Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 229, 25 May 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Through the uaual enterprise of the Daily Bulletin, the Hawaiian people has heen enabled peruse an address, or whatever it ean be called. by the defunct American Mmister to tne American people. whieh he intenda to alap at that uneuspectiug nation uj>on his arrival—If we are correctiy informed he will find that his valedictory will not be cousidered newe:natter by the American journale, whieh, we u.ideratand, by this time. have nuhlished it,commented on it, ridiculed or approved of it as the case rray be, go the last eoup de thea(re of the annexation diplomat will fall extremely flat and miss the eflect whieh it was int«nded to have. Mr. Stevens, address is a plea in mitigation of sentence —He has been fouud guilty by the administration whieh at present i* sovereign in America. He has been condemued by all prorainent politician and journals irrespective of party. and his fiual attempt to atir up syrnpathy for hia lost eauae in addressiug puhlie opiuion will meet with no reaponse, not even among the insanest jingoiats and imperialista. And what does he preter before thejury. whieh ha« found him guilty, that they ahould find extenuating circumatancea and recommend him to mercy? Every word whieh he §aya ahowe him in his true light of a meddling interferer in the domestic affairs of Hawaii, of a man who, instead of attending to the dutiea whieh hia office preacribed, assumed and usurped a power whieh he did not have, and whieh it never waa intended that he should have—‘Tn September 1889, I first was the Hawaiian Ielanda—those beautiful emeralds in the North Pacificsea;” he says and with the instiuct of the klepiomaniae he immed!ately coveted the jewels, and like the burglar outside Tiffany’s wiudow he worked his brains to find meane and cmcoct a plan to commit tbe most daring theft whieh would bring the emeralds into hia p>8seslion. It took him, be continues, a year of careful Btudy to be convinc•d that the theft wae feasible and that tho monarchy to whieh he waa accredited could not Iast —Let ub §ee whit the duties were of this man when he wae sent here to repreient the Umted States of Amene*. Hii duties were ex«ctly the eame as those of any other repre•entative of a foreign power to the government of a friendly nation. They were Ihe eame ae thoee with whieh Meesns Daggett and Juerrill were charg«d. and they cousisted in representing the American governmeut in Hawaii by observmg the Btrict adherenceby the Hawaiian goverument aa well of the Americau citizene residing here to eznting treaties. It waa furthermore his duty to exchauge the uiual forme and acts. of dip!omatic oonrte*y towardi the government to whieh he was accredit«d, and laat, the duty eommon to all dipiomata devolvad on him. that of ingratiating himaelf into tbe penonal favor of the aovereign, and her govemmeui, eo that hia inAneaea, and thereby tha inAoenea of hia«oantry wouid heoome eupreme over all otbar inAueooea Socb weniho aimple

plain duties of this man whom, in a momenl evil to America, and evil to Hawaii, an American administration selected to repreeent the Great Republic—an administrationlateron condemned, and diiavowed at the ballot box, by the American people. Did he adhere to these duties? Did he attempt to fulfil them? N<». he plunged without delay into a conspiracy whieh would enahle him to put h:t skinny greedy clutches on the coveted emeralds. 1b it to heeonsidered an exter.uating circumstance that he did not contemplate stealing f.»r his own immediate benefit? Is it a mitigating circumstance that this culprit says that he. upon his arrival here. heeame lempted by the lustre of the jeweli and t:iat it was for the glory of his couutry that he not for himself alone wanted to add tbe rare jewels to the magnificent eolleelion already in the possession of that great eommonwealth? He tried to force upon that land of hia, whieh be elaima to honor aud love, tbe role of the receiver of 8tolen goods and aow he gnashes hi» t«eth in rage bec*use his native land with indignation scoras hiBoffer, and treat, with contempt a man who dar«d to doubt the honor of America. In bis plea