Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 48, 13 November 1893 — TOPICS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The pifte<l peopraiiber and <livine diplom»4, who rakes uj> tbe e<litorial garbage of tbe Star, bas made one raore break in another ontburst of slasli in the intervals lietween insultinp antl outrapinp women and woman- ; hood with bis slauderous lies, an<l leelunnp tbe Provisional C'ouncils on law, stat*;sraansbip, and diploniacy, and bellyaobing ' for tbe unprovided for raembers of tiie anne\ation club. Tliis time he inforuis us tbere are i 22,000.000 soldiers under arms in Europe. We have previonsly expose<l his utter ipnorance of geograpby, diplomacy, aml law, and excused bis peneral dis’ regard of trutb in bis utterances about loeal aH'.tirs by showing bjs inexj>erience derived from bis recent arrival among us so tbat we ean only ascribe tbese startling figures to bis innately audacions j>lagiaristic babits by having stolen tbe article bodily out of some Eastern j>aj>or, or to bis eualom. so tboroughly exemj>lified in bis property aud t:»xation statistics, of lookinp at all figures tbrough a quintuple maguifying lens. “5 But still raore startling is tbe lopieal inference lie has drawn from tbese millious of armed meu. First, be declares that tbey will inevitably and speedily bring on war —general. horrid, multitudinous, devastating war. Theu he declares tbat ninety-five percent. of tbem —o!ficers and men —will get killed in tbat war. And finally be declares tbat having discovered this tbey won't bave any war on aeeouni of tbis fearful of danger. M bich iakeu all told is as snrprising a feature as tbe case of the P. G. green-pea beroes. who laid down tbeir lives onee aml were ready to do it apain. But tbis is uotbiug to bis stand on tbe question of annexation. He mourufully, but sadly aunounces the demise of tbat j>base of our loeal j>olitiop «vithout, ! however, discussing tbe fact tbat • bis own journaI bas done more j to hasten tbe extiuction of the veiy cause it was brougbt into being to furtber, and tbendefiantlv announces tbat tbere is yet balm iu Gilead aml hoj>e in tbe editorial breast of fiuding more funds in tlie P. G. iocker. With j polished sarcasm he bids tbe Provisional Councils bold on ami coutiuue to goveru (by insinnatiou aud innuendo misg >vern) the couutry and uo ; louger bv promisiug a vote to every "kanaka in future and a free homestead and all sorts of other bribing lies but by tbis means (tell it uot in tbe Auuexation Club, publish it not iu the Hoan.1 of the A. B. C. F. M.) the Royalists will be drag»x>ned into praying for annexation as tbe lesser evil to their abhorrence of the tyranny ahd misgoverument of tbe ‘missionary

rule" of the Keform Party. O ye Gods! Wbat a confnsion! Ami this is bis opinion of the good and stable government the Star and Advertiser are hired to support and praise. One year more of it will dragoon a free people into praving for annexation to be delivered from its corruption aml tyranny. Job says “O that mine eneray had written a ! book.’’ Had he lived to-day be would have been content to bave him Editor of tbe Star. Tbe editorial in this morning s Advertiser beaded “why sbonld not tbe J:»panese vote in a plebescite?’’ isamusing tbrongb its iutrinsic weakness. Tbe editor ! evidentlv misunderstands tbe i great democratic pnucij>le of'‘one . man, one vote.” He exj>lains it as meauinp that a man “resjding" in a countiy becomes eutitle»l to a vote simply, because he resides tbere. Not so indeed. If a mau resides iu a conntry and fulfi!ls tbe qualifications whieh the eonstitution of sucb couutry prescribes for the privilege of exercising tbe voting fraucbise, be becomes naturaliy eutitled to vote iiTOspective of color, race or finaucial circumstauces. We ean hardly believe tbat the editor of tbe Advertiser will elaim that eveyy man residiug witbin the borders of tbe Uuited States is a voter? And iu tbē taking of a plebescite tbe same rules apply as do uuder any ordiuary electiou. Tbe Hawaiians are entitled to a vote, because that rigbt was granted in tbe constitution of 1887, uow supposed to be tbo fundamental law of tbe laud—a constitutiou made by tbe very backers and suj>j>orters of tbe Advertiser. The Cbinese and tbe Jaj>anese are uot eutitled to a vote uuder that constitution, nor are j>ersons wbo haveu t resided bere witbin a certain length of time or j>ersons who baven t paid their taxes or crimiuals. But tbe proposition of the Advertiser to disfrancbise a nation whieh bas exercised tbc rigbt of votiug for balf a century, and in tbat time brougbt tbeir countrv to a womlerful degree of prosperity is not aloue contrary to all democratic princij>les but it is simply infamons. Tbe Advertiser e<litor may sugar coat the pill as mueh as be j>leases; be may talk about tbe Hawaiiaus being favored j>assengers on tbe sbij> of state; be may adopt aj>arental tone aud be raay sav tbat eommon sense-altbougb contran- to j>rincij>le —will leave tbe destiuv of Hawaii iu tbe hands of tbe officers of tbe sbij>. He may do all tbis, bnt the projx>sition to disfranchise tbe Hawaiians ami to allow the future of tbeir country to be decided by the self-elected few whom tbe Advertiser rcjnesents we elaim is a pieee of gross infamv. May we ask tbe editor how about tbe officers —to use his simile —on the sbij> wbo «lo not agree with tbe gentlemeu represenied by tbe Advertiser? Are tbey not to be heanl either aml are tbey to be classed among tbe “weak, ignorant aml snperstitious.'’’ Are men like Tbeo. H. Davies. J. O. Carter. the 3Iacfarlanes, Sam Allen. James Campbell. Gotlfrev Brown, W. G. Irwin, H. A. Widemaun

&nd innnroerable others not to be heanl and are they to be treated like the re>t of the “ ignonint aml frightene<l passenger>' erily the conceit of the little cliqiie represented by the Advertiser is of a dec dedly corrogated natnre. 13ot the editor ean be sure of one thiug that if the 1 nite<l State> should cause a plebiscite to be taken here, it is for the purpose of learning the true will of the Hawaiian people. lue desire of the P. G. and its bacters have been pre>ented to them loug ago and there are no doubts iu that direction. Always remember Thurston’s words in the last Legislature: “The I uited States will never annex these Islands against the will of the “Hawaiian people. How unpalatable it may be now t<> the successful showman an<l unsuccessfnl statesman he the trutJi. We are still waiting for the Star s explanation of where the club got the signatures of 1.440 American * voters. ’