Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 224, 18 Mei 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We are inforraed that there are negotiations pending between the Mavor of San Francisc<>, and Mr. Dole with the object of having Hawai» used as the Pesthouse for California, and a receiving sl >tion for the lejjers in that State. Our inforiuant statea that Mayor Ellert elaimā that Mr. Dole is looking favorably towards such arrangement. We cannot possib!y be!ieve this to be a fact. Hawaii iscursed enough with the plague whieh has stricken this uuf>rtunate people without adding to il the lepers of other lands. The leprosy has been the b!ot on the fair name of our Paradise. but whv we should further advertise that skeleton in our closet by being known as the San Francisco pesthouse. No city and no county in California is willingtoallow the establishraent of a pesthouse, heeauae such arrangement would be injunous to the property holders and other residents, and we understand that both the California res:dents and newspapers consider the ingenious scheine of Mayor Ellert and Mr. Dole with a great deal of favor and we find it perfectly natural that they should do so. Tl«ere are about 100 lepers at present in California and the prosj)ects are that there will bean increase iu that numbcr. It would of course be very handy to nse Hawaii as a dumping ground for these unfortunates, but we ahall raost solemnly pr.Aest against the establishing of such an unholy and outrageous precedeut. It this is to be doue where are we tostop? The South wants to get rid of the negroea and lo! up jumj>8 Mr. Chas. L. Carter, and cries “Send them to Hawaii, we have room foi them.” Califoruia wantstoget rid of her lepers and we are told that Mr. Dole extends an inviling hand and says “step in, gentlemen, plenty roora for . lepers here.” Next we presume that Oregun will want to get rid of her Chinese, and sorae beuevolent Hawaiian statesman will appear a* assisting the D;viae Provideace in bringing in another batch of heathens for theenjoyment of Sereno and the olher representatives of Provideuce here, and finally New York will want to be rid of itscriminals. and why should not these obliging lslands be used as a piaee for deportation of criminals as well as a segregating plaee for Caiifornia lepers, or aduraping plaee for Soutbern niggers? Let us stop while it is time. M'e have enough to look after in our owu afl\‘irs wilhoul borrowmg troubles aud plagues fmm May« r Ellert or any one else across tbe sea. The Star comes out jubilant and enumerates “what the t ix-payers have n*H g.>t to pay for in the future” whieh are the immediate exj.>ense9 connected wiih the monarchical forra of government. The Star does not tell us though what the tax-payer« —if willing—will have to pay for in the line of immediate expenses conuected by the provisional government . While the sum whiea # the Star elaima is to be saved amouoU to about 1130.000 for the two years, the expense of the provisional army (!) alone whieh the Star does not mention is 1240.000 for two yeara. That is the estimated

figure. bul it was «hown lhat the $10,000 allowed foreach month was excerded by $9,000 for the mouth of April wou!d mean if such proportion was kept up that the sum of $ 456.000 would be necessary to keep the f >rces in trim for two years. We have said nothing about ihe other provisional expenses, such as the mueh increased poliee force, provisional spies, |>olice gaards to watch the Custora house guards, subsidized newspapers, comraissioners to Washington, and other expenses whieh are left to the imagination or gaessw<>rk of the tax-payers who are neilher cousu!ted, uor kepī inforral ed as to the aclions of the governI ment. Tne g,ivernraenī-sub3idized I organs also forget that the $130000 fur the exnenses of the monarchy waspaidbyand with full consent of the tax-payers through their representatives, while the money belonging to the country now is beiug squandered without permission of. and without accounting to the people. The tax-nayers at the ballot box declared their willingn«ss to pay the $130,000 for the «upport of the raonarchy bnt give thera a ehanee to express their opinion of the ridiculous expenses for the P. G., and a unanimoua refusal will be given to the continued drain necessary to keep up the military force. Tha