Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 156, 8 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Au*-ther of the saints bas got int<> troub!e it -y attempting to vilify the Queen iu a native bouse of worship befjre a gathering uf Hawaiian- This time it is a Mr. Emer? -» wh • ha> eihib!ted himself. and who had to be corre< ted in an unmistakable manner before his narruw mind eoukl conceive that the Hawaiiana are in no m->o<i to listen any foreigner’s <lander against their ; Oueeu nor are they at present so deaf to all sentiments of patriotism as to approve of annexation talk. It seems that this alleged Christian sj>eclmen whtse exploit in Kapuukoio Church has given occassion to a great deal of comment adinits that he was wrong in broaching the subject of annexation and revolution to the Hawaiiane, but he didn’t know how sensitive they were on the subject. The trouble not alone with this Mr. Emerson, but with bis whole clique is, that they don’t know anything al all about the true sentiments, feelings, and opinions of the native Hawaiians, but judge them all from what they hear from such disrej>utable sycophants as Mr. Joseph U. Kawainui, of all Hawaiians the most despised by all his countrymen. The semi-reverend, serai-sur-veying ass put the case squarely thus; An appeal to the nation to pray for the restoration of their Queen and rights has been made by a committee of whom J. Alapai is ehainuan. Now Alapai, though a deacon in high standing in the church for manv years, is a healhen and worships a familiar spirit (not Cuuha J e). Can you as Christian join with a heathen like that to pray to God for a political t»urj.)ose? As this ungrateful part-owner of lands, given to his father by a Hawaiian sovereigu, has thus exj)ressed himeelf to Hawaiiana, we suppose he will now for consistency’s sake, go to the foreign eleraent and ask the Advieory and Executive Councils to dismiss their secretary as an avowed backslidmg agnostic. and will stop his eubgcription to the Advertiser whieh is edited by a second hand Dutch Kant. who regrets having been ‘*suckled in a creed out worn,” and will eall on the different members of the government to make puhlie profession of pure Emersonian Christianity and will cease altending Central Union to hear dilettante sermons on Christianless raorals or unchristianly vindictive politics, delivered by men who privately profess their belief in sunst»ots, but their unbelief in Christian dogma. To judge from an editorial in last night's “Bulletin” and from & eouple of letters in this morning's “Advertiser” tbere re*lly seems to be a move on foot lo make a general sweep of all government officials uow holding offioe, and replace tbem by that interesting assortmenl whieh gathered in the Armory on th« day of revolution. If the Advi«ory Council, contrary to all faira«M and just!ce. should give way to the clamoring office-seekers it will stamp the revolution as

being simply a move by the “outs to get “in,” and not as the result of an honest conviction that ihe change wa- for the gx>d of the country at large and all ciasses in il. Is it p<>s-ible that the followers of the revolutionary party whom the “Advertiser” is alwa\> eulog:sing for their disinterestednes=, bravery. and unselfish lovc for liberty, and the g-x)d cause, simply adhere to ihe Provisional Government. because they hope to obtain office under the government? ls it p)ssible that the alleged spontaneous outburst of patriotism whieh, we | are told, gathered hundreds round ; the Refnrm Partv’s standard 1 simplv was causet.l by ihe prospects of salaries andbx>dle? If this be so what a different aspect i does the whole atl’air take. All the glory, the true sense of patriotisra, the display of the virtues of the Anglo-Saxon race, and the general rot with whieh the “Advertiaer” serves us every morning, vanishes. And all therc is left for our admiring gaze is the two cents sugar bounty for the big bugs, and the offices for the smaller fry. The heayy expenses whieh the Provisional Government is in* curnng for the military forces are enough to arouse suspicion. What reason is there at the present time for uniforming and equipping all the volunteer forces ? Is it not a fact that the treasury cannot stand the expense and that the repair of roads and bridges—whieh after the present stormflood will be needed more than ever —will have to be neglected, and made to wait, for the purpose of satisfying the mercenary forces. We fully realise the difficulty of the Provisional Government in getting out of the obligations whieh the mercenaries feel that ihe government morally owes them, but we should be surprised to see the men who constitute the Executive Council for one minute weaken. and coromit an act of glaring injustice. In regard to the officials now in the employ of the government we find that the great majonty of them were in office uuder the Thurston-Damon administration and have been retained by all the subsequent administrations. We rememl)er well that it ereated a great deal of dissatisfaction when the cabinet whieh followed the Thūrston ministry refused to sweep the government oftices for polilieal reasons, and a number of the N’alional Reform Party have blamed every incoming administration for not helping *‘the boys.” We have not got an established ctvil service in this country, but il has heeii a tacit understanding between both polilieal parties to avoid the spoil8-system, and such understanding has been adhered to by all ministrjes. In 1887, tbere was a great howl for oflice by the revoIutionists of the day, but we hardly remember a single instance where Messrs. Green, Thurston, and Damon made a single change for a political reasons in their respective offices. Mr. Ashford believed in the spoils-princi-ple and tilled many offices with his followers. Some of them have l>een retained in office by subsequent administrations and some—well. the least said about tbem the better, Let competency to perform the work of an office be the first eonsider*tion for obtaining it, and don’t let it be ooneidered damaging to an official that he hes done his daty during one or twenty »dmin-

