Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 56, 22 November 1893 — LAW AND JUSTICE A8 FRACTICTD BT Attorney-General W. 0. Smith. [ARTICLE]

LAW AND JUSTICE A8 FRACTICTD BT Attorney-General W. 0. Smith.

ORDERS ISSUED TO THE MARSHAL Refuse aay Furth a r Wamnts for Libe’ Agaiust the **Star” Editor. . Smith of the “Star Protected by Smith of the P.G. That the Attorney-General of the Provisional Government has succeeded dnring his brief incumbency in becoming the most unpopular man in town is no secret any longer. Even the very supporters of the revolntionarv government regret that it ever should have been thought advisable to select a man like Mr. Smith for the all-important oflice of Attomey General. His narrow-miudeduess, his bigotry, and his incapability as a prosecuting ofticer have become hard and cold facts, but the commumty has tolerated him because he has generally been cousidered harmless as long as the impartial and fair sj>irit of Sanford Dole’s brains dominated and acted as a eheek on the vagaries of the Attorney-Gencral. But when a most glaring act of iujustice and favoritism is eommitted by the Attorney General for the sake of shielding the hired scribbler who revels in libellous slanders in the St.ir columns, it is time to make a strong and determiued protest. Attorney- General Smith hrs instructed the Marshal aud his deputies to refuse to sanction the issuing of any further warrants against Editor Smith of the Hawaiian Star. Tho provisional government in the person of Attorney-general TV. O. Smith has placed its seal of approval on thepaper, and the writer who daily violates thelaws of the conntry by publishing libel after libel. Mr. S. B. Dnlo —the es judge s fldministration encourages through Mr. A\. O. Smith—the learned Att< raey£reneral —raeasnres wiiieh wil! lead r? to the taking of the law into the hands of the men who are assanlted by the black-gnards in the hire of the annexationists. Mr. : Dole's administmtion whieh h is been ' hehl np to the United States as j au honest and f*irminded gov- j ernroent refuses justice and right ( to all citizens who ditfer politically from the attorney general. We shall refraiu from comment- j I inor on the marshal. He has : shown himself so ootrageously partisun in allowing Mr. Smith of the Star to go at Iiberty wi Lt oct furnisbiug any bail tbat he ! has stamped bimself as unwortby of bolding any oflice of trust or importanee in this country. That the attorney general now shows bimself as favoring and supi>orting the methods of Mr. Hiieheoek is perhaps some excusc for this

partisao but it redocts ver>- little to the credit of the government whieh at least indirectlv tolerates the infamons and extremely cormpt action of the Attorney-General. The libels agaiust Mr. C. B. M i!son aud tbe outrageons lying slanders ag »instthe Queen have been made for the purpose of creating a row tbr«>ngh shamefully aggravating the friends of the parties mentioned. The hirelicg who calls Wilson a Tahitian eowanl hiis not suceeetled in his nefarious schemes. Mr. Wil>on 'nas so far beeu on the right track aud simplv appealed to the laws of I the Kingdom. The conrse of Mr. Wi!son has naturally been ' a sourco of annoyance and disappointment to tho cliqne represented by W. O. Smith and he has therefore cowanlly misused the autbority veste»l in him to preveut anv further appeal to the laws by the ontraged and assjiulted citizen. The infamy with whieh tho goverument stan»ls covered through W. O. Smith’s political condnct will rest on eaeh individual membor for ever. If any of them ever believe that they ean bek>leratod in pnblic life in these Islands their knowledgo of human nature and of political decency and bonesty must be sadly wantiug. The Hawaiian Nation wi 11 bide its time, but wheu hand of judgement falls it will fall heavily aml cmsh W. O. Smith and his cormpt abettors.