The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-09
NORDHOFE'S Letter 10 THE
NEW YORK HERALD.
A STRING OF FALsEHOODg.

brought the news To- the Alameda
steamlng into Homo ulu-n.w. al
ready told to you-that Colonel
Blount had ordered the naval forces
10 be withdrawn to their ships and lin.
hawaiian flag hoisted Instead of the
americas flag over the national build
ings.
Thereupon there was great excite
ment among the Hawaiian passeu-
gers, some of whom were for the
queen and others fOr the Provisional
government. y dense crowd of native
hawalIans filled the wharf and well
coined back Paul Neumann and hi-
associates, who were returning from
Washington, where they had pleaded
the Queens cause and that of the
native islanders. The town was quiet
but in the small business garter
many American flags were displayeh
osteDtatiously, and as though inviting
TO excitement and collision. Here
and there one saw also a Hawaiian
Nag, but IL was evident that the plant
ers and their dependent traders were
Impudently misusing their privileges
In planting n foreign flag doing this
TO a degree which would at once breed
trouble i'll any other capital.
PLANTERS INVITE VIOLENCE.
Two old acquaintances-Am
and annexatiouIsts, members aud
leaders of the planters party-called
on me early-aIId expressed fears of u
violent outbreak. One absurd person
spoke of "a repetition of the SCENES OF
San Domingo" / can only say that
If there should be rioting this would
be the fault of those who in such d
time as this are ostentatiously fiau.t-
leg their foreign annexation flags in
on the planter own admissions
are unanimously and strongly opposed
to annexation. The orderly and
peaceful conduct of the native people
Under the circumstances and under
the aggravations of the planter an
nexationists Is admirable aud deserves
the greatest praise. Ii there should
be trouble hereof which there is no
1ikelihood-the blame Will be entirely
upon the anneXatioDists, who are To
the last degree embittered by the fail
ure OF their schemes, aud some of
them would welcome the violence
they are melting, because they have
no hope of success.
saw at San Francisco and on the
ship coming here Il number of old and
new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Provisional
government men and annexationists
Others favorable TO the maintenance
frankly acknowledged that the ma
tivss, forty thousand in number and
all of proper age, able to read and
write AMI brought up under American
missionary training, with n very few
exceptions, are strongly opposed to
annexation.
NATIVES OPPOSE ANNEXATION.
wish to emphazize this fact--con
L.. la. fanx
seen-that the natives are solidly OPP
pose to annexation. There are against
these 10000 natives, l.92S Americans,
men, women and children, most,
though by no means all of whom
want aud cry out for annexation. The
leaders of these are heads of the fad
ing provisional government.
That these 9Zo are not unanimous
is clear from the fact that the annex
alton and provisional go, eminent
scheme has made trouble i'm social
circles, trouble in the Church and in
Business relations, so ruthlessly have
the planter anneXatiouists pushed
their revolutionary scheme and pur-
pose among their own class. An Am
erican or other foreigner who does not
go in for annexation must keep quiet
or suffer persecution in Church, So
ciety and business.
The course and conduct of the ma
tive veople, who are not, remember,
savages, as in Samoa, but reading
and writing people, for whom at this
time several daily papers are printed,
are admirable. The American mis-
sionaries who taught them, aud who
were the fathers of many of the small
but bitter annexation group, taught
them well.
/ have asked n dozen respectable
Americans, long residents here, ''Do
you fear trouble anywhere on the
islands from the natives?n and they
uniform replied, "No; not in the least.
In Honolulu only the excitement may
possible end in riot"
Surely that is high testimony to the
peaceful good nature of the native po-
pulation against whose violence the
sixty or seventy plantations scattered
among the islands in lonely places
would be defenseIess. And IL Is un-
deniabIe that il is the annexati"nist
provisional government and Is small
number of sdherentS who are all this
time, by the Il ,uting of foreign flag
and by other misconduct, melting to
violence.
WHY NATIVES ARE QUIET.
why are the native people so quiet?
YOU may ask. / put this question to-
6aV tO one Oh l1tli iIOSO
and able REPRESENTATIVES.
He Because we have told
chr neopIe tnat this case is now be-
fore the court, as it were, and il is
their duty to- wait in patience for the
Js,.i.irsn. The queen, to- whom they
orc devoted as the repre- entative of
The government they prefer, has told
ss1em to be quiet, because, as she and
all who are with her have told them,
the United States are "A great aud just
natio1. The President is a great and
lust man. He viii not do great
wrong to our people, and we have
encouraged them with an example
out of our own history. In 1913 an
English Admiral hauled down our
fiae, hoisted the British flag aud
seized possession of the island. Oar
people were defenseless. Too weak
o resist, they could only protest.
They remained quiet at the bidding
of their native rulers, and by and by
another English Admiral came and
hauled down the British flag, hOisted
and saiuted the Hawaiian and re-
stored the government to its rightful
hands. l. is not to be supposed. we
~>beIieve, that the United States will
acf~ les justly and bonorably in 1898
that Eng and did fifty years ago. That
ia what we tell our ople."
It must not~be suppo-ed that the
-.;.-., ,,.oDIa n re without excitement.