Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 246, 20 June 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Star is indulgirsg in a eon- i ■tant line of ahuae lies and sneers ! against Oiaua Spreckela, heeauae that gentleman refused to aliow the exquisite aaaeaibly whieh eall themaelve« the annexation club to him. When the Star prmted an eaeily underst<xxl al!egory, wberein it accuaed Spreckels of treason and acdition, he took notice of ihe aheet —an honor it hardly , deserved and h.id the imported ex-chronicIe-re{X>rt<-r who preteuds to write edit«'riala arrested for libel. This step of course iucreased the bitternes9 in the eoul of the Star crew and although the libel-suit has acted as a damper on them they slill sling their little muddy d rta at the eolonel aa far as they dare to go. We daily find short paragraphs tel!ing us that the P.G. (on whoae behalf by the way the Star does not apeak) have decided to stop the subsidy to the Oeeame Steamship Line and give it to the Pacific Mail Steamers. The patent idiots who talk that way, forget that the Oeeanie Line doesn’t receive the government subsidy as a gift or a penaion whieh the gov«rnment at any time ean stop, but tbat there is a cast-iron contract whieh provideB for certain acte to be performed by the two oontracting parties and that if either of them «hould break such contract damages ean ba demanded in the ccauner uaual in aueh instances. Now that contract is good for two years, and as two years have not expired and as the contruct has heen carefully filled by Oolonel Spreckel9 for the Oeeanie Line we would like t» aee how the P. G. could lieten to the Star-propoeition and corarait the illegal act of hreaking a contract and then see the tax-payers saddled with a law-suit whieh ean only end in one way. For the benefit of those who are naive enough to believe that Spreckels is worried very mueh over these threats to etop the subsidy, we will remark that if the P. G. should be inclined to monkev with the Oeeanie Steamship Co., they will find that thcy are playing with a weapon whieh cuts both ways. The Star stranger is evidently not aware of another contract whieh gives Spreckels the control of all the Bugar in Hawaii for five years. That sugar will have to go to San Francisco in vessel9 under the eontrol of th« Oeeanie Line, and if that company 8hould consider it nece«sary to raiie the fr«ight charges owing to the withdrawal of the government 8ubsidy—well,it will nnt be Claus Spreckels who will euffer. The question naturally anaea; wbat has Ciaus Spreckels done to bo subjected to all that abuse and tbose threaU from the reform party? He haa committed tbe unpanlonahle ain of making more money than the rest of the planters and thcn he has, instead of crushing his enemiea when ehaneee frequently oflered. helped them out of their financial mire and enabled many a tottering meroantile and planting intereet to eoniinne its exietenoe. Natur*Uy men of the nature of our mimsionaries nerer forgire a benefactor or anybody to whom they owe gratitude —and money, and taat ie Ihe true eaoM of hoatilitr inuit 3nreckel».

To-dav Spreckels comrols the money mark> t in Hawaii, tomorrow and the day after. he will do so still more. The crisiā in Aus- { tralia whieh has reached the United States w:ll cause the grealest tightness of money whieh has been felt for many years, and it will be felt | in Honolulu as strongly as in the I States. The Baring Bros. smaahup mav be ihe imraediate cause of the financial cnsis whieh now threatens the world. but the general depression and failure m cropa and bad years, are the true cause. The Chicago Fair will have a great inōuenee on the European money-market, because the iarge exodus of Americans who 1 yearly travei in Euroj>e will this year be directed to Chicago. This will mean that 1150,000.00 iofcash whieh it is eslimated that the travelling Americans spend in Ēurone will remain in America, and the lo83’tothe European money-market will further iacrease ihe tightness there. When the panie whieh always follows such fiuancial crisis touches Honolulu, the dav eomee when Claus Spreckels get in his deadly work. It will be impoesible for anybody to obtain money or exchange except from Spreckels 4 Co., b«cause owing to the nature of the business of our other money institution. the hank of Bishop & Co. will be busy rather in drawing in tbeir numerous inve»tments than advancing further loana. la the Star man, when he printa his political tax li«t, a moat abaurd affair by the way—aware of how many of the stockholdera in the great plantation eompaniea whioh he classifiea aa annexationiata have their stocka aecurely locked up,not in their own safea, but in the safes of Claus Spreckela or Theophilus Davii Co? Does he realize what an exquiaite eolleelion of Makaweli atock, and Haiku Stock, and Ewa stock, and Paia stock Mr. Spreckels has gathered, not so mueh as curios as as securities on monev lof*ned? When the pnneipal comes due on those loana, the ownera of the stock will have a sweet time of raising the nece8sary, and then perhapa Mr. Spreckels will retaliate a little againat all the abuse uow hea{>ed on him, and refuse to renew. If the Star man is under the imuression that it is easy to raise money in Honolulu, we will refer him to Minister Damon, or rather t*i broker Damon. Recent transactiona in the prirate business of that gentleman aeema to indicate that we needn*t wait for the threatened money tightnese, it is well uuder way uow. That Spreckels shou!d have any right to have a voice in the government of the country, is of-oourse fiatly denied by the hand-organs of the eluh. That SpreckeU is about the only man who brought money to the country, and opened new fielde for workingmen, and laborers does rot entit!e him to any consideration in tbe minds of the annexation eluh. That the treasury annually receivea ahoul $90,000 in taxes alone through hia handa ia of no iraportance. and the Star Editor after a four monlha rwidenoe, who never haa or never will enneh our treasury (axcept perhaps throagb paving aome fines) wants Mr. Spreckala to nndarstand that tba country is to ba ran bj him, and other needj adventnrers, whoae only qnaiity ia tha noiaa they make, by their load and persiatent braying. An entarpriae like 8preckalavilla alona ahoald entitla Mr. Sprackela to all poanhla oonaidar-

