Nuhou, Volume II, Number 3, 22 Iulai 1873 — Questions in the "Kuokoa"-The Subsidized Native Organ of All Saints [ARTICLE]

Questions in the "Kuokoa"-The Subsidized Native Organ of All Saints

1 1 — i in its is6ue of last 10111 inst. ; and i ■ an tirtiele diseus6inor lh4 eession of Pearl llar"' '• j asks certain que&tions ap to the | those who ought to be regarded as frieiu 7 s of tl. ! Hawaiian people, and ?howing thut tuose de?^nated anu enumerated as followsj are opposed i j eession : . i

l.| "Certain foreiguers;bi;oūghtsjpliilisand disOases iuto llie cumitrj- in order to dostroj tl. peelple, and tliej contir|ue to spread tiiCDiA; • they the frieuds*of this uation? i\. When thc niissionaries arrived Lci'Q i'l certaiu urge<jl tlie ehiifs to drive tr.c:. aud_aje |liej tlio frieuds of this uatiou ? appealed to raeu-of-tfar . • c!uofs, aud Ip)rd George Paulei, wi:. lii®! ship of war, the laud. So alao d;d Fr<fnch ship of war, and carried off the \ essei tsa belpnged to our belovcd King, ar..' des:trojed (wawahiia) |the fort, and eoufiscate; twenty thousar.d do!l;^rs—arc such peoplo t":. fricnds of this uatioh? ! 4. Certain foreignerS| have urged the tio ī of brand)-, whiskev, rum, giii, oh'khao, āfr otlier ardent spirits, aud have stiongiv urged u to permit the di3tiilatioii of llawaū nei aro thej t|;e friemis v.»f tbis nati^ ■>. Cei'taiu foyiīgn impoie all j;ood? from Es|glaad aud Geraiaay, th(|v oppose reciprooit|y \vitu Amoiioa, beoau ; . th(|\- would Ijo losers !on accouct ef Anienopu goods coming iu frce ef duty. Is tfaeir vpposuio.: a ljve for this naiiou? | ; {). Certain foroigners stivvo hard t. givc tl lvihgdoiu to Kalakaua, alt!iough it \vas mau;;o ; thfit the people wautod to chooso LuuaH'.o •. .u t!u y the peoplo \vl;o love tUis nation? .' f. This u:orcv>\or, G. Pvhodos up ;. th<. 1 Churcli of Kaumakapili aud sot hiuisōu foru. a guide oouuse!lc[r (kakaoleio) for liawa; Who is t!ic Ilon. .0. JRhodos? lle ū foroiguer who hurraed fcr.Quecu Victoria as er<igu of theso islaud9,.at tUe lime ho hoard Uta. l' 0l " a < ; eorge Faulot takcu possessio:; of coi|mtry. Wliat is his bustu®s? Hc i s d nicrohant, Ij ho u fncud of thU uutiott? Look at thcsc diffetcut dcscripUous of peojic . aro thej llie frieada ut Sfaaul w<iciiOv>. theiu, or auy like to direct the \vdfarc o. tho Kingdoui ? If we put thc heki of statc 4;. t!ieir hauds, w ill uot ship scoa ruu .' :3ut behold cortaia! forx%uors who brougti. light into,Havfali uci« aad drovc awaj . who urgt\l tho oliicfa iuake £oo»i I&na, to £tvc to the people thcir kuleniua cf kui

and aleo gave to them the ballot. Are not' thej ihe friends of thls race? Thcy wl&h to increase the weaUh of this naUon in accordance \vlfch ' the growth of intelligence. Therefore thej have clcvised and urged thcT Reciproeitj Treatj (whieh .? proposes the Cession of Pearl Harbōr) with America. ,v In the above :statemems \ve learn nmeh thal is iiew to us, ai)(l maj be so to manv of our readers. lt is distinctlj stated that the people 'iwho brought light into these isles and who drove away savagerj," r meaning of course the congregaiional n)issionaries ; arc the makers and the urgers ("e hooikaika na e kanaia ") of the proposed Pearl llarbor Cession Keciprocitj Treatj. We don t believe tliat the Church or the Ilawaiian Board desire to be especiallj idcntified with Ihe advocacj of the proposed treatj. We shall not willinglj bring any clmrch into the diseussion of thc question. The etatemcnt is no doubt a gratuitous and mischievous assumption. The al>ove interrogatories inspire us to ask a few ? whieh we will translate into the native language, and in so doing we do not propose, as is done aboveV to in-sinuat-e slanders against 'wliole communities or clagses . - 1. Are not those the mosi in debt. the most anxious for the proposed ccssion of Puuloa ? 2. Are not manj oi the worst enemies of the King, \vho reviled him wheu a Prince, one of whom expressed his wonder ihat anj Christian ; vote for stieh a chief,-' among the strong- ! e>t suppQrters of the proposed cession of Puuloa? I 3 r . Did not the English Admiral Thomas re-! to its i place with honor the flag wliieh an iii-' discreet English offieer had hauled do\vn ; and is j it not both base and false to state one fact wiih-' out ilie other, in order to create a prejudicē? I Yet this is done hy the chicf advocate 6f the j treatj. - ■ 4.;1f one French ship, clid demand : an indemnitj from Kauikeaouli on account of| persecutions of Pi'enehmen, was not another j Pi'eneh' ship-of-warj La Moscīk t ordered to de« fend the same king and to proteet lns eitj oMlo-; nolulu from the riotous eonduet of manj thou-! sandsof disorderlj sailors? * | . 5. Is it honorable on the part of certain Privj | Councillors s who are mue!v in debt ; to advise the ] King to cede or sell anj part of his ancestral!

to help thelr sltuatlon ? 6. Werc not the specuiatorsin Samaim v and San Doniii)go, who triecl to tempt Ameriea/rebuked bj the more tlioughtful and patiiotu \raericims; aud will not tho epeeuktors Pimloa, aod the Hawoiian Mand3 ho.alaō rehuked by the great ai»d goocl \ oople of Amenea. who do iiot want to gam an}thmg by chieanerj? 7. Ts he not ii Foulmouthed Bianderei\ wlio eharges wholesa!e a fou! and disgmeefiiī disease upon a numerouß and respectable party of foreigners? Buf who is he? A native of the anl, but one who deiiies bis līawniian hirtlirig!u, and who i6 intriguing fbr offiee in tho Couoeik of a Hawaiian Iving hy pandering to t!ie of t!m ignorant portiou of the Hawaiiau People, And we might ask īn eonelusion, wlio i« now the tJ lneendnry Who would be a terroif he d\re? Who will serup!e at nothing, and utter whatever Im filthy imagination may prompt? Who will try to euborn a witiiets agāintjt hb neighbor n Who wouW remoTe the aocknt landnurk*\ *ud seJ! the honor of hls K!ng* Who i* hirod to be a faMfiec? Who e!se but the

mouUipieee oF tLe 'AII Sulots?—thc aon of Bclial, wlio woukl by falrfe test:mony ilie Nal>oth uf tliese Isles of llis heritagc.