Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-22
He Wakes Up.

BOiier-Pl alter In which he
tells the word especially the
Hawaiian planters that he is In
favor Of annexation, and that
everybody else with something
in the crotta. and pockets (more
d stinctly the latter ought to be
of the same opinion as he IS.
Mr. Hartwell has taken his time
in coming out one way or an
other. Since the 18th of Janu-
airy 1893. lie has kept a prudent
silence. ard nobody really knew
where he was. Now as annexa-
ton is absolutely and totally
dead, he braves public opinion
and publicly declares himself an
annexationist. and ready to sacri-
fee the independence of coun-
try in which he has found profit.
hospitality and home.
Mr.. Alfred S. Hartwell does
not appeal to the sentiments of
the sons OF the soil. He doesn't
address himself to the Americans
who are struggling along as
clerks, mechanics or working
men. No, Mr.. Alfred S. Hart
well doesn t know these different
classes-they couldn't pay him a
fee and he therefore pens his
advice to the capitalists and the
planters. e tells that sugar
interests viii be way up if we
get annexed. He admits that
the penal contract labor is bad,
very bad, and that it has to be
abandoned if Hawaii becomes a
state or a territory in the Union.
He doesn say one word about
his paying 1925, share for Hal
ku sugar stock, and he doesh t
tell us that he is anxious to un
load himself of those shares and
invest his money in American
railroad londs. The planters
will coincide with Mr.. Hartwell.
Most of them are very partial to
penal contract labor, and most of
them were exceedingly amused,
when the ex-judge and ex attorney
general speculated in Baldwiu's
stock. The Chinese and Jap
anese labor here is necessary and
that necessity kills all hopes of
annexation for good and ever.
In commenting on Mr. Hart
we'll S letter, the Advertiser states
that the planters must have astable
government, and that an indepen-
dent republic in Hawaii never
will be stable. This is truly en-
oouraging as coming from an of
fetal paper which has fathered
and promoted the convention that
Is TO framed and form an indie
pendent republic for this country.
Mr.. c. r. Bishop. besides many
members OF the present govern.
ment, and a number of our lead
ing merchants have solemnly told
the American newspapers that
republic was an impossibility in
Hawaii. They have given their
reasons-and most of them were
very sound aud sensible. They
are now endorsed by the Adver-
tiser and by the great legal lumin-
arv Mr.. Alfred S. Hartwell. He
tells them that salvation is only |
10 be found In annexation, and |
he lifts his warning voice against
an independent republic subject
to annual revolutions, to act ons
of fllibusters. and to eternal in
ternal strife and disorder. The |
ex judge, ex-general, ex-Attorney |
General doesn't want republic
here. lie will rather go to
Washington with a salary and
work for annexation. He is not a
very pronounced fool, and in this
instance be knows what he is
talking about. But he does not
realize that annexation is an i'm
possibility rs long as the Hawai-
ians will not sanction ii or APP
prove of it and the Hawaiians
with their friends viii never join
in scheme that depriyes them of
their Independence and of self L
With all due res
pect to the planters and to Mr. i
Hartwell, We believe that the SEN |