ation and gratitude by tbi? nalion. From a de*ert, thoee plain? on Maui wer« turned into a ferttle and prosper<>us canefield- Thriugh his courage acd through the financial risk whieh he took tbe red. dreary eaad-hi.l« have b«en tran?formed iuto a smiling and brilliant landscape. Out of an uninhabited, useUes district.where there »as no vegetation, noanimal Iife. an oas'S haa been created on whieh 2,000 busy men find their daily bread, and all that is due to the determined will and business shrewdness of that man at whose heela the curs now suarl and yelp. Spreckels h«s Heret >fore never used the boycott in politics. lf he did. he wou!d have driven the Kahului Railroad to the wall long •go. if he cousidered the bt>ycott • des!rable means to use for the furtherance of his pol:t!cal plane, be would have started an IuterIiland Steamship line long ago.and through a decis;ve competition have broken the companies, whoae owners constantly have heen fighting him. Spreckels has so far heen an easy going and f.iir enemy, and that is the reason why the whelps who now bark at him eonlinue their impudence, a.id believe that they ean do it with impunity, beeauee heretofore Spreckels kept hueineae and politics apart. But the time has arrived wheu eueh leniency is misplaced. The time haa arnved when Spreckels will show that he ean fight hia enemiee with their own weapon, and the eupporters and backers of the Star will be the first to howl for mercy. When the 6preckelsville sugar goes to Kahului ou SpreckeleviHe rails, and when a Spreckela InterĪ8lands 8tearaship line carries Spreckels’ Sugar from Hawaii, Maui and Kauai to Honolulu,some of the men who go into their pockets weekly to pay for the Star ! » abuse of Spreckels will regrettheir foolishne8S —and there will be nothing in their pockets wherewith to feed their imported gcribbler. Go on with your attacks and threats against Hawaii’s best citizen —the day of retribution is near, and tfae one who laughs last laughs the best. The circua in the councils at the meetiug yesterday beats everything on record. More undiguified behavior of the men who ar« auppoeed to run this country ean hardly be imagined. Like a set of schoolboys the CouncilIors got ou their feet one after the other,and delivered eaeh some epithet againit Charles Nordhoflf—the man they did not have the power to»nnoy or puniah or force to even notice them. H« was a liar, a coward. a m«ndaeioue gentleman, and no gentleman at all. He ought to be ashamed of him*elf said these worthy pres«censor8, «nd then they clinched their fisU in their poekela. and gnasbed their teeth and aaid in an inaudible whisper “if only we dared we would—eat him.’’ lf that is an «xhibition of wbat oor councillors eall gentlem*nly b«havior. then we don’t think that they are fit or proper per»on« to judge Mr. Nordhoflf. It waa of cour*e th« enfant Umble of the Council. tinsmith Emm«luth, who had tinkered a reaolution against Nordhoff and who want«d it to go on the oflBcial record of the CounciI« that he conaidered Nordhoff a liar and a naughty naugbty man. If the reeolution had heen killed immediately withont discamon the Cooncii voold

have acted properly and ihe wbo!e aff.iir would have been a laughing matter and fi!ed awav under the heading of Emmelulh'a praotical jokes. But a!though noUHly conld be found to secv>nd the resolution, th«y all had to say their litt:e pieee and thereby pr ve to tb« readers of the New York Heraid that Nordhoff is far fr >m exaggerating in his estimate of tht* Hawaiian P. G. and hasn't said nearly enough about their amall mind-*d-ness and bigotrv. Let it be remembered for the sake of the good name of the Hawaiian nalion that the CounciIs area eeil-eieeliol b«xly and do nol represent the peop’.e, who in no seiise ean be held r«sponsible f>r the antics and funny capvrs of the assembled tinsmithi and clerks. Let it also l>e remembereil to the hon>>r of Mr. lenney that he iramediately after ihe death of Kmmeluth’s r< so!ution and after having digesteil th« debat« on Nordh>>tr moved that in the future the Counciis only meet onee a week. a motion whieh carried. We think that step very significant and hope that itshortiy will be followed by a motion that thev don’t meet at all—and that aueh motion will be carried by au uuauimous vote of the people. We renrint to day an editorial from the San Francisco Po»t to show that we are not alone in our idea that Mr. Thurston found eome difficulty iu being recogniz«d m Wa8hiugton. As certain eastern papere cloaely connected with the adminiitration write in the eame •train perhaps the P. G. organs will have to realiie that we as usual!j are better posted and better informed to wh&t is going on in the capitol iu N\ashington than they are.