Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 21, 3 February 1890 — SELF-CONVICTED! THURSTON'S LAME DEFENSE! THE HERALD'S CHARGES SUSTAINED. THE HONOR OF A DEAD AMERICAN SHIELDED FROM MISSIONARY SLANDER. [ARTICLE]

SELF-CONVICTED!

THURSTON'S LAME DEFENSE!

THE HERALD'S CHARGES SUSTAINED.

THE HONOR OF A DEAD AMERICAN SHIELDED FROM MISSIONARY SLANDER.

The Proposed Treaty Question. The last and greatest blunder of tlie government part-y has been coramitted by L. A. Thurston in liis attemptcd evasion oE the Herali/s charges against him. These charges were based on his illtimed, dishōnest and almost universally condemned speecb delivered at the Armory lastThursday evening. Our feeling towards L. A. Thurston is now one» of pity and eom* miseration. We hate to be obliged to hit a man wlien he is down, but wliei e trnth and the public good both demand | it we liave no elioiee. L. A. Thurston is the acknowledged leader and eampaign organizer of the government party's campaign. His party eame into power by force of arms and now endorses its ministerial leader in an attempt to retain control of the gov- _ ernment, first, by purposely peneiling histoiy, and secondly, by deliber« ately lying to defend his perversioii of historical facts. This lame, dishonest and knavisli defense by L, A, Thurston is made under the pretence of de' fending the attitude and position of the United States in regard to Hawaii. L. A. Thurston is reminded tnat when the lionoi* of the United States needs defense ten thousand patriotic Amei i» ean pens will move iti unison and when her soil or citizens need protection, millions of freemen's swords will leap into the air! America needs neither the lying defense nor theself-interest' ed, dißhonorable offered by the non-American, political illegitimates led and represented by L. A. Thurston. We re*chaige (1) That L. A. Thurston purposely garbled, misstated and suppressed portions of Hawaiian histOry for political purposes. (2) That in evading these charges, as the leader and defender of the government party, | he deliberately lied as to the chsrges we brbught against him. (3) That in his attempted evasion and defense he stands self'convicted of our accusation of suppressing historical facts by admitting and publishing on -A the facts suppressed. (4) That lie has untruthfully, needlessly and , uposely slandered the character aiiel oiemery of a dead Amenean officiai This slander was iindoubtedly ultered to slur the documentary proof of the Herald and at the same time to try to shield the clouded repi tHtion of his ancestors, who were at least partially responsible for the tlespicable deeds committed by the m.i ionaries befcween the years 1836 and I^*o. We will prove our position and will then re-aflirm our charges made against the government party through the utterances of L. A. Thurston. We will treat our fii*st two accusations together. In his evasion of our charges L. A. Thurston says: "The Heiiali» charges: That I have 'purposeJy and knowingly garbled and misstated Hawaiian History for politieal purposos , ; and that thc (kmands of the French in 1840 and 1851 ioere based upon the differenccs

pj'hthij btf?eecti the iwo co?mlrles in 1839" [The italics are ours.] The iu'st half of the above quotatkm is the geueral charge madeby us; the second half, printed in italics, is the deliber - ate lie added by L. A. Thurston—sl lie set up by L. A. Thurston himsdf to cover his previous political dirty work. Please note that this mini&i terial demagogue has fallen so low that he attempts an evasion of our specifie charges by adding a lie to our general charge and then answering his own deiiberate lie, while lie ontirely ignores both our general and specific | accusations 1 L. A. Tburston hasno further elaim to the title of honest and honorable gentleman. His/Own defense convicts him. Tlie Heuald among other things charged; L.A.Thwrston affirmed hewoull sfate "briefly" thc history of Hawaii with France In doing this he purposely suppressed facts, whieh chroiiolo£ically preceded thoso he did state and again purposely suppressed other facts intervening between those stated anel the resolution. passed at the dictation of the dominant missionary faction by a srib«ervient legislature, to cover the open disgi'ace brought upon the Ameriean missionary faction by their wn .actions in the yeai- IS3<L . It will be seon that we did not include the demands oi actions of the French in 1849 and 1851 in either ■ > ur chftrges or our proof, as asserted by L. A. Thurston. We purposely limited our charges and our proof to the year 1839; we proved these charges and they stand r.ndenied and undeniable as they must. We mentioned only incidentally a resolution antl proclamation "put forth twelve years after the facts," whieh was infcended by the missionaries to officially shield the whole course of their brethren including their nefariou>s actions in the years 18374830. But tliis is not all. L. A. Thurston in his attempted defense admits that in 1844 France voluntarily re tumed to the Hawaiian Government the $20,000, whieh had been exacted by Laplaee in 1839." This was another of the facts suppressed by L. | A. Thurston in his speech and will sustain a further charge by us that he garbled histoiy by suppressing important facts whieh occurred after the year 1839. But L, A. Thurston has ignored our charges that the trouble of 1839 was caused by the violation of the trealy of lß37j>y , the Ameiiean mission and tliat he suppressod facts immediately followiiig the. a.rrlval of the French man of war in 1839 ! Will |L. A. Thurston answer these c]iarges pr attempt to deny iLa. proof we gave ? No, he deres hcrt 1 He stauds to day convieted of the moral crime of liis* torical perversion and deliberate mis' statement of the charges brouglit against him by us ! To evade the effecis of his cpurse 4gainst himself and his party L. A, Thurstoii deliberately adds a lying slander against Hon. J. C. Jones in the following language : Incidentally it may be atated that Mr. Jones w<ui not U. S. Consul in 1839, lie having bten rcipo¥ed fjrom thnt offic6 by his own governnient J in 1838, oii account of his disreputable character. I The only error in our former article an intimation that Mr. Jones was 4.merican Consul when he signed the 4ocument sent to Captain Laplaee. jpat this oversight of ours is uo excase fpr L. A. Thurston, missionary lika,

