The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-01
NORDHOFFS SCRIBBLE.
HIS LATEST EFFUSIoNS IN THE
NEW YORK "HERALD."
He Says Hawaiian Provisional Rulers
Do Not Want Their Actions
Criticized

The New York Herald of June ed
contains a two and half column effu-
sion on Hawaiian matters from the
pen of Charles Nordhoff, under date of
May 23d, from which the following is
extracted. The great bulk of the article
is devoted to the Queens personal
character, which he endeavors to
bolster up by ancient extracts from the
advertiser and other papers, but while
in the first part of the article he quotes
freely from Mr. Thurston's speeches in
the Legislature, in the latter part of it,
which is reserved for the Queens de.
Tense, he entirely ignores the remarks
made before the same body by John E.
Bush and some native members in
regard to her relations with ex-Marshal
Wilson:
The report received here from Wash
ington, which is confirmed by Mr.
Blount's instructions, that the President
desires it understood as the policy of
the United States that while he will
protect the independence of the Isl
ands against all foreign aggression he
proposes to leave them their independ-
ence under such form of Government
as they may choose without interference
from the United States gives satsfac-
ton to all reasonable persons.
This policy ought also to please Mr.
Thurston, the annexation envoy to
Washington. 1t answers perfectly to
what he upheld in speech delivered
in the Hawaiian Legislature as late as
October II, 1892, just three months
before he and Mr.. Stevens brought on
the revolution and claimed annexation.
Mr.. Thurston said on that date, in a
debate in which he wished to overthrow
the then Cabinet, the United States
would never take possession of this
country against the will Of its people
1t was not live issue now, and when
it was introduced it was done solely
with a view to mislead. Annexation
was brought up and trotted out regu-
larly and was simply a substitute for
the old missionary cry. When an cleo.
ton was over it would not be heard Of
again until a similar occasion arose
Before being frightened by the anneXa'
ton scarecrow it was well to stop and
think. All history believed the idea
that the United States would never take
this country against the will of the
people. 1t has been the first to recog
nize its independence.
MR.. THURsToN REsENTS SLURS.
Further on he said: -" Daniel
Webster said that if the French took
the Islands they would take them back
and restore their independence if it
took the whole empire Of the United
States to do it, This is their position,
and it has been consistently maintained
ever since. The United States has out
of its bounty given US a treaty for which
it received almost no monetary return,
which has put millions into the lands OF
this country"
He concluded by saying Common
decency and common gratitude should
prevent these surs and insinuationS on
the United States. 1t is an insult to
the opposition, which is not less loya
than the Cabinet and the ideas are
advanced simply to keep the Cabine,
in power"
wish Secretary Gresham would ask
Mr.. Thurston whether on the very
period when he made this anti-anneXa-
ton speech he was not secretly in
triguing with Minister Stevens for an
nexation.
l repeat that the policy which is re
ported as the Presidents that the United
States will protect Hawaii against al
foreign aggression, but will leave thi:
country independent to form its owr
government and carry on its own at
fairs, will satisfy the natives and all thu
other inhabitants of the Islands excep
the fiibustering annexationists, who arr
not really great number.
asked an intelligent native why hi
people were so dissatisfied with tn,
planters constitution of 1887 as to ash
the Queen for new constitution. H
replied that it was largely-mainly, h
said-because that constitution tool
away from the sovereign the right t
appoint mobiles and gave it to qualified
voters. The qualification was made
he said, an income of not less thai
5000 year, but under that quaiicatio
white dock laborer or mechanic i
Honolulu, whether he was an intelliger
man or not, might vote for a noble
while the native teachers and clergy
men we're excluded because they di
not get so much. That did not seer
to him just, he added, and l must sa
| agree with him.
1t requires some courage here, now;
days, for either a native or a white ma
to openly express opposition to annex
alton. know personally at least ha
a dozen men, mostly white or hal
castles, who have in confidence told m
they were compelled by their employs
to sign the annexation roll under tire;
of loss of employment, and, therefor
under compulsion.