The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-07-19
GIFT TO COL. .sPREcKELs.
Some of His Fellow "Doomed Men "
Present Him With Cane.

attraction on the steamer was Claus
Spreckels, the Sugar King, who with
his wife and daughter we're leaving
for the Coast. Here and there the
query would be audible, "Where's
Spreckels2" He was in the comfort
able quarters of Captain Houdlette
and was showed under with wreaths
and flowers, emblems of Hawaiian
aloha to departing guests.
At 1.30 o'clock Charles Creighton
entered the saloon and with few
remarks presented Mr.. Spreckels
with gold-headed cane, bearing
the following inscription:
Ave! Claus! Moritur te salutaens.
In memoriam
from your fellow citizens
doomed also to die
At the hands of the Murder Society
OF the Annexation Club.
"Threatened men live long"
Leben Sic hundert Jahre
und niemals sterben.
Here follow the names taken
from the list published in San Fran
cisco papers, of persons doomed to
be killed by members of the Annexa-
ton Club "at the first sign of trou-
ble," but all those named were not
in the secret of the cane.
Mr.. Spreckels graciously thanked
the donors for this expression of
their regard, and he hoped that in
stead of decorating their graves,
they would decorate his, but which
ever way it happened, there would
always be Spreckels remaining. He
thought, however, that it would be
more probably his grave. But before
he fell by the hands of the assassins
he felt sure that he would see right
and justice done to the Hawaiians.
His remarks we're applauded.
Mr.. j. E. Bush then received Mr..
Spreckels' attention. Mr.. Bush read
the following eulogy from the Ha-
waiian Patriotic League:
COLONEL SPRECKELs:
1t is with pleasure l have accepted
to act as spokesman for the Execu-
tive Committee of the "Hawaiian
Patriotic League" who, to-day, with
it's branch associations throughout
the kingdom, represent SO percent
of the Hawaiian people, and on their
behalf to offer to you their heartfelt
appreciation of your conduct to-
wards them ever since you first
visited these islands, and more es-
pecially your present visit, in the
bold and fearless stand which you
have taken in opposing the high
handed measures to rob them OF
their birthright-as human beings
to leave them without voice in the
affairs of their own country and in
the disposition of it's autonomy as
an independent State.
In our intercourse with you. as G
merchant, a planter, and a capital
list, the Hawaiians have yet to fine
your peer for just dealing, for enter
prise and energy, and for liberality
No master ever employed them a:
Claus Spreckels. No man has been
known to justly complain of his
treatment, or of his wage, either al
the desk or counter, in the field a.
a common laborer, a dock hand, OF
aaoat as sailor, who has had thu
good fortune to find employment o
: has been otherwise engaged will
you. Many in this community cal
stand up to-day, and point to 20,
as the initiator of their present pros
perity and success in life.
! In the development of the suga
industry in this country, under TIN
l impetus which it received from tn
! Reciprocity Treaty, you landed her
t. with your own capital and with
: dash and vigor stimulated it. Fo
: the first time an American wit
: American capital landed upon GU
shores and began business, and u
o to the present day you are still tn
= only man who can truthfully clair
=, the honor of ever having brough
- with him American capital to inves
!, in business in Hawaii.
!, Your advent in the communit
+ was viewed with fear and envy anon
o our usurers and snail-like bushes
+ men. When accepting your libert
y offers and large advances in none,
which saved many who are wealth
# to-day-who would have been banl
g rupts-they feared and detested 20
O in their hearts. Notwithstanding
# your fairness and liberal dealing t.
g wards the majority of planters an
d pawnbrokers here, they have Anne
It from first to last to oppose and rui
o you. This treatment, however,
is characteristic of the principle of 70
eigners who aim to rule in this coul
=, try, the most of whom had acquire
II the little they possessed by usul
10 and chcanery. These men cam
Y not as you did with your own CAP
r tai, but mostly with absolute
D. nothing, save consummate chez
le and by preaching and double dea
a ing they managed to secure from tt
X. Hawaiian chiefs and over-trusty pc
le pie all they began with in lii
IS They were mostly either preache
or sailors, who are now posing
American capitalists and as lords
the soil, claiming the right to ru
h and to dispose of the country, al
,a whose adherents and hirelings t
= day are ruthlessly trampling up
"a the peoples rights and who dare
IN threaten to deport, to assassina
n and to violate all sense of honor al