uttering a Jying slaiider againbl a ctoad man. W!e, pronounee this slander against tlie memory of an Lonorable American H gentleman an nnqualified lie, of whieh we will puWkli an of• ficiai contradietion as iīoon as it ean be secured from the proper records in Washingtpn! But there is a design and method behind all this per\ T ersion of. history, this official ānd personaī this misrepresentati on of th e attitude a nd position of America towards Hawaii, this advocacy of the free >trade doctrino, tliis exhibition of preju4ice againfit tho candidacy of resident Ēnglishmexi > tliis g v 'atuitous insult offered Mendly powersl—there is a design and method in all this, we say, whieh is closely connected with the policy of this government in regard to the attempted new treaty ielations with the Wnited Btates. An exposure of the treaty methods of the present government and tlieir probable results will be given in the Herali> to«morrow. The facts will throw a flood of light upon both the lying dishonesty of H A. Thurston -and his eryd orsoment by the candidates of the governmen*t party!! V ' ; V ' Tiie aiTogant intolerance inherited from a bigoted missionaiy ancestry qualifies L. A, Thuiston for c c malving things hot" for such Englisli and French residents as are outside the sacred margin of tho missionary clique. The intolerance of 1839 has suffered no diminution by h areditary trans• mission to 1800. £< It is t!ie duty of honest and high-minded man in Honolulu to tako a stand against those who play upon race prej^dice."—Advertiser. The balance of the article whieh we have not space to quote is a diatrabe against certain native nominees. We cordially endorse the Advertiser's exhoriation even thcagh it must react agairist that journal. That the Japanese Goyernmont de mands suffrage for its subjects in this Kingdom is no neM's. Our government is cliplomatically teniporizing with Japan pending a larger emigration from her shores. When tho influx has reached the desired numbex it is the intention of the govemment to acquiesce. A clause in the Cons k L i« tution will require a littie tinkering to secure the result but the governmen t is equal, m case of re • election, to any such energency. The Bulletin replies to our stric* tures 011 the board of education It coutends if the president is useless he must be harmlessjind thereforo worthy of retention. will not seek to controvert our eontem porary * s theory that being a rion-entity oarns ineum* bency. The attitude of this joui*na} on the question of Mr. Bishop lng or forfoitißg his positioa is one M profonnd indifference. We d$ iiot re« gard his removal as a national calamity nor do we consider his retention m likely to be prolific of any special benefit to the edacation interests of | the kingdom. Bo far as we are eoncerned he is weleome to play prosident aav length of time for the entortami meet of the Bulletin. We sought to where it belonga and

tlio Bulletin , s uuwioldy exonorate tUo secrotary from asceud« auey and supremaey winds up witli an admißsion of the samo fact. In our criticism "truth and justice ha\e not boen outragod. > * Truth es.ist without falling under the £ulletin's percoption. Our sourceb and facilities for corroct information aro absolutcly more reliable than tliose of tho Bulletin and our sense of justiee quite as koen, The matter is not a campaign issue or we would now produee faets in eontradiction of our rivaFs opinions, as wo shall when the matter propeiiy eomes up.