his foams and frets over th« ‘ l 8emi-h«athen and gro8sly spurious government meehaniam eall•d the Uawaiian monarchy.” Wbat was that to him officially or privately if the Hawaiian government w*s Bemi-heathen, or grosBly •puriouB, or anything else* ae long aa it fulfilled its treaty obligation with the country whieh h» repre••nted, and secured all th« legal rights of the Amenean citizen, here? Why do not the American minister8 to St. Petersburg, or CoDBtantinopla or Greece, meddle in the domeetic affairs of thoie countnee, and write pamphlets to the Atnerican people about the “•emi-healhen” (or whole heathen) and “grosaly spuriou8” and “absurd” aud “barbaric” form of governments in those plaeea? \Vhat more right haa Mr. J. L. Stevens —the official representative of America —to take exception to the morality or immorality of the court at whieh he was accredited, any more than the American Minieter to London has to critizise and publicly denounce the morality or othenvise uf the Prince of Wales or the English Court. The man has. by his foully vile attack ou the Hawaiian monarchy, only confirmed the American jury, to whom he pleads for mercy. that thev were more than justified in condemning him —Ue says that aueh an “alKumnatiou in the name ofgovernment would uot be aliowed to exiet for sixty days in any American city.” la the man in his dotage. or does he believe that what will be tolerated or not in an American city, is the raeasure after whieh governments in this world are being framed and conducted? Would the form of government in St, Peteraburgh, or in Constantinople, or for tbat matter in Berlin or Bruseels be “toierated in any Amenean cities.” Let the Am» rican cities run their government to iuit them•elves, but allow other naiiona to adopt what form of rule thcy deaire without the uncaU«d for advice ■uggeatione, or dict*tion of * non descript preacber Uke John L. Steveni. Hii *U«mpUd hiatory of the late «veata ia a r*hash of his lsttcrs to 9ecrst*rv FosUr. It is a repetition that aU Ihooe who farored Ihe lottery aud the opium billsare “ hoodinma” and adventorers. It is th« thrashed—out

threadb*re awmion that the annexationist3 are “ the peonle and that the other eide is of no momenī or account. The liee produced by him in their part of his i'lea have been proven lies t* the sati» īaelion of the Araerican goverument. e need not give any attention to them. nor to thethinly c!ad spread eaglism, whieh w« are sure has received th« consideration of the American press. The address will have no effvct—the plea for mercv will not be listeued t<i —and Mr. Steven’s name will be forg«>tten. and he himself shelved and le t to die “condemntd bef"re thebarofhistory on an indictroent of blundering criminality from whieh there was no escape.” Mr. J. L. Stevens has during his etay in Hawaii lived a very retired and quiet life. He has owing to his years and feeble health been uuahle to make any personal obeervations. He has only eome ia contact with oue apeeial clique, with one particular set of men, and it must be from those that h« has derived his opiuiona, and framed his atrocious ideaa whieh induced him to commit the criminal blunder for whieh he now apologize«. We will leave Mr. Stevens to the United 3tates to deal with. They are the fornm whieh holds jurisdiction over him and before whieh justice will be meted out to him, but it is for the Hawaiiau nation to deal with the men behind him in Honolulu who by their unparalleled lies and unscrupulous blackguardism have persuaded that renegade methodist to attack and deadlily insult, under the protection of his flag, the Hawaiian Queen and the Hawaiian people, Those men are known to everybody here. It is well known who were the pnneipal associatesof J. L. Stevens and we will say right here for the benefit of the chief moulder of Steven’s ideas that the day is near when not even bis official position will stand asa dara against the torrent of wrath whieh, surmounting all bars, will burst over him and sweep him from the face of this. his native land. Lately the Advertiser writer and the Star writers and of course alao the old blunder-buss Sereno Bishop are scattenng abroad in the eolumna of the annexation papers the most reckless