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PROGRESS.
The Life of the Land is Established
in Righieoumcss.
HONOLULU, FEB. 26, ISftL
OUR REVOLUTIONISTS.
Some
Plain Talk Alwut
Them.
It is refreshing to peruse Ibo
report of Mr. J. H Bloant and
the apponding interviews and
statements. As a piece of history
the following remarlks of Col. .
V. Ashfonl will be of interest as
disclosing a little of the inner
history of the revolution of 18S7r
and also furnishing some good
evidence as to the courage,
bravery, impartiality, and
honesty of our embryo, "revo
lutionists." Says Mr. V. V.
Ash ford:
The men as individuals and as
a class into whose hands fell the
executive offices and entire con
trol of this movemont, are those
who (aside from the thick-and-tliin
apologists of monarchy at
all hazards) have always here
tofore been the bitterest enemies
of those who were suspected of
favoring annexation. Dole him
self though a member of the revo
lutionary league of 18S7, and a
niomber of the, "Council of
Thirteen'' therein, tried his best
to "throw" tho whole scheme
i'ust as tho supremo moment
arrived. Failing in this, ho re
siunod his place on tho council
and deserted tho league, and
tried his best to null othors
out. Ho did manage to pull
out P. C. Jonos, who was also a
member of tho "Thirteon" which
position bo resigned and deserted
tho leagiio tho same as Dole had
done.
About tho same time W O Smith
who through his great personal
intimacy with Dole, Jones and
othors of tho league, was ac
ouaiutod with tho general plan.
and had given his adhesion to it
ami arranged to swear in botor
tho council, but had deferred it
soveral timos, did come before
that body. After hearing a part
of tho oath repeated, ho drew
his hand from tho biblo,
mado a contemptablo, coward
ly speech in favor of tho
contiuuanco of tho monarchy,
' nud withdrew, and nover became
""TrTnoinVjci-TTt-tUo-iAgun.,. niUn.
prominent members of tho mis
siouary party worked with all
their euorgy against the causo
Daring tho orgmization of
the Hawaiian Patriotic League, a
year ago, one of tho leading mis
sionary politicians said to mo:
"Your ciiarges against Liliuoka
lani are, no doubt, true; but
what does it mattor so long as wo
havo tho prevailing influence
over hor. A republic or anuox
ation would lead to tho domin
anco of tho natives." This party
almost without exception, tried to
hunt down all participators in tho
attompt against tho monarchy
lastyoar Finally ho (Dole)
was tho ono who issued the
warrants, a thing unheard
of in tho Hawaiian criminal
practice our criminal cases then
all originating in tho Polico or
District courts. Mr. Justice Dole
not only violated this precedent,
but issued tho warrants, (and
tried tho cases) without consulta
tion with any of tho othor Judges,
and against tho advice (to Wilson
and known to Dole as is said)
of almost every attorney in town,
and on the same statement of
facts as wero laid boforo himself.
During tho oxamination which
lasted (with intermissions) for
throo weeks, ho overruled every
ruling of tho common law courts
of tho United States aud
England both on points of ad
mission and rejection of ovi
donco, as well as to construc
tion against tho defenso,
and invoked tho rulings of
tho courts of Bloody Mary aud
her times, in construing tho law
of treason, especially as to what
constituted au overt act. His
hatred to anv aud all who favored
a cuaugo lrom monarcuy was so
marked as to exoito
ment.
trnnnrfll nrtni.
Mr. Ash ford is not tho only
one who evidently has realized
tho true character of our would
bo heroic revolutionists. Con
gressman Money, although so far
away from" our heroes has also
"tumbled" to their true worth in
their burlesque rovolntionary
capacity. This is what tho honor
able gentleman said during the
debato on tho McCresry resolu
tion: -
"Wa are told; and in this way j
the attempt is made to arouse oar j
sympathies, that there was a
gallant band of Americans oarry-
V - -i; it 1!. 1,
jag our civilisation, our thoaghte. j
oar pnnoraies. Ha
oar JUtr
,lo ike otlyifc
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impassioned utterances oy the'
gentleman from Illinois that these
men have a consuming love for
our institutions and our Hag and
our country.
In the name of heaven why did
they not stay where, then, under
our flag and" sorrounded by our
institutions? They voluntarily
expatriated themselves and quit
the institutions of their devotion,
the flag of their idolatry the
principles which they cherished,
in order to become citizens of
the feeblest monarchy presided
over, in the classic language of
the gentleman from Illinois by
the "Messalinaof the Pacific" "a
horrid wretch" and "a monster"
beside whom the "eoreons and
hydras and chimeras dire" of
Homer fade into insignificance.
I say that those men were not
so far "influenced by the love of
American principles as to stay
here aud enjoy their benefits, but
of their own choice lived under a
monarch, ruled by the Queen
whom the now characterize ny
the most opprobious terms in
their vocabulary.
Wo aro told that these gentlo-
i i - i :
men wore ready to raise Darn
cades and resist any efforts which
might be made by Mr. iilount or
Mr. Willis to have the American
fleet restore the fltig of the mo
narchy. I think, Mr. Speauer,
in all the history of conspiracies
T Iinvo nover vet found so prudent
and so discreet a body of revo- j
lutionists.
