The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-05
THE NORDHOFF LETTER.
FULL TEXT OF A SURPRISING
CORRESPONDENTS.
Statements Which Have No Resemblance
to the Truth Singular Haste
to Deceive.

letter which were printed yesterday, the
STAR surrenders a large part of its space
to the full text of the correspondence.
HoNofULU, April 8, via SAN FRAN.
CISCO, Cal, April 10, r893.-The pilot
brought the news to the Alameda steam
ing into Iionolulu-news already told
to you-that Colonel Blount had or
dered the naval forces to be withdrawn
to their ships and the Hawaiian flag
hoisted instead Of the American flag
over the national buildings
Thereupon there was great excite,
ment am,ng the Hawaiian passengers,
some Of whom were for the Queen and
others for the Provisional Government.
A dense crowd of native Hawaiians
filled the wharf and welcomed back
Paul Neumann and his associates who
we're returning from Washington, where
they had pleaded the Queens cause
and that Of the native islanders The
town was quiet, but in the small bust
ness quarter many American flags were
displayed ostentatiously and as though
inviting to excitement and collision
Here and there one saw also a Ha-
waiian flag, but it was evident that the
planters and their dependent traders
were lmpudently misusing their priv.
leges in planting a foreign flag doing
this to a degree which would at once
breed trouble in any other capital
PLANTERS INVITE VIOLENCE.
Two old acquaintances-Amer
and anneXatlonists, members and
leaders Of the planters party-called
on me early and expressed fears of a
violent outbreak. One absurd person
sroke 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 a
time as this are ostentatioUsly haunt-
ing their foreign annexation flags in
the eyes of the native population who
on the planters own admissions
are unanimously and strongly opposed
to annexation. The orderly and peace
full conduct of the native people under
the circumstances and under the aggra
vations Of the planter anneXationists is
admirable and deserves the greatest
praise. If there should be trouble here
of which there is no likelihood-the
blame will be entirely upon the annexa-
tionists, who are to the last degree en-
Uttered by the failure Of their schemes,
and 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 a number of old and
new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES provisional
government men and anneXationsts-
others favorable to the maintenance Of
the old system. All of both parties
frankly acknowledged that the natives,
forty thousand in number and all Of
proper age, able to read and write and
brought up under American missionary
training, with very few exceptions, are
strongly opposed to annexation.
NATIVES OPPOSE ANNEXATION.
l wish to emphasize this fact-con-
fesSed by all the anneXationists have
seen-that the natives are solidly OPP
posed to annexation. There are against
these 10000 natives 1923 Americans,
men, women and children, most,
though by no means all of whom want
and cry out for annexation. The
leaders of these are heads of the fading
provisional government.
That these 1928 are not unanimous
is clear from the fact that the annex
alton and provisional government
scheme has made trouble in social cir
Giles, trouble in the church and in bust
ness relations, so ruthlessly have the
planter annexationists pushed their rev.
olutionary scheme and purpose among
their own class. An American or other
foreigner who does not go in for annex
alton must keep quiet or suffer perse-
cuton in church, society and business.
The course and conduct of the native
people,-who are not, remember, saw,
ages, as in Samoa, but reading and writ
ing people, for whom at this time sew
eral daily papers are printed, is admir-
able The American missionaries who
taught them, and who were the fathers
of many of the small but bitter annex.
alton group, taught them well.
have asked a dozen respectable
Americans, long residents here, cd
you fear trouble anywhere on the island
from the natives2" and they uniformly
replied, mo; not in the least. Ir
Honolulu only the excitement may
possibly end in a riot"
Surely that is high testimony to the
peaceful good nature of the native pop
ulation against whose violence the sixty
or seventy plantations scattered among
the Islands in lonely places would be
defenceless. And it is undeniable tina,
it is the annexationist provisional gov
eminent and its small number of ad
herents who are all this time, by the
Haunting 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-
day to one of their most intelligent anG
able representatives.
He Notwithstanding we have told