Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 54, 20 November 1893 — THAT RENEGADE. [ARTICLE]

THAT RENEGADE.

A correspondent wbose eommunication we print elsewhere, j calls attention to the fact that » Mr. John Thomas Waterhouse has again cropped out in print. We have formerly considered it our duty to publish facts whieh of course cannot be veiy pleasant to Mr. Waterhonse, but he always brings the ceusure of the community and of the newspapers npoa himself by his indiscrimiuate inelinalion to rush into print. A mau of Mr. Waterhouse's calil.ro an<I moral standing here caunot aflord to plaee lnmself under tho strong and searching light of the gaze of publicity. We will reprint the rather in coherent statements of the :*.ncient Van Demonian whieh appeared iu the Star last Saturday: “Editor Star: The enclosed is a copy of a letter frora a friend, who is au elderly merchant of first-class stauding. I have been a merchant on my own account fiom 1833, so am no “spring ehieken.” Yours truly, John T. Waterhocse. ‘Dear Friend: You will see by the Star paper: *Willisopens his mouth.’ You need not be afraid that persons will not act. AVe have got men that wili lay down their lives for this cause, and She leill not be reinstated at any cost.’’ Let me congratulate you, Mr. Editor in daring to do right aud displaying yoor backbone. You are what they used to eall, wheu I went to boarding school in 1825. “A brick.” J. T. Waterhouse.” Mr. J. T. Waterhouse calls the Star editor a brick, and we trust that he is ready to financially back the euterprise of the Star and become a “brick-lawyer” — the lawyers know that it will be needed soon. But we have in our usual charitable spirits felt a great deal of pity for Editor Smith when he was entangled (or paid) to pub - lish Mr. Waterhouse's letters. This aneieni pieee of furniture has a disagreeable habit of denyiug aud repudiating his sayings, and his actions whenever thev should appear to be inconvenient or expensive or tronblesome to himself. Some years ago—when the occasion seemed to be fnll of advautage—this charitable and Christian Vandemonian publicly announced that he had found tho Lord and he related his expenenee of how he succeeded iu making his “tind.” (Not that we for a minute believe that he ever wou!d give up his find without a suitable reward!) Now this Jesus-finding respectable gentleman tells us in th» Slar that he hes been a merchant—of some repute—?ince 1833. Pardon us for asking if there haven't been same lapses in this interesting j>eriod d»ring whieh neither the repute northe merchant was there? Should we fix the date of th» lanee to March, 1864? Because on the 15th of March, 1834, this reputable (!) renegade, vandemonian who now dares to p»ace him?elf before the puhlie as a man entit!ed to be heard or lietened to. wrote to one W. L. Green & letter whieh un-dt-niable etamped him as a liar, a tbief, and a rascal. Space forbids us to reproduce Mr. John Tbomas’ letter in full

—God knows it has bet?n repro- ! Jnced often enongh —baj for the * s;ike of the stranger who edits ■ the Star, we shali as a warning ■ to hini in regaid to fatare pnblic- | ations of Mr. Waterhonse's rigman>les qaote the “acknowledgements' of Mr. John Thomas Waterhouse as made in print on the 15th of March 1864. He then wn>te ;i' fo!lows: “I uow acknow!edge that in a conversation with Mr. James Yates of Victoria V. 1. on boar«l the steamer from Panama in 186*2, I pur[H>selv left him nnder the impression that \Ymr (Janiou, Green and Rhodes) tirm \vas in a bad way at Hono lula and that yon \\ere not fit persons to entrnst with goods ou consignment. ” “I also ackno\vledge that I did on the 30th of Jnly last. \vrite an anonymous letter to Mr. Fiank Spencer of Waimea. the object of whieh was to iujnre you in the eyes of said Spencer.” “1 dso admit that, >n October of last year. or when yon were in \ ictoria. I st ited that Janion Green and Rhodes had drawn bills for $12,000 to 815,000 ou Janiou Green »t Co. whieh \vere not honored.” *‘And I fnrther acknowledge that since May, 1861, I have. on ditferent occasions and to varions lx-rsoiiS spoken ofthefirm of .lanion. Green *t Co.. in a way calculated to leave an imj)ression that they were not safe and solveut.” * * “I am now fully satisfied that these statements were eaeh and atl of tliem untrue, unjnst, and \vithout any foundation.” * * ‘T ean only aeeounl for my subsequent line of conduct whieh I now see to have b«en wrong nn>l unealled f>»r, by my disHpp>>intnient and vexation at having been obhged in that year to eall a meeting of my creditors of whom your firm were the largest, and also by my annoyanee at your severe comments on m\ r having allowcd my friends in good faith on their part to otfer a composition of fifty cents on the dollar—when I onght to have kuown that my assets were more thau saflicieut to pay every one iu fnll.” Mr. Star man, give us some more oi Johu Thomas’ letters’ His letters sbow his honesty and general character as well as the \vager whieh he sometime ago oflered to lay in a certain barber shop in Honolulu. The Jesus-findiug professional blackmailer offered to bet $25,000 to 81.000 that the Queen woukl uot be restored and with murder in his heart the exVaudemonian added “if she \vas restored. she wouldu't bo alive for twenty-fonr honrs.” Had the bet been taken by the horrilied loya!ists within hearing, we suppose that the interesting exEnglishman woukl have ofl’ered to cover his snggestion—at the okl rate of 50 cents on a dollar.