I can raise tho American
fig
and land American marines m a
dozen republics in Central and
South America tomorrow and get
up a revolution in thirty minutes,
if I can assure to the revolu
tionists perfect immunity as to
life, limb aud liberty. These
men took tho precaution to have
not only the guaranty of the min
ister, but the actual presence of
tho marines under our flag before
they dared to take a step. There
could not be much shedding of
blood in a revolution of that sort.
Theso revolutionists wore not
after blood; they were after sugar
bounty. That is what was the mat
tor with them, and with that high
valuation of their own lives
which seems to bo shared in b
tho gentleman from Illinois they
prudently get sick and go to bed
when the crisis comes. Why, at
the very crisis of tho controversy
Mr. Stevens got sick and had to
go to bed in the middle of tho
da; so that it is necessary to
wait half an hour to get word
from him whethor he acknowledg
ed the provisional government or
not. And Mr. Thurston, who
seems to have been the dens ex
mo china of the whole business
goes to bed tho same day, but
was well the day before and the
ilay-ttTKsr.-
Oh! this is a determined band
of revolutionists! Theso are the
heroes who challenge comparison
with those of tho Alamo. They
intended they should havo a safe
and bloodless business, they nover
budged a peg until they had the
assurance of protection, and the
mere assuranco was not sufficient;
tho actual protection had to be
extended. And wo are also told
of the horoic manner in which
Mr. Thurston defied tho marshal
who wont there, without an
escort. I believe to arrest them.
In what terms did Mr. Thurston
defy tho government? He re
minds mo of Bully Bottom
tho weaver, who was playing the
lion. Ho "roared as gently as a
sucking dove" when arrest of his
own precious person was immin
ent; when ho "defied" tho mar
shal he said, "wo ain't doing
anything aganst tho government,
wo aro only arranging for a mass
meotiug." That is tho way ho
"dofied" tho government. Gentle
men, you cannot invest this trains
action with a single heroic
characteristic.
Mr. "V. 0. Atwater has been
appointed to tho position of
book-keeper in the Postal Bureau.
Tho gentloman who of course is
connected to tho Minister -of
Finance, of course had to be sup
plied with a job. It is remark
able that all these shako-the dnst
off-their-feet gentlemen who suck
the juice of the Hawaiian orange
always turn up agaiu and
always fall into a downy berth.
Whore aro the heroes of January
17th 1893.
It is understood that tho Gov
ernment have made -contracts
with a number of meu in Califor
nia who will arrive by next stea
mer to serve as soldiers in tho
array. The present soldiers whose
contracts expire will get the G.
B. and cease to bo N. G. and the
' to bo imported" desperadoes will
handle the guns. Tho principle
which underlies this move is that
familiarity breeds contempt and
that anybody who serves pur
missionaries for mora than a
vomv v-t'l indinad "to know"
EBUck d consequently am-
able ,te revere and obey oar
uperrirtfteve oAUiak of & K G.
HIS SID CASE.
A Worthy Specimen of the
Hawaiian Missionary.
The soc-alled llevereud Sereno
E. Bishop's report to Commis
sioner Blount is of such a nature,
that if the commonest rules of
decency would allow us to pub
lish it, a storm of indignation
would arise which would sweep
the blackguarding, old gossiper
out of sight. Mr. Bishop be
smirches the characters of the
living as well sa of the dead. He
indulges in hearsay evidence
which if he had ordinary sense he
would know would be inadmis
sablo before any court of justice
anywhere in the world. Besot
ted by fanaticism and hatred
against political opponents he
does not realize the
contempt and sarcasm of
Mr. Blount's, but he slides
aloug in his scurrilous libeling,
his old-woman gossip and the
extraordinary harvest of his pru
rient and unclean mind. He
makes the most outrageous st ite
meuts against Messrs Parker,
Colburn, Peterson and Corn well.
And then he always adds when
asked bv the commissioner for
his source of information, that he
doesn't know what is he talking
about, from his own personal ob
servation. He accuses Mr.
Peterson
smuggler
of
being
an opium
and .he
know of
transaction
adds "I
do not
dividual
any
of
in
his.'
He states "that the Queen had
been for two weeks in consulta
tion with kahunas before her
endeavor to submit the constitu
tion, and that too on the very day
that she was conducting Sacrificial
worship." Aud when questioned,
"How did you cet that?" He
answers "I do not remember how
the information came to me." He
vilifies the dead wife of John E
Bush, and bases his loathsome
slander not by personal obser
vations oh, no, but by "it be
in" a notorious fact.'' And this
man who calls himself a Christ
ian, and moreover a servant
ryf flift rmai-Tnnnliftr nf f,vnllin nd
love among men goes on in this
strain, dodging tho truth, black
guarding his fellow-men, and
cowardly stabbing them in the
dark. And yet he' refers to. a
conversation held by P. C. Jones
on the steps of the stone ohurch
where they were going to teach a
Bible class!! The language is
insufficient to describe tho feel
ings which fill the heart of every
being entitled to call himself a
man when he contemplates such
a creature like this "reverend"
thing. 2fo wonder that Colonel
Blount finally succumbed to his
feeling of nausea, and ordered
tho slanderer out of his presence
aud only by an extreme effort re
straining himself from kicking
him out of the yard where
the flag of the republic under
which men live, was float
ing. We havo done with Mr.
