Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 79, 20 December 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Minister Willia bas now seen to eommunieaie with the soealleil Provisional Government, and he has accor«Iing to the P. C. A. politely asked them to alep down and out. The Adverti?er editress who evideutly —like all women— neverwaits for an answer st«tes that further communicatious between the rebels aml Washingtou are necessnrv before any action eau be taken. Let us dispel the naive idea of the Adveiliser. Nothing not even a line will be forwarded by the insane men who rebelled whieii ean chaDged the dictum cf the President of tho United States. Do they lliink that Cleveland, the grandest Araerican ever existing, is like SamuelDamon who * cowardly abandoued the principlos tliut he professed because a 8creamiug owl liko the Star raado a wanung, a disasterboding howl? Minister M illis w’ill go right ahead. He will restore to Hawaii the constitution whieh was violated not by Queen Liliuokalani, but by the irresponsible mob who now term themselves a provisional governmeut. Fight! tbese hounds yell. Resistance is the word of these blatherskites. The citizens, resorve is to wait for siguals during iho day—siguals that will eall them lo their guus. What rot! Whut absurdity!! What lyiug foolishness!!! We do not address ourselves to the men who pretend to eneourage a resistance against the troops of the United States. We do not write for the benefit of tbe few deluded asses who believe in the words of the hired editor of tho Star and get courage because that filibustering auiiual who is ready uow to jump '‘the caose”—and perhaps the countiy —tells them that everything is “all right” and that the United States to the tun of sixty millions will back Messrs Dole an«i Smith. We do not Jaddress the loud-talking well-borers, butcbers, or banking clerks whose employment will be forfeited in a day or two, for making tbe<streets reek with their insane aud senseless talk, but we do address ourselves to the misl«?d, the misguided aud the decoi\*)d uion, who, for a tromentary tccess to filthy lucre hav« been enticed to promise, well — to Jire on the Amenean g. Let them understand that there isn*t a coward on b»mrd the Philde!ph;-< »>“r on ih#- Adams. Let ■them rem»mber that every man there will do his duty—his duty to hi« oath and fi.‘.g. and wiil. irregpective of private opinion, or private friendsbip T obey his order, «nd s h o o t down any man, 1 e t him eall himself an American —a traitorous Ame-

rican—who stands in the way of the will of tbe head of that great and glorions repnblic. The dilapidaled Ir»sh and Dutch and Mongrels who look at the present trooble as a godsend, we take no notice of. Tbcy ean sbape their own course as they please—they are beneatli the notice either of the American forces or of the loyal citizeus. No revenge, no punishment, no retaliation will ever fall on the p«x>r hirelings whoenlisted and sbouldered a gun for the P. G. The men who are responsible will be made to ans\ver in full to the ]>eof>le of Hawaii. It is necessary onee more to eiplain to the bulldozing mass of ignorance, who edits ihe Star, aml iuspires the poly-glot birelings with the belief that they are safe from the hangman s rope if they fire into U. S. troops acd kill or wound some of Unele Sam’s naval forces, that the self-styled Provisional Goverumeut of tbe Hawaiian Islands, is nut a goverumeut in the eyes of other nations and has never been recogaized as such by any of them, except Kussia, whose Minister of Foreign Atfairs was in such a state of bewilderment as to what sort of a ehameleou a Provisional Governraent might be that in the spac« of one sheet of paper be styles his recognitioa —a recognition of the Provisional Government, and then a recognition of the Hawaiian llepuhlie. This sort of recugnitiou id ay s u i t the great eighteen whose self-conferred graudeur and power enables them “to play such tricks before High Heaven as make the Angels weep,” but even they haven‘t dared to justify the recognition of the Autocrat of all the Kussias by becomipg that Repnblic whieh he officially recognized. No act of war ean be committed by the P. G. against any nation. No nalion ean <pmmit an act of war against them. They are not the nation or the goveruraent of Hawaii, haviug by their own proelamaiion simply assumed the functions of trustees of the Hawaiian Nation until the Government of the United States decided as to whether its represeutative hail injnred a peaeeahle and friendly naiion by assisting to overturu the goverament chosen by its people, by promising security and protection to a few alien conspirators. • This has now been done. And for these reasons and all the principles of Intenrvtional Law the United States forces, if landed do not commit an act of war against the Hawaiian Nation for they land at the request of that naiion to restore its cbosen ruler and form of govemment. The United States forces land to eompel tho obedience of its own citizens to its treaties of friendship and the orders of their own Iegitimate rnlers. They land also to attend to the case of tbose freebooting and hlibustering aliena who have attacked and trodden nnder foot the right of the citizens of an allied and friendly nation to the United States. Let the editor and others who ineiie encoorage or hire persons

