The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-05

dice Exposed-He SANDERS the Por- |
tuguese Colony-Prof. A1exander'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 sSurveyor-Generalo OF Ha-
Waii and for long time the President
of Oahu College at Honolulu, mas oeen
already quoted in these dispatches as
one of the most trustworthy and un-
prejudiced witnesses of the events
which led up to the Hawaiian revolu-
ton last January. Professor AleXan-
der is the son of one of the early
American missionaries to HaWall.
and was born on the islands. he
is a graduate of Yale, having been the
salutatoran of the class of 1850. he
is fellow of the Royal Geographlcai
Society, is the author of Hawaiian
crammar and of the standard history
of Hawaii, and is considered one OF
the ablest. best informed and most inn
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-
mort appeared, that nearly everything
he had furnished had been suppressed
by Mr.. Cleveland's "Paramount Com
missioner Speaking of Mr.. Blounts
report, Professor Alexander said:
BLOUNT'S REAL PURPOSE.
1.-THE long expected report OF the
Hon. J. III. Blount on Hawaiian aIIalrs
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 BlounU. Conn
dent of the Justice of it's cause, the
Provisional Government afforded the
| Com missioner every possible facility
| for obtaining information, and spared
neither time nor money in furnishing
him with full details on every sunJect
! under investigation. While it was
| supposed by the Provisional Govern
| ment and it's friends that the chief OBJ
| iect of his mission was to report upon
| their offer of annexation to the United
States, he carefully concealed his real
| ebiect. which seems to have been to
| make out a case against their title TO
| Govern and against the character OF a
former representative of his own Gov
| ernment.
aWith the approval of the Cabinet,
and at Mr.. Blount's request, L pre-
| nared full and careful statements on
fhe past history and present owner.
shin of the lands of the country. on
the constitutional history of the Gov
| ernment. on the political events ol
Kalakaua's reign, and the causes that
led to the revolution, and an account
of the unfinished annexation treaty ol
1854. He has printed the account OF
the treaty of 1854, a comparatively un-
important matter of ancient history,
but has suppressed all the other IN
formation which L furnlsneo MN
substituting therefor the statements
of the royalist Cabinet and sympathi-
zers. Under the dire ction of the Min
ister OF Finance, other officers OF the
Hawaiian Government made elabor
ate and accurate reports for MS use OF
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 I 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 peryaded from
} beginning to end with stlange hos
tility 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 ano
honest government during the last
fifteen wears, he has no sympathy
whatever. In his letter of April he
| condemns them for participating liz
the affairs of these islands, In hi:
| view the character of the people o.
these islands is and must te over
whelmingly Asiatic,' which he prob
ABLY regards as 'consummation de-
lvoutly to be wished,' and he depre
Gates sthe idea of immigrants from
the United States being able TO hnC
encouragement in the matter of OBJ
tanning homes in these islands III
seems to think; as Governor Duf1t
of South Carolina wrote of the Texans
| in 1886, that having emigrated tt
that country they had forfeited al
: claim to fraternal regard and tha
shaving left land of freedom for ;