Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-09-16

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addressed to the " SATURDAY PRESS"
sum FRAGD RE HELD Ar 4
PREHItIH2
When one sits down calmly and considers
the record Of him who now occupies the posi-.
ton Of Premier Of this government, ii would
seem as If, virtually, premium were placed |
upon fraud. When W. NJ Gibson FIRST entered |
the Kingdom, he came as a deliberate, shame
less, and blasphemous fraud, and stamped |
himself as one Of the most thorough and com. |
pete sort. Nor has the garing record ever
been wiped out or modified by subsequent con-
iessioh, restitution, or good conduct. He still |
remains the same systematic deceiver that he
was in the beginning. This disreputable fraud
the sovereign has been unhappily mislcd into
promoting to the head Of his government. It
is an intolerabe grievance to have such a char
acter over us. II is a grievance especially TO
Americans whom he impudently claims to
represent, when, as we showed last week, he
does not know his parentage. 1t is grievance
and wrong to every man in the Kingdom with
any sense Of honor and decency.
Not Gibson himself darcs try to disown his
organized fraud. Not his most apologize
friends whose consciences he has supplied
with his oily tongue, dare to deny it. We will
once more set forth his scandalous record, not
from the satisfaction of recalling his sins and
Iollies, but because his occupancy of the high
place of Premier, to which he has elbowcd and
squirmed his way, makes his exceptionally
evil personal character of sufficient consequence
to be carefully noted by every person who cares
for honesty and nobility of character in those
to whom grave public interests are intrusted
What are the acknowledged facts of his his
tory' AT the age of forty FIVE in the full vigor
of manhood he adopted Mormonism, as he
has often unblushingly avowed, not from any
faith in its tenets, but because he saw in it an
efficient system for controlling men. For one
or two years he employed his deceptive tongue
in propagating Mormon doctrines, which he
despised, and in cultivating an unctuous ree.
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Brigham Young to proceed to the East Indies
in the interests of Mormonism He worked
his way as far as Honolulu, and finding here a
couple OF thousand adherents of his church, he
changed his plans. He summoned conven.
ton OF the 'saints" at Wauku, in the mean
time providing written commissions from Young
and his associates, which purported to appoint
him head of the latter day saints in Hawaii
Armed with these credentials, and his own elo-
quent and cunning tongue, he filed the assem-
bled saints with vast enthusiasm for the little
Zion on Lanai to which he pointed them. He
extracted from their impoverished store several
thousand dollars in coin, to raise which, many
gave up their all--for details of which sec
Shepherd Saint of Lanai" Taking the
money thus obtained on false pretences, he
founded the sheep ranch Of Palawai.
: These are the notorious facts of Gibsons life
as spurious Mormon for several years. II,
cannot, and never has attempted to deny them
During this period, in the full ripeness of mine
and character he lived the life OF a willfu i'm
! poster and deceiver. He never scruped t,
, perform the most sacred functions, baptzin.
converts, laying on ordaining hands and com
missioning priests and apostles. He neve
ieared.to appeal to the Highest and Hottest il
support of his authority, nor hestated to cal
blasphemously upon the name of the Deity o
OF the divine Redeemer, to witness his owl
o sacred endowment. Are these charges deeme'
violent or exaggerated? We appeal to tn
5 written record to prove their truth and moder
alton. The fact is, that this man Gibso
showed capacity for reckless imposition of n
d common type.
5 Convicted impostors are plenty, but very fe,
find their way afterwards to places of power i
respectable communities. 1t is great publ
wrong that such character has been foiste
upon the intelligent public of Hawaii as chi,
ruler, and it is wrong that will not cease t
irrtate and disturb until it is rectihed Ever
man with any regard for honesty feels himse
d insulted and outraged when such a knave
&c set up over him.
/, We have here a kindly community that la
'r for years tolerated this remorseless deceive
S who, with his glowing eloquent tongue ha
u swindled the poor native people, Some hay
g even tried to find eNtenuating pleas for him,
. not TO be Judged by ordinary rules; but whe
70 it comes to having such a character set over
we begin to revot all that is honest an
u decent within us rises up against the imposition
Ii is, therefore, time for us TO tell the sovereig
" in plain and unmistakable terms, that by keel
=, ing such person in authority, he is shockin
c, the public sense OF decency; creating an il
creasing sense OF insecurity in public affairs an
N damaging the state financially and in eve,
6 other way There is no natural tendency
:, revol, among us; there Is no serious revol
ne tionay element. But some things are intole
ne able, and We would be unloyal to the sovercie
nv and false TO the interests OF Hawaii did we
less than say that no real peace can exist viii
the present state OF things continue,
:, II is under the auspices OF Walter MUIR.
Gibson tina, the King is now preparing to 7
II eeive his Crown, Ills Majesty is expecting
Z borrow additional lustre for his throne by I
ceiving Crown At the hands of this renega,
Mormon swinder. The grand ceremonies
which the world is invited, are being engineer,
~ byths eminent knave. This Primate, this Graz
as Panjandanm of the Latter.day Saints
~ =, Hawaii is to boss the whole job. and all Il