Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 241, 13 Iune 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Jrs« 13th 18!« Pboti«iml Goveknme>t Boxd«. Ikmanā. .. . Aow. Sold . j In the arro«t of Mr Smith, the j m»naginK edit<>r *>f the Star, la§t i Saturday, another ineUnee w.»» given to the people of Hawaii as to < the insulting di?criminali<m and i partiality in whieh the g<>vernment and more e9pecialiy the at-tornev-peneral*8 department eieele. Mr.W. G. Smith’s arrest was as morrv as a fatr. A bluecoat smilingly i>resented him with a warrant and request*-d him polilely to siep over to the Poliee Station. Here he was friendly received by ihe Deputy Marshal who seemed to be iu high g'ee over the whole affair. whieh also caused the Marshalgreat amusement. Mr. Smith writes that not even a smell of a dungeon penetrated to his sacred aurrouudinga in tbe MarahalP9 office. Nohail waa asked, but he wae told to drop in on Tuesday, about 9 o’eloek in the raorning. This is the treatment offered to a man who is neither a citizen nor taxpayer, but simply an imported adventurer, hired for the oeeaaion b}* the annexation party, to write about things he koowa nothing about in 6omething whieh he is conceite<l and imnudent enough to term editorials. The offense for whieh he waa arrested wascommitted agamst the heaviest taxpayer, the leading financier, and the most •uterprising man who ever graced i/awaiian soil,but to libel him seems in the eyes of the poliee autborities to be only a matter f r laughter and joking and of ao mouieul whatever. It is on the otlier side sti11 fresh in our minds how Mr. Kenyon wss arreeted by two poliee captainB. how be was subjectetl to a search of his u«-r9on and b>cked up in a fi.thy, stiuking eell only used f.»r felons or drunken and disorderly offenders. How 1500 hail w.is demanded f*r h>9 release, and how the Deputy M irshal told him that this outrsgeous treatment was necessitated by peremptor-y orders. Mr. Kenyon waa arrested, not for having libelled by any writings of his owu Mr. J. L. Steve«9, but for •imply having reprinted the remarks on that person from an Ohio uewspa{»er. Joking and laughiug over that libe!suit c.»uld have been excu8ed. becauso it c»uld create nothing except ridicule and contempt f.»r a governraent, whioh would try in that manner t<> prevent a newspaper from conveying to its readers the sentimeuts and opiniona offoreign papers on questions of the day. But the attorneygeueral toox the matter very mueh au s<rūux in that iustance. The in«ulting de9crimination toward« Mr. Kenyou—a Britisn subj<jct—contrary to all justioe and fairneaa and coulrary to our treaty with Great Bntain, ghouid have the full attention of tbe British trovernmenL. and furniebe« a good proof to the British residenta in these Island of the h.ietility and eontempt in whioh they are held by the Provifional GovernmenL » But we would like to know if the attorney-general, learned in the law. really believee that the govern-

ment to whieh bebelungs. is either gaining «trengtb or friead9 by approving of sucn actions as we h.4v • āhown ;ire done bv the Poliee De- ! partment? If the g-<vernment hns the slight- : est h >pe or idea of becoming per- : maneiU. U will have P» change tactics very severely. The c »nstant irritation and insult to its opp>onent! by its officials is a danger.»us ground for it to tread. The contiuued annoying of the 1 men who think otherwise than : thev, but wh<» pay the bu 1«i of the | taxes. will one of these days pre1 cipitate a crisis whieh will be ; dtsastr<>u9 to the government. No 1 governmeut in the world ean exist the eupport of a few hundred ar.i>ed mercenaries. The support of the people is essential. But it is ouly by a wise ruling, by iudisputable justice and by an hjnorablv conciliating attitude that this government • ean obtain that supj)ort, without whieh it will never heeome more than temporary — never be raore than tolerated. lf the emall mind of the attorney general cahnot be mlarged suffioieiU!}' to make him realize that the peonle will noi allow him to misuse the bnef authority with wnieh he hss beeu clothed, his wiser colleagues should make him »tep down and out and select a better man for the t>lace. We don’t know what Germany tnd the Germans have ever done to the Star editor to make them the constant object of his persecuting ignorailce. Since he proved his totaI ignorance of even the whereabouts of the great Fatherland by getting the poiitionsof HeIigoland snd Kielso sadly mixed, we thought that he would have dropped writing on German questions. But no. he has since filled his paper with the most idiotic criticism of the Emperor and th* present polilieal situation in Germany, whieh has further proven his ead dilemma at having to pnxiuce c<>i>y for a eouple of eolumn» every day, although ne has no idea of the subjects whieh . he is ordered to write about. But it ie time to ohject when he iu a fit of his ueual hallue natione drawe a picture of what Germany will be in the year 1925, aud gives an iustance uf the treatment of one Herr Rotechild von Katzenjammer by the P. G. in Germany, whieh the idiot evidently imagines will be on the same plan as the remarkable eomhinalion whieh w»s known ae the P. G. in llawaii in 1893. Our sympathies for Germauy have increased. Our eyee are filled with tears through thinking about the terr hle fate whieh the Star maniae wn*hee us to believe ia in et*>re for that g»d and intelligent j»eople. So they are to be puni!hed by having a provisionai goverument m 1925, and by a government whieh aceording to lh« Star is to be constructed on the plau whieh w.is iu vogue some hundred vears ag<> in merry old England or along the Khine, and if the Star man had his way we suppose would bt*m force in Hawaii to-day. The jesteb: — Good Lord and Baroa! The Jew is here »nd asks you humbly to pay him what yoa ow« him. Teus Babos; — What varlet! Axe yoa jesting? Am 1 to be bearded In my own Hall by an iniid«l dog of a jew, who asketh for what I bonored him by boiTowiag of him! 11 ang him! U% ng him ! —or wait. Roast him alowly, till he tean the Ieavea with oor debu oat trooi his hooka and his *coounta I # That ie about how Walter Scott

