Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 84, 27 Kekemapa 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Dail;/ BuUetin, Jan. 14th, 1893. ,: The U. S. S. Bc *ston returued from a cr'’.ise Hilo this mornHis Excellency L. Steveus, U. S. Minister returned by tlie Bo«ton from a visit to the volcano.” S. F. l 'hmnkU, Nov. ‘20th, 1893. “Prominent Hawaiiau residents like General Hartwell, and exConsul 6eneral Severance are ablo t<» poiut' out the tlagrant errors made by Bl<»unt iu his rcp >rt. \\ ben a man like Stevens accuse*l of eollnaion witb the revolntionists mi* actunlly av:ay fr ,m II<yn luln a( the tiuie, and had to be reca!lod bv raes.senger wbat is to be tbougbt of an attack whieh represents him as tbe arcb v;llain who <lirecf<’*l the whole eonspiracy.” J. B. A(her(on (before tbe Congregational M6nday club.) “Min stor Stevens did not organizo tbe revolution, as has been said. He was away in fact on a vacation and returued soon after, but tbon the work had been accomplished.”

We puhliah the above qnotations to show what unmitigated liars ottienvise respected meu will make of themselves for the purpose of gainiug their point. How Messrs Severance, Hartwell aud Thurston will ever dare to lift their heads iu this couutrv after having heen caught in such a flagrant lie is beyond our eomprehension or it uuist be due to their iuborn slackness of moralitv. As overybody now knows ex-Mmister Stevens had been

ooDspiriug for more thau \'ear, aml was in constant fear of an outbreak tluring an eventual absence of the U. 8. Cruiser 13oston. It was that fear whieh prevented hiiu. aoconling to his own stateiueuts, from seuilmg the Boston to sea to look for the wTuoked vessel Campbell. liut Mcssrs. Hartwell, Severanoe, aml Athertou are all aware that Mr. 8tevens w..s in Honolulu. yes, in tke Govtrnmeni buildin<j on Uie tnorning of īkuur\.iay the J£th , before a breath had reached anyb<xlv of the Queen s intention to deciare a new constitutiou. What Mr. Athorton thinks th »t he ean gain by }>alruing off such aa undisputable fa)sehood on the “Congregational Monday Club we don’t know, but it wiil settle him in th is c?nimnnitv.

Tbere «re by the way iDuny arausing features in Mr. Atberton's address. Sjx'ukin*x abont Mr. Daraon’3 sbitomeut to BIoant Le said: “It i> true tbat Mr. Damon gave Lis signature t > a st»teraent incnl|>aimg Miuister Stevens. Mauy thmgs are always said and done in tiraes of great excitement wLieh inenaresorry forafterward ■—thiugs were said nnd done to jirevent bloodshed. ’ How does that stamp Mr. Damon according to the idea$ of this "friend"

Atherton? To b:ive been a clerk for Atherton evidently bars a man from gettinp into pnblic ofiice. Tbat &oeajs at least to l>e tbe indication jodging from the j following remark: ‘Tt bas been j *tated that Wondenberg was offered the position of Collector | of Costoms to join tbe revo- i lntionists. He was a cierk I of nine for years and f do not ; believe any snch offer w<s ever < made.” Of conrse Mr. Atherton ; spoke abont bimself asbeinga pro- | “prominent mercbant and a ,‘Jeading bosiuess inan in ; tbe commnnity whieh nn- j doubtedly wili be a sarprise to anybody conversant with the hnaneial conditions of j bis firm and he also dwel!s witu some pride on tbe fact that he ' was a Privy Conncillor, and a meraber of the Board of Immi- j gration under the Mooarchy. We i sbould have imagined tbat tbe I reco!lectiou of tbe honor grnnted hiiu bv tbo sovereigns of Hawaii woukl made have him blnsh for bis treason and perfidy to tbe trast reposed in him. He finished bis a ldress witb the | following remark whieh under the present circnmstances, and recent developments sounds very refreshing indeed: “Minister Stevens is a thorongh Chnstian man, and too diplomatic to put the United States in a false position.” This opinion o{ Mr. Atlierton is evidentlv not bkcked j or shared by Mr. Cleveland. bis administration, and that large majority of the people of tbe United States whieh is known as tbe democratic party.

Tho most arausing part in John L. Stevens’ answer to Mr. Blount is where he says that he tried to prevent that gentleman from taking np his quarters at the Hawaiian Hoiel where he would fall iuto bad bands and necessarily become corrupted. The old ex preacher even went so far ns to negotiate for Mr. B!onnt, for rooms and ham and eggs at the house of some “sister in Christ’ who woukl oulv be to willing to increase her iueome with the golden eagles of tbe U. S. Goverumeut, and at the same tirae goard tho morals of poor BIonnt by fnrnishiug bim with “proper” and Cbristiau company. We fnlly appreciate old Steve’s horror over Blonnt’s refusal to accept the “Christian hospitality.”

