The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-04-10
Aunty Marques.
EDITOR GAZETTE:
WHO is MARQUES?

/ WHO is MARQUESF
Like wall of anguish this cry goes
UP from stricken nation. Some say
he is a great reformer, others assert that
he is a great crank. The mission of
! both reformers and cranks is revOlu-
ton. Reformers cause a revolution of
public opinion. Cranks revolve around
public opinion like athletes around a
horizontal bar.
At no little trouble and an expense
of thirteen cents have been engaged
in study of Mr.. Marques and an en-
deavor to classify him. For four long,
wearisome years 1 have witnessed his
rushes into print. / have waded
through his dissertations on banana
culture, sighed in despair over his
lectures on raising ranie, and then
hunted for a Lydia Pinkham advertise
ment to refresh my exhausted system.
Mr. Marques has also had dreams and
no Joseph has yet appeared who can
interpret them. They seem like their
immortal author = an ineXplicable
cipher.
But Mr.. Marques best grip is in the
solution of political questions and la
Dor problems. His articles on these
subjects have ever been characterized
by great positiveness. Sometimes he
has condescended to argue points a
little, just to show how he could do it
if advisable, but he has ever consider
ed his signature the most unanswer-
able argument-and many there be
who have glanced at the signature and
conceded his argument unanswerable
because unreliable. Yet many pa
tient readers have conned his inane
twaddle in the fond hope of finding
something worth reading. Those pa
tient readers imagined that the stu
pidity of his articles was an evidence
of the consistency and stability of his
character. But, alas Mr.. Marques
begins to vibrate. He had endeavored
to pry up great issues and now he
changes his pry and goes on the other
side! And may heaven in its infinite
mercy grant that such instructors
may be on the wrong side of every
question.
He polarized the Kings veto. He
gave the result but not the analysis.
Yet he was kind enough to open the
pages of history and show us that one
Pedro did the veto act at the solicita-
ton of the people-although the bill
passed was a Government measure.
The eXquisiteness of the parallel is of
the sky earthly.
l now learn that Mr.. NJ. is anti
Asiatic and not only anti-Asiatic but
the President of everything both anti
and Asiatlc. And don't he sail into
the poor GAZETTE which has hereto
fore kindly allowed him to unload so
many loads of bosh and drivel over
his name. He is no crank, and don't
you forget it. He is anti-crank as
well as thoroughly antediluvian. He
is anti to such an extent that his
opinions of Wednesday are often anti
to his views of Monday.
1t will be remembered that he has
before enacted the anti-Asiatic role.
Posterity, for which | am sole agent,
wants to know whether the platform
of the anti-Asiatic party now under
his presidency and tuition possesses
the charming characteristics of
the views enunciated by him, say
three years ago, when he was not only
president but sole member of an anti
Asiatic society. | cannot quote his
exact words, but l reproduce his ideas
~ substantially:
Chinese immigration must be re-
stricted. Chinese on the islands are
authorized to work. Chinese should
not be allowed to engage in business.
Chinese competition, although it
cheapens and degrades labor, is of
incalculable advantage to planta-
tions.
Chinese competition in business en-
ables men who work for low wages to
buy more eheaply and forces compet-
ing white firms to sell at less profit.
Welcome every Chinaman who
works and crowds out other classes of
labor. Welcome the reduction in
wages of plantation laborers, because
it improves the prospects of our staple
production.
Danish every Pake who has the
cheek and ambition to save money
and rise above his surroundings, be-
cause our merchants would not make
so much money!
From which it appears, beyond a
doubt because over Mr.. Marques sig
nature), that the best interests of the
cOulOTy are COHSeFNeu ny piOGecUlOn
of middle men and the staple industry
The elevation or protection of labor is
not thought to be of any importance.
We would like to see your present
ante, Mr.. Marques. Is it anti-C Chinese
store-keepers or anti-Chinese laborers?
Some of us don't keep store and most
of us labor Is your little scheme still
to make labor cheaper and merchan-
disc dearer? If so | hope an enabling
act will pass authorizing you to go to
work, and predict you will become
anti-Marques in two and one-half
days of ten hours each.