irouid have had aud thal ia ah-'ul ho«v th*» swe!I-ii- Staredit<>r tehs us that Genuany will be raled in l'.)25. as iu enco iragement for the P. G. to attempt t eueh course agaiuet C aua Spreckeie. Tne Star-man i i n t bav« the moraI coura{»e to eome out plainly with what he wauted t«> convey to his readers wou'il be the proper aelion t‘.ovard? S; reoke.#o he dothed his attack under the cover of an imasr : ned article in an imaguieil jonrnal to be iesued in 1925 iu Gennuny. The plain Eng!tsh <>f it was th «; That CI us by p! <ci s himself in opii- iilion t > the P. G. should be pun shed. Tfiat, rememhering the faet that a great number of the P. G. 8uppnrters are heav:ly in debt to him, the Hiost accej>table wav —to them —to have Spreckels punished would b° through eonfiscation of his property. Bat as lhat woukl slill leave them in his debt, the propusition 'v.<s further made that “his credits” be a!so confisc?ted, whereby his debt<>rs would be safe from further ann<>yanee. We fully agree that this thicving scheme woukl be hailed with great satisfaction by a number of people whoare 011 the wrong side of Spreckels’ ledger, and we have no doubt that if feasible the stockholders, say in the Reciprocity Planlalion, would feel e X tremely relieved, but we neither believe that Germany in 1925 will have retrograded so niueh from its j>reseiit degree of civilization or of eommercial soundness and mtegrity to entertam a plan whieh makes it a crime for a man to c»llect the money lawfully due him nor that the Hawaiian P. G. is eimple enough to be led into such a scheme. ihe men who now are squealing, because they have to pay back what they borrowed frora Sprecke!s are the very men who support the Star, whieh day in and day out is heaping insiilts on him, and if the Star’s proposition to commit a highway robbery on Spreckels is approved by these backers of the Star, the quicker Spreckels enforces the c»ilection of every cent due him the quic';er will his debtors gettheirjust deserts, and receive a uuich-needed lesson in humilitv by becoming a lot of insolvenl bankrupts. Katzenjaramer is undoabtedly what most of thein are suflFering from, and the cause whieh leads t» Katzenjammer very often leads a step further and becomes an unlimited vision of snakes—and it striae8 us, that that is the stat“ at whieh both the Star editor and his 8upporters have arrived. and for whieh the only cure is the goldcure —but the g»ld will not he obtained from Claus Spreck«ls as they will learn to their sorrow. The continued annoyance to whieh the Qjeen is subjected by the over officīoiis Marshal, in having his “special detectives” hanging around her premises, at \Vashington Plaee and prowling at the gates and fences around her plaee should be stopped. If the evervigilant chief of poliee has any inforruation whieh woukl justify him in holding the plaee uuder surveillance, he should j>erform tbat duty in as quiet and inolīensive manner as powihle and he tbould select men for the work who would be a protection for the plaeea under their surveillance rather than a meuaee. The “detectives whom the Marshal ia employing are of such a character that he thould send a eouple of hia regular offi«rt with ihem to watch them, or it will heoome necesaary for tha

people under 3urveiliance todoub!e loek their d.wrs including ihai t-> the hen-eoop. let thedogs loos«, anu hire a man witb a shot gun t<< gjard their houses We he.ir of several p«ople who have been oblig*Hl t-> adopt such hen>ic me;»8ures, and who up>vn inquiry h»ve answered that lhey were b<iund to adopt such precautions everv night. becaii!e suspicioua characters were hangii.g around their prem »*s W hen assed by an inn>cent 8tranger wby they didn’t lelephone to the jx>lice t<> theannoyance sbated the answer was: Because that 19 ihe PoIi,. , e in th>- f<>rm into whieh the Reform P.irty’s M.irshal ha! transposed ihe f >rce. We cannot understand why the goverunient seems to be in such a consUiit l’ear <>f an alt;‘.ck by the loyalists. C»mm<>n 8ense aiul plain k>gic ought to tell them that no 9uch move has been or is eontemplate«i. The loyal citizens believe firmly and faithfully thatthe United States will plaee Hawaii iu the aame poakion as she waiaon the 1 Gth of January, previouslv to the uulawful lauding and interference of the U. S. force«. hy tho k>yalists shou'.d t.»ke 90 foolish a step as t<> take the raatter in their owu hands bet’ore they have got their answer from the Cleveland administratiou, we cannot see — The country ie patiently waitmg for the whieh Bome day oiuit be given, and we at least have no doubt ae to what that decision will be. Should. contrary to all expectancy and all reaa<m, that deci9ion be ad\*hr9e to the Queen’s cause then it is time enough for the peonle t<> decide who is to rule and what form of goverument shall be adopted—one thing is sure, and that is that it will be a government by the people, for the people, and of the people, and not a minority government. But until then the present ad!iiinistratiou ean rest in perfect ease. Mr. Dole ean eontinue his droams of everlaiting jx>wer under the royal canopy. and Dr. Rodger9 ean yet exljibit h:9 wonderful skill in perfomiging ‘ Yankee Doodle” on the r<>yal piano. whileall the great aiul good and skilful military meu and the Hitchcock deacons ean enjoy their goldeu Eldorado and draw their pay —ai long as Sain Damon ean raise the necessary for that purpose.