Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 57, 23 November 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

One of the most absurd of all tho absurd rumors whieh hs.s yet been circulated by the annexa* tionists apj>eared in last night s Star, and was reprcaluced to-day by the fos>ili/.ed morning organ. According to tlie rcmor Her Majestv bas refnsed to “b® restored except a pnarantee for protection b« givea to Her by the I nited States. The Advertiser eomes out (jnito serionsly and asserts that sneh action of the Qaeen \vould be (|Uite uatural and reasonable, as Her Hawaiian adherents are diraiuishiug in nnrabere by every day. A»e wonder sometimes if the uiau or men who \vrite for the Advertiser reaily know what they are writing about, or if they siraply publish thojr outrageous lies for tho purpose of blinding their readers to the trne stato of our utt.urs and inspire thera with hopes whieh will never be realized. Tho Advortiser editors know perfectlv well tliat the Hawaiiaus to-day stand raore united and solid in their love aud adhereuce to the Qneen, aud that not ouo of thcra has been found wavering in lovulty to Hawaii, and her sovoreign. The statemonts dished np bv H*waiians like Jos. LJ. Kawainui, John M. Kalua, Josepa and Waipuilani—all men who tot dly laek the confidence of their conutry. or the right to speak ou thoir behalf. The virtual collapse of tho Kuokoa whieh at one tirae had quite a deceut circulation is an u rrd isputable proof of the loyalty to the Qneen, and tho hostility towards the foreign rebcls whieh at present is the main featuro iu the characters of the Hawaiians. The few hnndred copies whieh the Knokoa issno week!y are distributed ou the ditferent Islands, and ean as a rnle be found reposing in thoir wrappers in boxes at the ofiices of theagents, uncalledfor, unread, and never wanted. And the reasou is siraply that the Ioyal Hawaiians will not even read the slanders aud misrepreseutations wlfich the aunexationists throngh Kawainui serve out in their dilapidated sheet. Mr. Whitney should inquire how many bundles of the Knokoa there ean be found in the ofiioes of sorae of his agents. say in Wailuku in E. H. Bailev’s oftice. He will then j>erhaps reaii/.e something about the adhereuts of the Queen and the snpporters of Hawaii s independence. The daily Kiu«koa is meeting the same fate as the weekly. and although buudles of them are given away the use they are put to is not exactly wbat the annexatiomsts intend tbem for. A weekly Hawaiian pa|X>r naraed “Ka Lei Momi" whieh was started a sbort while ago, by a number of voung Hawaiians has a circulat»on already larger than tbe weekly Kuokoa. and the reason is simply that it speaks to the hearts of the Hawaiians, because it advocates loyalty and i

adherence to Quecn and eonntiy.

We suppose tbat we ooght to feel gratefnl towards AttorneyGenerul W. O. Smitb, because the mauner in whieh be condocts the department at tbe head of whieh he stands will be the sorest and sufest way for the j>ermanent annihilaiion of what is left of the Ileform Party. M e referred in vesterday s issne to the outrage whieh he is guilty of haviug committing by in>tructing the Marshal to shield the editor of the Star agaiust any further libel-snits and by allowing him to remain at liberty on his recognizance whenever he is arrested. On Monday the Stir contamed two libels against Mr. C. B. Wiison. This gentleman together with his attorney Mr. A. Rosa called at the iniliee station for the purpose of having a warrant approved bv the Marshal previous to presenting it to the Judge. The Marshal who is sopposed to be the special guardian of law, justice, and order, and supposed to cany out the duties of his ollieo in au impartial and unbiased manner told Mr. Rosa “that he eoukln t see any use of issuing warrants in the matter referred to, as he (Rosa) had beeu in the Legislatnro in 1886, and knew all the charges made by the Stav against M ilsou to be true.” Mr. Rosa, of course, told the Marshal that he had not been a member of the 1886 Legislature, and that he knew the statements of the Star to be base lies. The Marshal has ao right to express an opinion in a case whieh will be tried at the proper time bofore the proper authorities. It is an outrage for an executive oflicer to take upon himself tbe functions of the judiciary and prejudge a case of whieh he knows absolutelv nothing. But it prooves, that the authorities are approving and backing the Star in its libellons crusade, and the result of such partisau action will be that all confidence aud faith in justice as administered by W. O. Smith aud his satellites will be lost and that the community being unable to depend on the honest aud impartial carrying out of the laws of the Kingdom will be pervaded by a seuse of insecnrity as far as the rights of citizens are eoucerned and with a deep feeling of | contempt and hatred agaiust the ' men who abuse their brief authority forthe puiiiose of helping their favorites who break the law. If a Jodge in the countrydistricts desires to be well eousidered by the immaculate crowd whieh present rules the eouutry he mnst avoid being iudependent and irapartial, but must const*ntlv remember that a Judge aeconling to W. O. Smith aud his Godly friends, is a creation for the sjiecial l>enefit of tbe plant itions. and the sngar planters. If a Jndge forgets himsolf and does his dnty fearlessly aml as an honest man should do trumped up eomplaink is made against him by theplanters or their ageuts. or some Christian lawyer (who owns stocks in sucb planiaiion), and the learned Attorney-General immediatelv takes noiiee of the eomplaiul, and tries to rid the district of suoh au untractable Judge who

