The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-06

in to see MIR. Rice and | spoke of
your letter and he expressed a de-
sire to take few extracts from it,
promising to suppress all names; he
came in later to say that it was
quite uuintcntional to have publish
ed so much" Thus your readers
can see that the Star, in its quest
for news, has broken confidence and
necessarily dragged the writer into
print to explain what might seem an
uncalled-for and spiteful denuncia.
ton of Capt. Ross. am not surpris-
ed that Capt. Ross replied as he did,
and, in measure, think he would
have been justified in retaliating
even more spitefully than he did.
The matter would be dropped
here, and your readers allowed to
draw their own conclusions, but, as
Capt. Ross has accused the under
signed of shameless lying" in re-
gard to himself, the natives, and the
meeting at Hanalei, and, though the
writer conIcsscS that he is in a meas
ure to blame for arousing Cap.
Ross hostility and provoking re-
ply to his letter, at the same time he
requests him to contine himself to
the truth. Therefore, in justice to
himself, the writer feels privileged
to prove conclusively to all, or, at
least, explain the statements made
in the letter published by the Star.
In referring to Capt. Ross as a
"whitewashed American," | would
CT nt h, l
brought up in the United States Of
America, and had had the principles
of good government, laws, and a
constitution that made all free and
equal before the law and ballot box,
instilled into his mind, as it is in
stilled into every school boy from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, that
there must be some unworthy mo-
tive to cause him to forget the
teachings of his mother country in
lending himself as co-worker in a
League whose representatives depict
annexation with his own country, as
death to the Hawaiian, politically
and financially, that their lands will
be contlscated, their homes taken
away; their rights trampled to the
earth, and the country overrun by
men who will burn, pillage, rob, and
kill. These are facts that can be
testified TO upon written affidavit.
The writer does not state that
these sentiments are expressed in
open meetings where they might be
rectiiied by others, but, individually
are poured as poison into the ears of
the credulous native, thus increasing
race prejudice and laying the foun-
dations for future trouble. There
fore, any American who will ally
himself with such a League, even
though he does not express those
sentiments himself. must have had
the teachings of a free and liberal
government lulled to sleep by some
powerful political opiate.
The Hawaiians' idea of a govern
ment like the United States is crude;
they cannot grasp it, and they may
justly imagine all manner of evil &c
, come from such government; but
a man with the education and eX,
perience of Capt. Ross, a man who
! did his country good naval service
when she was struggling in the
throes of civil war for the freedom
Of speech, vote, and equality, tc
countenapce such misrepresentation
is treason to the land that gave hin
birth. If he served his country
nobly as captain in the navy, he is
rapidly allowing that honor to be
rendered the more ignoble by allow,
ing his country, with its liberal laws
and high sense of justice, to be mis-,
represented, and by advising the Ha
waiians not to accept annexation
with government that has led sc
millions of people to prosperity auC
freedom and can lead 80 Thousand
with the same success.
In regard to the Hawaiians being
coerced into signing the annexation
rolls, or being threatened with evic
ton, the following should convince
any reasonable person of the un
truth of such statements, which
prompted the ungentlemanly expires
sion, deliberately lies" in referring
to Capt. Ross fabrication. Wher
Capt. Ross passed through Keali;
he was invited by Mr.. Eassie, one ol
kealia's healthy "sycophants," to be
present at an annexation meeting tC
be held that evening at the hall
where he might air his views. He
for some reason, did not come. Now
if we were coercing the natives into
signing the annexation lists, woulC
we have invited an outsider to be
present to address the meeting
against annexation? No. We though
that whatever arguments he mi ghr
introduce against annexation woulC
give us chance to refute them pub
licly and thereby strengthen ou
own cause. As he did not come, and
learning that he was at work among
the natives of Hanalei, we hopeC
that at meeting there, where the
majority were against annexation, h'
would express himself openly anC
his reasons for opposing annexation
and thus give us chance to presen
our side Of the question at issue.
Capt. Ross cannot but acknow
ledge that, in not accepting the in
vitation to attend our meeting a
Kealia, we showed more pluck tina
did he by going into district wher
he had been working for week, AM
where he had induced nearly ever
man, woman and child to sign hi