Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-11


About two years has elapsed since the
scheme OF an Hawaiian prmacy in the Pacific
was first evolved from the versatile brain Of
the now prcmicr: hu, since It's evolution. nr
announcement as a political project worthy of
consideration 10y King KalnkauaS government.
little OF nothing has appeared in advocacy Of
the proposed scheme 10 induce a belief that It
had in reality been intended for serious con.
sideration. The Transporter, absurdity Of such
a scheme suggested the idea that it had been
put forth only as temporary bait To catch the
aspirations Of Kalakaua, and swell in that
monareh's eyes the Importance OF the oririna
tot. !, was only one among a long lis, of
absurdities which Mt Gibson hal put forward
TO the same end aud q surfcit OF such sense
less affairs was supposed to have been expert.
cnccd IN the barren results VI Others, like the
coronation, Hawaiian embassies to Japan.
Russia, and the like. but the supposed cx
travagant claptnp, which had excited only
the ridiculc Of sensible people by It's quiSotic
tendency, seems now to have been meant in al
earnest. a secret expedition, planned for its
accomplishment, has already been hticd out,
with an ambassador aud secretary At its head,
to arrange fot The surrender Of certain Of these
South Pacific Islands to the dominion Of the
Hawaiian government. On the sailing Of the
schooner Julia, chartered by the Hawaiian gov
crnmcnt ostensibly lor the transportation of a
number of South Pacific ISLANDERS, whose con.
tracts here had expired. it began to be umored
that the projected voyage wasintcndcd 10 in.
cludc other objects than the mere return of the
ISLANDERS. That uniforms and an unwontcdly
large supply Of munitions had been placed on
board, naturally gave rise to this suspicion, the
correctness Of which has since been established.
The government organ has characterized the
mission upon which Captain Trip ana Secrc
tary Clarke have been sent, as Gtneejoas
one Knowing now the more especial object
OF the mission, we fully agree in the opinion of
our contemporary as to its dangers; bu, not so
much with regard to the personality of the
embassy as TO the integrity Of the kingdom il
has been sent to represent
The following, from the prcmiers organ.
viii best explain in connection with the facts
above stated, the position that the Hawaiian
government intends to assume in regard to the
"Primacy scheme:
The annexation proposals Of the Australian
Colonies appear to have excited grea, deal of
attention all over the world. England may
refuse now TO listen to them, Just as she did on
the first instance in regard TO the conversion of
the Fiji Islands into British colony. But,
unless some other arrangement, be made about
the unappropriatcd islands of the central and
western Pacific, the chances are all against her,
and she will have 10 give way and take up the
undesired responsibility as she did in the case
Of Fiji II any one is 10 in
terfere to prevent further aggrandization Of
foreign and distant powers in the Pacific,
Hawaii ought to do it. A mere compact be.
tween England and France, that neither will he
the first aggrcssor is but slender guarantee
OF independence.
Exactly how chose "forrign and distant
powers whose g aggrnndzation Hawaii is
to prevent, will look upon these monkey
shines of pigmy, fast tending toward an in
ability to take care Of itself, cannot OF course,
be definitely told. To attempt to argue
against the absurdity and danger Of this
scheme would be useless; nevertheless both
are manifest to every sound thinker in the
community.
The ten million loan the fortifcaton Of
Oahu the purchase of ordnance, war-vesses,
etc; the education Of Hawaiian youths abroad
in the art of warfare, all Of which were sug-
gcsted synchronously with the origin Of the
primacy scheme, is strongly suggestive of,heir
probable connection.
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first
make mad