Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 93, 21 ʻApelila 1894 Edition 02 — Our Military Pupil? [ARTICLE]

Our Military Pupil?

Couunamler-in-cbief - witb-the-raūk-of ColoQel Jobu H. Soper, Hawaii s professional "ohamp” ia makiug au ass of himself (if possib!y more thau usaal) in San Francisco wbere a generons (?) govermuent sent him to. for the , puqx>.se of learning on wbat side to hang bis sword and how to comb bis ben>ie whiskers. He apj>eared at tbe departure of tbe Australia iu full uniforra—a < new one at tbat—aud said goodby to Mr. Tburston. All tbe < small boys as well as tbe wbarf- i rats and passengers took in the I circus, and eveu Tburston was i asbamed to acknowledge tbe pro* < prietorsbip of tbe escaped elown. i A borst of applause and a li\p]y i cbeering bailed tbe Oolonel (!) i upon his escape from tbe band 1 organ wbere bis proj>er plaee is. < i 1

From the amoanl of imports * lately received, it woold appcar 1 «s if the Wilderand Soper “kid8,” 1 in tbe San Francisco consal.tr 1 office bttd a sofl time of it, at fat i •alanee. i

Ix tbe Hawaiian edition of tfce Holoiila appeared a few days ago, an item stating tbat 12 Hawaiians had been discharged from ! the Honolulu Iron Works. becacse they rtfused to registor. Our Hawaiian editor made the statement on what he considered good authority. In our neit Ha* waiian issue will appear a card from the discbarged men in whieh they ackncwledge that their ditm;ssal was solely due to tbe fact that thore wasnot,at present. sufficient work for them. We make this statement in justice to Mr C. Hedemann. the manager of tbe Iron Works, wbose high character and well-known ability and sense of honor would be sufficient guarantee that he would never bring politics into the busincss interests of his employers nor stoop to coercion. Similar statements have been made 1 against other employers in this town, evidently without foundation. Mr. Samuel Damon has been commonly reported as having threatened his clerks with instant dismissal if they did not register. As no change has been made in the staff of the banking house of Bishop & Co. the rumor 1 had evidently no foundation. jt was hardly probable tbat Miuister Damon who stood up for the government officials in his department and defecded their right to 1 hold an independent political opinion *sbould *use coercion in his private'busmess (although be did seem very willmg to oust the ‘’finance’' boys).|Tbe same cbarge has been preferredj,against Chas. Cooke,(but weyet notice the same laboreis round bis lumber yard, and the registration closes today. Chief Justice Judd was reported yesterday to have advised his j neph'ew Mr.‘C. L. Wight to "fire out” laborers and employees on the Hawaiian rai!road who refused to register, but we decline to believe in such rumors. Anyhow His k Honor doesn’t always know wbat he is talking about. The registration has been an utter failure for the p. g.. and has, plainer tbau anything else, shown, tbe unpopularity of tbe government and tbe audacity with whieh the raanagement of tbe annevation club lied to Mr. Blount and to tbo public. Coercion might have been used or not the result is so fatal to thegov ernment that it oughtshow the opponeuts of the constitutional government of Hawaii tbe uselessness of holding a convention and framing a constitution that never will he acknowledged or tolerated by tbe people who ; believe in self goverument and in democratic principles.

The news indicates a cbange of heart in the American papers | and a very probable strong lean- 1 ing towards the carn-ing of President Cleveland’s policy, iu the near future. The setting Star \ will find but cold comfort in the news of tho relegation of their ehampion David B. Hill to polilieal innocuous desuetude. £ic sevxper may it be with enemies of President Cleveland, and 80 it mny be soon with tbose who r3presenithe p g party, and who were ready and willing to fire npon tbe American flag here, if landeil with troops. Eestoration is not yet passed upon and the hopes of a satisfactory fruition arestronger today tbanyesterday. Ask Minister "\VilIis.

The permission given by the aathorities to the Portagaese band to play Iast Sanday brings to mind au oocasion abont 14 years ago when (ander the *debased’ monarchyl the Knights of Jernsalem, held a pienio in : Paaoa Valley, The band (Goternment baud) on!y played abont an hoar after tho midnight of Sanday, but, that fact, was sach a ehme. that the ‘ missionary” elemeni made eomplaini, and sereral yoang meu of good character and steady habits were! arrested and fined. GoTernor ! D aod other otficials were present and not being “above the law’’ qnietly retired iato obscurity nntil after the affair had hlown j orer. Who today eaa imagine a misdemeanor for whieh one of the p. g. woald be arreated and tried for’ The Portagaese band will probably play ag«in tomonow, 8unday.