i$:rations—the making and unmaking of whieh he had no more to do with than the mau in the moon. The “Advertiser" haī a great dea! to say ahoul an investigation whieh i? taking piaie in the Boanl of Heallh and oromis-s wonderful res>ilts. Poor P. C. A. ! It hae s» often crie-l woif thal nob>xly listen? t» it auy m«>re. H*ven’t we expected to he.»r ihe rtirlt:ng di-ci -ure~ of <.orrupti>tn, brib-ry. and fraud in the Poliee Depart | uient aud Cu?l>ui Hon?e. and yet j I we are thir-ti ig to receive all the i i informatioD r latinc to ?uch mat- ; ter= whieh the “Adverti>er «lways , bas claiuied to }H>s«e>5. Not an ; iota of proof has ever heen brought fonvard to substantiate the lying assertions made by tbe Reform Party, and its organ against officials under fortner regimes. Personal spite, and inb>rn inelinalion, to slauder and helie hisb“tters, have heen the sole causes fir the malignant and foul slanders eommitted by the Sunday School teaohing editor of the “P. C. Advertiser.” But bv all means go on with the investigations. We believe that it " ill be of great benetit to overBoard of Heahh, especially the branch of it whieh bas been under the supervision of the Advertiser's good friend, the faithful and supervirtuous ex-agent Mr. C. B. Reynolds. The Kuokoa (that peer in lies and falsehoods of the Advertiser) has been greatly worried, because the electors on the other Islands have protested in wrlting against the revolution, and against annexation; and it has heen dishing up the most reraarkable statements, more especially relating to Maui. One of them is that five cents were paid in Hana for eaeh signature; another that no signatures were obtained in Makawao and only a few in 8preckelsville and Wailuku; another that one list of signatures was found in the streetsof Wailuku and forwarded to the Kuokoa. \\ e should not have notioed these dratts on Mr. Kawainui’e imagination as the Maui people are so conversant with the true state of affairs, and with the Kuokoa’e usual inelination to lie, that they haven’t worried, but several of our readcrs in Honolulu have aske<l us to eiplain the true transactions. It issimp!y this. that theelectors on Maui. Hawaii and Kauai expressod themselves over their signatures as being opposed to the recent move and to annexation, and that nearly every elector to whom the protest was presented subscribed t« it. The same would have taken plaee in Honolulu onlv it was considered wiser not to circulate the protests during the perlod when might was right. To construe the acti«n of the electors ae treasonable, as Mr. Kawainui does, is simply the most egregious nonsense, and the government have never looked at in that hgbt. We are not going to tell Mr. Kawainui how many electors Bigned the protests. because we have had no access tothem. They are now on their way to Wasbington, and will be used in due time. One list whieh we s\w from one smsll e!ectoral district contained 78 signatures of foreigners of all nationaiitv, beeides more than 120 natiTes—and we are mformed tbat all the liata *ere iub#cribed in tbe | eame proportion. The Iiet whieh

was *Touad” in Wailuku, wa> hauded t« Mr. J. M . Ka'.ua, who pretended to be in sympathy with the Oueen s Goremnent. ’>ut Iater on chaitged b:s mind <h >; :r.g to made sherifl‘of M»ui) and handed the list in his "i >n over to Kawainui and Company. The pr>'tests circulated in Makawa >, received the signatures of every Hawaiian elect >r ex> -pt governmeut officials. while the lie refer- , ring lo the list- in Hana. i- - ' ridiculous a- not of any eommenl. Mr. Kawainui has reI ceived the Hana people’s opinionof him in so plain a manner that he ; always like to reta!iate again«t j th*>m. They have declined toele< t ! or nominate him for the I/?gislature, and he naturallv resents the well deserved kicking received | frorn ihem.