The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-06-23
Claus spreckels and His Traducers.

EDITOR BULLETIN
We are surrounded on every hand
with evidences of the fact that we
are living in an inverted order of
things. A self-constituted junta of
thinkers, brokers and land jobbers
through the abuse of a foreign pro-
tectorate have placed themselves
over the constitutional Legislature.
A band of strangers have been en-
listed and armed in the vain attempt
to overawe the taxpayers of the ma
ton. A staff of strangers who have
never paid tax in the country, and
some of whom are reported fugitives
from justice, are subsidized out of
the taxpayers money to write and
print vile ISLANDERS on the private
character of worthy citizens. "Tar
and feathers" have been printed in
the Government organs as the pro-
missed articles to tattoo those who
would not be otherwise convinced
of the blessings of being ruled by an
oligarchic cabal. Deportation"
was day by day the Star verdict
openly pronounced against the peo-
pies unoffending and patient Queen,
and the same punishment promised
to large number of (unnamed) citi-
zens who had committed no greater
offence than an unmistakable re-
fusal to bow the knee to the annexa-
ton idol founded by j. L. Stevens
g. Co.
And now comes the Star chamber
scribe (how we'll that cognomen
fits) on Hawaii's front business man,
and national benefactor, Colonel
Claus Spreckels. 1t is no part of
the business of the imported stranger
who serves up the spiced caricature
of the man of all others most honor
ed and respected by the whole peo-
pie, native and foreign, on these ISL
ands, to know, much less print, any
thing that is true in relation to his
employers opponents. Just twenty
years ago, while majority of the
Star chamber staff were probably
rusticating in Sing Sing or plan
ming that Smithsonian enterprise
which developed later, known as the
invasion of Lower California, we'll
known California merchant was on
visit to these islands planning the
foundation of the largest sugar
plantation then known in the world,
certainly the most important indus
trial enterprise of which these ISL
ands could then or now boast. In
) 1878 Col. Spreckels engaged the
celebrated engineer of the Spring
, Valley Water Works, Mr.. Fl. Schus-
sler, to plan the construction of an
irrigation scheme destined to turn
an uninhabited sandy plain into a
scene of industrial activity which
was to provide homes for over a
thousand men, several of whom, i'm
ported to work at Spreckelsville, are
plantation owners to-day. And this
is the citizen-who sunk millions OF
, dollars here before he received a
dime in return-at whom the P. G.
organs affect to shake their added
| pates
But it is not alone on the fact that
Claus Spreckels is enterprising that
he would deserve to be we'll spoken
Of. He is generous. In the district
n of Wailuku, Maui, he is the largest
single landowner, and no poor man
was ever driven &c his hofd;nu 70,
arrears of rent. A large area Of
pasture land belonging to him, and
for which the Wailuku plantation
has offered considerable rental, is
kept open and free for the poor PEG.
pie of Waikiki to run their stock
on. In the recent contest at Wal.
luku over water rights, where the
local plantation-composed entirely
of P. G.. men-tried to monopolise
the peoples water supply, Spreckels
interests and the peoples were one
There is hardly an old native in the
Wailuku district that Col. Spreckels
does not know by name; even after
years of absence he will recall the
familiar faces of his old native
friends by whom he is regarded as
chief and friend.
When, in the near future let us
: hope, the stellar hireling of the P
G.. may be able to give play to the
manly instincts of his nature, now
apparently held in the tension Of
\ mercenary pressure, he may be, in
: spired, for the benefit of posterity
to write series of biographical
sketches of the prominent men Of
the P. G.. interregnum in Hawaii.
!. do for that purpose advise him tc
study Spreckels on Maui, where be
is best known, n, situ as it were, anc
he will find that his "Sugar King
. is "King of men"-for his manly
sterling qualities-among the com
mon people, and if ever we should
): again have choice of men by bal
" lot, why Spreckels could play (,
clone hand" against the combined
r shareholders of the Star thrown il
n with the P. G.. and the A. T. G.. (wht
e by the way graduated as planta
ton luna and general bullock
IS puncher in the ante-coolie days il
q Wailuku).
In the meantime the readers O
the P. g. organs are getting tired O
seeing unfortunates trying to bate
down Stona wa1la with fha;r haJl,