foolisbly believes that the law is above the planters. It is fortonate not alone for the Judges, bnt also for tbe conntry at large that Mr. S. B. Do!e is at the heaJ of the governmeut, anJ that his high sense of fairness anJ jnstice acts like a eheek on the ! to the planters) verv accomodating Attorney-General. But it is far from pleasaut for any citizen here to realize that it is necessary for the PresiJent cf the P. G. to Jeliver a lectare to his AttorneyGeneral, anJ reminJ him of such plain facts that a JuJge is not appointeJ for the sake of plantatious. that planters are not above tho 1 u\v, anJ that anv honest man raast aJmit that a JuJge who aJministers law anJ justiee to the best of his ability withont fear anJ favor is doing his Juty, eveu if he thereby steps on tbe favorite corns of some of the churchlysugarbarons. Anv JuJge from the Supreme Bencb to tbe District Court, is liable to err. but it is better tbat an error is committeJ in favor of the poor anJ unprotected than in favor of the wealthy corporations. We hope the Attorney General will think well over tbe lesson receiveJ anJ benefit by the justice anJ fairness containeJ in tho words of Mr. Sanford B. Dole. We have so many times exposed the Star’s andacions Jishonest!y anJ “crass’’ ignorance of everything counecteJ with jonrnalism, from informution to etiquette, from manly conJuct to eommon honesty, auJ from fair statement of facts to fair-play, that it is really tiresome to have to reminJ him onee more that in his treatment of C. B. T\ ilson,. he transgresses every coJe of honor anJ every rule of ethics anJ even lays himself liable for contempt of Court by prejuJging a case now on trial in the tribunals of the countrv. It wouU be far raore in his own favor if, having calleJ Mr. Wilson, every opprobrions epithet possible anJ branJeJ his gooJ name with every species of infamy, now that he has resenteJ this iu the only legal manner known to the justice of this country, anJ since the opportunity has for the first time arisen of nailing those frequently verbally uttereJ slamlers anJ punishing, if not the authors of them. the scribe who haJ solJ j his pen “for golJ anJ silver ! soovenirs” for the purpose of scratching iuto permanent form all the vile anonvmous gutterscrapings whieh fall from the fetiJ lips of the marrieJ conrtesan whose vile imaginings only in eeho emboJy the hiJeous immoralities of their owu secret hearts. Bat a trnce to these moral observations on the Star EJitor s stanJing anJ action in our eommnnitv. His latest action has been to Jig up frora gomewbere a copy of expert (?) Low’s report to the Einanee Committee of the last Legislature Session. With his osnal ignorance he states that this report was maJe to the Legislature while it was simply raaJe to a committee of that boJy whose chairman Mr. H. P. BalJwin hireJ Mr. Low to go rounJ anJ investigate the books of the Jitferent Jepartraents. as he either baJn't the ability or tbe time to Jo it himself. This report (?) of Mr.

I Low s was maJe privately anJ | confiJent:ally to the employer who hireJ his venal services aml | how the Star got it passes onr compreheusion. that is, unles~ wo are to believe that Mr. Low has ; betraveJ his trust However I even that report. pnbli«heJ fnigmentarilv as it has been by the Sl ir. was JisownoJ by bis employers for on reaJing the nnanimous report of that Einanoe Comraittee coraposed of H. P. EaUwin, E. C. Mitcfarlane. L. A. Tburston. K. M. Koahoa, aml i J. A Ak ina. we fiud mneh of the | statements left ont. Far be it from us to suppose th»t this is Jue to Mr. Low’s errors in experting or even t«) the violent prejuJice whieh existeJ in the minJ of the office-less as against the office hoUiug, but the fact is there, that the funJ Jistributing EaUwiu anJ the immaculate showman lhurston deliberately struck those portions out. Now let us again strike the uote of malicious lymg. and spitefnl iguorance whieh the Star wnter so constantly displays. This Johnny come-latelv, too fresh to Jisbelieve what that painted pill-prescriber pours into his only too willing ears. savs, these things are not Jrawn from “the erabezzler s writteu confession to Mr. Thurston meaning thereby Mr. C. B. Wilsou. This is a lie maJe from whole cloth, as if Mr. Thurston haJ haJ Mr. AVilson's written confession of embezzlement, is it likelv that he wouU have retaineJ him in that very ofiice whieh the Star iJiot accuses him of embezzling from for the three years that he heU office himself ? Snch a lie ont of whole cloth tbough is but one of the innnmerable instances of whieh the P. G. anJ its aJherents aml backers have been gnilty of anJ the utter freshness of the Star man onlv aJJs point to the auJacioUs falsehooJs whieh that side have originateJ anJ propagateJ to bolster up their unholy anJ unrighteons canse. Fur instanee the figures refereJ to in this latest exhibition of the Star slauderer’s ignorance aml folh' Jo not in some cases refer to Marshal Wilson’s incnmbency at all anJ in other cases only 13 raouths out of ‘24 of the expenJitures are to be charged to his control and iu others they refer entirely to raatters solely unJer the control of the AttorneyGeneral, and the Marshal not having anvthing to say or Jo for or against. Other instances wheu searcheJ into show umst creditable reasons for the increase of expenJitures inclujing the fact that over 50 j er cent. increise of business was done Juring his iucombeRcy, aud more than Jooble the amonnt of revenue tnrneJ into the government. And most of the cases of censnre beiug applieahle only to the periotl before Mr. A\ :l.son arrived in office anJ whieh cnstoms were changeJ by his Jimction before the alle£ed e.\pert ever saw his job. However, we are not concerned to JefenJ Mr. Wilson or to damn Mr. Low’s repntation as an expert. That will donbtless be Jone before a Jnry of the conntry tu the Jamage of tbe Star pro-

prietary an«.l e\litor. Saflloe it for os to sav onoe more ih.-it the Star uiin uoalil merit botter treatment at eTeryone‘s hauJs if he were le>s aLsolotely di>bonest, angentlemanly. unfair, ilownrightly f&ls.fying in his tre»tment of his opponeuts. l>at wbat oan we expect from him with the associates ho l>«>arls with. sleep' with. au<l visits with Take a lumhle anJ if yon are not oue by nataro at least try to appear and act as a gentleman.