Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 24, 10 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

/’rMn the DaVy of Jvne Sth, I89S. The r«markable conglomeratioti io tbe AdTertiser's editrrial ooiumaa Teeterdav wa* undoubtedly produced for the purpoee of teiling Mr. Spr«ckel» that he naust not h*ve a Toice in H&wnian politica &ny lorger and that «f he §hould ioeial in prut*cting hi& inl«r«t§ here he will be cruehed by the AdTerti§er clique. §uperlatiTe idiocy commend us to ( the AdTertieer in ite abortiTe ees«y on tbe Haw&iian situation. I 80 neither Mr. Spreckel8’ advice or ; mouey are wanted any longer by the Hawaiian government? It will ' be pleaaing to Mr. Spreckels to j learn tbat his money (never mind | hie advice) ia not wanled either , any longer by the private indivi- | duals so cloeely connected with and | aliied to ihe Advertiscr clique, and : we expect that the repayment of the funds »dvanced will take ( plaee immediately. Is the Advertiaer aware that several very I iraportant leadere of the Keform 1 Farty have been saved frotn t>ital ! and hopeleea ruin by this very j eame Claue Spreckels who is now i toid in a more or leee pointed manner to get out from here. Doee the driv*lling idiot who makea up the 8leamer ieeuee of the Advertiser know lhat one-fourth of all the taxes of the country is paid every year through the hands of Claus Spreckels who is now told that he is out of Hawaiian |»olitic«.” Can Ihe clique whieh inspires the Advertiser article get into their skulls that if Claus Spreckel8 declare§ war on the Keform Party and the supj)orter8 of the Provieional Government he will bankrupt the individuals of that jiarty be_yond eaving. If they have any hueineea sense in them, they will know that any mau with the eapiial at hie disj)osition that Spreckele has ean ruin and embarrass a small mercantile community like thie at a very emall sacrifice, and we feel that Claus Sjireckels wlll be perfectly justified in using all means to crowd the meu to tbe wall whoi>re represented by the P. C. Advertiser. The Adverti»er tells us whai the eituation 18 in Hawaii to day. The ignorance whieh has been added to it« general tissue of Iies is astoniehiiig. The transfer of the goverumeut dej).artmeuts from the building heretofore used for them into the Palaee has barely missed creating a Btrong feeling of disgust *ndhatred towards the government whieh did not even have the decency to wa:t in taking that step until the prolest of the Queen to the United StatP9 endorsed and reci)gnized by the ProvisionaI Governenent and accepted by the United States haa heen finally aettled. Does the Advertiser or the government believe that the Hawaiiane delight in seeing Mr. 8. B. EK)le take the seat sacred to Hawaiian royalty taking it unasked and unbidden and unsuj> ported by the sovereign power — the will of the people? That every thing ia quiet and j>eaceful is sim ply because the Quoen and her peoj)le with the ntraost confideuce await the rooment when the U. S. *droiniatration will be ready to reoctify the great wrong done in their name and reetore everything 8i it waa on the 16th day of January 1893. previous to the unlawful landing of the U. S. forces and previoua totheoj)en participation of thc miniater of the U. S„ J. L. Stevena, In the oonspiracT and aud oona»qoent revo!utiou. be eauae the Uawaiiana knov that aueh will be the eoune of President Cievel*nd tbey look with indiffer enoe at the childiah deaecration of ihe royal Palaee. Bec*uae thej .itli.Uoo.UMiD f oho tb6i%lor6 igMf mn

’ the truth in all it» n*kedne*s ap- J i pe«rs hefon* lbe world *nd prorea i tbe wickedness and crime whieh have bsen committ«d in Hawaii in tbe name of the greatest Kepuhlie of the world. 1 The financial situation has not improved at all. Sprtckeis has heen paid but the govercment | refusee to state how the rooney wa§ procured. The change of creditors * does not change the insolvency o! | lbe Treasury. Spreckels sti>: | ho!ds the h-ilanee of nnaneial |)ower in his band and he will ooaieoutthe winnerin the ūaaneial tug-of-war proposed to him by ihe smaJIer fry of less renown, a« he ' na« every lime that the sraall men here, who laek his brain and his raonev, attempted to buck hira. The firms • nd individuals who ‘ have acoepted the paper signed by i the P. G. 8tand a good ehanee of i losing every cent advanced by them. With and the t irning back of ihe bands of time s ) eloek to January the lōth, comes i repudiation of eaeh and every act- ■ ion done by the pr.»visional government