The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

'|HdIIcS !. OullCk, lHIee llueH
Minister Of the Hawaiian Crown,
is one of the loudest mourners at
the funeral of the monarchy.
Blount's report contains two inter
views from him, and a long state
ment containing about 1900 words,
entitled "A Footnote to Hawaiian
History" From this footnote are
culled the following extracts:
Here is a description of the first
legislature elected under the Con-
stitution of 1887:
The mental and moral obliquities of
the lawgivers were plainly outlined in
their physical deformities, as seven
eighthS of the whole number were
either pigeon-toed, knock kneed or
bow-legged, and served as excellent
illustrations of the well-known ply
Biological principle or truth of the
general harmony of mental and ply
steal attributes.
This is his sketch of Kalakaua
in contrast with the Thurston Cabi-
net:
soon realized that instead of being
ruled over by one king, who, however
injudicious he might be at times,
never failed to realize that he was the
first gentleman of the realm, they
were being ruthlessly dominated by
four kings. who were presentations
of arrogance and boorish ignorance.
The Wilcox instruction of 1889
is described by Mr.. Gulick in a
spirit of which the following para
graphs afford fair sample:
When the news of the affair spread
over town our missionary friends were
dismayed, and had no idea of what to
do, as there seemed to be little incli-
nation on the part OF the public to
help them out. However, their old
tactics stood them in good service, ard
by 10 o'clock in the forenoon, by the
time-honored trick of promises and
coin, they got together a motley body of
sharpShooters to attack the compare
lively defenseless people in the Palace
grounds. The attacking party oecu-
pied the buildings surrounding the
Palace yard, and from safe point of
vantage began a fusilade fatal to the
kanaka, the missionaries themselves
taking the greatest delight in "pick-
ing them off" as Dole and the others
of his ilk who participate in the sport
expressed it.
If the Hawaiian needed any further
proof of the true sentiments cherished
for himself by the descendants of the
old missionary teachers, the savage
alacrity with which they seized the
first opportunity to shoot him like a
rat in hole from safe cover would
seem to have been sufficient to dispel
any remaining doubt.
Mr.. Gulick has, of course, a great
deal to say about the revolution Of
1893. What follows will give a
fair idea of what he considers his
torical accuracy;
The revolutionary anneXationists, in
justification of their action, have
raised the old cry of 1887, of the neces-
sity of stable government, proper rep
resentation, honest administration,
prevention of riot and bloodshed,
maintenance of law and order, ETC.,
when as a matter of fact there is not
now, and never has been, the least
danger of disorder or opposition to law
except at the hands of revolutionists
themselves. The rant in the speeches
at their meeting in the Rifles armory
on the 18th of January, and in their
"proclamation," and the mock heroic
utterances of Wilder (see Two Weeks
of Hawaiian History, pages 10 and 16)
when he assumed the craftsmanship
of the meeting, are amongst the poor
est examples imaginable of stale
herring drawn across a trail. There
has been no fraud discovered nor NAL
feasance unearthed, nor great wrong
righted; on the contrary, thefts and
spoliations have been committed I'M
der the very noses of the Provisional
Government with apparent impunity,
the probability being that exposure
would be disagreeable, as it would be
likely to implicate more or less dis
tinguished members of their own pre-
ciouS crew.
The bald fact stands out in plain
view today exactly as it did in 1887,
that the sole prompting motive of the
missionary revolutionists was IN both
cases lust of power, coupled with a
desire to possess themselves of the
property of another without giving
compensation therefor, sentiments
which they enjoy in common with the
vulgar highwayman and his more
gentlemanIy prototype, the filibuster.
At $40 o'clock p. NJ. on the following
day, January Il, 1S93-nearly twenty
four hours after the American troops
landed-thirteen Unite men, several
of them lately arrived in the country
and not entitled to cote, appeared in
front of the Cover nment Building, and
the leader proceeded to read a procla-
nation deposing the queen and estab-
fishing a Provisional Government.
The only audience to this function
was composed of a few loungers in the
corridors of the building. Near the
close of the reading some twenty
seven armed men ran in from the
back and side entrances of the prem
ises and gathered around the thirteen
nen above mentioned, apparently as
supporters of the movement. This
supporting force was composed of "a
grants and eI-cOnUicts who were at
that moment under police SurUeilI-
ance, deSerters from merchant ships
in port, and the like, only two or
three being known as residents of the
town.
The foregoing statement of facts can
be easily supported by affidavits, if