The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-12
vOX POPULl, v0X DEL.
SOME CAUsTIC LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE.
Is There q Sugar Conspiracy on Foots-
The Seventeenth of January-A
Suppressed Petition.

EDITOR STAR: As one OF the watchers
on the walls OF the political Zion | have
seen few things in the distant thickets
and underbrush which propose to tell
you about.
Imprimis: When the revolution was
on the sugar men were against us, but
they yielded because they could not get
stable government under the monarchy
and we're ready to risk getting il with
out harm to their labor interests under
annexation. Still they did not like an
nexation. They were AFRAID of it. Now
they are afraid more than ever. Rather
than go into the United States they
would fix up Planters Republic which
they could forever control and by means
of which they would flood the land with
Asiatics and make this poor place for
whites. That would be "stable govern
ment" after their own fashion. Natur-
ally, Messrs. Spreckels and Davies
would have much to say about it.
To fix things up for this Planters Re-
public scheme the sugar men in the
Council began work a long time ago.
Whenever they could find or make a
vacancy in the Advisory body they filed
it with sugar man, an attorney for
sugar men, an employe OF sugar men or
with steamboat man whose dividends
or salary depended on sugar
transportation. As a result,
as count the list, the
Councils now have, out of a total of
eighteen members, twelve who are de-
voted to the sugar interest. Recent
events show that, if any vacancy in the
Advisory Council follows. the promotion
OF Claus Spreckels' attorney, Mr.. F. NJ.
Hatch, another sugar man will be put
in. There is absolutely no chance there
for man who is devoted to annexation
pure and simple. He is regarded rs a
dangerous and incendiary character who
might explode bomb under the frame
work of the proposed republic-that is,
the Planters oligarchy.
happen to know that several drafts
OF this proposed change of Government
have been drawn by the planter-legis-
lature and their attorneys and that just
as soon as Congress disposes OF the mon
archy for good, one of them will be
sprung in the Councils and either rati-
fed or submitted to Constitutional
Convention. In the latter case
the plantations will be per-
mitted to send delegates to the end that
eiiS budikht may Dt ouN-
voted. We shall then see the planters
in power and if they can manage to get
an American protectorate against IN
ternal disorder as well as outside in-
reference, they will hold these Islands
down in perpetuity. Claus Spreckels
and the Sugar Trust would work Tor the
protectorate in case they could have
their say in Hawaii.
For one | want to see this scheme
beaten, and beaten out of sight. On
that account / favor Mr.. Martins pro-
posed move to issue certificates of cleo
ton to the Annexation Club members,
including the members OF the American
League and Schutzen Corps, and proceed
to elect straight Annexation men to the
Councils and instruct them, in case a
republic is advisable, to go ahead and
get one up that Americans and not
coolie-drivers, Annexationists and not
sugar companies will manage, and man
age to the one end that Hawaii shall be-
come part OF the Union. CIvIs.