The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-01-09
Prof. Alexander Scores the Errors
of Mr.. BlOunt's Report,
EVERY SHOT FIRED A BULL SEIZE.
4 Telling Resume OF the BIouut r.eport
-Commissioner Paramount's Preiu-
dice Exposed-He ISLANDERS the For-
tuGuese Colony-Prof. Alexander's
Testimony Ignored or Suppressed.

The following is the text of a
Washington dispatch to the New
York Tribune. 1t has not been
published elsewhere:
Professor William d. Alexander, for
| twenty years Surveyor-Genera of Ha-
| wall and for long time the President
| of Oahu College at Honolulu, has been
already quoted in these dispatches as
one of the most trustworthy and I'M
prejudiced witnesses Of the events
which led up to the H-waiian revolu-
ton last January. Professor Alcxan-
der is the son of one Of the early
and was born on the islands. He
is graduate of Yale, having been the
salutatorian of the class of 1855. He
is fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society, is the author of a Hawaiian
grammar and of the standard history
of Hawaii, and is considered one of
the ablest, best informed and most i'm
partial men in Hawaii. Mr.. AleXan-
der was one of the authorities con-
suited by Mr.. Blount for information
TO embody in his now famous report,
but the venerable Hawaiian scholar
was astonished to find, when the re-
port appeared, that nearly everything
he had furnished had been suppressed
by Mr.. Cleveiand's Paramount Com
missioner Speaking of Mr.. Blount's
report, Professor Alexander said:
BLOUNT'S REAL PURPOSE.
THE long expected report of the
Hon. J. II. Blount on Hawaiian affairs
has Just been laid before me. 1t is
impossible, at short notice, to review
state document of such Importance,
but Justice demands that some state
ment should be made in regard to the
attitude of the Provisional Govern
ment toward Colonel Blount. Conf
dent of the justice of its cause, the
Provisional Government afforded the
Commissioner every possible facility
for obtaining information, and spared
neither time nor money in furnishing
him with full details on every subject
under investigation. While it was
supposed by the Provisional Govern
ment and its friends that the chief OBJ
ject of his mission was to report upon
States, he carefully concealed his real
object, which seems to have been to
make out case against their title to
govern and against the character of a
former representative of his own Gov
eminent.
"With the approval of the Cabinet,
and at Mr.. BlOunt's request, L pre-
pared full and careful statements or
the past history and present owner
ship of the lands of the country, on
the constitutional history of the Gov
eminent, on the political events of
Kalakaua's reign, and the causes that
led to the revolution, and an account
of the unfinished annexation treaty of
1854. He has printed the account of
the treaty of 1854, a comparatively I'M
important matter of ancient history,
but has suppressed all the other in
formation which | furnished him, |
therefor the statements |
of the royalist Cabinet and sympathi- |
zers. Under the direction of the Min !
lister OF Finance, other officers of the
Hawaiian Government made elsbor .
ate and accurate reports for his use on .
a variety of subjects. He never, how
ever, offered to have my testimony
taken down in regard TO the facts of
the late revolution, of which he knew
that I had been an eyewitness.
THE METHODS OF a PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY.
while 1 do not question his hon
asty of purpose, his methods We're
hose of a prosecuting attorney, and
~ r. fE n n a=rnnTEhIT1or raIana nf
special pleading 1t is pervaded from
beginning to end with a strange hos
.ility To the American colony, built
United States for the last forty years
which has created the civilization of
hese islands, developed their re-
sources and opened an important field
# commerce to the Pacific States.
With their struggles for decent and
honest government during the last
fifteen years, he has no sympathy
whatever. In his letter OF April s he
Condemns them for participating in :
he affairs of these islands, In his
Jew the character Of the people of !
hese islands IS and must re over :
Asiatic,' which he prob +
bly, regards as a 'consummatiOn de- :
outly to be wished and he depre- !
ates the idea of immigrants from !
be United States being able to find :
in the matter of OBJ i
aiming homes in these islands, He :
Gems to think, as Governor .IcDuffie :.
South Carolina wrote of the Texans ;
4 1886, that having emigrated to .
nat country they had forfeited all .
aim TO fraternal regard and that o
having left land of freedom for
md of despotism with their eyes
pen, they deserved their fate
The people Of the United States, 4
owever, did not take this view Of b
le case Of the Texans, nor will they {
E Indifferent 10 the fate Of their v
in Hawaii On the whole a
Olonel Blount's report gives the i'm n
ressiOn that he had 20 completely n
rejndged the case as to be almost i'm il
eTvious 10 any evidence opposed to "
is predictions. His animus is be- e
aged by the earliest letters in his q
Jurisprudence with the State De- n
artment. His partialitys hoysiiE p
'urces OF inIOrnaIIon a1s ed 81 - u
IN many arrorn ovorf n SOzr1 n Ia