Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 179, 15 March 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Thc A<lvertirerV e*lit->r ii y -- Ut<1 v w;<« a t « in*r -- t > • , i u>. W' iii.m—i;atoiv «eut t > Mr. C. W. Asltf*»rd f<r a biblical quotation I and were nn d it-d \vitfi t!i<* f*llowmw c*>rrrct ar.d ap|»r >j-riate one. j Tio re i- ui"rc h >j»t? f >r nne rej>cnt »nt , einucr th>!»i f>r l.aii':» d*>z -n j>r >- j vi.-i< nai Phanae*-» We ieel i>r>)udl | \V<* h.ive j>reachcd the ?-ntimentd cx(-r—- 1 in the Adverti-er >if yeeterd>v f»r nearly tw<» nv»nths and neariy been ianged byth«council j and dr »'vn by the Organ, bul onr per->tencv bas heen rew:»rd<*d, | an<l we receive the lat> ft c<*nvert to our view« with a h<*arty wel- 1 eoine and full forgivenes« for ■ all tne evil whieh he tried to <1 < | us <1 :ring <<nr martyrdom in fighting t!ie aseumptiou <>t desj)otic pow«*rs by the Advis<>ry and Executive Councils. Now our r >ad will be liglit and easy. Aided by the Kef >rra organ und. we trust, soou bv one or tw<> serni'>iis iu tiie Central l*ni<>n, we will be able t<> stav the aggression of tlie P. G. ! and the usurpation of a p«>wer whieh never was intend-d to be placed in the teraporary governnient. lt is very characteristio though that ?Ienry didn’t get his bick up bef >re the CounciI threatened to tatnj>er with the Inaane Asylum. That br<>ke the —well, Henry’s haek. A great deal has he sto<Kl frora the despt tic oligarchy. Nineteen or twenty lawa were added lo the voluminous etatutes of 1SV**2, but he bore it in ailenee, although the Hoi.omi a’s articles brought him nearer an<l nearer to the conviction that the governujfnt. whieh he and his gun he!j>ed to plaee in power, Iike<i this power s<) well that they proposed to retain it and damn the and the people’s will or wisbes. But when they eame t«>o near home; when they monkeyed with th« lunatic asylum; then the cuj> eame to ovef11ow and Henry wrai>ped hiinself*u the Black Flag aud joined the euemy’s eamp, ami now the P. G. is alone, and abused all ar>)uiui, in spite <>f its . jiatronage and adverti8ement8, aiul treasurypaj>. Sic transit gl<>ria inundi! Aud who are to blame ,> The tw<» wise ineu of the Council, Messrs. \Vaterhou89 and Kmmelulh, who formed the ineane asylum c»u - i mitt«*e. These two br>ght genii rep"rted after an mvestig iliou of the apylum that all was well aud w>«rkiug finely —and therrfore they recommended that the superyision of ihe institution be transferred i from the Iuteri<>r Departraeut t» j the B»ard of Hea.lth. It was this ; rec<unmendation whieh made the Advertiser angrv ;uid very near!y 8tircastic. Wbv the tw > brillant counciIl<>rs reco<omeuded the chauge rfter they fotmd everything well, we do n»t kn >w, but pr bably there is more license in the supply furn>shing hne und«r the B< ard of Health than uuder the Minister <>f Intenor. The Department of the interior always ealU for bids for goods furn sbed to any institution under th«t department, <fhile the Board of Heaith is uoi quite so particular in that Une. The Agent of the Board of HeaUh for Moiokai—under whieh title Mr. Meyer hidea

| hi- near.yautocratic power—makes ! ! hi- p rch — - and eootracl8 fcr the J de.iv-rv f_* • <•!- t>.< :!.e -• ttlement without -ubmitting trie or<l<*rs t«i \ | puhlie oomj*et:tioo. and we have f n<> d< .i>: ti. <t the nghte us crowd fton 00 sidi red, 1 r ’ that . -■ xb, etc., are purchasvd lr >m thv ■_• •O'i trien<is <>I th- 1 :-•■ Bv add:i;g the insane * "" 1 j asv!um t<> liie B<>ard <>f Hea;th • an >lhtr fie!d wdl be ojie:ied f>r : | ealie > aiul -alinon. aud we exj>eci ! th:>t ti;- 1 r ->n insi<eotors, of nii-un «e i»-!;eve Mr. Emme!uth ts <>n-*. I will -h rtly rec >mmend that the Ju.il !k* tr.uisf-rred t > the Board of , Health. Then by a judicious hand.i’.g «>f Mr. B « te. of military ’ e >minittee f me. the barracks may ais > 1>- trai.-f-rr<*<i t > ihe Board of ; iieallli —f<>r s ij>j>ii- -—not f»r fumig ition —and then t!iere would be 1 a iuhilee ;uiumg tlie sheenies of tl>e I J ... 