Bishop for tho present. May he
in the last few years of his exist
ence learn true Christianity and
so avoid the coming wrath of
God and men.
"We have received a letter from
Mr. John F. Colburn " which
appears in another column. It
furnishes a good instance of the
inclination in this community of
gossiping and suspecting and
watching. Mr. Colburn calls on
private business at tho office of an
attorney. In another office, in
the same building, some govern
ment officials aro attending to
some business of their own.
The very "being together" under
one roof and "coming out" from
the same door of busiuess men
belonging to different political
parties seems enough to throw
any party into convulsions in this
city. Terily, wo are a very
Lilliputian crowd.
The arrest of a school-teacher
on Kauai for embezzlemont at
the request of a California au
thorities shows the carelessness
with which appointments of
strangers are made under the
Board of Ed scat ion. The persoa
ivpetioa has oaly been a short
while ul the
coantry, bat Mm-
1 theless he received a government
position without any enquiries
i belna made as to bis antecedents i
or general reputation. It is to
hoped that the new Board will
be more circumspect and only
appoint "the uncles, aunts and
cousins" now in need of the al-
mighty dollar.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Washington, Feb. 16. There
is no longer any doubt that yel
low fever has made its appearance
in the United States fleet at Bio,
and the 2sewark is now a fever
ship.
Secretary Herbert has received
the following dispatch from Ad
miral Benham, dated at Bio Ja
neiro, Feb. 16th: "As a pre
cautionary measure against fever
I will send all the vessels except
the fl -gship just- nntsido the har
bor, but within call. Every pre
caution has been taken. The
health of tho officers and crews
is good. Bexham."
Eio Janeiro, Feb. 16. - Yellow
fever is ou the increase. There
were sixty deaths yesterday in
addition to fifteen from other
fevers. The captain of the Austrian
war ship in these waters died to
day. There are a number of other
cases on board. The Portuguese
war ship here is also infected.
The situation is growing serious
to foreigners.
Chicago, Feb. 16. If the plans
do not miscarry James J. Corbett
and Peter Jackson will meet near
Detroit, possibly on an island,
next June for a-purse, of $-15,000
and an extra allowance of S1000
to each of the contestants for
training expenses.
Liverpool, Feb. 16 Aynsley
Cook, the well known English
baritone is dead.
San Francisco Feb. 16 Dr. E.
F. West accused of the murder
of Addie Gilmoiir has been found
guilty of murder in the second
degree.
Queenstown, Feb. 16 The
British ship City of Hankow,
Gaptain King, from San Fran
cisco, arrived here today, win
ning a long race from California
in which sho had three compet
itors.
raris, I'ob, 0 A seini-uimmi
note has been issued in regard to
the attitude of tho Portuguese
Government in mo?t of the qnes
tions which have arisen between
France and Portugal. The atti
tude of Portugal in these matters
has caused Premier Casmir-Per-ier
to recall the French Minister
at Lisbon to Paris in order to
confer with the Government upon
the situation. ,
Loudon, Feb. 16. Tho House
of Commons this evening rejected
without division a number of
amendments made by tho Lords
to th3 Parish Councils bill.
Denver. Feb. 16. "Denver
Ed" Smith knpeked out Joe God
daid,tho Australian, in March,
1S93. and pocketed $10,000, a
sum that eclipsed his wildest
dreans. To day he has not a
cent. To nse his own classic ox
pression, ho is "Busted, be gosh
aud cti de hog train!"
Gh;cago, Feb. 16. Judgo Bre
tano,! who tried Pfeudergast,
Mayor Harrison's assassin, has
received a letter threatening his
life uiless he is lenient wth the
prisoier. Officers guarded him
today while hearing arguments
for a lew trial.
Berin, Feb. 16. It is estimat
ed thtt tho damage done bv
the
' , . . i ...
recentgaie in this City alone will
m.,i frt -i in nnn
amomt to 100,000 marks
ThKHghout Germanv there were
, , -.,,, r
were
injure! through
accidents dne to
the se;er;ty of the storm
Pars, Feb. 15. Ex-Minister
Waldek Ronssean and Coont
4 T?aU
Friscbkle Fels fought a duel tvith
-i i . . -
swnrns tais inornmsr. as tue rn-
suit ofa slighting remark by the
formesin regard to the Countess
de Fe8. The ex-Minister was
slight? wounded in the arm.
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FORECLOSURE.
OF
IN ACCOBDANCE TTH THE PBOVJS
ioas of a certain mortgage made by
KAUHANE NAKCINA to WM. C. ACHI,
dated the 5th day of November 1891, re
corded in Liber 131, page 373, and duly
assicned to Laa CboK?. notice is herebv
i given that the mortgige intends to fore-
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wit: non-payment of interest and principal.
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LAU CHONC,
Assignee of Mortgagee.
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