and to whom are the deluded men who be!ieved in ihe possibility of the United States setting their seal of approvaI on a glaring ' iojustice and an unholy crime to 1 look for redress? We have in 1 former issues poīnted out the imposaibility of the treasury carrying on the exj>en8e8 whieh are n«w bring incurred. but still we noliee , no sign of any radical reduction. ; It is trae that some soldiers have been discharged. It is stated that the number of telephones heretofore subscribed for has been aome- ' what rednced, but the insaciable dr»gon so proj»er!y differentiated as lbe N. G. still s\vallows the bnlk j ofthe revenue and «ill frustrate i every hcmest attemj»t at economy and retrenchinent. The town was lull of rumora yesterday, tending to show tbat there was a move on loot to commit soine oj>en outrage against the Queen. These ruraors at one time tcK>k tangible sbape a«d it was 1 proveu beyor>d reasonable doubt that the infamous proj>osition had been discussed at least in the j>resence of some high military othcials of the P. G. Since the distardly plot to hlow up Washington Plaee was bungled up a few nighls ago, there have beeu indications tliat the desperate vagrants who hang on to the tail of the government’s military forces proposed toraisesome trouble whereby their existence could be further necessitated and justified, and they thereby he able to continue their halcyon days of uniirnited pie and poisoned peas. The temporary absence of Minister Blount seems to have been considered an excellent oeeaaion for creating a disturbanee and the j)lans for a move on the Qaeen’s residence were fairly well concocted —and if tried would have been nmre than fairly weli frustrated. We have as a rule not mentioned or taken notice of rumora such as generally fly I around town, but we believe I when that the tirae has eome i it becomes an error to aimply ■ pass by the oj>en threats and the firee)y mentioned projx»sal3 against 1 the safety of the Queen. lf the | Provisional CK)Vernraent should hesitate in showing a plain deterraination not alone to defend the Queen. but also to disavow and rebuke any utterances of its otficials against her safety, it then ’ becomes Ihe duty of the representatives of tl*e foreign jK)wers to step 1 in and furnish the physically 1 guarantee and safe-guird for the safety of Hawaii’a Queen whleh ’ they morally and lawfully owe her—we do not doubt for a moment that • the represeutatives of the United ' Sutes are perfectly ready to j>erform their duty towards the aov1 ereign whoee eaae haa been acbept1 ed bj tbem for *rbitration. but we ihink it ia just aa well that thej abou!d uaderataud th*t the puhlie 7 semimenta *re that the threata ? bave paaeed the atatua of empty I boeating *nd aitly talk, and tbat I 2 J J . M • t .• I 2 *MMiw iq iiimiAn t|y|

Honolulu a while agn, said that « tbe moat peculi*r featore in tbe : Hawaiian revolution was the re- i Iation betweeo tbe * gentlemen of the provisional g*)vernment and the gent!emen on the other eide. The talented visitor likened th se relatioB» to thoae of opposifig att* rneys or editor9 and exj*ressed surpriee over the fac;lity wilh whieh the oppoeing facti«>ns exuress in one moraent their de- ; sire to make a carvn:g ot»ertticn , oo eaeh otber’s thr>at8 and thereafler enj y a friendiy e »cktail lo- ‘ gcther. Tue truth of this assertion wasforc.biy iliuelrated last Tuesiiav upon the departure of the ' CIaudine. Minister BIount and Mrs. Blount took passage on tne j Ciaudine f «r Maui wherethey are to visit the Hon. W . H. Cornwell, and a number of j>eople weie st \\harfto bid goodbye to His Ex- ; celiency —lt must tiave sadly puzzled the minister to see Mtssr= Uole and Parker exchangmg eomplimenle and smiles belonging to 1 the stock-iu-trade of premi* rs and thoroughbred diplomats. or to see Messrs Cornwell and King shake eaeh other by their manly righl hands and smilingly discourse on the profitsofthe government pound m Waikapu while Mr. Spreckels facetiouslyj»oked W. O. Smith in the ribs and beau;e«i benevolent!y | j on the rheumatic featuresof that at-toruey-general while adv;sing him to make an assessment on the shares in the R-ciprocity PIautation. Yes, indeed, the mmister must have heen surprised to notice , the apparent cordiality when he • remerabered that he is told daily that it tikes eanuona and guns to protect Mr. Uole against Mr. ParI ker, and that Mr. Cornweil, sleep1 ing and waking, is concocting plans i ; to get a haml whieh ean beat King high, and that the attorney general learned in