1 ; Kaumakapili aiul the Lutheran } jiersuasions. 1 All this e >uld have hapj>ened and the g»!den era for all the old clothes firms would have started if th- combination had remembered to * , see” the Advertiser inan. Now it is too late. The P. G. will either have to start a new paj>er to defend it against ihe terrible eombination of ail the existing organs in Honolulu. or they will have to pacifv the Advertiser by leavmg the insane asylum severely alone and stoj> making more laws. By the Austr.tlia the new uniforms f«>r the array will arrive and also a new flag. We thought all along that the uniforpis were to be furnished by the loyal tailor wh > on the day of the revolution, with the bravery for whieh tailors always have been known, covered with his jiistol an unarmed jx>liceman to give Mr. G«>od a ehanee t<> shoot another <>fficer at his leisure. This is anot#fr sign <>f the ingratitude whieh seems to be conspicnous in the system of the P. G. What a shame to order the uniforms from abroad and send the taxpayer’s raoney out of the c>>untry, when our numerous tailor9 all have stood firmly and solidly by tlie insurgents. and swung their scissorsregardless of costs, and bills. at the enemies. An indignation raeeting >>f the tai!ors is now in order, or they might join the blaok li :g, and get the contract for making certain uniforms f>r those who projx>se to dej>nve this nation of manhood suft’rage and civil nghts. / Mr. Chas. Oooke was interviewed when in the Ptates and it is very iuteresting t<> read 8<>me of Mr. C<xike’s grievances. and opinions in the Chicag<> Henld. His imaginative p »wers seem to be rather well developed f>r a pillar of the C-entral Union. Mr. Cooke br»ught with him “a pile of jv>tition8 favoring snnex»ti>.n.” Now that is the pile whieh we would like to have !ooked into. heeauee if it contains any araount of Hawaiian names they have nnt been obtained honest!y. or with the knowledge of the owners of such names. Bnt we exjiect that Messrs Neumann and Macfarlane will l»ok inlo the “pile” knowing the source frotn whieh it comes. Mr. Cooke is very mueh worried over tbe exj>en9e9 of the old governmeui whieh laid eo heavily»n the taxj»ayer8. He says notbing of course ab>»ut the very light taxation and the very beavv shirking done by the weallhy taxpayers of ihe cuuntrv. This is how he • « gjrieves : “Think of Samuel Parker and William Cornwell, who only

twi> or thn*e y«an ago a cl«?rk in my Iotnberyard at $75 n fn<>nth. and wh> > n w ;y 2' y-’ar* i o'd. 2-ttinir I5.<i ye.tr »nd f we«ring a c urc un f >rtn. ‘ e will admit that th - > a.vfu! —.f true. If Mr. L' mwell tw >"r three yetn ac-> w rse»l in -Mr. C«x»se*5 lumK-r-y.tr l—» ;jich evide n t ' y I - • • ln 8 ■ 99 '■ a t• , , i . 11 ■ d i -2r.i ef-.il ; — : 8 18 •« ri')i e,t t: < -d t>< •>i .i y >r. ;»ii i a C >'.ri unif"nn. A>. i :f iie -i yi> 2> y- 1 ■ > f r ■ i • t: -v - »t.!l w.>r- —; i Mr. C - rv> - at | le st. That t;n* 2e:ti iI D ike of Waikapu look? y«» ing. we wiil all admit. but w- think it w.i- •» nieee of gross dattery t » plaee hini ne being only ‘2S years old. («>h.I forbid that we should give Biliy’s age away. but we ean a«snre >lr. Cooke that iie is r.itber off in his statement as to tiie ducal birthday. If the eolonel h.is worsed for *75 a month. three years ag», f,*r Mr. Cooke. he must have done ii on the sly, bec.iuse we are sure that he has heki his dukedom f>r the last 30 years. and ttiat he has lived fully up to -f75 a month. By the way we are eorry for Judge Frear, because the wrath of Mr. Cooke will now fall on him. He is only 2S years old anil still the taxpayers —>f whom Mr. Cooke undoubtediy must take the lead — pay hini 15.000 a year. Mr. Frear hasn’t got a Court uniform, but he has got a Court toga. and that is just as bad. Even the Chief Justice m'ist have shooked Mr. Cooke, because he says full of indignation; “Then we coire down (mark tbe word down) to the jndiciary. The Chief Justice