Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 265, 20 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Ykctkrday the AuPtralia lrft , fvt San Francisco l>earing with it Mr.' CIaus Spreckels and his family amongst nuraerous other p»9•engers.The Hui Aloha Aina tbetter known afl the Hawaiian Patriotic League) through its suokesraan Mr. J. Ē. Bush presented Mr. Spreckelfl witl* an address to ind;cate their •ppreciation of the interest and goodwill he had alwnya extended t6 Hawaii and the Hawaiian peo|*le and whieh he hnd always indicated during his visit just termioated. Some of his penonal friends and others perhaps not ao personalIy intimate had read with amufleraent the aspirations of editor iohnalone of the Advertiser io try and create a sensational ralue for hia lucubrations as press eorrespondent of the Associated Press by repeating. as absolutely planned, the silly vaporings of •erai-crazy annezationists tbst lhere was bere in the ranks of the •nnexation club an inner ring iorined for the purpose of murderingBomeoftbe Royalist (so-called) Iaader8, and giving • list of tho*e doomed to die »t their handa. Cnowmg ihat • placard to tb« ■ame effoCt had heen already placed on Mr. 8preekela’ gate and had cau«ed ierioui and genuine annoyt * . • • - i i MM to both him and others it waa twolved by about balf a-dozen of IhoM (Aentioned by name to turn Ihe whole affair into ridicalo and ■o show thess absurdly insane |hiWtenenf that no stock conld be l»ksn in their thrests further thsn ’ 4» expose them to ihe cynosure of the civiliced world and let whatmr damags such pub1ication I » | \ \ ’ V>nld ' give-be done to ths canss iheee holek onea were propocedly «pho!ding. For thic purpoes it «as resolved Id purcbase a gold-besded eane aod ptccepl it to Mr. Claas Spreckels, cuitably ioceribcd as a souTenir of ( lhs iioie when hia life waa tbrcalcsed by imheeik* on the Hawaiian lalsQda who profeseedly fiavored cnnexation to America—ths laud cf the brawecnd ihe free. So tbe aaoa waa purehaaed aod inacribed w folk>wa: I» t Class l ( Moritari ta aalataas. (• Memonam FkoseT< 7 rFeUowCit>asaa Dooaāsd to Dw " At tha haadB of tha Mordpr 8odaty •m inccribad tba namaa af all IhM th.ar.Szw a

in«r, Chronicle and Call to hava been doomed to die by the handa of these aasassins—from the Qceen and Minister Blount down to the humhle persons who hslp to edit this little sheet. ■ . I The fact tbat the macription was partly in Latin and partly in German, whieh appareutly Duzzled the scboIarsbip of both oapera. and that their reportera were denied all sight of the eane or its inscription as the matter was pnrely a private affair of the donors with Mr. Claus Spreckels, seems to have driven both papers into a state of frant.c excitement bardering on the extravagant frenzy of an inmale of the msane Asylum. We are treated by both papers to an extravsgant tirade on the insult offered Mr. Blount by insinuating him to be a donor ot the stick and so taking a partisan part in politics here. Now all this sudden and violently indignant defense of Mr. Biount and putting of him on a pedestal of puhlie admiration by these two pape% inust amuse that gentlemen exceedingly after having but a day or two ago been characterized by them as “*nother eraanation of Georgia politics,” and having heen constant!y :nsulted and hated both here and ubroad by these very writers and supporters of the Advertiser and tbe Star. But what is most arausing in all this tempest in a teapot is the fsct that there never was any pretence that either tbe Queen or Miuister Blount had subscribed a cent or indicated tbeir approvaI of tbe deed or had any knowledge of it. Like others, their namea had been •landerously used in the Ezaminer asd Chronicle, &c., through editor Jobnatone of the Advertiaer, and it waa considered that, having no otber information of who waa doomed to die, tbe whole liai should be given aa a memenlo to Mr. Spreckels in future yeara of who were considered worthy to be threatened with death at the aama time as bimself, so that to bis grandcbildren aud bis fireside croniee aa ha grew old he migbt be abla to •how in what honored company bs hiul heen selected aa a targst to Wieak fhedisappointment of fools’ ideaa un. .Aa ths Latin and Gsrman pbrmses with the other qnotationa (whieh when translated convey ths whols point uf tbe joke) aeem to have excited the wearied an£ractuoeities of the Star and Advertiaer crama. we will innalala them here to set tbeir fsvercd minda at reat and we will in fntura aak that the P. O. paaa a law forbidding any engraver or printer lo to cngrave or prinl anythiog, bul Ihe aimpleal aod «asiesk of Eneliah (aocnratc geography, grammar aad spisiling, bsiog nol insistsd eo). Thal will poaribly enaMo oor sxeilod onatemporariss to gai back lo their aonnal halanoe of anmniimooa dnHnsm and platHndinal twaddla.

Awe! Clam», Morituri te a alutana, i> % »lightlT altered for«n of th* weli known salute of tbe gladi«ton to the aneieni Roaan Emperor« pnor to enterln the arena.t« combatg fto the death with wild beest«, or * eaeh olher, and means, “Hail, CUus, heine about to die. we aalote tbee.” u Lthfn Sie hundfrt und uiemaU »terbfn, meana *mav you hve for centuries and uever die.” Now that tue explanatious of tbe affair have been mnde tbe significsnce of the fucl that Mr. J. E. Busb as orator cf ihe Hui Aloha Aina had to present Mr. Spreckels with an addn-ss of coi)gratulation from Hawaiians before the stearaer left, otherwise it couidn’t be presented at all, and Mr. Spreckels would have gone away osteasibly unassured of the rtgard Hawaiians have for him and hia actions; and, that the same time limil being on tbem, certain of Mr. Spreckels' friends, chose on partaking of his Champagne to present him with • token af tiieir esteem and alao to •how their appreciation of the amounl of actual crtdence to be placed in Mr. Johnstone the editor of the Advertiser and his yarns by, as the last act of their Johnstone — doomed lives, digging up what little they had left—according to that veracious chronicler —and giving » gold-headed eane to support tbe footsteps of the declining years of another citizen d«x>med to die apeedily by tbe pen of thesame Jobnstone, it seems to us that the whole of Ilonolulu will put on ite broadest grin and give out ite heartiest guffaw over the lateet attempt of tbese iwo editorial niueomooopa to wrest polilieal intereet out of a eoeial event and to onee more inault the gentleman who repre9ente the country they profeee to belong to, by eolemnly and Peckiniffianly declaring thai be had nothing to do with it—whieh nobody ever aatd be did—and that it ia an infamoue attempt to make Royalist eapilal out of him. In the meaniime Mr. Blount will no doubt calmiy reet undie turbed by thia freeh evidence of the Advertieer and the Star’e determinalion to get him to eommil himeelf to some expreseion of opinion before hia report hae heen given to tbe pnhlie. And we and Oolonel SDreckeIa’ otber frienda will helieve juat ae moeh in Meam. Smith and Jnho«tone and “whoeo loT«th and maketb a iie” aa we hare hitherto dooe.