Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 54, 20 November 1893 — PATRIOT J. T. WATERHOUSE. [ARTICLE]

PATRIOT J. T. WATERHOUSE.

Jndging by an item. and a letter in the Star of kv<t Satnrday. an okl resident might >uppose that there are two merchants here rejoicing in the uame of John Tbos. Waterhoose. Can this be the merchant, who two years ago, before he embarked in the Pearl Harbor laud >cheme, used to eraphasize his loyalty to this land of hi> adoptiou by writting in newspaper corre>pondence ti'- »r> >wr. the qteen over His namei 01d kamaainas know of a certain J. T. Waterbouse wbo eame here from an Diemans Land early in the fifties. when that classic island was a huge ‘ boarding school,’ and nothing more; for tbe enterprising spriug ehiekens of Britain who at home attracted special attention to tbeir need of a change of climate for their country good. Some Iittle time after arrival, that enterprising individual from Van Demonia, ran up in business against a loeal pillar of probity aud commerce who \vasn t any *‘spring ehieken” either, even if he was Green. The story of that collision was printed by agreement at the time it occurred, and raore than onee since, and the Star editor raight prove his quality of impartial biographer-by reproducing \vhat is locally known as the groen letter. It is a pathetic story of how the “elderly mercbant ’ ‘Toved aml lost” the Dollar, and reveals the absolute necessity of a merchant being bisown biographer when he wonkl impress a grinning editor, and cynical puhlie, that he is iu ‘‘first class standing.” In tho raeantine, anyone is a “hiiek’ who will help the Vandemonian “eklerly merchaut” to gratify the only ambition lie was ever known to have, namely to die neh, and if tbe Star man ean help this loeal representative of the Jay Gould tribe, to get teuants for his eheap labor, Japanese bnilt houses, and to sell his specnlative Pearl Hur bor purchases at usurious rates to Araerican investors, attracted by the Annexation “boom;” then, Star Smith might draw his “brick” in silver subsidy; otberwise. the elderly party is liahle to heave it at Smith in ha"d mud. If there was any ehanee of impressing J. T. W. with the fact that there is such a thing as eonsistency in the world, we woulJ advise him to remove that word ‘,Queen” over his Japanese-labor built Nuuann St. Hotel, and fold it np carefnlly in the British flag that he at times used to fold round himself when in years past he nsed to appear in puhlie to defy the “blasted yankees.” and then send tbe lot with tbe Queen street Lion, and Unicorn. to the Bishop mnsenm; there to keep corapany with the Queen’s letter and other members of Sundry annexationist mercbants if “first class standing. ” Tble Britisheb.