The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-03
FACT VS.. FICTION.
Truthful Sketch of Matters Connect
ed With the Late Unpleasant
ness" and the Present Situation.

am not surc that the supporters
of the Provisional Government will
agree to be Judged by the ordinary
rules of criticism. But it seems to
me that they are by no means happy
lust at present. OF course il is an
easy matter when one is wcll-armed
and equipped to- assume tho Ian
guagc of conscious strength. But 1t
is certain that their actions do not
harmonize with their uttcrances.
These are the words of the strong,
those the acts of the acknowledged
weak.
The president of the annexa-
tion club assured the American
Commissioner that that club repre-
sented the intelligence of the coun-
try. Nevertheless, when the Star
makes its first appearance we learn
| that its projectors have looked i'll
vain down the lists of hungry an
nexationists clamoring for other
mems shoes, and finally have to en-
gage the services of gentleman
newly arrived from San Francisco to
teach this country how to think of
llS OWL dllullS, CthNt w lltiN W. w.
Strange commentary on the repre-
sentative Intelligence of Honolulu.
Nor is this all. Instead of arming
this gentleman with political fact,
it seems that the projectors OF this
paper have poured into his ear a
deluge of unworthy gossip. If |
may gather from his writings the
nature of his instructions | should
suppose that the whole question was
to be decided ON a point of personal
integrity and morality.
| decline to consider the wisdom,
taste or decency of this their chosen
line of assault, much less will
pause to consider how an attempt at
retaliation would answer. | merely
wish for the moment emphatically tC
pro, est against this mode of warfare
Without admitting one single charge
| | maintain that. even if true, "an
cicnt history" gossip cannot affect
, the question as it now stands be.
tween the Queen of Hawaii and the
Provisional Government. The fact
that the leading anneXationists have
: allowed their wives and daughter:
5 freely to seek the royal favor. that
they have given receptions and par
ties in honor of Her Majesty, thi:
fact, say, establishes beyond ques
; ton that the anneXationists them
. selves do not believe in their heart
the unspeakable calumnies the,
, utter against the Queen; or if the,
do. they owe an apology to the
!. wives and daughters, and ought t,
= be ashamed of themselves.
: 1t is claimed that the annexation
lists are in the great major!t.
amongst the intelligent. On tn
other hand, | saw in the Advertise
r not long ago, an indignant com
: plant against the Government TO
n retaining in Office those who wer
opposed to annexation. The lis
was really revelation. There wa
: scarcely branch of the public sci
vice, it would seem, which was nc
5 in the hands of the enemy, tn
Customs, the Board of Health, tn
Interior office, the Police, all wa
il wrong. 1t cannot be said that a
1t these appointments were III tn
Il hands of incapable men. | was r'
V ! llllIINitNt vi VIC uNNoiilil Si''ii Va VI
. . early Christians by Pliny the Your
e ger,-"They are in the field, in tn
II camp, III the courts, nay you will lin
lie them in the temples of the immol
J. tai gods So these royalists seel
to permeate this community, in spit
of the declaration that the Prov
IL sional Government has the suppol
Il of the intelligence OF Honolulu.
h [ sincerely hope that when the il
is vcstigation is made and the "anal.
sis (whatever that profound wor
- may imply in this question:, tt
D. United States commissioner will NJ
oe be led to suppose that intelligen'
t. is the monopoly of the Provision
NJ Government and its abettors. ON
2" ing to the position assumed by Il
e. United States forces the late go
a ernment did surrender its arms ar
se ammunition. 1t was confident th
10 fair play without favor would
- given to both sides. Had it not bee
Ii for the American troops the pr
visional Government would nev
have come into existence. 1t behay
to-day as if it were welding a rigl
VIC oulCoiiIc vi ltS Wv IL ploN'So ul
valor. 1t is customary to speak
tn those who stood by the marin
d. from the Boston as heroes, where;
If in truth, had it not been for {
is American marines, they would ha
ch been arrested by the police al
m locked up. However, the surrend
Ii of arms does not imply the abando
I'D ment of intelligence and self-respe
at Personal abuse and the utterance
re- unworthy gossip do not always lie
a to success. Let the case be settl
la on its merits. The witticism
'ot speaking Of the Queen as Mrs. Do
nd inis is not likely to provoke SO mu
ler as a smile on the faces of those W
see have some regard for the prophet
'se of life. CITIZEN
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