gets 16,000 a year and a residence.” We have waited for sorne disdosure of this kind for years. The downtn>dden taxpayers and Cnas. C *oke furnish a residence to the Chief Justice, and we have never known it, until Mr. CooKe opened his heart and mouth to the Chicago Herald reporter. This should be stopped at onee, and Mr. Judd’s residenoe should be returned to the taxpayers and back-rent enforced without mercy. We trust the executive eouneil will take the m»tter in hand and get all the particulars from the bril!iant Cooke. The finale of the interview shows Mr Cooke’s veracity in a still stronger light. Speaking ahout the protectorate “he reiterates that it wi«s a necessity of the bonr and approved hy all classe8. Even the Queen herself made no protest.'* We now hope that the P. G. will soon make room in the Advisory Council for “truthful Cliarlie." A very int«Testing article on Hawaii by Sir Edwin Arn«ld app*ears in the Daily Telegraph on February 4th. We quote a p«>rtion of it. ehowine the ouini »n of ihe shrewd aulhor in regard t>> lhis country: If by any hard ehanee th:s interesting kanaea dynasty is to eome to an end, it is very nnlikely that the United Slates Government will wieh to break its political traditions by asauming possession of the Hawaiian Kealm, and equally milikely that the Maritime Powers could accept such a seizure of the Key of the Pacific. Que«n Lilmokalani will probably be restored—but faiiing this there ia a solution of ihe problem whieh

might meet fav rable e•: - lerat:«»;i from all the Pow-rs c>!. > rned. There are new r: > ;. iw gr>up r,ot tl.i!; 1- •’> iap- ; aneee imm : grar.ts who have eome fr«-m V k >hama I N ga,- t-> work on the s.ig;r plantationa. They ;.re t>r i riy, in i ■ people. and haved". e n; r« f>r the ; pr>sj»eritv of Hiwiii t‘i in īh«> Chinese or P>»rto.2 i - T;.e I ”.-r Iwh « ;>re a!- > re- i it- :u »ns 1 rable numl«ers haii ehi- riy t‘r - a Azores aiui are a p r and t e folk »hi!e the C!iii. >- v> : the Lslands only 16 make dollars and t > rvt iru. Tne K>t j» s> ble . “Pr •P-oP>r" theref >re "f the H;>naiian Arohipeli>g ■ in t:.e event I I ■ - - - ; • . _ ' B H'»us«* u •.;;(! !••■ !.> In.;ernt. ' Majeety tl 1 fJa Yokohama :?dist;n;t "iiiy tei «l;«j> from Hon>»luln. The Japanese Goveroment h.i8 the necessary ships. men and m.it ria'.s; no P.«wer wouhi b jei! >us "f ;t. pr>»per regulati<ms K‘ing agree«i t«> bef<>re hand .i> t<> n itive rights, tariffs a»»d all olher < »inlitions >f the “Pr >t«otorate." T gether with a large Japanese unmigratīon and uoder the rai!d and c»nsoientiou9 ndministr «ti<>n <f J.ij>anese offio;a!s. the islands would renoh n pr >spenty hitbert<» undrearaed of, while there ;s affinity en<mgh l>eIween the t*e«»ple <>f Dai Nip|»»n and the native i»"i>!e t<> ensure that they wou!d get ai>>ng very weli together as indeed is now the ca9e wherever the Japan*se aud the Hawaii«ns live side bv -ide. We reprint to-day an edit<>rial whieh appeared in the New Y<>rk Heraid on February 24th, and whieh hae had a gre.it effect on tbe opinion of members of C<»ngress p wUo espeoiaily have expressed their adherenoe to the d<>otrine that th(re is more snijnr (han state »- manship. and more jingni»m (han patriotism inthe wiiole affair. The New York Heral<l is, if the Advertiser ean be believed. one of the unimportant journals whiehdwsn’t realise the divinity of the Proviiioual Governnient and the annexationists in general: N'o Hawaiian Annkxation. In the eommunioalion of “A Disciple of Hauiel Webster” t<> the Eur<>pean Ed:tion of the Hkkai.p, whieh we received by C*»nimeroial Cable and printed in these eolumna yesterday. the r-as >ns why the Unite<l States shonld not annex Hawaii were presented with eonvincing force and tirne!iuess by one who thorouguiy understauds the subject. The views therein expressed are fnlly o<<rr b rated by another well infi>rmed writer, wh«>se letter will l»e f«>und elsewhere in this morning’s Hekalp. B<>th of these authorities. «»ne writing in Parie