleness of the Anuexation Club in contrast with that 8currilous aml defaraatory concatenation of printed fabricatiou’9 assertions that it numbered 6000 in plaee of it3 miserable actual lōO. It now urges that moribund and decadent institution to take advantage of the desire aad intention ofevery patriotic AmeHean tocelebrate his couutry’s natal day and the time honored custom of all foreigners and natives hert of as8isling them to flttingly rejoice in belonging to the greatest republic on earth, so thal it may elaim every participant in the day’s exercises from the Minister Plenipotentiary to the humblest apprentice from the navy Jfrom tbe wealthiest Enghshman lo the pooreat Portuguese, fr>*m the moel rabid P-G-office-holding annexationist to the loyal Hawaiian, as a part of the vanished 5850 who have not yet materialized to ihe puhlie gaze. But the trick is too ihin, too traneparent. Wheth«r the loss of Dr. McGrew haa romoved all the brains whieh we have hitherto credited the Star as po3sessing we know not, but from appearances it bas. Sad acd sorry is the St*r ov«r the Democratic ascendency in the United Sutes just now, The voice of iu weeping and wailing is hcard in every line and exudes through •very eolomn till the very air is

weary of reverKersting thc miserr of the writer. // Anueiat:oa thoold be defeired now a Kepuhliean viotory in the l nileil Mate« would gve it an immeiliale footing. v The voice is the voico of Jacob. bat the hands are those of Ksau. The ifalios are ours butthe aeolimeni is thal ot the anneintion club and its mouthpieoes. O woeful end! li annexation «hould be dcferred —Aud haa it eome to this? No more str >ng assertion ami juyful pnielauialion that annexatiou will eome immediately. No more allegi»tions that th »#e who hope aud believe in the u:timat* refl(Oration «»f the monarchv are leaning on a broben revd. Now a'.l • i* ohanged. “And the lh>n roareth and tl»e whang»i«w>dle mouru«th the h»?t of her tirst bi»rn.“ Aa Shake<i-eare says "muoh virtue in au if.” And Dr. Rodgera played Yankee D>Hxlie 0:1 the piano. One of those aiM>nymou9 writers in the Star proceeds t«> give a copy of the naturaliz »lion law of 18>S2, iV»rgetful probabiy thal it waa repealeii in 1SS8. and then starts out like the rest of the annexation dique to make asaertiona, uneupported by apeeihe example», whieh are intended to cast ohloquy on the Royal Family and the admini8lration of ihe government under the M«»narchy. Let the aionymous anake in the grass who penned the eommuniealion tr«»t out his instances and we will be better prepared to believe him.‘Andone ounee of fact is w«.rth a ton of argument’ the pr»verb «ay9 and it is e »rrect. We pa9d over his slip in »aying “fureigner9 of uneieepUonal character” initead of unexceptionable heeauee we preaume he meana the latter and not the former, as tnat would toUlly deetroy even lhat shred of argument whieh he haa built upon bare a?9ertion, unaupported by a ecintilUof pro»f.