Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 225, 19 Mei 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

One of the most remarkable thing« ab-iut the annexation party and its orsr»n is the direct way in whieh they pive the lie to ali ?tatementā, ma-le hy tho«e who differ with them, as to the participation of the missionary families in the movement. The other most remarkahle thing is the nnirete, wiih whieh, after a few days elaj>se, they furnish the direct evidence of not only the absolute complicity of these gentlemea, but the fact, that foryears it has l>een owing to their efforts that there has l)een any life in the movement. The ?tar uow informs us. that so long as the Kamehameha’ā reigned [who were the benefactors of the missionaries and donaled to them the land on whieh they iived and frora whieh tbev have made their f)rtunes| it was considered unseemly and inconsistent for any of those gentlemen to make a break in lavor of annexation. and when any of them didso (being moved thereto by the ?pirit) and the consequences becomiug 6erious, it then heeame the consistent duty of the other members of the family ciique to deny all participation and to write articles in the papers against it. It is exceedingly probable that Mr. W. R. Castle has “ with the advent of the Kalakauaa, heeome an ardenl annexationist and has not halted onee inhis fight for it.” But even on the evidence of the Star, whieh we do not believein its ordinary reporting, although we perhaps ought to in its acconnt of its own followers’ sentiments. w« ean hardly credit Mr. M . R. Castle with having been a traitor for nineleen years. The Star may perhaps be right in crediting a man with such a long career of baseness and duplicity and from its writer’e experienoe be justified in believing lhat any man of christian fi*mily, among its supporters and advocates, could do it, but when we remen'ber that M. R. Castle accepted a p<»sition as and served as an Attorney tieneral under that same. King KaUkaua for some time, and that when V. V. Ashford and Wilcox attempted rev«lutiou he d ; sc a med all connect - n with any plots for overturning the Queen’s government, and all idea offurthering aunex.ition, we eannot believe that any one ol a profession, whieh its members in ail countries elaim is a prima /aeie certificate of the elaim to be a gentlemau. could be so lost to all sense of decency and honor as the Star, by its assertions, allege9 him to be. Now that this thing has apparentlv heeome safer and iess dangerous, having been backed by the United Sute forces. it is consistent for them to urge annexation and eupt>ort il by all sorts of yarns—moetly selffabricaled—to show that ihe 9uccession and heirs of these benefactors bave departed from the good old way of the missionaryin9lructed chiefe. And thjs too in •piteof the fact> well know to all personally acqnainted witb the former chiefs, that for purityof life and religious belief and attention to its forms and onlinaneea, especially that of furni«hing donation« when requested by the religiou« teachers, th« preaent famiiy,

through ils eapeeial repreaentative ihe Queen. bave never Wn equall - ed bv anv former oeeupanl of the throne ainee the missionaries first Lande«i here. And now let us nail one lie. nght on the head, To hear and read the spiteful aud fallacious diatnbes of the proannexation party, one wou!d imagine that the pre?ent roval family was of mushroora birth and origiu. When the fact, well known to every student of llawaiian genea!ogy, is, that both on the father. and mothrr's side, the late Kmg Kalakaua and his sisters the present Queeu and the late Princess Likelike are the direct represenlatives and the only legal ones of the stock from whieh Kamehameha the lst was descended, and that both by adoption and inheritance, no closer heir of the late Mrs. B. Pauahi Bishop, the last living representative of the direct Kamehameha line and uo closer relation ean be found than Queen Liliuokalani. In tho monarchically governed country, if an heir to the crown, supposing that to be found on!y in the Kamehameha line, weresought, no closer or nearer blood relative could be found than in Her Majesty, the Queen. But the constitutions of this country have provided in other ways than collateral heirship to fill the succession to the throne, and in every one of these ways Her Majesty stands in the direct line of successiou and rightful inheritance. It is therefor a mere plea of deliberate falsification and lies to assert, that when the direct succession from Kamehameha the lst died out, the inheritance failed for want of heiri, and that allegiance and gratitude were no longer due either by her own people or those foreigners, whom her ancestors had enriched by their bounty. Such arguments are always the resort ofthe ingrate, the traitor, and the scoundrel. who seeks but his own pocket advanlage to ihe destruction of his seutiments as a man of honor and probity. When the provisional government was established, there was no objection lo the personel of the Councils as a whole, as it wasgenerallv conceded, that at least the characters of the executive eouneil, w**re unimpeaehahle aud that the affairs of the country would be managed fairly and judicially during their temporary regirae. Suspicions that polilieal jobbery would be sneaking into the councils, took shape when the law creatmg a districtjudge for North Hilo was repealed.—There was uo possible reason for taking this step for the Oouneila. The law providing for the Judge. was made by the last lcgislature aiul was passed by a large majority. The three representatives from Hilo, all favored and supporte<.l the measure. The only opponent against the bill was Nohle Alexander Young, who fought tooth and nail to defeat the measure. The pay of the new judge. was $400 a year, so no plea of economy ean be used by the government as an excuse for their action. The repealing wa9 dona at the in8tigation of Nohle Young who holds a seat in the eouneil aa I he formerly held in the Legislature and hia motives for repealing the laws were of a perfectly p«rsonal nature. The tax-payers in North Hilo have taken strOng exceptions to II the repealing of the act. but Mr.

