The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-24
scenes. He knows it all, and that all
| Is anything to kill annexation"

| DETERMINED TO KILL ANNEXATION.
Mr.. Nordhofy's second letter is dated
April 18th. 1t begins with the state
ment that annexation is losing ground
here. He may have thought so be-
cause of his royalist associations, but
a very little trouble would have shown
him the truth. He knows whom he
Is addressing in the United States,
and that the word "planter" suggests
monopoly, and will be obnoxious
there. So he plays on this string
| nearly all the time. But nothing is
better known than that the planters
while opposed to the misrule of the
past, have been luEewarm on the an
nexation question, knowing how it
would disturb the labor question.
They have favored annexation at last
as the only escape from ruin by an
archy and bad government.
HE USES RIDIcULE.
1t must be remembered all the time
that Mr.. Nordhoff is not writing for
US, but who'll for America. He can
scarce conceal his contempt for Ha-
waiians. Honolulu is 'tlittle hole"
| "queer gossipy little spot" and
those who support law and order and
who opposed the ex-queen are ''silly
Planters" "people otherwise decent"
Members of the government as well
as others, he refers to as, "every man
| Jack of Them"
In the first letter he speaks of those
who fear disturbance IS "some absurd
persons" In view of the terse strain
of the January days and the changes
since, Mr.. Nordhoff's terror during the
early part of the present week and his
demand for protection, while he is
in fact as safe or safer than at his
Coronado home, is very funny.
He says he has seen the petitions in
favor of the lottery. Some of the sign
ers "are actually members of the Pro-
visional government" This state
ment is false and he now apologies
for it. But the mischief is done in
the United States, and what avail is
it that he readily publishes here an
apology for his false statement?
FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT LABOR.
He says that those who still cling
to annexation are now hurriedly
sending to China and Japan for more
laborers; that between three and four
thousand japanese have already been
ordered and he doesn't know how
many thousand Chinese" This is
said to lend the impression in
America that Hawaii is trying to
cheat and defraud the United States.
He knows that ~ don't know how
many thousand Chinese" will be in
terpreted by the American laborer as
thousands beyond computation are
being rushed into Hawaii p, But it
would hurt and destroy Mr.. Nord-
hoff's lie to have added that the Chi
nese exclusion and restriction acts of
Hawaii were never so rigidly enforced
as now, and that although the legis-
lature of 1892 provided that Chinese
might be imported, in the discretion
OF the government, and would now be
on the way here had it not been for
the overturn of last January, the
present government is Loyalty observ-
ing the provision of the treaty of
annexation regarding Chinese and
refuses altogether to authorize the
immigration of any Chinese. Mr..
Nordhoff suppresses these facts for
they would hurt his cause.
He goes on to say that the place is
full of rumors and silly stories with
out any foundation, and in the same
breath recites as the truth an out
rageous falsehood and libel on Min
lister Stevens and President Dole; q
tale that probably most of our readers
never heard, which is that they had
been engaged in an intrigue having
for its object to alarm the queen and
cause her to abdicate.''
If he were the fair and honorable
seeker for the truth he would have us
believe, why does he not state that
the absurd and disturbing rumors
which occasionally fill the place,
originate with the royalists, and that
they are a most important part of
their stock in trade Who is it but
royalists that cons tantly circulate the
reports of the expected restoration OF
the eX-queen with the attendant
rumors If Mr.. Nordhoff would take
the trouble to ask he might have
learned that the annexationists and
supporters of the present government
are all busy men attending to their
business.
MIR. NoRDHoFF TAKES a HAND.
1t appears that our fair-minded and
impartial correspondent has been put
ting in his hand, and went to the ex-
queen to see what he could do to aid
in her restoration, and to put the foot
of despotism on the necks of his
Anglo-Saxon brothers again. This is
shown in his interview, ii part of
which he exposes-when she tells him
she will see Dole and Damon.
INCONSISTENCIES.
| Mr.. Nordhoff must write different
parts of his letter on separate days,
for they appear inconsistent. he
talks to the great body of the American
people, and knowing their dislike for
] monopolies, rich and exclusive men,
and the like. he represents the Ha.