The Daily bulletin., 1893-12-09
Portuguese Gun Carriers.

EDITOR BuLLErlN:-
Notwithstanding the sound advice
given to the Portuguese by their
leading newspaper last week, an ex-
tract from which was published in
Thursdays BULLETIN, and the advice
Of Senior Cauavarro, the resident
minister from the Court at Lisbon.
the Portuguese have, since the warn
iugs and advice from their minister
and press, been receiving arms and
ammunition. On Saturday evening
last Il haudcart containing about
thirty rifles with bayonets, covered
with a blanket and attended by three
men, went up Punchbowl street and
along kiuau street in the direction
of the Mormon church. saw some
of the guns distributed from this
hanucart.
The Marshal attended meeting
of Portuguese at their club Oh
Punchbowl few evenings ago to
speak about this distribution of
arms, and, as setof to what the
Portuguese Minister advised, the
Marshal told his audience thnt the
guns were given them 20 protect
their own houses Tbs. the Portu
guese, who are lahoring class get
ting from ninety cents to dollar
and quarter day, had any great
wealth. outside of children and
chickens, and demanding from the
Government the gift of Lee-Reming
ton magazine rifles and bayonets
said to cost the taxpayers SIS each,
must be regarded as circumstance
entirely unknown to anyone outside
of the Marshal.
The arming of some iN of these
people is menace to the peace OF
the community, and is one OF the
crimes for which the authors OF this
reign of bayonets and rule by mob,
will yet be called by the people to
people can read their own language
and it is fitting sequel to the
action of the microscopic clique who
now constitute the +. e., that hav-
ing given these illiterates a vote in
lSS7 in order to down" the Hawai-
ian, they now put guns in the same
hands to kill Hawalians on the first
preLeXt.
The character of these gun car
riers, for whose precious lives and
property the Marshal is so solici-
tous, may be cleaned from few
samples. Joe Ferreira, whose igno-
rant antics with his 2. G. rifle led
him last week to make target OF
Pilot Macauley's house, was some
ten or twelve months ago convicted
of the manslaughter of one Henry
Williams and given an opportunity y
TO leave the country or come up foI
sentence when called on. As Joe
can quash "a conviction by carrying
p. u. gun and make targets ol
peoples houses at midnight with
impunity, and still retain his gun
the chances are that if Joe bags d
live anti-anneXatonist he will be re,
warded with the addition Of sword
and purse. If Pilot Macauley had
been in the line of Joe's bullet a z
G coroner and jury of the AnneXa
ton club might have possibly found
out that the corpse when alive was
not on the roll of the faithful, and
brought in verdict of accidental
. death, which would not have hap
pened if the pilot had been on deck
with the Citizens Reserve at the
Palace building.
The Portuguese gunner is on the
! whole favored man. Recently one
}, Comes, Il jeweler, was found will
thirty tins Of opium and his cast
mol. pros'ed. Another gunner from
' the Azores WAS charged with liquol
selling last week, and that was hearC
= no more of. The army is becoming
; power III the land when it cal
commit crime, and defy the Mar
shall to prosecute.
In the meantime the law uphold
ing press must call the attention o
. the American, British and Japanes
> representatives to the fact that tn
responsibility rests upon them t.
= demand that this Portuguese Mafa
5 organized and maintained by tn
Y Dole Cabinet, be removed by the dis
v arming of these Portuguese. 1t is
!, standing menace to the public peac
Il and to the lives OF their citizens.
II The so-called Government of Dol
t. II Co. stands in the position of bein,
:, unable to punish criminals and ap
=, pears anxious to arm and retain All,
pay them. How long will the re-
t representatives. of civilized nation
( consent to look on such a condition
: of things? ClvIs.