Advertiser excuse? the existence of the army by saying that that body insures stable government 1 Shadea of Hen-nery. have we got a stabie government to-day? Is a government whieh according to ita own proclamation, its own contiuued declarations, and its title even, is a temporary aft’air called into ex- \ istence f>>r a specific purpose to be called stable? Where did \ve ever hear about a non-representative government, a government against the people, being considered stable and worthy of credit and faith ? Have we not heard the sarae argument used in the Legialative Hall year 5n, and year out, that there was no need f>r any appropriation for a royal guard, “because the strong bulwark of any government is built on the love and respect of the pe>>ple not on bayonets.” Hasu’t that dip!oraatic freak who now runs a dimemuseum in Chicago and a legation in WashingtcPH talked hiraself hoarse, and his audience tired. in proving that no government has a right to exist whieh cannot receive the free and voluntary snpnort of the j.>e>)ple, and didn’t he rehash his stale and tiresome principles about g>>vernraent for, by. and of the people, ad nauseam and are now his docile followers and supporters, | whom he has left behind him in ch:\rgeof Mr. Dole to go back on all lhosefiueand correct principles, and j elaiui lhat might makes right and : that raanhood suflrage, taxation only with represeatation, and civil rights are played out theories not to be entertained by these alleg**d Americans in Hawaii-nei? Tbe very same paj>eri whieh advocate the outrage on all the principle« of self-government by support- ' ing mililary oligarchy for Hawaii j areat the samc time Iifting their war ning voice to the Eraperor of Gertuany, heeauae he propo®et to do the very same thing whieh they i encourage Mr. Dole to attempt here —i, e, to defy the will of the people and rule the coontry at the point of the bayonet In virtuoua indignation they condemn the German £mperor and prophesy all evile to him for trampling on the sacred righte of the people, and defying ror populi.

whieh of course is r oi dei . and so on with all tue hackneyed phraaea ad nameam. b it in Hawaii, where lhev nropose to p!ay tlie ro!e of Wilhelm. they bravely stifle their fine *entituents, and eielaim ”datnu the people, hang on, boy*, to the pelf, the u iwer. and the treasu* rv. as long as weean hire strangers lo fight foi us!" We eompliment our contempor.iries on their lofty and dig liAe*.! sentiments, but we shou:d like to he.ir them endorsed openly, by Messra DoIe and D.inion, before we believe that they are aothorized to si»e.iii on behalt of the provisional governraent. Do our eyes deceive us or do we actually see that Patriot McCandless is booked to leave our hi>spit* able shorea and hie hiraself away to foreign Iands. Are the rats deserting the sinking ship or does the Patriot simply, like Cato ot old. retire to the plough or well, atter having served his country aud refused (?) all rewards for his patrii otisiu ? But how grand the Hawaiian ex-Patriot will feel when, ; as in vi»ion we see him. he in the eool eve.iings in Vancouver will hang around the grocery store and tell the boys aboul his military exploits in Hawaii when he and Soper conquered the country (behind the U. S. troops) and how he will brag and hlow about all i that he and his brolher statesman, the Enimelulh, were going to do. I and didn’t do. And how near he ; was to heeouie a big, big marshal, j only he didn’t get there, and then j a Postmaster General, butwasn’t i in it. and then a Collector General, only Jira got it, bnt finally heeame ! a tax-assessor and collector in chief of all the taxes whieh the annexationists do nrt pay, but wouldn’t have the office because he hated to hurt the feelings of his friends by assessing them for the full value of their property. so he failed to qualify and remained until his departure a plain, eommon, every day, ordinary Patriot without a handle to his name or a salary to his pocket. May weeping Hawaii recover from the loss of hi» society, whieh she would more quickly do if the other Patriots would oniy follow in the Mae’» footsteps. | Dr. McGrew has been invited by the Pan-American congress whieh is to meet in Washington to read a paper before them on Marine Hygiene, and the Star 6aye that its editor-in-chief will absent him8elf