The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-24

of the utter faIseness of his state
ments in his first letter? He said that
the 10000 educated, intelligent, en-
lightened native Hawaiians, all vot-
ers, were against annexation; that
they were opposed by 1923 Americans,
counting women and children. Could
he have helped knowing at that time
that the vast majority OF the 10000
whites in the country, to say nothing
of Chinese and japanese, are thorough
annexationists and supporters of the
government? How is it that he did
not know that a large and growing
number of native Hawaiians were
then, and are now, annexationists? Is
he aware that many hundreds of Ha-
waiians have since then Joined the
movement and that this number Is
daily growing? Is he aware of the
false and fraudulent methods which
are used to procure names for the
so-called "Patriotic League? VIII
Mr.. Nordhoff, learning all these things,
tell them to the New York Herald
and to the American public, as he
must do if honest and truth seeking?
NoRDHoFF's NOTORIOUS POSITION.
But comment and refutation grow
unnecessary and trivial in view of the
present position. He has said s'some
absurd persons fear trouble here, and
that there could be no trouble; that
such people were silly to expect it,"
etc. He has no conception of the state
of affairs here in January, or of what
has actually been the condition since.
Yet he, the great Nordhoff, is now APP
parently terrified at the rumors started
by "some absurd persons" or more
likely at the fevered conjurings of his
own Imagination, and fees in terror
for protection, and the hated and de-
spised government gives it! He need
have no fear: he will not be harmed.
There never was any real danger of
personal harm, but his active and few
cred pen may produce some big head
lines in the Herald.
HAwAII's FUTURE.
Mr.. Stevens has said that Hawaii
has reached the parting of the ways.
On one hand, enlightenment and
freedom, q glorious future. On the
other overwhelming floods of Asiatics,
enlightenment driven away, and a
semi-slave country; land unfit for
the residence of the free. Where does
Mr.. Nordhoff' plant himself? He says:
81 have had the honor of long con-
versation with the Hon. Claus Spree
kels." He reports the conversation,
and gives us the right to believe that
he Endorses it's sentiment and end.
Mr.. Spreckels says the report is cor
rect. He ratifies the position he is
made to assume. And what is it?
No annexation, no union of Hawaii
with the parent of its Christian civili-
zaiion, its enlightenment, its true in
dependence. No, it is the establish
ment of a plutocracy in Hawaii,
founded on Asiatic contract labor,
with the consequent expulsion of the
free and enlightened men who have
given solid bone and sinew to Ha-
wall Is this to be Hawaii's future
This is the issue before US. 1t is
also the issue, with its far-reaching
consequences, now before the United
States, and, thank God, we believe
the outcome will be for freedom.
President Cleveland will not take the
Herald and Mr.. Nordhof, its prophet.
He has sent here an intelligent, fair
minded, honorable man, whose eyes
whose Judgment will not be warped
by prejudice.