to fire on the United States troops in tha execution of their dnh' beware. Let them remember the punisbment due under military laws for such an offence. It is the rope not the bullet. The Marshal has no% yet taken the pain to eome out publicly aud refute the statements made in our columns by Hariy Juen. "V\'hat’s the matter? The Marshal, as we suppose we have to eall him for a few hours raore, has tried to get out of his scrape. and away from the stigma pobliclvcastonhim by abosing Juen in general terms, He has never made a denial as to the facts i presented by Juen. Mesimply| make these remarks, because we are prepared to furnish some more affidāvits, whieh will show Mr. Hitchcock in his true-red-color. Of course anyone familiar with newspaper writing in this eommunity realized this morning that p*oor old M hitney never wrote the editorial beaded *'A demand and its proper answer. That the volgarity aud abuse, either emauated from S. E Bishop orM*. R. Gastle is beyond doubt. The name of M • O. Sraith has been mentioned as a possible writor, but we feel assored tbat he doesu’t kuow sufficient English to fill the eolumn in question. Well, uever mind who wrote the scurrilous article, H. M. Whitney will have to bear the brunt of the consequences. We have uothing to say in regard to his personal abose of the Queen. Such abnse will be properly answered in a few days and the editor of it will be “seen.” Bnt we do object to the constant parading of the lottery and of the opium laws as a cause for the holy (!) and sacred (!) revolutiou of Mr. Whitney’s editor and his followers. The was considered to be of advantage to this community by many of tbe men who now openly favor annexation or at least the P. G. In spite of S. E. Bishop’s repeated assertion that men like McGrew, and others did not know what they were dorng. when they signed the petitions favoring the lottery, we still believe that it was a measure very friendly to, and very mueh in accord with their feelings. Prominent Germans like Mr. Lansing expressed themselves in favor of the scheme; £uglishmen of all classes favored it, and nearly all Americans approved of it. What was the reason, will be asked; and we will tell. For years and years a pawn broker shop doing bnsinessnnder tho name of Bishop &Co Bankers (!) control!ed the money market here. Any man whom ambition enterprise or disaster corapelled to borrow money had to go to Bishop »fc Co. It is nnnecessary for us to state to tbe public tbe outrageous terms aud tbe more than outrageous rates at whieh that *‘banking’ (so help ns God) firm did business. Nearly every m&n who has made his home here is in their clutches and at the mercy of the »

most unscrupulous management of tbat concern. Then, after a while, Spreckels started a bankir.g business. and for a while. it looked that the honest and generons spirit of that man wouhi plaee the finances of the country on a proper footing, and relieve the community of the Bishop monopoly. But no, it did not Iast very long before “even. thing ’ was understood between the two banks, aud the treatment of everybody was felt as mueh on Fort Street as it before had been felt on Merchaut Street. The | combination was not tasteful to I anv of the parties, but it was extremely profitable. Then, in the mind of raany citizens. especially the sutierers under our financial monopoly was hatohed the idea of a lottery. The gambliug part of the scheme met perbaps with the disapproval even of the leading promoters, but the banking part was endors•ed every where. W e are as a matter of principle opposed to a lottery as a lottery ouly, but as au institation whieh will make money easy and cheaj*:r, we believe that every citizen will join us in our best wis h e s for the establishment of such a scheme —everyone except the bunkers. The opium-lieenee law of whieh the Advertiser also tries to make capital, wo hardly need to touch. That law was passed by a vote, whieh comprised a large number of the Reform Party’s members, among whom was the ex-comraissioner to W r ashington Mr. Marsden. This country neither desires to “rob” the United States through a lottery bill nor to “poison” them through an opium law. Ameriea will take care of herself aud so will with the permission of the great and generous powers of the world Hawaii nei.