The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-03-11

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many's high-handed doings, have pro
duced an indignant sense that has deal
a sharp blow to our feelings OF loyalty
| and affection to the British Government
On the other hand, the open, spirited
conduct OF the United States has stood
out IN startling contrast, and we venture
to assert that the action OF that Power IN
compelling Germany TO let 90 her grip
on Samoa has excited feeling OF enthu-
siastic
ADMIRATION FOR THE GREAT REPUBLIC,
warmer and more pronounced than
ever existed among US before. y
! The Herald concludes with an
| ominous hint that the recurrence of such
| incidents as the Samoan would have a
| tendency to lead these colonies TO think
that possibly in the coming time our in
! terests may run more in the same lines
/ with those Of our cousins OF the United
States, than with those of the Power
from which equally with them we derive
/ our origin, but which IS so fettered ana
/ entangied by the
EsTRTGUEs CT AGES,
| that justice ana humanity must be sacri-
! feed by It 10 expaGiency. The Samoan
I business has been a shame 30 England,
while the spirited action of America has
{
Government and nation OF the United
States"
The Sydney Telegraph, that has had
correspondence from Samoa ali along
| favorable to German claims, has an ar
tice referring to the reported departure
of two ship loads Of German soldiers for
Samoa. 1t says this news may indi-
cate the approaching
END OF SAMOAN INDEPENDENCE.
Australians cannot mistake the nature
of Germany's intentions. There is no
bluff on this side of the world. Ger
many means to get possession OF the
group and has never meant anything
less since the unfortunate Malietoa was
snatched away All the bluff is on the
other side OF the world. Bismarck is con-
fusing Salisbury and Cleveland, while
his agents are steadily doing annexation
work at Samoa. America is indignant,
but perplexed, while England makes no
sign" The Telegraph adds that what
interests Australians 'mOst profoundly
is not the gradual disappearance of the
LIMITED BRITISH HOLD
upon Samoa, but the rapid expansion of
Germany's possessions and influence in
the Pacific. VIII Germany be
content with tropical territories in the
L
marck Archipelago, the SolOmons, Sa-
moa and (shall we add Tonga satisfy so
ambitious Power? VIII eyes OF longing
ever be cast upon the larger and richer
lands, blessed with a temperate climate,
which are now all held by Britons?"
TERRIBLE REVENGE THREATENED.
Our San Francisco correspondent has |
sent by the S. S. Gaelic the latest intel |
ligence about the Samoan business from |
that direction. The Berlin correspond |
ent of the London Standard says: ''It !
is certain that the German squadron in |
the Pacific will be strengthened in order |
that punishment may be inflicted on the !
natives OF Samoa for numbering |
the German marines and injuring |
German interests. T." The Cologne |
Gazette says: "The more signal this !
chastisement and the more ample !
the satisfaction, the surer will be the !
guarantee that peace and order will re-
main undisturbed, and the more eftec- |
tive will be the resolutions of the confer |
ence by the three nations, which pos
sess equal rights to influence the future |
of Samoa"
GRATITUDE AND GRUMBLING.
Emperor William has issued Cabinet !
order expressing gratitude to the officers |
The Deutsches Werehenblatte prints !
some letters on the Samoan question |
from a correspondent in Sydney, N.S.W. |
The writer blames the Germans for sup |
porting Tamasese, who, he says, is !
neither by birth nor intelligence accept |
able to the SamOans as ruler. Mataafa |
is far more intelligent and influential
than Tamasese, who is regarded as a
usurper and traitor, willing to sell his |
country to strangers Mataafa could |
have been won to German interests, but, |
being offended by the support given to
Tamasese, he fell an easy prey to Ameri- !
can intrigues. The writer asks if this
pearl, Samoa, Is to be abandoned by
of Samoa could formerly have been &C
cOmplished; England would have pro-
tested only for the benefit OF the gallery"
NEW ACCUsER OF KLEIN.
A private letter from an officer of the
U. s. S. Nipsic to Geo. S. Walsh, OF New
York, is published 1t represents Klein /
as ''strutting about Malietoa's camp with
insufferable arrogance, armed with a re-
volver resembling 6 Gardiner gun; it /
charges the correspondent with repre-
5enting himself IS the hero OF the Ger
man defeat at Faleie, and aiJerward, on
the declaration OF war, seeking refuge on
board the NiPsic ''tO avoid falling into
the hands OF the people whom he de-
feated such q short time age" and the
extract concludes with this terribly IN
tended shot: Klein IS, however, scared
to such an extent that we are going out
tomorrow 10 put him aboard the steamer
for San Francisco"
KLEIN RETORTs II KIND.
In reply to these reflections Klein
saws that according to Waish's own adj
mission he has violated confidence by
publishing the letter, "but al the same
time be lacks the manliness or fairness
to give the name OF the writer" Klein
spots the writer, however, as an Ensign
on the Nipsc; suggests that his record
as cadet at Annapolis will net bear
scrutiny, and states that be was COM
PEELED to sail out Of San Francisco before
the mast on a merchant vessel. Klein
attributes this Ensign's spite toward
himself to his refusal to make 1attering
mention OF him in his letters TO the Ex-
aminer, says he was frequently intOxi-
Gated at Apia and once, when in that
condition, and stray shots fired by Ger
mans fell near the horse he was riding,
che rode down the main street in wild
alarm, telling all his friends that the
Germans were
TRYING TO MURDER HIM.
Then he loafed round the Tivoli getting