Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 2, 6 November 1901 — A WORD OF WARNING TO THE UNWARY. [ARTICLE]

A WORD OF WARNING TO THE UNWARY.

We would like to call the attention of P tl^c despicable attempts of the "immaculatc family compact" to discredit the native Hawaiian before the eyes of the American people. This class of men who in some insances when they first came to these Islands were penniless and but mere adventurers, passing undei the guise of Holy Writ and religion, have proven themselves the traducers and robbers of the very people who helped and nurtured them in their days of want. Through misrepresentations they betrayed the all-confiding Hawaiian; and now that the United States, in their wellknown magnanimous spirit of justice, have righted our wrongs and suffered us to once more enjoy the freedom of self-govern-ment, these same men, after having miserably failed at the polls and being reluctant to relinquish the autocratic power they had assumed to themselves, sought through their hirelings and the few ardent

supporters they had managed to get into the last Legislature, and in connivance with the Executive, to antagonize and frustrate any policy or measures of the Hawaiian members for the good of the country, so as to prove them incompetent and justify their damnable scheme of asking for their disfranchisement. Some of them even have the effrontery to openly gloat over their policy and the actions of their obstructions in the Upper House,, although presumably passing themselves off as Republicans, to the disgust of those who have the interest of the party and the true principles of republicanism at heart. The summary dismissal of Hawaiian officials and employes after they had worked hard during the last campaign for what they supposed the right party, in the interest of good government, clearly shows the contemptible ingratitude of this crowd of self-seekers commonly known as the Family Compact, who are simply in the country for pelf and power. We would* advise all true Republicans and especially our Hawaiian brethren to beware of the seductive influence of this crowd, whose real purpose were so plainly exposed at the meeting of the Republican Central Committee last month.