and cornply with the request. The paper will undoubted!y be of great interest especially if the Dcctor would include it hi» ex- • perience in the managing of Marine Hospitals. He will be «ble to give the Pan-American medical meu some Magni(n )ficent pointers especiallv in relation to the eeouomieal departments of such Hospitals. We presume that the paper will be issued in pamphlel fbrm and we shou!d suggest as a proper lille for it. “How to manage a Marine Ho»pital or The sure ro-d to weallh;” »nd by Christ(ie) the pamphlei wiil have ! an unparalleled succes». Mr. F. M. Hatch has returned from CaiaforQĪa and tells tbe Star that the people there are all in f*vor of annexatioa even if the newspaper don't say so. Ofcourse we aret nsed to the Star’s report« and know how maeh faith to plaee in them and Mr. Hatch’s sanity or eommon sense have never been doubted here sufficiently to give anybody reason to believe that he ever told such rot to the Star re-

porter- Senator Stanford a short whiie ago in an interview with an Kxaminer reporter spoke emphatically against annexstion and we dou’t koow of any more representative man in Lalafornia tiian ?tan- • ford. Congressman Geary has : from the start opposed annexation and it is not likely that the iwo gent'emen mentioned shonld adopt a slanding in opposition to and hostile to the wishesand sentiments oftheir constituents. We have a auepieion that the Hatch-interview is another instance of the false hopes and false promises held out by the annexationists through their hiretl organs. Our Lahaina correspondent inf,,rms us that at a iueeting of the d*jacons of the old Church in that town a revolution was adopted dismissing the pastor the reverend A. Pali, and a notice of 30 days given to him to quit the parsonage. The inember3 of the Church declare that they cannot continue to look with the contidence towards a nian who has heen found willing to betray his country and cven went 8o far as going to eommiesioner Blount as a representati ve native favoring annexation. We predicted what the fate of the misled foolish persons would be, and have more pity than anger for thera. The parties to hlame are the b<)sse9 of the North Pacific Pastoral Incubator who imlueea the aimple country preachers to interfere in politics and to be used as willing tools of the Chief Juddiciary Missionary in Honolulu. Some new members for the P. G. band arrived by the Australia from San Francisco. The eeonomieal P. G. government see no rea«on to save nioney anywhere and we are surprised that they only imported 5 or 6 men instead of getting the full band of Strauss or j Gilmore. The way the government shows its eeonoun - , we are told is by lodging the new ’‘artists” in Fowler’9 yard, bnt whether the “artists” will be satisfied with that hotel has to be seen. lt must be souiething astonishing to people in America to see the P. G. of Ha-wii-nei importing foreigners to hlow its horns while arrangementa are being made for a Hawaiian band to make a tour through the principal cities in the United | State». Such an action must plaee i the P. G. in a remarkable light ) abroad, but it is only a further sign of the hostility of the temporary administration towards Hawaiiana for whieh the Star already has vouched several time«. Tbe attentions paid to Mr«. Blount and party. during her recent visit to //awaii. are a plea»ing sign of tbe confidence and faith | whieh the Hawaiians, all over the \ country, plaee in the United States goverument and their representative here. It is charactenstic that none of the annexation papers ! mase any mection of the enthu- \ siasm and festivities with whieh the commissioner’s wife was received in Hllo—perhaps the correapoudents of the two papers were ‘ not in it” and consequently feel »ore. The military editor of tbe Star is not now guing to dump any expensive fortification on Hawaii, bnt is simply going to dig a hole in tbe ground and plant the guns tbere. We ean assure the Star‘s hv-draulic ass tbat he will get into a hola sufficiently quick without

hiā botheriug ab<->ut haviv,« c# , holes dug. By the way we v: . still waiting to be int»rm 1 ho» Heligoland ean be used .1» a i- $ ofoperations agairst Kivl. ivrhaps the Emperor forg • tn t ; • ? Star strateg ist alx>ut it u ,» n 4 told hiin that he indeed Helim. land for the eompleiioa hi* coast*defenses.