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 BULLs-gYs.
\ Telling Resume OF the BIount report
-Commissioner Paramount's Preju-
tuguese Colony-Prof. AleSander'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-Generalo 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 HLwaiian revolu-
ton last January. Professor Alexan-
| 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
| Society, is the author of 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.. Cleveland'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 lust been laid before me. 1t is
impossible, at short notice, to review
a 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
their offer of annexation to the United
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
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 OF
the past history and present owner
ship of the lands of the country, Oh
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, |
substituting therefor the statements /
of the royalist Cabinet and sympathi- I
Zers. Under the direction of the Min I
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 had been an eyewitness.
THE METHODS OF A PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY.
"While 1 do not question his hon
esty of purpose, his methods were
those of a prosecuting attorney, and
his report is an astonishing piece of
special pleading. 1t is pervaded from
beginning to end with strange hos
tiliry to the American colony, built
up and fostered by the policy of the
United States for the last forty years
which has created the civilization of
these islands, developed their re-
sources and opened an important field
Of 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 ,
7iew the character Of the people Of /;
hese islands is and must re over :
Asiatic,' which he prob :
lbly regards as a 'consummation de- =
-Outly to be wished and he depre- =
ates the idea of immigrants from !
he United States being able to find :
Encouragement in the matter of OBJ i
aiming homes in these islands, He :
GEMS to think, as Governor .IcDuffie :.
( South Carolina wrote of the Texans ;
n 1886, that having emigrated to a
hat country they had forfeited all
lain to fraternal regard and that o
having left land of freedom for
and Of despotism with their eyes
pen, they deserved their fate
The people Of the United States, Il
owever, did not take this view Of b
he case of the Texans, nor will they {
G 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 30 completely n
rejudged the case as TO be almost i'm il
erviGus TO any evidence opposed to v
is predictions. His animus is be- e
aged by the earliest letters in his q
with the State De- n
artment. His rsrtialitys doys;iE p
)urces of inIOrpaUIon nzs 90 Z! u q
ito many errors, evoni n egar3 o IA
laffarz raor involved N rha p--r--l n