The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-09-10
THE DAILY
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Be just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim st at be
Thy Country's. thy Gods. and Truths.
WEDNESDAY.
INCENDIARY TALK.

Rep. r. w. Wilcox is on the war
path. He is not merely anxious to
knock off the heads of his opponents
and slap their mouths. That is
merely preliminary punishment for
the expression of sentiments which
he does not approve. If his oppo-
nents go further, and vote against
his measures, he is going to blow
up buildings, kill, make the streets
of Honolulu sticky with blood. All
this, he told the House, yesterday,
would come to pass if the Hawaii
ans did not get their rights, and
the President and the House calmly
listened to him, without any pro-
test at all.
We do not know whether this
kind of talk is parliamentary or
not. 1t is about what one imagines
would take place among Italian
brigands among whom perhaps
Rep. Wilcox received his education)
or Mediterranean pirates. Very
likely such arguments were some
times heard among Spanish Carlists,
OF the leaders of the French Com
mune; but we seriously doubt if a
civilized Parliamentary assembly
was ever before threatened by one
of it's members with murder and
arson, if his measures were not
passed.
Rep. Bush seconded Rep. Wilcox
nobly. He denounced the mission
aries for importing fire arms; told
how they were conspiring to over
throw the government, and set up
a republic, and even related as a
sober fact chat certain sons of mis-
sionaries had been trying to induce
officers of the Rifles to assist them
in overturning the Government.
He did not offer any particular veri-
fication of these charges, but wound
up with dark hint at the coming
end of the world.
The game which Bush and Will
cox are playing is perfectly
obvious. 1t consists in an at
tempt to play upon the passions OF
the Hawaiians, and the fears OF
| the foreigners. The first may sue
| coed, but the second we believe
will utterly fail. Bismarck's scorn-
full answer to an opponent, "The
appeal to fear never wakes an echo
in German hearts lis true of the
Germans and Anglo-Saxons of our
own Legislature. That body is not
going to be frightened into calling
a Constitutional Convention. We
noted, with a good deal of amuse-
ment that when Rep. Wilcox had
poured the Walls of his wrath upon
Noble Horner, Rep. Knudsen rose
and calmly but emphatically re-
peated the very sentiments which
had caused Rep. Wilcox's explo'
sion. This circumstance will be
an omen of the success of any and
every appeal to fear.
If the independence of the coun.
try should ever be lost, it will be
through the acts of Hawaiians
themselves. Why is it that dema'
gogues like Bush and Wilcox exer,
more influence among their OWE
people, than a wise, sensible and
patriotic man such as Noble Kau
hane. Kauhane to be sure, has
never been to military school ir
Italy. Doubtless he would have
considerably less sense if he had
Those who aspire to be leaders
among the Hawalians should weigh
well the earnest, even solemn
words addressed to the native
members of the House by Judge
Widemann. 1t is on your owr
right doing he said that the life o.
the land depends. If the leaders
are wise, earnest and anxious to dc
we'll, the life, the independence anC
prosperity of Hawaii will be safe