The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-27
STEVENS Oh DAVIES.


Khennebec Journals Estimate OF the +.
Man of Craigsidc.
Some Englishnen are gentlemen
by nature, education, and expert
ence. They respect the rights of
others, and never make themselves
offensive by intruding themselves
where their presence is not wanted
and where they cannot Justly claim
the right to go. But there's another
kind OF Englishmen OF very diff
fereut characteristics. These are
constantly prone to make themselves
offensive to others by their super
sufiiciency and their intermeddling
with other peoples affairs These
more generally had their birth and
early years among those termed i'll
England, as of the second or third
class. If they have prospered III
their worldly concerns by favorable
circumstances and their active pur
suits of gains i'll other lands than
their own, they put OH aristocartiC
airs and assume a lone ofsuperiority
over their equals or superiors who
are not their countrymen. A strik-
ing specimen of this latter type Of
Englishmen is the 7. II. Davies,
recently arrived in Washington to
instruct American officials what
they ought to do as to the affairs of
Hawaii. This man is the principal
member of a mercantile firm that
has beel for twenty years doing
business at Honolulu. Davies
has made the most of his wealth
through the favorable conditions
created by the reciprocity treaty
between the United States and
Hawaii. The terms and intention
Of that treaty when negotiated were
expressly to secure the importation
into the islands Of the products and
goods of the United States in eX-
change for the Hawaiian products.
So far as possible Davies has sought
to deprive Americans of the advan-
tages ofthe treaty, while constantly
4 greedy to share the advantages
which it has given to the business
and products Of the islands. He
has done and is doing his utmost to
drive Americans out of the Hawaii
an markets by the sharpest kind of
British competition. Not this alone.
The Pearl harbor concession to the
! United States was part of the con-
sideration the United States was TO
have for the favorable terms of the
treaty to the islands. Davies has,
through the Hawaiian newspapers
and by all means in his power,
sought toprevent Pearl harbor being
taken and improved by the United
States. AS the agent of the Cana
/: dian Pacific Railroad and line of
Pacific steamers running in connec-
ton with that road, he antagonizes
American interests to the utmost.
Several years since he resumed his
residence III England, where he re-
, sides the larger portion of the time,
and where he has been and still is
a kind Of guardian and custodian
of the so-called Princess Kaiulani.
1t is pet scheme of Davies to have
the Hawaiian monarchy restored
: and to have his half-caste ward
placed on the little throne. He
knows the amount of corrupting
patronage there was around that
throne i'll its last years, and he
selfishly calculates that if he can
/. be influential in plotting against the
| Provisional Government thus
greatly reducing the American in
fluence in the islands, and aid in
getting his ward princess installed
in the palace at Honolulu, he will
be the power behind the doll mon
archy and mainly dictate the palace
power. This little scheme convert
ed into a fact, he thinks he could
readily obtain the diplomatic office
at London by which he could secure
access to the English court, and
gaiu the kind of aristocratic accept
r ance in London society, from which
he is now rigidly excluded. OF ex-
IRENE vanity, pretentious to repul-
sion among men of modesty and
good manners, he thinks he can go
to Washington and air his self,im-
portance by calling on the head
men of the American government,
though he does not dare assume
any such attitude of presumption
and dictation toward the chief Off
Gals of his own country. 1t is to
be seen how far this ultra English
antagonist of American interests
everywhere, this bitter, scheming,
enemy of the American colony in
Hawaii, will intrude himself on the
President and secretary of state.
Perhaps the only rebuff this man
could appreciate, would come from
a vigorous application of we'll made
boot toes, though it is earnestly to
be hoped that this last alternative
will be avoided. -KeH0rbef /0HyHGl.