Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 262, 14 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Wun tbe SUr wigin*lly thed ita beema on th« polītical horizon of Hooololu, it «implj pualjned ili frienda &od aapporten by howl-

ing for a frte ballot for tbe H*waiiana in care of annexation. It axplained tbis as beiug the on!j 'course tbat would meet witb tha . approxal of the Americau nation aud bring it to (*xot th« annexation aeheme. lt further speut eolumna of Taluable (?) apaee in telling tbe Uawaiiana to eome in out of the rain and not lialen au_v i longer to thoae nanghty. naughty Royaiista. wbo were telliug then (ao it said) tbat the annexationists did not want to. and would not if thev cou!d help it. give them the franchise the iime as the other iuhabitants cf the i?lands B it the Ilawaiim did not listen to the voice of the charmer, “charm he never so wisely.” And now this pondcrously elephauiine, but infantilely idiotic sheet produors the following in | reply t<> Paul Neumann’a appeal f>r a pleb : scite: This talk of a plebiscite by an ab<>riginal race, whieh is lapaine into paganism and is led by unscrupuloiis politicians, is obvious clap-trap. While our peopie have favortd tbe idea of giving the natives, as a conditiou of their aeeeplanee of anneialion, a ehanea to reverse theniselves and grow into the stature <>f American citizeus. they never have proposed th.it the Conduct of polilieal sffairs shouid be wholly left to aboriginal devices. Even the late Hawaiian monarchy restricted aboriginal suffrage for good and sufficient cause; and what it did not dare oennil would be folly for the Provi8ioual Gov ernment to experimenl with, par ticularly when it eame to staking its own existence on the issue. “Ah! infidel, I have thee on the hip!” What cans’t thou say now to excuse thy former attempt at Jesuitical Wrgiversation? ” "Oh, what a tang'ed web we weive, When first we pract ee to deceive!” Go, and hide your diminished head amongst those urabrageous and upas-iike faisehoods whieh you have cultivated to such an eitent as to totally extinguish the life 5n the little annexation plant whieh you were hired to assist in raising. • The Hawaiian knew y»u and the ‘*traii of the serpent” over you when even your sweetest ink was used t<> sprinkle him. aud now that your own admissions have eiplained the full extent of the trap you had prepared for him, he simply scorns8uch innately treacheroue double dealing and heartily desi>i8es the soulless wretches who 1 are guilty of attempting to perpetrate eueh acts of dishonesty. Learn to be true — if only to your native land — before you attempt to Iead others in paths cf patriotism and bonor. A day or tw« ago, the Star infant discovered in tbe einuoua anfractuoeiliea of its otherwise ampty cerebrun: that the United States had more area than «ny country within the confinea of fcurope and also a greater population than any geograpbical division there than any except Russia. Having so lar taken our advice to take geography with its eoda the Kentucky or the grippe mounted up aud occupied the vacancy to such an extent that it proceeded to state that the U. S. ( was greater than the “wide, wide world” and by infensoce the greatest man in it was the writer of the articie. To thi* we modest!y took exception as to Ihe facts set out for: ‘*There’s nothing so heeomea • m»n. As aiode?t 8tillness and bamiiitj.” Yet as the poet says: “I vot when tbe cid wae avare of thif An angry maa waa he.” so in return we *re told that we poaaane “neither facta nor intellect.” The •vidence of tbe poesesaion of theee, we will le*ve to our subscriben who h*ve to pay for whatever Httle we have got, *nd the answer ao f*r u s*tisfactory to ua. bowerer mueh jealoosy and envy, lt tnay rouse in tbe minds of the 8tar idioi, who, in hia reply like the ostricb in the fable eoneeal» hia amall bead n tbc aand and gaily kieka kia enormcu* pedal extremitkw ia the air to iet the people know be haa aocceeded in hiding himaell Bnt “to oor mnilona.” To use Shakaapere’a phnae to one who

evideotly knowa bnt little about him. •'How e*sv doet tbon t*ke U1 Ecg!*nd np” and dispose of the fsct that Canada and Austraiia tith«r of them outmeas':re the area of ihe United States considerably without taking into account the home conntry or the «<ther colonies and dependenoies. The populalion of British Indu alone numbers five times that of the States without counting the l*ict that the British Isles eonlain, email as they are,nearly two-thirds as many a? are found in the States to-dav. T<> count or comi>are the wealth of the two nations w >u!d be au invidi<<us tisk t<'*-day in view of the fiaancialdisast< rs whieharenow overtaking the States. and nhi!e we have no desire to disp:«rage the greatest republic on earth, we have none ol' that inaane hankering after i flaunting foo!ishly the b<wstful beIlowings of siliy i:cksi)it'.ies whieh is generally denominated, fr.'m 'the country of its <>rigin, ' “S(<read-eagleism” and tnerc-f re we j will Stinp!y remark with the immortal bard: "O pardoD! since a crooke l tigure may Attest in litt!e p!ace a million And let us, ciphers to th s gr<*at aeeo npt On your imaginary forces work.” For we have never learned it yet to be a disgrace to be a British subjrct, or an Amen'ean one either for that matter, though we do think it so Ui heeome au American after having heen a Britisher and thenseekto turn aa a Britisheragain as America wou!d not endorse our schemes of raplne and plutider* Far better in the words of the poet to be: “LiKe tnie Engl1ah hearts Stuck close tcgether.” than to be such a renegade for worldly advancement <>r pelf. “turning with every wind that blows,” aod yet like the weath**reoek unahle to advance. Let us reraind the Star and its readers that these bursts of mi9stateraent. and twisting and stip()ressioD of statisticB and facts. and even evasions of its own language are to be corapared to the French before the bittle of Agincourt whom the Swan of Avon wntes as •*The confident an.i over lusty French Do the low rated EngliBti play at dice.” and the final result at the time—a prophecy for the future perh*ps—is to be deeoly poudered over, nnd let us conclude with a fragme:it of that apostrophe t<> the white-cliffed Alhion, that pearl set in th* silver seas, “Thia fortress built by nature for herself.” •‘Aga nst the envy of leae happier lands.” » H*ving heen bowled out in it* alleged history of the New Zealand Maorit and tbe £gyptian fell*hs and their present polilieal condi tion, the Slar proc. eds now lo say th*t they are howling for the removil of British rule. Considering that in both cases the chief advocates of the British remaining to protect thena against the tyranny of military despota and piratical adventurer? *re these same Mauris and fellahs, tbis <s rich—almo*t aa rich as theofl disproved assertion — the P,G. and it* he«ds, as well as to the puhlie, that Her Majesty Queen LiliuoKalani furnishes or bas ever furnished a single cent towards the expenses of tb« Holomca, not even in subseribing for it, for as a token of loyaity ber paper ia faraished lree, and pay would not be accepted for it.