the law is emptying bottles of painkiller to get sufficient strength to devise a new law to deport Spreckels and confiscate his property —raore esj>ecially his ) j»lant.ition advances. But such are the plain facts in this Paradise of j the Pacific. The political drums 1 and the political cymbals and the ! jx)litical tom-toms are there, but except the great noise whieh they make there is nothing in them except wind —and wind —and wind. ; The essay in theStaron German politics would be of no sj)ecial interest were is not that the fact is fresh in mind thai ihe man who has just assisted the j»rovisional governmentoutofits linaneial pilikia is : the representative of the sovereign whieh the Star hoj)e8 will be crush- i ed by the popular will in Germany. i Thearticle in question is insulting and contumelious against His Majes , ty the Emperor of Gerraany, and it becomes his plain duty uuder international laws for Mr. H. F. GIade loeall upon the provisional government, and demand that they take the nēceaaary steps to prevent a loeal newspaper, more especially a semi-official paper, to publish insultmg items against the ruier of a friendly nalion. Should the P, G. refuse to listen to the just demand of the Imperial Royal Consul he ean wave his due bill under their nose and thereby scare thera into 1 obedience. lt is rather amoaing to noliee a newspaj»er like the Star plaee itself on the democratic platform and defend the eauae of the people—in Germany-while it at ihe same time advc.cates and supj)orts a most objectionable military oligarchy in Hawaii, and as a rule damns the people here. WhatissaucefortheGerman8is not sance f«»r tbe Hawaiiana according to the Star cook-book, but then we ihink that tbat culinary work is out of date, as it is certaioly is out of demand long ago. The St*r of retr*cting notoriety haa never forgiven our eipoae of uumerical feebleneas of the Anneiatioo Clob in contraat with that aeuniloaa and defamatory eooealeoation of pricted fiibrication’» asserlk>D8 tbat ik cambeied 6000 in plaoe of its miaerable actual 150. li 09* rorges that moribund anel decadeat inriftalioo (o toke ad*antafe of ihe derire aod intontion 1 b$c tal d | io nntngij rejo:c« in j M loiau u mty ciaim

est Portugue9e, from the mo«t j rabid P—G—office—holdio£ anoex- j ationist to tbe loyal Hawaiian, as a part of the vani»hed 5850 who bave not yet materialized to the puh’.ie gaze. But the trick is too thin, too transt)*rent. W bether the K*ss of Dr. McGrew has removed all the brains whieh we have bitherto credited the Star as po65essing we know not, but lrom appearances it bas. Sad ai.d sorry is the Star over the Democratic ascendeacy in the L'niled Slates just now. Thevoice of its weeping and wailing is heard in every line and exudes tbroogh every eolumn till the very air is weary of reverberating tbt m'.sery of the writer. **// Annexation sbould bedeferred now a Republiean victory in the L nited States would give it an immediate footing.” The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the bands are those of Esau. The italics are ours butthe sentlment is tliat of the annexation club and its mouthpieces. 0 woeful end! I/ annexation should be dcferred —And has it eome to this? No more strong assertion and joyful proclamation that annexation will eome 5ramediately. No inore alleg»tions that those who ho{ie and believe in the ultimate restoration of the monarchy are leaning on a broken reed. Now all is changed. *‘And the lion roareth and the whangdoodle moumelh the lost of her first born.” As Shakespeare says ‘‘mueh virtue in an if.” And Dr. Rodgers played Yankee Doodle on the piano. — One of those anonymous wnters | in the Star proceeds to give a copy of the uaturalization law of 1882, ibrgetful probabij’ that it was rel>ealed in 1888, and then starts out like the rest of the annexation clique to make assertions, unaupported by specific examples, whieh are intended to cast obloquy on the Royal Family and the admini- ! stration of the government under the Monarchy. Let the anonyraous snake in the grass who penned the eommuniealion trot out his mstances and we will be better pre1 pared to believe him.‘Andone ounee of fact is worth a ton of argument’ the proverb says and it is correct. \Ve pass over his slip in saying “foreigners of unexceptional character” instead of unexceptionable 1 because we presume he meaha the j latter and not the former, as that 1 would totally destroy even that j shred of argument whieh he has builtupon bare asBertioo, unaupported by a scintilla of proof.