statements about the “20,0)0 whitea ” in the country who all favor annexation. Yeeterday’s Advertiser, contained a lengthy editorial whieh bears the earmarks of having heen made to order and having emanated from tbe pen of a lately returned polilieian and whieh has for its ubject, the refutation of the true and correct statements made by Charles Nordhoff in the N. Y. Herald. The Advertiser’s h;red Attorney is weak in his brief against Nordhoff. His unfamiliarity with the subject whieh be is handiiug, makea bis attempt to disprove what Nordhoff has wrilten ridiculous and futile. But we ■hall at preseut only notice hia wiid §tatement in whieh he say> “oould be (Nordhoff) have beloed knowing at that time tbat tbe vaat majority of 20,000 whilea in the oountry, to aay nothing of Ohineae and iapaneae, are thorough annexationiats and supoorters of the government ?” A more ab»urd he haa not eome to our notioa lately than the asaertion that the Chinaoe and Japaneae are in favor of annexation, If tbe Advert:ear writer had fol!owed the tone of the aheet for whkh he writas. he would have known that tba Japa- •

nese. from tbe consul general down, have been stamped dav in and day ont as being bad, bad, royalists, and there have heen no developments whieh o>u!d authoriie an\body to believe that the Japanese colony has changed its lront lately. Ouly a fooI would assert that Ihe Chinese are in f.ivor of annexation. They are not inclined to cot their own throats and they generally know what they are about. They stand as a unit oppoeed to annexation and the f>rmer experience of the Advertiser writer with the Cbinese question ought to make him aware of that fact. But we are not lx>thering ospecially about the attitude of the lab«>rers introduced as coolies on a question whieh really is none of their eoncern. NVe shall iustead take the trouble to analyre the iO.OK) whites who are being shaken at us on all occasions. The last censos forni»hes us with the followiug figures. There is in the country the following nuraber of males over 15 years old belonging to the following different natioaalities: American .. 1.198 British 942 German 641 French 46 Norwegian 137 Othar nationalities 366 or a total of) white meni * ‘ * 3,330 Then there are 3,669 Portuguese over 15 years and 353 Hawaiiana boru of for«ign parents whieh includes Portuguese, whiteforeigners, Chinese, and Japanese. If we eall the Portuguese whites, and allow all the Hawaiian born foreigners under the same category, : .t gives a grand total of 7352 foreign males over 15 years of age. We see no reason why the Portugueee should have any better elaim to have a voice in the future of the couutry than have the J*apanese or Cbiueee. The Portuguese as a class are ignorant and unahle to read or write. Those here are not as a whole to be classed as a cultivated people and they are not “ a white people ” as understood in the anglosaxon sense of that term. If the annexationists desire to have their elaim for annexation restingon tbe support of the Portuguese, then the Hawaiians, who fight for the independence of their raother-land, will be perfectly justified in joining to their numbers, the Japanese and Chinese population and what an overwhelming majority the anti-an-nexation party then would have. Leaving the Portuguese out of the questiou there remain then 3,330 white males over 15years. Taking the word of the annexationists, the Britishers in that number are as a whole against annexation, whieh further < educts 942 frora the totaI whites, leaving 2,388 white males over 15, whom we hardly think any sane man will elaim are all annexationists. On the oontrary wedon’t believe that if a vote was taken among those 2,388 thut the majority would be in favor of annexation. Tnere i» right here in Honolulu a large while eleme t, constituted of all classes. including planters.capitalists.and meehaniee who are so!idly oppueed to annexation and on the other Isiands we know that where ever Spreckels influence ie felt, his employees have adopted hia viewa. When Mr. Sordhoff plaeea tha number of annexatioaiste at about 2,000 thereby meaning voters or tax-payers, we think that he ia wrong and has exaggeratad, heeaueo the largest number of voten whieh they could mustar wouid probably fall ahort of that bf from threa lo five hundred. We have enun«ratod ihe maiea over 15 yaara, but wa must note tbat the voting age ia 20 yean and that the figurea uaed abova woold be still farther dimiif we were able to ealealaie exactly from tha oenaua tha • number of maiee between 15 and