Young has had his way ia spile of the injury and inj: stīce done to the North Hilo volers. If this is a «ueeimen of se!f-g:>vernraent by anjiexationi»t3, the country want« no of the kind. Coutrary to the wishes of the tax-payers and parties, interested in Waikapa on Maui, the rainisler of Interior a short while ago aholished the government pound in Wailuku. What his motives were couid not be Iearned. In f»ct when remonstrances w>rre m ide to him. he seemed to know very little of it. It Iooketi very mueh though. and wasso construed. Ui be a slap at the management and owners of I Waikapu. and furnishes an>>ther I instance of the manner in whieh the government allows po!itics to reign supreme in the most ordinary busmess fransactions. It is unfortuuate for the P. G. that in both the related instances, in whieh politics have got the best of eommon sense and fairness, the taxpayer against whom the P. G. have bumped, is Claus Spreckels—and we guess he knows how to retaliate. The Advertiser informs us that among the appoiutments tobe made are those of Messrs. C. Wilder as Consul General at San Francisco, F. Hastings as Secretary of Legation at Washington, and Rev. W. B. 01eson as Special Coramissioner thereto. We have before adverted on the removal of Mr. Pratt as Consul General, and we take this announcement as an indication that the P. G. have decided to defy Mr. Spreckels and to cut the last bond loose whieh bound him to treat them with consideration. Further at present we need not remark until time and space oermit. As to the appointment for a Secretary to the Legation at Washington, we have only to say that the late Legislature, led at the time by the Keform Party. decided in its wisdora that noSecretary was there ueeded, in defiance of the wishe§ and ideas of those now styied as Royalists, and refused to appropriate a salary lor the continuance of the office. Now we have none but the best of feelings for the aide-de-ca mp with the rank of Major. and we would therefore simply aek him, before hegives up his lucrative position of Secretary to the Foreigu office, to see that the P. G., by its legislative body the Executive and Advisory Councils sittiug together, appropriates some more of th« Puhlie tax-payers’ money by providing a good salary for that heretofore styled siuecure of an office — that is all. For the third appointment that of th<5 Rev. W. B. 01eson as Special Commi8sioner. we know tnere is no appropriation. But as we know that that imported. but high soulad and unselfish patriot, has three times carried a gun in revolutionising the country whieh has given him and his fami!ies a Iiving for the past len years, and has alao •poken aeveral pieeea. probably composed in the North Pacific Missionary lnstitute, advocating the immediale annexalion of these ialands to the country whieh bas had the misfortune of giving birth to the Revtrend gun-carrier in bis mission of preaching peaee on earth and good will towards all men, we auppoee he like tbe otber true eouled and anselfisb-aiming genllemen of the P. G. haa had to be provided for. Doabtless, if no other appropriation ean be found,

the I2(W,000 per annum special appropriation bill oi' the P. G. will be drawn upon, to provide for h>vassage from the Iand whieh will l>« only too thankful to get rid of hi? pressure oa :ts immature sons to disown th«:r ailegiance, and t*"> provide his suslenance in that lalui whieh he never would have !eft if he could only have made a living in il. ! 01eson ! A L>ng larewe!l is our best wish. b »th for ourseives, and certainly for vou. for il mighl not be pieasant for you to be here when the wheei revolves. We take the liberty to reprint a 1 few paragraphs from dilfVrent ! Americau newspapers, mistiug | that Mr. W. O. Smith. and Press- ! Censor Waterhouse, will overiook anything in them whieh shouid not be in accord with the j>>urnalistic ethics established by th<>se two great authorities on newspa{>er matters. We have wrilten to the different Amenean journals and requested them togoslow and avoid stepping on the favorite cern of W. O. Smith’s pr>tegee and we hope that the refractory editor» will mind our warning. The hauling Jown of the Stars and Stripe« was going to creale a tremendous howl in the United States, so at least we were promised by the mindreader ofSt;»r fame, but onee more he showed himself umnspired and without the sybillic gifts whieh he pretends to be possessed of, and the matter either fell rather tl.it or the action was decidedly approved of —