Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-11-01
A coNuNDRUM SOLVED

the expense of the taxpayers Is
making a bridal tour of Europe
The community has been some
what puzzled as to the true reason
I for this remarkable extravaganza
/ of a government, which is nearly
bankrupt. and many guesses have
heen made in regard to the
why's" and "wherefores'"
1t has been suggested that Mr..
Thurston was not a persona gratd
in Washington, and that it would
be impolitic to send him back to
his post.
1t has been insinuated that he
was too dictatorial and too off
cious to get along in Hawaii as a
Cabinet minister. and that the
administration was only too glad
to get rid of him.
1t has been rumored, that he
like Mr.. Dole has gotten" and
that his gigantic brains needed
rest and under all circumstances
it was understood, that be is a
pensioner of the Hawaiian
treasury because, he convenient
ly got another attack of pneumo-
MIA when the heroes laid down
their lives and bled for the
cause. and was absent when the
irrepressible Americans in la.
wall were ready to stand on the
wharf and prevent blue-jackets
from landing latter the govern
ment had been officially notified
that no landing would take place.
All these suppositions, sug
gestions, rumors and insinuations
are wrong. The conundrum is
solved in much easier manner.
Tie Minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary (decid-
eddy SOY and special labor com
missioner travels with his wife to
London for a purpose of his own.
The Cyclorama is there
Yes, fellow-citizens, the dime
museum is in London and has only
waited to be opened until the
Snowman turns up. The Hawa-
waiian Government, the immacu-
late men who call themselves a
cabinet have sanctioned the de-
parture of an employee who draws
the biggest salary in the country
under circumstances which place
them and him in most peculiar
light. The labor question is rot.
The ministers know as we'll as we
do that there wasn't a ghost of a
show for Thurston to get laborers
from England. And no one
knows better than the minister of
finance that, if Portuguese labor
ers were to be obtained Abraham
Hofnung is the only man in
England, who can get them.
The government which is un-
able to build bridges and wharves,
which hardly knows where to 60
to borrow sufficient money to
pay its hirelings, its soldiers and
its spies. Which leaves the
country districts in a most dis
graceful. Which needs every
cent that the unwilling taxpayers
can dig up in these hard times.
That government, We say. delib-
erately spends a large sum OF
money to allow Mr.. L. A. Thurs
ton and his wife to go to London
to run show at which he will be
the manager and she the cashier
las before.
How long will such iniquities
be tolerated. Can men like Hatch.
King. Smith and Damon look
their fellow-citizens in the face
and defend such infamous squand-
ering of the hand earned money
of the peoples Can men like Jones
and Cooke aud Murray and other
capitalists go on the rostrum and
excuse or defend such an outraged
We doubt it very much
If there is any honor and any
conscience left among the men
who run the republic let them
notify Mr.. Thnrston that he
either must earn his salary in
Washington doing the duty for
which he IS paid or he must re-
sign and devote his whole time to