20 yesrs. We pre?ame thit thf anuexationi§ts get their frauduU-,t and rais»le3ding fignre*; by the totais «f the wh»te poj Q —raen aiul wouien and c: = :idr*»-' hut such an attempt to b.- n( J parties s»archir.g f>r the truth, won’t work at alt. The total of Hawaiian b.rn foreigners whieh is being L . v the annexationiats ss if ther a fi were Americars is ahown ui n an inveatigation to be 74.>ō ma!rs ar i feroales aml the pro(v>rlion in *sgard to their nationa! ; .tie* da:r or.itratoe that there are 4117 Portuguese. 1617 whites. 1701 and Japanese. niui 60 other nat onalitiee. Of this t*tal ther<* »r? onlv 3909 malee and <>f these th* large majority are cbi;dren under 15 vears while there only 353 ot>: that age —If in spite of thes*: undisputable facts. and t eoKi ligures. the annexationists s;i. .ld eonlinue to talk about the •“whilea” they stamp them<eives as thoroughpaoed and wilful li*rs unahle to support their eauae bv any other nieaue, aiul even uui eolumna of more Advert r r t would l>e unahle toshake tho stitements of Nordhotf <ne scinti;la. *‘How is it that he did not know that a large and growing nnmbvr : native Hawaiiana were then and ire now annexationists?” is the n*xt query of the eoun&el tor theanuex* tion organ? How could he iui "W it, sweet lyre, as there is no truth whatever in the gtateuient. Thi» ••large aml growi*ig” number le confined to Messrs Kawainui, Aehi, Josepa. and Notley. \\ e admit that the last mentioned is Iarge aml very likely growiug arger. but it muet be admitted tliat it is not a very imposing portion <>r rei resentative selection of the 14,429 Hawaiian males over 15 years of ag«. With the exception of the few person8 mentioned, w« h;ive hnrdly eoen anybody sportmg the tag whieh pnnouneee that th'er have plaeeil the;uselves on record as traitors to their c«>uutry and »1though a uumber pf nutives employed by annexationiBts bave signed ihe’ roll nnder thre.its of di8raissal aiui pers€Cution. ther have always taken good c»re t«> iu>tify the *‘other s de’’ that thev took the etep uut of necessity and i nvoluntarily, and no hlame ka», conseqiiently. heen attached to them, norany impt'rtance pl .cedon theirtyrannically f»rced temp rary defection froui the side to whieh their hearts and atfectious clmg. , If eueh a great number of Hawaiians are in favor of annexation why do they keep under cover? Whr didn f t they go up and aliake th« hand of J. L. Steven», thepromoter of annexation. on his departure? Why have they l>een unah.e to setid any decent eommiuee t>> Mr. Blount, 8howiug that they repreBented a large number of lheir countrymen insteiul of stnding» few dunderheaded parsons and t revivtiied allegfd legal practiti«oer from the backwootls who cou.d neither explain their wishes n■: even were clever enongh. t<> lieas efficiently as the Advertiserand t’.e Star, eo as to give the itnpr>?sioo that there were lots of native? rehind them? All and everythin| of this kind has not heen d»fi« eimply because it cou!dn’t be i» « —not even throngh the nneempulous machinations of the ani tioniets—hecause, as Mr. N rd' - correctly wrote in the Herald. /fawaiians are unanimou*.v 14 * B"d tt* anrexation, And no gh l :n £ of the truth ncr any kind of prertrication hy the Advert ser ■ ■ yer[?]can alter this stern ai 1 • < I cognized facts Don’t wr:te more steamer ieeuea for fore'gn cir-B eulalion, old ehappie —the is too thin to deceive even the m»tea of William Auld’s Hote, :orH the Insane, mueh leas the we ‘;'B informed government and peop-»H of the United States. ■ A hlaek pig, ared doth. a hunehe of Awa, went overboar>i fr>>m th«B wharf yeaterday just as tae Auitra*e ha steamed oot. The bent form -'V the old man who threw the men J tioned articlee inte the oeean heard mattexiog. E ia ka eu ! Ke kalohe ! Aa hook huli Aupnni ! Me pa'i. aina ! kipi oka moku nei —< ! The *itcW hun(er who edit» the Fr will pleeae tran»lat«. B