The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-21
THE PAREELL OF HAWAII"

Interview by the san Fra"cisco Ex-
aminer with Hon. ". w. wilcox.
The San Francisco Examiner of
July 9th has an interview with Hon.
r. W. Wilcox, the display heading
of which begins with the line quoted
above. Mr.. Wilcox's desertion to
the ranks of the Benedicts, when at
tending the military college at Turin,
is thus described:
Wilcox was TO be thoroughly
educated in that effective branch of
military warfare, but somehow Cupid
was stronger than sights and angles
and the Donna Victoria, daughter of
the greatest princeIy house of Italy,
the house of Colonna, compared with
which the house of Savoy, with its
reigning King, was only small pota-
toes, succumbed to the Establishments
of the stalwart from the far off ISL
ands of the Pacific, and they were
married.
1.-The Princess Victoria was the
daughter of Baron Sobrero, Colonel
of honorable artillery in His Italian
Majesty's service at Piedmont, who
had married the second daughter of
Prince Colonna. and sister to the
head of the house, who few years
ago married the daughter of John W.
Mackay."
The Introduction taking up half
the space Of the article tells of the
uprising in 1889, and then the re-
porter proceeds with the interview as
follows:
''That revolution was squelched,
and Wilcox, who was accused of TO-
menting a rebellion, was acquitted
by jury of bis countrymen.
"But Wilcox is not bit dismay-
ed, and hopes to achieve by consti-
tutional agitation what he failed to
do by revolution. He is master of
the French and Italian languages
and talks English correctly.
" We have many issues, said he,
yesterday, common to the people of
the United States. You have your
Chinese question, but that does not
disturb us, because they assimilate
better with our lower classes than
they do with yours. The japanese
question is what disturhs us at pre-
sent. We can't absorb all the ORR
entail races, and must draw the line
somewhere. On the Euebe (Ewa)
plantation, near Honolulu, short
time ago, 800 japanese struck on the
fancied grievance of couple of
cooks. There was no reason for it,
and | suppose we must try to stop
Japanese immigration.
+" Il read in the American news
papers that there is fear that Eng
lish influence will dominate the isl
ands sooner or later. That is all
bosh. If we don't tie up to your
country where can we tie up? Her
Majesty the Queen has the most pro-
found respect for your people.
The sentiment foI republic is
growing, but we don't care to upset
our monarchcaI institutions so long
as the crown is faithful to the major
ity of the people.
6 'We have started in already to
organize the National Liberal party
and have a Central Committee of
thirty-one In Honolulu to prepare q
plan of campaign for the elections
of February, 1892. Our battle cry
is: Hawaii for Hawaians. We
want to get rid OF the missionary in
fiuences. We are, in one respect, in
the same position as the Irish. We
want to run our own country. Bush,
who is very able man, has the
powerful paper, Ia Leo ka Lahui,
which translated, means the "Voice
of the Nation" and if | 90 not mis-
take the signs Of the times, we will
win the February elections. We
have the intelligent foreign element
with us, and we will win, and when
we do we shall try to get closer to
the American people. There is not
a leader in our movement whose
father was not an American citizen.
'We have The Australian ballot
system, and we will beat oul lie
| Government machine
"Mrs. Wilcox is in Italy and her
husband has not seen her since she
left Honolulu year ago. He has
come here for recreation only, and
will return to Honolulu in the course
of month. His brother-in-Iaw,
Baron Sobrano, is in the city, and
his presence here, Mr.. Wilcox thinks,
ought to settle any rumor that he
has had domestic trouble with the
Dr;nno,o