The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-28
WUNDENBERG.

sneak among those who trusted
him, and scrvitor, with lively
sense of favors to come, OF the foes
of the Government whose oath of
allegiance he took. 1t is now
proved that he has made himself the
principal witness for Blount in an
&c barte case against the Provisional
rule, and a false witness at that.
All the time his lying tongue was
persuading the Justices of the Su-
preme Court Of his loyalty he was
Conniving with the enemies OF the
public welfare. We have heard 1t
charged by a reputable business
man that during the early days of
the revolutionary movement he was
having secret meetings with EN-
bezzler Wilson, the Queens Mar
shall and paramour. After Janu-
airy 18th he pretended to be in favor
of annexation, and demanded the
Marsbals office in return. The
STAR believes that if he had got
the post he would have shared its
secrets with Washington Place. 1t
was properly refused him and he
became an active enemy of his own
employers and of the cause he made
a pretence of supporting, though he
strangely beguiled the Govern
ment into the belief that he was a
man of honor, integrity and patri
otism. But for the revelations Of
Blount's report he might have
looked forward to indefinite service
in the Provisional camp. That
report tore the mask off his hang
dog countenance, and he was found
last evening cheek by jowl with
Wilson and other pimps and plot
tiers against the Government when
they gathered opposite the Ha-
waiian News Companys Office to
console each other over the reports
from the American cyclone
May we not hope after this
severe lesson that the Ministry,
the Advisory Council and the
Justices Of lie Surrcme Court
will drop thosr SGT .amish no.
tons Of civil service reform
which have stood i'll the way of
Royalist removals and make a
clean sweep of all employees who
are not arh7f ami a7'07oea supporters
Of He PyopiSioaal C0terHmfaE? Men
who are MOI with us are against
us i'll revolutionary era and
over $40, 900 per annum are being
paid out to appointees Of the
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nearly as much open to
suspicion as was Wundenberg.
! Whoever heard of such a state Of
things in time of quasi civil war
when the very existence of the
Government is menaced? Who can
frame a reasonable excuse for it?
What is there in politics or loyalty
to commend it? Must a Govern
ment wait until mountain of ad-
verse proof is raised before discharg
ing a man who has never made his
professions Of loyalty good by active
service to the cause? Must quib-
bles be heard while knives are
drawn against the Government
itself? Down upon such danger
Gus nonsense. Turn the rascals
out! Put none but loyal men on
guard!
AS for Wundenberg, we leave
him to lie IN his own meanness
after he shall have been kicked
down and out like any other cur of
low degree who has bitten at the
hand that fed him. There are
many things that he will learn in
the fate that must fall upon him
now. and one is that a traitor, and
a perjured traitor at that, is always
despised as much by the men he
did his treason for as by those whom
he directed it against. We doubt that
even Wilson, if he were in power
again, would entrust Wundenberg
with the smallest responsibility lest
his scoundrel-nature betray it, or
cover it with lies, for the pledge or
promise of bride. 1t was Bene-
dict Arnold's fate to be Kissed in
the House of Commons and shun-
ned by British officers in the after
years of his ruined life; and it will
yet be Wundenberg's to be footed
and spit upon by the very men who
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