The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-08-31
The Present Good Salvation Army.

The Present Good Salvation Army.
EDITOR BULLETIN
The Advertiser was to be ex-
pected - could not be discreet
enough to remain silent over the
government defeat in the matter of
that trumped-up conspiracy case,
OF course the prompt action of
the Attorney Generals department
saved the country by striking
terror" into any budding traitors
that might be about. The annexa-
ton club will now be expected to
assemble all hands to offer up gen
eral thanksgiving for being blessed
with an Acknowledgement whose
prophetic instinct was strong enough
months ago to see the necessity of
vesting the entire bail power in him
self. But the annexation club are
not likely to do anything of the
kind. The intelligent American and
the club for annexation pure and
simple are not sparing of their ex-
preston of opinion on the street, as
to the conduct of the prosecution
and the exhibition made of the gov
ernment and the consequent retlec-
ton that the whole fasco has left on
the party. The prominent members
of the annexation club fastened to
shake hands in the courtroom with
the defendants when acquitted. 1t
was public protest against a piece
of petty vindictivencss peculiarly
politico-missionary, of which the
trial was a humiliating illustration,
for not word of evidence could the
Attorney General produce to justify
his detention of the defendants. 81
am for annexation, but not for max
ing missionary government solid,"
was all that could be brought against
Archibald Sinclair, and it was this
open expression OF repugnance to
solidifying the ''lnissionary-fa family
compact'-as tombstone of the Elele
used to put it-that is SO distasteful
| to nine tenths of honest annexation-
lists to-day and that is causing the
club to crumble to pieces. The
reign of any big 4 will be, as the
council is now constituted, neces-
.sarily under the shadow of mission
AIRY manipulation. Those who are in
the swim for their monthly pay may
not feel like kicking, but indepen.
/ dent men like Sinclair left the club
because of this manipulating intlu
ence, and chief "missionary" had
the power to use the "persuaders'
and the cell ready to his hand. The
workings of the defeat, however, are
not likely to stop at the acquittal il
the Courtroom. A publication o.
the evidence would open some PEG
pies eyes as to how a man under the
p. q. can be punished first and trieC
afterward. 1t would prove that Sin
clair, as loyal annexationist, wa.
the victim of the petty vindictive
ness of the one individual who undeI
the peculiar coercion laws of the p
u. had the power to prosecute hin
for an apparent anti-missionary OK
preston.
The disclaimer of prominent mem
bers of the club, rs expressed in the
court room and on the street, as t.
any sympathy with the course o
the prosecution, is healthy as far a.
it goes. But the Annexation Clul
must understand that it must shout
der the entire responsibility of all,
such government persecution for tn,
obvious reason that it has held itsel
up as the onl y material and mora
force at the rear and flank of tn,
Government.
1t is therefore proper reason TO
the intelligent members of the club
who profess to be actuated by Amer
lean principle, to consider the posi-
ton in which they now stand related
to the community in the light of thi
very real arrest and Imprisonment
but abortive trial. The material an,
abiding fact which this trial teache
is, that we have real Inquisitiol
into the dungeon of which anyone
be he annexationist or other, is liza
bic to be thrown and kept 70
months without bail, without per
mission to see friends, except tina
for the moment the humor or pleasur,
OF the chief Inquisitor should gran
the favor. That the Court of Inqui
sition can also appoint their owl
judge in the lower court. One no
toriously committed to the side 0
the prosecution.
The Advertiser animadverts on al
alleged statement of Claus Spreck
els in reference to the fighting quail
ties of the "Anglo- Saxon" soldier
in the barracks, only small Fraction
OF whom are Anglo -Saxons.
Apparently the p &. gets it
army from Anglo Saxondom and it