The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-24

the common people after all, with the
planters and others, who moved for
responsible and good government, on
| his own showingi
RoYALIsT VERSION OF THE REvo-
LUTON.
He betrays both ignorance and pre-
| JUDGE, or worse, when he gives his
version of the affair of last January.
| 1t is not true that the ex-queen re-
solved not to promulgate a constitu-
| ton. She "deferred it for few days."
as she said. Yet Mr.. Nordhoif's way
of telling the story makes lie of the
| truth. This is one of the objects of
his coming here. He charges ex-Min-
| lister Stevens and others with con-
| spiracy. He makes it appear that
they were in preparation for long
time. AS evidence of this he intro
duces supposed remark of Captain
Wiltse, about landing troops, that was
never uttered by him. That is, the
genial captain gave it away! Yet our
veracious correspondent actually ad-
mits that when the eXqueen at
| tempted her coup de etat, the COM
munity was so taken by surprise that
when the committee of safety made
diligent search they only found about
'sforty stand of arms among all who
| favored 81 movement of some kind
against the government" VIII Mr..
Nordhoff please tell US what kind of
long and careful preparation this looks
like?
Again, if there had been such con-
spiracy, how did it happen that the
community was so taken by surprise?
that when an enthusiastic and spon-
taneous meeting assembled they had
nothing to suggest except to appoint
committee to consider the situation
and devise some remedy? Mr.. Nord-
hoff tells us again that against our
paltry forty guns the eX-queen chad
about eight hundred stand of arms
and a number of cannon and gatliDgs."
Mr.. John Colburn has already told us,
through his last February's American
letter, that they had 700 men under
arms. If everything was so peaceful
and no harm intended, why, let us
ask Mr.. 1Nordhoff, were there so many
arms and men under arms ready to
fight? What town, by the way, was
in the possession of the United States
troops on Monday night? Certainly
not Honolulu; for that was in the
possession of the former government
till Tuesday evening, when the revo-
lutionists took possession-and it is
well known that recognition was
withheld till full possession was Sc
cured. The marines had landed that
evening, only on the request of the
Committee of Safety, duly commune
Gated to Mr.. Stevens. Will Mr. Nord-
hoff explain what he means by too
much haste on the part of Mr..
Stevens? Something wrong about
his statements. The errors are patent
here. Will our correspondent, who
admits in his letters relative TO his
numerous apologies for mIsstate-
ments, that he has been misiead, now
take the trouble to right himself on
other points, and so state ii in the
New York Herald? If he will be so
honorable and just none will recog-
nize his justice sooner than this out
ragged, misrepresented and maligned
community. But his object being to
kill annexation, perhaps he holds that
mi
finding that the truth will help us in
the United States, he is willing to
have only Misrepresentation.
NoRDHoFF AS HISTORIAN.
He says the queen proposed to fol-
low the planters example of 1887, and
promulgate new constitution. Who
were the planters? The Ashfords? w.
A. Kinney? w. G. Wilder? l.. a.
Thurston? Mr.. Emmeluth? The host
of mechanics who made that move
ment possible? Come, Mr.. Nordhoff,
learn your history before you hold
yourself out as a teacher! But he is
not historian for Us, it Is for the
United States that he essays to recite
history, and he recites for different
audiences all in the same letter! AS If
| his readers there would be so stupid
as not to read between the lines! Alas!
historical accuracy is no part OF his
| programme. His method of beating
| annexation is twofold; first, to show
that Mr.. Stevens conspired to obtain
Hawaii by fraud and by gross in
justice to the people of Hawaii; and,
second, by making it appear that the
| government and its supporters are q
silly and ridiculous parcel of selfish
planters, with their henchmen, who
are unable to sustain themselves.
| When the seal is taken from the lips
of Mr.. Stevens on his return to the
United States, he will be amply able
| to prove the false and malicious ma
| ture of the charges against him, aside
from the internal evidence of well
known facts. AS for the government
of Hawaii, it's growing strength and
popularity, the honor and dignity of
| its conduct, are ample refutation of
| the evil and malicious statements of
Mr.. Nordhoff. If lie has any intelli-
gence and insight, he has learned ere
| This that the revolution was con-