Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 63, 1 December 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

We i iblīsh elsewhero a letter from a co/rt‘spondent who sigus ltirasell So’ ilist, and who advocates a coniproniise bttween the two political parties now fighting for sapremacy in Hawaii. While we personally are oppoued to the supgestions of our correspondent. and C‘ nsidcr his proposition. impracticable, and irnpossible, we shall be very willing to see a c ilni discussion as to \vhat uaeasures would be the wisest to auopt for tho pnrpose of reachiug a soluti n of the present situatiou, and ut Ihe saine time accept tble to the large majority of Royalists as well as to the small minority of anuexationists. The Supreme Court has suspeuded Mr. F. Wundenberg pending an investigation as to the truth of the charges whieh Attornoy (reneral Smith has brought against him. The principal charge and the one whieh undoubtedlv is tho most damaging iu the oyes of the C. J., is that Mr. Wundenberg told the trulh. Wo hope that the investigation will be puhlie, and that the interestiug disclosures whieh we presutne will bebrought out may be known to the eountrv. Whv have not Damon, Dole, Soper, and Waterhouse, been suspended? Thoy are all eqoally guilty of the eiiuie of t e 11 i n g the trnth to Mr. l»louut, aud they shonld sharo thē fate of Wnndenberg. Turn the Rascals out. lt seeras reraarkable tbat whenever there is an opiuin—soizuro in Honolnlu, it is the poliee that do the business. It certaiulv does uot speak well for the Custom Huuse, that uo sei-zui-es of any account are made by its officials while the poliee make Irequent arrests and tbe price of the drug is cheaper than ever whieh proves that a largeamonnt of it is iraported. We cannot j*ossiblv believe that there under the iraraaculate provisional governraeut ean exist an opium ring. That would l*e too fngbtful, aml it would fill old Steveus heart with dismay. Aml yet on further retioctiou, we do remember something about corruption iu opium when the virtuous reform party was in j>ower aud the whiskered eolonel held sway in the Statiou Honse. We believe even that we wouhi be ab!e to-day to traee a “ring” that deals iu the deadly poisou, but we shall refraiu from doing so as the center of the circle might be found among the selected few. who have appoiuted themse!vos —bv the grace of Steveus—our rulers and legislators. Anyhow. we will snggest that the Costom officials wake up or there will arise an odor of opium from the Collector General’s sanctum whieh will stinke iu the nostrils of the eomunih'. Mr. Sauford B. Dole the Pro-

1 visional Minister of Foreign | Atfairs has suq>rised us in the higbest degree by dismissing Mr. E. Stiies for many years a a clerk in the Foreign Otiice. ; Mr. Stiles who is a Hawaiian refused to shoulder a gun against his couutrvmen. and was discharged by the a11eged upright i fairminded honorable Minister. The dismissal of Stiles in itself is of no acconnt. a short vacation will do him uo barm, bnt it is | I pitifnl to see Mr. Dole give way j to the claraor of the irresnonsible ; mob whieh has been howling for ! ihe scalpsof the Hawaiian offioial> who were loyal enough to refn.se to take arras against thelr eonn- ! trvmeu, while they at the sarae ■ tirae signified their loyalty to their employers by taking the oath of office. The action of Mr. Dole assnmesa worse aspect when we uotice that neither the minister of finance, uor the minister of Interior have followed his example aud attempted to forcn their subordinates to beeoiue volunteers. Mr. Dole has alwavs been paraded as such a maguificent example of a true upright patriot, and his love for the Hawaiians has always beeu mentioned in the strongest terms —by hiraself especially. Sinco the dismissal of Stiles we are inclined to believe that we have been “taken in” and that the patriotism, and love, etc., aro nothing, but humbug.