The outrages on law and order committed by the departmeut of justice (?) under the control of William Offexsive Smith ably snbordiuated by Eowako GreexEYF.d Hitchcock, and still further rubbed in by Lorrix TcmbleDOWX Axdbews have been is namerous in the past. that our worthy friend in tho law C. W. Ashford vaiuly endeavors from time to time to find out whether we have any constitutiou or laws under whieh to govern our actious. Like Diogenes, he goes rouud with a Iautern, bot not like him (we are certain) looking for an honest mau; as if that were the case, he ccrtainly mouIu uotcany bisi}aeat ruU> the roost unlikdy quarter to find one—tbe Supreme Bench of our nondescript polilieal organizitioo. The latest occurrence is thai a man—j Hawaiian —has heeo lncked up ali night by the ordera of the redmuuled—we meao Seoiors Capt-

ain from the ball-pnnching 'lopes of Makawao, on a charge tf us:rg ob«cene ianguage, and wheu bnil up to £50 was tendered reTnsing ihe m«n his !iberty. Next morning, . bis owū witnesses includirg h - ' iKiliee, t-stifie*« that the nian did | nothing. s *id nothing and wa« not j intoxicated. S-> be yarnt-J all ye I readers of tbe Holomua and your frien<i.-, if thi« S':preuie exponeiil • < f law and ord r, chooses t<> eonf sider that you ha v e or ! have not br >ken any law or 1thatyo u h a v e o r havo uot Jone something whieh : will rouse his bnrut-nmber ; bristles to furv he will at onee i loek you up in a eell and in the plenitnde of bis power override the law even that none made by j bis chief William Oka.ng-OUTA.\G j Smith. and refuse you bail when ■ tendere.l by your friends tbat | h« may have tbe pleasaro of yonr i interestiug society in the apartments known as Hitclicock s coo!er. ‘AnJ this is good aml stable government.'’ | Ai.bert Fbankfūrter Judd denies (1) that he attended any meeting wh<'i« annexation was Jiscus.seJ (2) that he owes Lis social uud pecnniary position to the natives (3) that be eoukl not earn a decent Iiving as a lawyer. Everyone wbo knows him. knows , first that he has always been an j annexationist, has talkeJ it, writi ten it, and evea Jegraded his high olkee by signing tlie roll of I tlie Annexation Club. SeconJ tbat the nr.onev missing from the Governraent in his fatbor s time has never be< n accouute<l for, that hisfather was known as Ololekal i by the natives and that his breeding aud intelligeuco woukl anywhere pievent his being receiveJ iu any regular Ameiiean Society. AnJ third that if bis Jecisions are any critorion of his knowledge, of law, and his ability to practise that the ineome he wonkl or eoukl earn in privatc practice wouU be almost inlinitesimal.

We will only ask Ur. A. S. Hartwell who says, he never attended any annexatiou meetings and, by insinnation. styles Dr. Trousseau and MajorGulick liars, what was that meeting before the 17th of January, when he objected to deposing the Qneen as that was not the best way to procure aunexation and was so ndiculed by the committee of safetv and its array-!eaders that he quit the scheme in disgust for a whole week- Mr. Hartwells own reputation for veracity and honesty and sticking to his word is such that his brother luwyers invariably make him write his agreements and even then if tbey mislav them and cannot produce their copies at onee, he will repndiate them till confrotned bv the evidence of his own haudwriting. “And of such is the Provisional Government of Hawaii.” AVe bear that the Unitetl Press Association has commissioned that hoaiy-heatled old slanderoos crnclty to animals. S. E. Bishop, as its conct>poadent bere, and instrncted him to present both sides of the case, Royaiist as well as P. O. While we donbt from past experience whether ihe c*ld bpffer will be able to unscrew his miod to a degree of reciitnde sufficient to carry ont %

bis onlers. we will telS him the Koy«list point of view, so lbat he ean forwanl it to his euij'Iovers. lt is tbis: The Hawaiian Qneen aml nalion bave appealeil to the government of tbe Gre«t Amenean Nation to reilress j a wrong committeil by tbeir i citizens aiui otKcials anil forces. ' anJ we l»elieve tbe Araerican j Government will Jo it. That j is all. ■'We believe that tbe Hawaiiau couspiracy, as it has doveloped in anJ aboot the aJaiinistration of Grover ClevelanJ will l>e of irretrievable political damage to every American who bas haJ a hanJ in it. *'/<(»• ī)*c. -I. So j it will among-t the conspir tors, ! iiars and thieves, from J. L. Stevens anJ J. SalivateJMcGrew

Jown to A. Tornc.oat Johustone and Walter Gossiping Smith. But it will reJouuJ to the credit of the Democratic Presideut and his aJministration. AuJ to tbe honor of America anJ the reputation of its govermnent for unflinching lairness anJ houesty.

And now con)es WaltER Gakb*ge Smith, and s.»y?, BU»unt h;\s a fetble menK>ry ; and that he. the said W. G. did not say that the Qneen would eall on ihe Japanese sailors to restore her. Let ihe Wobbling Gyr»tory Sapheaded mouuiehank lurn up the corres pondence he wr te to the Chronicle, at that per''Ki, and he will see what he did say. and that was exictly what Bh>unt he told him. Liars have proverbially short memories from Frankfurter Judd to Asinine Hartwell, and from Lawleea Thurston to Garbige Smith.