The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-01-11

improbable that the manager of the paper
worked himself up into a partial belief IN
the wicked inventions OF his own en-
ployees. At least he determined on send
ing. at considerable expense to himself, or
his clients, the Eastern refners, an agent
to the Islands. and in fields and pastures
new. start an Outrage mill' that would
furnish him with larger stock of horrible
sensations. By the courtesy of the Admir-
raj, special correspondent OF the ChrontoIe
was conveyed to Honolulu by one OF the
Russian corvettes which sailed from this
city in October. This gentleman, h ID.
Wolfe, was in one sense specially fitted for
this work, because he was proficient in the
Chinese language, and could talk with
these ill-used poems, of one race, in their
own tongue. Mr. Wolfe visited several of
the Islands, examined the labor system of
the plantations on the ground, stayed two
or three days on some of those whose man
agement had been vilely abused, went
everywhere freely, learned everything, saw
everything, using his eyes and ears to get
on the track of the supposed criminal
cruelty, and having made himself master
OF the situation, returned TO this city by
the Australian steamer ZedldHdiG, which
arrived in San Francisco November 18th.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Wolfe reported
to his employer at the ClvvaieIe Office, that
he gave him the fully written-up notes of
his investigation, and yet that report has
to this day, four weeks later, not been pub
lished nor alluded to in that paper. The
report, it is said, was favorable to the
Islands, and would have convinced all who
read it that everything the Chronicle had
published had been grossly, wilfully exag-
gerated, or had been lies, deliberate lies,
manufactured out OF the whole cloth. The
ChroAicle has not had the manliness to own
its error, has not dared to publish the re
futation of its false accusations. Yet that
paper has opened its campaign for the alb
rogation of the treaty on the main ground
that reciprocity was building up system
of slavery, worse, more cruel, more degrad-
ing and more hopeless than that which ex-
listed in the Southern States before the
war of rebellion. 1t was not until the
ChroHicls found that the peonage, slavery
and cruelty charges could not be main
tanned that it tried to bolster up its losing
cause by misrepresenting the commerce
with the Islands, and by mixing up the
San Francisco Sugar Reiineries and their
dealings with the people of this coast, with
matters as distinct as the milling of Cali
fornia wheat in Liverpool and grain grow
ing in the San Joaquin Valley. We ask
the public, and especially those editors of
California and Eastern papers who have
given partial credence TO the Chroaide's
statements of October and November, to
that the cry for abrogation was
for weeks chiefly based on the ground that
through the treaty the United States
was encouraging most shocking system
Of human slavery. We ask every news
paper which unwittingly aided TO spread
the falsehoods, to give equal publicity to
the fact that the CltroNoie has not dared to
OWN prejudiced Investigations, nor put on
the witness stand the gentleman it selected
Tor the work of writing the story, the wit
ness who, at the expense of many hundred
dollars, travelled by land and sea some
5000 miles to make the investigation
Further, We challenge the Ckroaiele even at
his late day to publish in its columns. I'm
yarbied and IN full, Mr.. woolfo's report,
md TO do this at once, while Mr.. Wolfe is
n this city, to verify the correctness of the
document purpoting TO come from his pen.
II the Chronicle does not do this, will it not
tand convicted before the American public
Is slanderer, a liar, and a coward If in
he slavery business it has earned this NAL
'dorous reputation, how can any one be-
ieye any other statement in that journal
the Islands, the treaty, or the
ugar refineries
The above article called forth the follow
ne letter from Mr.. Woolfe, who stoutly
that his letters have been pub
ished
San Francisco, December "a, 1881.
!. d. Bel, San Francisco Merchant
SIR: was not sent by the Chronicle to |
he Sandwich Islands, but went there on /
he invitation of the officers of the Russian 1
hip VestaH. All the material / have of |
cred the Chronicle in the shape of letters
ave been published, with the exception
1 one letter which / believe will appear
)-moiTow.
have deal of data bearing upon the
utrages committed upon the Norwegians
nd others which, however, l have not yet
ut into shape, but Will do so at an early
ate
This information confirms in every par
cular what the Chronicle and the Hawaiian
apers have charged, and so far as my OBJ
extend, has not been exagger-
ted by the former paper in its statements
,garding cruelty and ill-treatment prac-
ced by certain planters. Respectfully,
HENRY ID. NOBLE
The Merchant very neatly rakes him
OWN, convicts him of being liar, on the
round that he had Professionally repre-
'nted himself as Chroaiele reporter, when
,cording to his own showing he was not.
he Merchant threatens to make an expose
Woolfe's character at an early date If,
formation is wanted on that point, a
tier to the Consular Court in China
Ould bring forth some fine developments.
he worthlessness of the men upon whose
the Chronicle has hashsd up its
usade is very justly pointed out; thieves
ID vagabonds all of them. The Merchant
doing good work, and talks in fearless
ne, with no half tones about it.
Celluloid Trusses,
Specially. 4