and tbe other in New York, agree that there is more sugar than 9latesmanshii< aud m<>re jmgoistu thm patri tism in the hasty movement t > make th*-s‘’ distant Ī9lands. with their mongrel population, a part oftheUnil>d StHtas. Ipdee«i, we may add that there is mneh in this Hawaiian atfair suggestive of tbe San D*v mingo busines8 whieh C«»ngress and the country condernned so emphatically and fortunately twenty odd years ago. For a century acqui9iti n of distant sea {-orsessiou3 has heen oppoeed to our national policy and for half a century —frora Presidents Tyler and FilImore lo President Clevelaud, froui Secretane9 Webst«r aod Marcy lo Secretarie9 Bayard and B!aine—the government bas looked upon the auneia-

lion of Hawsii with D’jri:.* all thi-* tim«* the priaoip>e hi ' twn maiut»in«\i th.it n ' f •n-ien £ >Ternnient «n v.i .«.1 *tvure e ■ • >ver th-- i* ai>i~. .iiui tiie j >ti*v of th:.' -Uiiil hf '>,va t ic:t y t*o Cn i 1 by th» I’ ver' f K-ir \Vhy ahoulil t»> now « > prv» i-pit.-itely dfiKirt fr>>:u th’r lime h »nortnl p»>licy wiih.uU eveu st.'ppirg t » a-< w:iether - >nu» g g.mtic sug;»r b. • • ?pin»cy *r fihb :.-ter ue aeh i# n : .it the b»tt>MU ot annex >ti >n. witbout .:-ten;ng t>» the i r t*-?t ••! th* dep «e»i Q leen .m-.l « th >nt even waiting to ho.«r4he Haw.»ii;»n «i ie »*£ the c «ee? We ean g»in nolhiin; cotnsuercially by annexatic»n. f»r the obvious reason th.»t we »lw»y» have had and ev»-r wlll have Ihe great bulk of H.Hwaii - trade. We ean acquire no poliiieal ur naval advantage th.u we have not alre;»dy <ecured and ean a!way- keep l>y treaty with the lelaml* us an imiependent sc»vereignty. In -h'rt. the L*niteci btate' n*'w ei j y? ail the benefitd thal annex.»tion ean bring without the disadvantages whieh the change must inevit»biy ent »il. As f<*r l«'sing any »>f the privileg»s now held th»re is no oeeaaion for fearor anxiety. Kv.*ry Eumpean Fower under8tamis that the United Statee wiil couotenance no fureign footh»»ld »»n the Islands. and Hawaii knows that its highest i\elfare is in maintaining itso!d time relatic»ns with lhis c >antrv. Hut the weightiest objections to the pr »posed annexation are raised by ihe extraordinary, not t«> s.»y 9>iS{*iciou8. ctrcumstances surronnding tbe matter. The scheme is launched at a tiine wiien 'tssucc**'S • w<»uld most benefit tbe ••iu:'r ring Annexation :« n»*t asked or des reci by a majority »»f the Hawaiiana, but by a minority f-reign e!ement whieh f»uddenly overthrew tbe established government. The eiepose»i Queen h is formal!y |irot«'9ted that she yielded not to th • revolutionists. but to the f»rce ofthe United iftates wbich snpported the revolutionists by order of »he American Minister aml the n»val eommander at that |K>int. Unf*rtunately there is mueh to leml c >lor to this eomplaiul nnt only in Ihe events altendi' g aml immediately following the overthrow of the g<»vernment. but ais*» in the eitraordinary aelion of Minister Stevens in j»r->cl.tiining » i<r»tectorate b;»cked by the navtl fure« two weeks afP»r the overthr >w. when all »v.is (jmet ami theannexation Comraissioners wh > had b-*en so quickly selected and »tarted were on the r way to Washingt >n. In view of the fhct that not even the Fresident of the United Sttte« h»s p.>wer to estiiblish a protecP>rnte in a f.ireifn country this «ction on the part of the American Miniat*r is as unaee .unīahie as it is indefens b!e. N >t less remirkabie i- the ha-(te dieplayed at Washington io ru-h-in the tr aty of annexition int<> the S**nate b f>re tie full f»c»ta c->uld be kiown. ami even b-f re the announeeel representativeof the dejx>sed Qaeeo had tnne t > reach the c»pital for a hearing. If annexat'>ui were not contrary to our nalional po!icy and jnt«re-l it would still be a m«tt-r of t o f a r re»chtng con9equence to disp..se ••£ without due ioquiry and (leliberation. The eagerness and preciuitancy sbown b>lh at Hooolulu and Washington may well cause the Senate to reflect b*'fore proceeding to ratify lhis treaty.