Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 65, 4 Kekemapa 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

One aspect of the sitoation as it is in th*? “now yon see it and now vou don t” of the three-card monie men of the I’rovisional Government. Oue day liere they are all American citizens and ns ; sach pray the U. S. Govemment | to annev ns so as to tender Amer- . iean interests and property seonre. Then they masqnerade as Hawaiians when over on a trip to tho | to tbe U. S. as witness to the j Braersons, tlie Castles, the | Thnrstons. tho Cartera. etc. Then here thev and their motley crevr of followers ol all nationalities and degrees of crime. anarchv. an 1 poverty pet up and sign petitions protesting against the interference bv the U. S. forces as damaging to their proj>erty and rights .is Amenean citizens while at tho aame time Vice President Katch is publicly denonncing Mr. T. II. Davies as a forcigner and as publicly anonncing himself as a Hawaiian. Wheu we refiect that for years Mr. Hatch took no stand in politics here as ho claimed to be afraid of losing his Amenean citizenship and that in everv group of statistics his property is classified as American this last statemeut almost paralvzes us by its eool andacity. But we opinethis very Jack-5n-the-box stylo of action will presont some difficulties whieh the P. O. have not calculated on when considered logically bv them. If they roally are Ameiieau citizcns they uinst obey the orders of their Chief Executive as givea through his lawful officiuls or stand the treatment of rebels or rioters. And if they are not American bnt are Hawaiian citizens, then they stand in the position of rebels to their lawful ami constitr.tionol sovereign ajid as snch bv all rights of internaiional law liable to be handed over —like pinites and such other folon and bloodthirsty vermin to Her tender mercies ln' Hor sov'reign friend aml ally the Government of the U. S., and if they are neitber they raust then be classe«l as freebooting filibusters against whon» every man s haml is raised «nd to put down whom even* nation exerts its forces. Now there nre the horus of yonr dilemraa. Ye corapound bybrid facing-both-ways! Whieh reminds us of the Germ«n so!dier on out post duty iu the early pait of the Franco-Prussian war, ( who found himself snddenly j surrounded by three French soldiers with fixed bayonets uneommonly dose to his lower ex- i tremitv and was startled to see i one of them jHiliteIy remove his Kepi aud say “Vich of ze tree vill n>'siou be pleascd to sit on V' The moral is obvious. The 8tar ondertook to dictate to Minister Daraon in the matter of the reinoval of certain Hawa- ■ iians in the Financeoffice aud the j cnstom house. but at the present ; writiug these young men are stiil j ho!ding their positions and what !

j is more Mini»ter Dasnon has told | the Star man in nnicistakable : I langaage, that he does not want ; any advise frora thnt p«per, the • aunexation clnb, or any one | elae. \\ hat has become of the Star man’s threats anyhow He ; seems to bave taken the backI track. for Satnrday’s issuedid uot I eoniain a single reference to the i matter. nor is it likely that it will . be j>ersued any fnrther. ln the rneantime we won!d like to a»k . Mr. Editor Smith how it feels to be a fool? CalIofTyonr dogs my ■ hearty I Yon are barking up the wrong tree. i Mr. Co’lector of the Cnstoms | • • Jimmv’’ 0astle was in a high : state of Jubilation npon hearing the news of the Spreckels faraily fiirht over tbe afi’iirs of the HawaiI i m Commercial Sugar Comp;tny, j and in the exnberance of his glee * he was throwu int > ;i violent state j of snorting and cntharrnl f>nr- ! o.r»/-•) : whieh t!ireatened to cnt short his bright and interesting c;trecr. Befoie this young offender shoots ofi’ his month in condemnatiou of other j>eople s misdeeds. let him look back on his own record. Does he think j that the public have forgotten ; the storv of his sbame!ess mis- j mauageinent of the Kahuku ! Plautat»on .Agency ? He had j better siug low before he charges I fraad upon others. and remeraber the old adage that “people who live in glass honses, etc. Come ofT! snorting Jimmy ! Oolonel Spaulding, in his sj>eech at the mass-meeting the other night indulged iu some fine sarcasm at the expense of Colonel Claus Spreckels, to the efi’ect that, if that gentlem;in conld not make money in his sugar esb tes uuder tbe McKinIey bill, there \vere others that could. But tho Colonel onght to remember that he had unusual oj>j>ortunities in the aquisition of his maguificent estate. as to make him comparatively insensible to such little confmgencies as the tariff etc. The Colonel is undoubtedly a good manuger, and in matters of this kind there is every thing in the “management, you know !’’ Of course, we are not a!Inding to the caucelling of uotes nor to the coloring o£ sugar.