Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-11-03


Considering that Mr Walter illl Is.
pat proprietor oi the nul, Bulletin,
Honolulu. oahu, and presumably mt
niShcd the article ou Moreno and the
Chinese Alliance ID Is hardly cNWs
able iha, tha, paper should have made
such rrroncou, statements respecting
"a scheme ior tomiug a Hawaiian
alliance with China and the appoint
mcnt ot trlso CrSat Motcnu aN|
"miniy,cr TOT foreign affairs and PIE
micr In $50 IN order to ,auN out The
kings Chinese project Mr. TIN WIS
prcttptor vt the Rciormitoy School
during the whole oi the time that Mr.
Moreno was here. and from the fact
that he was an intimate friend oi
NprrnaS. and therefore undoubtedly
we'll acquainted with ,ho, persons poll
teal schemes mus, have known that
his appointment, was Tor the purpose
ot carrying out a scheme ol Hawaiian
alliance with China Whatever
"schemc may have been conicm
plated in sSo, involving "an Hawaiian
alliance with China, Moreno was ocr
iainy its advocate lie strongly al
,iscd such an alliance He attempted
to establish line OF steamers between
China and these islands, and this line
of steamers WAS intended for the con
,ryancr of Cinnamon hi,hcr by the
ship load, Moreno promising 10 furnish
the islands with an additional popula
ton OF "tcn millions" OF oelestials in
an incredibly brief period, il let alone.
Ii is wcllknown how this advcnturcr
ingra,iated himself into the good will
and fellowship OF the king. and would
have retained his place in the royal atlec-
,ions had it no, have been FOR the
prompt action initiated hy Mr.. Comfy,
then American Minister Resident, and
followed by the other diplomats and
ConsulS of the place, almost immcdi-
aicly upon his accession to Office The
writer Of the article in question should
have known that the scheme for dclug
ing the islands with a Chinese popuh.
ton was based upon the one idea OF
creating larger tax revenue for the
government, and was seriously proposed
by Moreno and his colleagues as an
early and effectual means OF eNtingulSh-
ing the Indebtedness OF the government
for ten million dollar loan which he
proposed TO create for the qualification
OF autoCratic folly. When these I'm.
prccedcnied eNtlavagancicS were com
monty known and universally con.
dcmned by the whites OF all classes
and conditions, and by large body OF
respectable natives also, and when these
sentiments had been expressed in eN-
cited mass meetings, this indefatigible
adveniurcr had set himself busily TO
work stirring up the race premdioeS of
the natives against the foreigners, other
than Chinese, while these, by every Gun
ming device, he sought to combine with
the natives against the foreigners, even
going so far as 10 say in print that If
foreign blood was shed and foreign
property destroyed the foreigners would
have themselves to blame Had ii not
been for the timely and decided steps
taken by the diplomatic and consular
corps OF this city, in all probability
something of the kind would have
taken place. All white foreigners but
Moreno, were termed by himself and
his coadjntors, "white invaders, and
inimical to the welfare of the natives
Mr.. Gibson's newspaper were then
most buSily engaged IN preaching those
views, and no one was better acquainted
with them al the time than Mr.. Walter
Hill